Inquiries conducted by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New York elicited the fact that the steamer was owned by A.H. Bull Company and operated by the United States Shipping Board. It was a freighter with a tonnage of 7825 deadweight tons. The A. H. Bull Company informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that according to advices they received the steamer was wrecked and sunk near Trebizonda, that the entire crew of thirty-seven persons together with their Captain Fulsen were drowned. The company, however, had no information regarding the immigrants on board. But according to information received by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Russian immigrants often took advantage of freight steamers crossing the Black Sea to get to Constantinople and from there to America.
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