Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-09 | Page 15 | Submarine near Anchor Line Boat

SOBIRII NEAR 1CR0RJJ1E BOAT American Steamer Arrives Safely at Atlantic Port; Escapes U-Boats. AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 8. A British trans-Atlantic steamer which arrived tonight reported that a wireless message had been received from an Anchor line steamer 800 miles off the New England coast last Wednesday that a submarine was close by. The steamer at once headed at full speed for this port. Whether the Anchor liner was attacked was not known. AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 8 Racing at full speed for nearly a week to escape German submarines, an American Amer-ican steamship arrived today from the West Indies with fifty-nine passengers, pas-sengers, more than half of whom were women and children. With the first inkling that U-boats were at work, the captain took drastic steps to protect his ship and the lives of his passengers. Taking a zigzag course, he ordered the engineers to get everv pound of steam possible and then ran 'far off the route. He 'was followed fol-lowed by steamers engaged in the West Indian trade. Lifeboats were prepared for instant lowering and passengers warned that if they appeared on deck they would be thrown into irons. Officers and men obtained no sleep for the last seventy-two hours, keeping keep-ing a constant lookout for submarines, floating mines or lifeboats from the raiders' victims. The wireless operator picked up an S. O. S. call from the Harpathian. Both crew and passengers showed the tension under which they had been. A. .1. Danyon, a Philadelphia banker, and Frank P. Gilroy, a mining engineer from Denver, in relating their experiences, expe-riences, paid tribute to the work of officers of-ficers and men and to the courage of the women passengers.