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Show GERMANS MURDER j HEyLm CREW! Survivors of Torpedoed Ship Ticonderoga Ara Shelled While in Water. ftN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 10 Scores of AmbVican sailors were killed Of wounded by shrapnel fired by a German submarine after it had torpedoed torpe-doed the steamship Ticonderoga, 1,700 miles off the AUantic coast,, according accord-ing to the story told by twenty survivors sur-vivors who arrived here today aboard a British freighter. There were 25Q men abroad tho Ticonderoga, Ti-conderoga, an American steamship of 5,130 tons and all but the 20 who arrived ar-rived hero today aro believed to have perished. The survivors got away in the only boat which was not demolished demol-ished by the shell fire from the submarine, sub-marine, they said. Seventeen of the men who reached port were members of a detachment of soldiers detailed to care for horses which were being transported. The Ticonderoga was attacked, presumably pre-sumably on October 2, when she fell behind her convoy because of engine trouble. According' to the story of the survivors, sur-vivors, the submarine was not sighted until she had sont a torpedo crashing crash-ing Into the side of the ship. The torpedo did not strike a vital spot, however, and the captain crowded on full steam In an effort to escape, at the same time ordering the gun crews into action against the submarine, which appeared about a mile off. "Our gun 'crews did not fire more than five or six shots," one of the survivors sur-vivors said. "The forward gun was shot away almost at once. The after gun and its crew was done for almost as quickly. Then the men went to the boats, but it was not use as the uying shrapnel was spraying the decks' and men fell in scores, either killed I or badly wounded." Another survivor declared that all ofj the Tlconderoga's eight life boats, with the exception of one, were riddled with shrapnel before they could bo launched. A number of men who tried to get into the eighth boat were killed by shrapnel as they clambered over the side of the vessel, he said. "Finally," this survivor continued, "one of our men, in desperation swam close to the submarine and hailed an officer, asking him in God's name to stop firing. "The lieutenant who answered him did so with a loaded revolver, saying that if he did not swim back he would shoot him. x "When our boat had only twenty men in it we were ordered alongside the submarine and made to tie up while the shelling of the dead and dying dy-ing on the sinking ship continued. "The leader of our boat was asked some questions which he refused to answer and suddenly the submarine submerged and only the parting of the rope with which we were tied prevented prevent-ed our going down with it." I One of the survivors said the submarine sub-marine was of the cruiser type and jhad the largest guns he ever had seen on a submarine. One of the engineer officers, he said, whose room was pierced by a shell from the submarine, subma-rine, declared that the shell was an eight-inch projectile. Heretofore only six inch guns have been reported on submarines. The survivors who were adrift four days before they were picked up said that a raft with five wounded men on it had put off from the Ticonderoga and that they had attempted to tow it with them but that it broke away during dur-ing the night and disappeared. |