Tuscania Sinks With 2179 Troops Aboard After Torpedo Strike
The Cunard liner Tuscania carrying 2179 American troops of the Thirty second National Guard division was torpedoed and sunk off the north coast of Ireland. Admiralty and state department reports place the dead at 101 to 210 with 550 survivors. British convoys aided survivors. officials expect lower missing numbers as details emerge.
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Admiralty
Washington
Red Cross
Ireland
Pershing
Thirty-second Guard
Michigan
Wisconsin
London
Tuscania
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Cunard
Thirty-second National Guard Division
England
The
War Department
Scotland
Liverpool
Glasgow
Belfast
Larne
Winchester
Admiralty London
Cunarder
State Department
France
Buncrana
Soldier Boys Met Peril With Yankee Spirit
Loadonderry Ireland February 7. Proof of order aboard the Tuscania shows typhoid and pneumonia cases no ill effects. Forty survivors to hospitals. Most injuries trace to lowering lifeboats and rope slides. Two women aboard praised for brave descent. Boatswain Thomas Smith recalls explosion and rapid boat launches as survivors crowded the decks. By Wednesday morning 656 survivors, including 40 crew, reached safety. Larne medical staff requisitioned for care.
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Loadonderry
Ireland
Tuscania
Boatswalin
London
Thomas Smith
Glasgow
Sta Hon
Larne
Submarine That Sunk Tuscania Reported Destroyed
Londonderry Feb 7 A U S officer described an attack on the submarine that torpedoed the Tuscania saying the sub was destroyed after a destroyer pursued it and dropped bombs near the sinking liner. The officer was among the last to leave the Tuscania and provided the vivid disaster account to the Associated Press. The second torpedo misfired and bombs from the destroyer are claimed to have finished the submarine.
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Londonderry
Tuscania
Associated Press
Jewish Population In Jerusalem Falls to 23000
Cable reports to the Palestine restoration fund commission show Jerusalem’s Jewish population has collapsed to 23000, down about 40 percent in three and a half years of war amid disease starvation and expulsions.
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New York
Jerusalem
Palestine Restoration Fund Commission
Sinking of the Mercania prompts strong wartime resolve
Secretary Baker speaks in Washington on February seventh about the sinking of the Mercania. He notes losses are a harsh reminder of war’s toll, calls for united national resolve, and promises to relay details promptly to families and the public as information comes in.
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Washington, D.C
Baker
Tmeene
Mircania
These UnitS Were on Board Tuscania
The troops aboard the Tuscania included former Michigan and Wisconsin guardsmen now with the Thirty Second Division at Camp MacArthur. Also aboard were the 20th Engineers, forestry regiment, aero squadrons, and replacement detachments, with initial confusion over unit aboard clarified by the War Department.
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Washington
PB. L
Kel
Uscania
Michtygaor
Wisconsin National Guards
Camp MacArthur
Severnaera
Dwentieth Engineers
Adjutant General
D. BE
Dwene Ueth Engineers
107Th Engineerrain
107Th Military Police
Lotth
100Th Aero Squadron
War Department
Twentieth Engineers
107Th
107Th Engineer Regiment
Michigann Engineers
Wisconsin Infantry
Louth
Virth
Awerntieth Engineers
Aero Equatroons
Wir
Tuscania Torpedo Sinks Troop Ship Near Land
Lone 3 reports three Tuscania crewmen died from exposure after torpedo. Women volunteers tended to the injured at Larne as improvised wards filled hotels. Thirty seriously hurt were taken to local hospitals while Larne's resources were stretched. One survivor joked of swimming to satisfy him for life as the ship lingered afloat near shore.
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Tuscania
Larna
Larne
Eney
Atlantic
Tuscania Armidship
Roosevelt Takes Turn for Worse After Abdominal Surgery
New York reports say three physicians were summoned to Col Roosevelt’s hospital room this afternoon as conditions after yesterday’s abscess operation prompted renewed concern. Doctors offered no public statement but acknowledged the urgent call and arrival at the patient’s side.
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Roosevelt
New York
Col. Roosevelt
Man Droops Dead on Street Corner
George T. Wallace, driver of an express wagon, collapsed at the corner of Saxon street and Logan avenue shortly before 3 p m. today. The pulmotor was ordered for treatment.
