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A T I 1 t B oat 1 a g h ers i T ars ars' ars c. c t r so 5 Ship Sunk r c- c By SubmarinE I Men Lost bad ad 31 and 1111 tl Dying Dying- on Oil 1 l oa Shelled by l Huns f Shrapnel 0 1 l Poured Into Sailors Attempting l 1 tinz g to CJ Climb l Aboard oarl Lifeboat I f N Atlantic Port Oct Scores lO-Scores 10 Scores of American sailors were killed o oti i wounded by shrapnel fired by a German submarine after it had tor oed the steamship Ticonderoga 1700 miles mules off the Atlantic coast ac ac- dins ding to the story told b by twenty survivors who arrived here today aboard aboard t- t freighter r here were m men n aboard the Ticonderoga an American Am steamship of 0 tons tolls and all but the twenty who arrived ed here hero today are believed to toe e e e l perished The survivors r got ot away in the tlC only boat bont which was vas not dee de- de by the shell sheH fire from the submarine they said Seventeen of the thc men inch who reached port were members of a detach detach- nt ni of soldiers detailed to care for horses which were being transported The The Ticonderoga T cond ro a was as attacked presumably on October 2 when she fell find in her como convoy because of engine trouble According b bit the to-the to the story of the survivors the submarine was not sighted it il she had sent a torpedo crashing into the thc side of tho the ship The Tho torpedo snot strike a n vital ital spot however er and the captain crowded on full steam n effort to escape c. c cape at the same time timo ordering tho gun crews into action actions ns s the tho submarine which h appeared a about out a n. mile off j A American n Guns Soon foon Shot Away r Our in cr did not pot fire more than five or ov 0 six shots hol one of othe rivers irons said paid H T The n he e forward gun was novas sl qt a ay away y almost at once The I gun and its crew crew was done lone for almost as quickly l TJien hen the men mento kt t to the boats bonts but it was no use as tho the flying shrapnel was spraying decks and men tell jell in scores ores either cither killed or badly wounded bounded f. f Another nother survivor or declared that all of tho s Ticonderoga f eight life its t with the exception of one were riddled w with th shrapnel before they Sid gild td be he launched A number o men inen who tried to get into tho the eighth boat killed by shrapnel as they clambered over oer the side silo of the vessel essel he j Finally n lJ this this survivor ivor continued tI one one of our m men en in in desperation r jim m close to the llio su submarine and hailed nn an officer asking II him M in in Gods God's name Stop top pp firing The lieutenant who answered him did so 50 with nl unloaded revolver saying t if he d did d not swim swim back he would shoot him lW I r r De Dead d and Dying Shelled by y Huns j I i When our boat had only twenty men in it c here ordered alongside submarine and made to tie tic up while the shelling of the dead an and dying th the sinkin sinking ship continued r rI l I i i The le leader of our boat was asked some questions which he lie refused r I. I o and md suddenly sl the submarine s submerged and and only the parting arting of 3 orope rope with which wInch c we c were tied lied prevented o our r going down with it One of the survivors ors said aid the submarine was of tle the cruiser type and j the largest esl guns he eyer had seen on a submarine One of the engineer acers cers he said whose room was pierced by a n shell from the submarine glared dared that the shell was an nn inch eight-inch projectile Heretofore only six six- ii guns glues s have been heen reported on submarines i survivors ors who were adrift for four days before they were picked d said that a It raft with five f e wounded men on it had put off from the and antI that th they y had attempted to tow it with them therm but that it ite oke e away during tho the night and disappeared Je j i i joo OO PERISH ONI ONi ON ON- London Oct OeL 10 The The Dublin mail Moat boat has been torpedoed I to the Exchange Telegraph raph company The Tho steamer was making sip ilip from Dublin to Holyhead Four hundred pe persons ons perished in tho the torpe torpedoing of the Leinster i aci ac ac- i l I Sing ing t to o a report which has not yet been confirmed e. e Tho ho reported torp torpedoing doing o of the I Leinster on her re regular voyage from ilm lin to Holyhead would indicate that the German t boats U-boats have again a ain i preceded in getting into St St. Georges George's channel Nothing jg has been heen reported 0 boat boat amU-boat boat IV-boat operations in that water for a n. long time and it was reported e f t extraordinary precautions had been taken with respect tf to this chanas chan- chan p as well as the English channel dr giro gross tonnage of or tho the Leinster is S 2640 Her owners o are aro the t he City Dublin Steam Packet company She was vas built at Birkenhead in m rn 1890 1996 AF R i R r oo O DROWN ON Its Y JAPANESE LiNER f 1 J f 1 1 t d o BRITISH Monday Oct I. I By By tho tiro Associated Press Press Press- The nese steamship Hirano Mam j of or tons tong gross has hns been torpedoed sunk It Jt is feared that lives were lost F FO Q The he Hirano Maru Baru was outward bound for Japan and carried about C rs The Tho vessel was torpedoed and 1111 sunk by hy a German submarine 5 JJ 5 yi f on Friday morning wh n about miles mile south of o Ireland ar r lie He few survivors ors survivors who were picked up by hy tho the American torpedo boat boatIc ute Ic oyer o er Sterret have been brought ht here They declare t that 1 Jat t the I JC torpedo bl b k th the steamer in the forward fOI engine room 11 r Vessel Sinks Within Seven Soven Minutes e o hing remained for those e on hoard board including ngo the W wu women wen and chil- chil lb but to plunge into the thu ocean A A. purrs number however howe went down dO X U d on Page 2 Yc Y c 4 u. u S. S SHIP SUNK BY SUBMARINE c Continued Prom From Page Pago e 1 1 with tile the ship The vessel disappeared completely within seven CIl minutes after being struck by the flue torpedo Time The scene nc was vas indescribable The weather was bad bail and rather hazy heartrending Enry Everybody lund had been heen supplied e The flu cries crits of or the drowning were g oly with 11 life Co belts but buit oni only tIme tIll strongest cst were able ahle to stand the buffeting waves and lre Provi s the time commander of or the tho American merican destroyer hearth heard the tho explosion l and steered his es vessel ves-ol nl for the flue point whence the sound came lie found the tile Sill ship had hiatt disappeared and ancl he lie saw a 1 mass muss of people struggling lg- lg in iii the hue Wll water er s American Destroyer Rescues Survivors There were Yere no small boats available fi so the flue destroyer r the in-the bad weather steamed about picking up lip those who ho were we're still stilE till alive The Time American warship war ship Slut picked up Lii thirty persons one of ot whom died while being heing brought ht I asia ashore oie I Among mon the survivors ors were these pass passengers cr in iii the fir cabin t A. A A. A Yo Young u 11 Louis Loni Durmont A. A R B. B I 1 T. T 11 II anti and Fred T J. ch About two twenty two members of the Japanese crew were rescued f tho American destroyer Sterret was engaged iu jut the wor work of mercy and picking up tile the men and nud women struggling in itt i c water ater 1110 the German Ger man mm submarine fired two torpedoes g nt at the time warship B Both th mi happily I missed their mark After fter making a n thorough search for rOl s survivors i ors lh Uie lie Sterrett headed for the submarine firing sev several s ini shots and dropping ami-dropping dropping cli charges arges I |
