Show GERMANS MURDER AMERICAN SAILORS SCORES K KILLED OR WOUNDED BY SUBMARINE WHICH SUNK THE TICONDEROGA All But Twenty of the Men on onBoard onBoard onBoard Board Believed to Have Perished When Ship Is Torpedoed 1700 Miles Off Atlantic An Atlantic Port Scores Scores of American Ameri Amen can saUIS were killed or wounded by shrapnel fired by a n German submarine after It lt had torpedoed the steamship Ticonderoga 1700 miles mlles off oft the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic coast according to the time story told by twenty survivors who arrived here Thursday aboard a British freighter There were men aboard the TIconderoga Ticonderoga Ti- Ti an American steamship of tons and all nil but the tile twenty who arrived h here bOre re are believed to have perIshed per per- The Time survivors got away In the only boat bont which was not demolished by the shellfire from the time submarine they tIley said Seventeen of the men who reached port were members of ot a detachment detachment detachment de de- de- de of or soldiers detailed to care for horses which were being trans trans- ported The Time Ticonderoga was attacked presumably presumably pre pre- on October 2 when she sime fell feU behind her hel convoy because of engine trouble According to the stor story of time the survivors ors the submarine was not sighted until until un un- til tul she has hns sent a n torpedo crashing Into the time side of the ship The torpe torpedo o did not strike a n vital spot however and the time captain crow crowded ed on full steam Inan in nn an effort to escape at nt the time same time ordering the gun cr crews vs ws Into action against the submarine which appeared about a n mile off Our gun vs cre crews did ld not fire more than five or six shots shots' one of the time survIvors survivors survivors sur sur- said The forward gun was shot away awny almost at once The after gun and Its crew were done for almost ns as quickly Then the men went into the boats but It was no use ay aJ the time flying shrapnel was spraying the decks and men fell in scores score either killed or or- badly wounded |