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Show SU1I1E TORPEDOES BIG LINER; ALL SAVED Canadian Steamer Hesperian, Hes-perian, With 650 Persons Per-sons Aboard, Attacked Without Warning by Teuton U-Boat, but Vessel Is Reported to Be Still Afloat. SHIP SAID TO HAVE HAD GUN This, Coupled With the Fact That No Americans Ameri-cans Had Taken Passage Pas-sage on Craft, Eliminates Elimi-nates Any Possibility of Controversy. LIVERPOOL, Sept. 6. Miss S. Carberry and another English woman, wom-an, passengers aboard the Hesperian, Hes-perian, died last night at Queens-town Queens-town as a result of shock due to injuries received while being rescued res-cued from the torpedoed Allaji liner. LONDON, Sept. 5, 11 p. m. The Allan line steamer Hesperian, with 350 passengers and a crew of 300 aboard, bound from Liverpool for Montreal, was attacked without warning bv a German submarine off the Irish coast just as darkness was falling Saturday evening. Although the torpedo found its mark, the vessel remained afloat, and, according to a statement issued by the company tonight, everyone aboard was saved. Submarine Not Seen. No submarine was seen, and probably it was too dark to observe the wake of a torpedo, but all the passengers and members of the crew who arrived at Queen6town in the rescue steamers today, to-day, agree that tho attack was made by a German undersea boat, basing tbeir opinion on the force of the shock and the great volume of water thrown into the air. This dropped back on the deck, drenching the passengers who were taking an after-dinner promenade, feeling quite safe in the belief that they had passed the danger zone. The force of the explosion was tremendous, tre-mendous, and of the passengers landed at Queenstown, many of them scantily clad, about twenty were injured. There were no American passengers aboard, so far as thje American consul could learn tonight, but two members of the crew were American citizens and they were both saved. Wounded Soldiers. About thirty Canadian soldiers, who were wounded in battle in Flanders, were going home to recuperate. Most of the other passengers were Canadians returning from a visit to "England, or English people on their way to Canada to settle. The torpedo strucjs the Hesperian to the forward engine room, and the ship immediately began to settle by the head. Captain Main ordered the passengers pas-sengers and crew iuto the boats, but his officers remained on the hridge, although al-though at that time be must have felt sure that his ship would go down. The discipline was perfect, but one of the boats, the fall of which became jammed, capsized and those in her were thrown into the water. In the darkness dark-ness confusion naturally prevailed, but all were picked up and. with other passengers pas-sengers and tbe crew, were transferred to the rescue steamers, which arrived in answer to wireless calls for assist-anee. assist-anee. The Hesperian was about 150 miles to the westward when struck. CONSULAR REPORT DECLARES VESSEL HAD MOUNTED GUN WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. Official Washington, received news of the torpedoing tor-pedoing of the Allan liner Hesperian bv a German submarine with unconcealed uncon-cealed surprise, though there was none (Continued on Page S, Sport Section.) BIG MSA WIG m IS TORPEDOED (Continued from Pho One ) of the pjraVe anxiety that followed the linking of the Arabic. While comment WgS withheld at both the w hits house and the state depart tneut pending reports on the attack, it was learned that high officials rQftardod it as inconceix able that, after the an surances j;iven bv the Qertnan uo era ment last week, a German submarine commander had , witheut warning, launched a t OrpedO at n peace t u I pas Banger vessel. President Wilson and Secretary I -an sinij heard of the incident first early today through Associated Tress dispatcher. dis-patcher. Late, cabled reports from Kutbassador Ta;e at London ami t'on- snl Krost at Oueenstown announced the torpedoing oi the Hesperian. Two A m erica ns were said to have been among the members of the erew. The reports as made public hv the state 'I1 pariment, made no mention of whether the vessel was warned or attempted to escape, but it is known that other ad vices indicated that while the British admiralty believed there had been no warning, it would not announce it as a fact. Some significance was attached to Consul Frost's statement that the Hes-pexian Hes-pexian carried mounted and visible on her stern va -t.T-ineh rifle. While international in-ternational law permits merchantmen to have guns for defensive purposes, particularly when they are of small caliber and mounted a"t, it was pointed out that if the Allan liner acted at all suspiciously after being approached, the presenoe of thi gun probably would figure prominently in the submarine commander "s explanation of the torpe doing. |
