Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-09-20 | Page 1 | American Steamer Sinks Submarine

IEII STEAMER 515 SUBMARINE Another Vessel From This Side, the Platuria, Sent Down; 9 Lives Lost. COPENHAGEN", Sept. 19. Two Ger-j Ger-j man submarines have bren sunk by British naval forces, reports the Bergen correspondent of the Tidens Teyns. Six men from the T 7-boats were taken prisoners. pris-oners. An armed British steamer in the North sea sank a German submarine which was shelling a neutral sailing' vessel. The second submarine was sunk by a British torpedo-boat destroyer while attacking at-tacking an armed steamer. CHRISTIAN TA, Sept. 19. The Bergen correspondent of the A ftonbladet says that tli e armed steamer which sank a German submarine in the North sea while the U-boat was shelling a neutral sailing vessel was an American steamer. IjONDON. Sept. IX The American ! steamer Platuria was torpedoed by a German submarine on September Forty-five survivors have been landed. The master of the I'iaturia and ei'-'hL of Lhc crew were drowned. Captain Jslie lived in Jersey City, N. J. All told, thrre were forty-one members mem-bers of the crew and thirteen naval Kiinnpr?, A in on i? t he crew, including the captain, were sixteen Americans, includ-inp includ-inp the frillowimr: H. Furrow, boatswain, Denver, Colo. T. Johnson. bnkfr bov, i1 4 4 Iron street BeHinKham. W.-ih. R. I. Smith, fir.-ft .-issistant engineer. Reno, Nev.