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George T. Wallace
Logan Avenue
Saxon Street
Camp Dodge Men in Twentieth Engineers Linked to Tuscania Crew
St Paul, Minn. Feb 7, state forester Cox announced that several Camp Dodge men enlisted in the Twentieth Engineers via their forestry unit. Names include George B. Hartman, J Harley Quint, Ralph A. Fletcher, Edward M. Davis, H V Hoyer, John Evans, and Charles H. Sneck among five Iowa State College forestry graduates attached to the engineers. It remains uncertain how many served aboard the doomed Tuscania.
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Camp Dodge
Peb
Onal
National Army
Twentinth Engineers
Foresters
Lowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
Iowa
Towans
St. Paul
Minn
Cox
Twentieth Engineers
George BE. Tarlman
Eddyvill
Ralph A. Fletcher
Marshalltown
John
Divans
State Center
Washington
Ralph A. Mletcher
Ih. V. Hoyer
Ames
John H. Evans
Edward M. Davis
Vintan
Waterloo fuel board lifts hours return to Webster order
The Waterloo fuel board reverts to the original Webster order. Retail stores may open at 6 a.m. and close as before with specifics for drug stores at 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., cigar stores and confectioners at 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., barber shops to 1 p.m. The board notes ongoing conservation despite the relief.
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Waterloo Fuel Board
Charles Webster
At & Am
Fuel Board
Webster
Waterloo
Busin
J. EB. Sedgwick
Bolsheviks claim to seize all lands amid Brest peace talks
Reports from Brest and Petrograd describe Bolshevik assertions of government control over Crimea and Ukraine. Lenine urges confiscation of land, launching an economic war while preparations for a broad confiscation drive gather pace across Russia.
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London
Brest Ultoyak
Ukraine
Trotzky
Brest Litovsk
Tolsheviks
Bolsheviki Rada
Kiev
Russia
Rada
Bralaneysey Rada
Crimean
Crimea
Crimean Council of Workmen's
Bobruisk
Minsk
Petrograd
Timor
China
Congress of
M. Kalegarev
Lenine
Masers
Republic
Siberia
Harbin
Iberia
Semenoff
Tehita
Irkutsk
Karinskai
Patriot's Days Proclamation Calls Observance in Iowa
A 1918 proclamation urges Iowa readers to observe February 12 and 22 as Patriot’s Days. It honors Washington and Lincoln birth anniversaries, urging churches schools and societies to study their lives and reaffirm support for liberty and representative government amid wartime.
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Iowa
Washington
Lincoln
Amerian
Freighter Alamance Sunk by U-Boat Off English Coast
A German submarine sank the American freighter Alamance of 2000 tons off the English coast with six crew lost. All Americans aboard were rescued. In the first week of February British losses totaled 14 merchant ships, including ten over 1600 tons, with Italy and France also recording sinkings. Official Admiralty summary notes 2339 arrivals and 237 British ships sunk by mines or submarines, plus four fishing vessels sunk and eighteen merchantmen unsuccessfully attacked.
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Italy
London
Suimmary
Admiralty
Potatoes Cheaper for Chicago. 725 Carloads In January
Chicago residents can buy potatoes at three pecks for $1 as the food administration cites 725 carloads received in January. Most shipments came from Minnesota Michigan and Wisconsin. Rome dispatch notes Vice Admiral William S Sims arrives in Rome for a brief visit.
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Chicago
Admirae Stms
Rome
William S. Sims
European
Railroads to Return to Private Control After Peace
Washington report on the administration railroad bill notes a guaranteed annual return of 945 million dollars to railroads, about 5.32 percent, with appeals allowed on compensation. The measure calls for government control ending 18 months after the peace proclamation, and lets the president relinquish all rail lines when deemed suitable.
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Washington, D. C
Smith
Senate Interatate Commerce Committee
Senate
Administration Railroad
National
Stat
Court of Claims
Cunarder Autania Sunk by U Boat Off U S Route
The Cunard liner Autania, 13,400 tons, was torpedoed by a German submarine while bound for the United States. Though badly damaged, she was not sunk and is believed to be making for port with government ships aiding. The ship carried little cargo.
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Autania
U.S
New York
Cunard
United States
Cunard Line
Altho
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