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Show AMERICANS LOST WHEN TRANSPORT IS SiKJY MS Soldier Boys Swam In Ice Cold Water .For Hours Many Were In a Pitiful Piti-ful Condition When Rescued Utah Boyt May Have Been on Tuscania Latest Reports Place Number Drowned at 101. The latest reports from the Cunard liner Tuscania, carrying 2,179 American Ameri-can soldiers to France, state that she was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland and .145 American Uvea were lost. The earlier reports placed this number considerably higher than this, but tUs 1b the official report Thursday afternoon. This means that about 2,-0S7 2,-0S7 men were rescued. These troops were composed chiefly of detachments of Michigan and 'Wisconsin national guardsmen who were traveling on the Tuscania. a British vessel, under convoy con-voy of British war ships. A brief dispatch to the war department depart-ment from London early this evening announced the disaster and reported the landing of only L100 survivors. This was made public shortly after 10 o'clock, and for more than two hours it was feared that probably 1,400 men, including members of the liner's crew, had gone down. Survivors Landed. When a message came to the state department from the embassy at London, Lon-don, saying at 11 o'clock tonight 1,912 of the Americans had been accounted for, the Joy of officials almost swept away the distress occasioned by the esrlier new. The first 1,100 survivors were land- ed at lLarne and Bunerana, two widely separated Irish ports, and this, coupled with the evident fact that rescue ships were at hand quickly gave ri to hope that nearly everybody on board rhe Tuscania except those injured by the explosion, might have fceen" saved. .-.Utah Boys on Soardr-. - -- That Utah boys were numbered among the units on board the ill-fated Tuscania is not beyond the range of possibilities. Reports from Camp Lewis, Lew-is, American ILake. "Wash., where the men in Utah's draft quotas were sent, were to the effect that many of the men there had been sent east to fill out vacancies in the Twentieth engineers. engi-neers. Other Utah boys may have been assigned to duty in the supply companies or the aero squadrons which were on the Tuscania. The big majority of the men, however, belonged, belong-ed, to units recruited in Wisconsin and Michigan. |
