Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — GERMANS SINK OWN STEAMER [ARTICLE]

GERMANS SINK OWN STEAMER

American Ship Owasco, Formerly the Teuton Steamship Allemannie Sunk by U-Boat. An Atlantic Port, Jan. 25. —The American steamship Owasco, formerly the German steamer Allemannie and seized here when the United States entered the war, was sunk by a submarine the early part of December while In Mediterranean waters near the Spanish coast, according to survivors of the ship who arrived here on a Spanish liner. It was said that two members of the crew lost their lives.