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Show I CfiUISER i :66 Perish When the City of Athens Is Rammed Off the Delaware Coast; Goes to Bot- torn in Seven Minutes. SUBMARINE LOST IN COLLISION -4 Part of Crew Saved; f Norwegian Steamer Is JUent Down Off Vir-ginia; Vir-ginia; British Report v Two Marine Disasters. .AN ATLANTIC PORT, May 1. . Sixty-six persons lost their lives when I the steamship City of Athens, bound Bfrom New York for Savannah, was rammed and sunk by a French cruiser ;ss off the Delaware coast at 1 o 'clock - this morning. The missing include ten men and two women who were passen- '. gers, seven out of twenty -four United - ; States marines who were on board, fourteen out of twenty French sailors, ""r Land thirty-three members of the crew. wjT I All the passengers and many of tho crew were in their berths when the v ,' low of the warship plunged into the x fide of the 2300-ton coastwise ' vessel, v' Tire broke out almost immediately J afterwards in hold No. 1, but it had no Rearing on the fate of the ship, for the (flames were quickly quenched by the )0:, rush of water which poured in. " CAPTAIN TRIED TO AVERT PANIC. I" Captain J. Forward, one of the vet- eran commanders in the service of the i Ocean Steamship company, owners of i; lie vessel, did his best to avert a panic --TL"d man the lifeboats. So quickly did ISt doomed vessel sink, however, that , there was no time to get the boats away, and many of those who perished n I were trapped in their berths. tl Those of the passengers and crew 1 who were able to reach the deck, all of ui 4tliem thinly clad and many without life ' preservers, plunged into the sea. itel The cruiser launched lifeboats imme-iliately imme-iliately after the crash, and turned its ":1 searchlights upon the waters in which Imeu and women were struggling for their lives. Sixty-eight persons were picked up and brought back to this '.'Port by the warship, which was not seriously j;i n.nged. TUGHTS CARRIED "BY BOTH SHIPS. - Both ships were carrying running B'ights because of the heavy fog which ,4 hung over tho sea. M P. ,1. Doherty, the wireless operator, I Was able to send out only one "&.0&." 'all after the warship's bow plunged '"to the City of Athens' side near the - bow. There was no response (o the ap-U ap-U for aid, and the vessel sank so p Illicitly tloherty had no opportuuity to fl'epeat the call." Be is believed to have Ij ''Mn drowned at his hi-(. V) Many heroic deeds were recounted ,.;0inght by the survivors. One of the jPKelley of New York, an oilor, who jKfrain to an overturned lifeboat and I dragged up on the bottom of it four J persons who were struggling in the sea. '! Ho held tilery there until they were J (Continued ou FgeThroeQ AMERICAN SUP H BY FREWCH CRUISER (Continued from Fage Cue.) taken off by a boat from the French cruiser. ACCIDENT DUE TO DENSE FOG. Captain Forward, who was one of those saved, was painfully inju.ed and was grief-trlcken at the loss of his ship. He said he was proceeding at half speed about twenty miles off shore, sounding the usual fog signals, when the dim bulk of the cruiser loomed up through the mist and the crash followed. Fortunately, Fortunate-ly, tlie sea was calm or many moj'e lives might have been lost. Captain Forward refused to make a statement concerning the length of time his vessel remained afloat after the collision. col-lision. Members of the crew declared, however, that the City of Athens sank within four minutes. A great hole was torn in her side below the water line near the bow and she was carried down by her own momentum as the water rushed in. List of Victims. The following passengers are believed to have been lost: M. GREEN, Astoria, N. Y. JAMES J. KASTL, Morristovra, N. J. RICHARD BONZEDTER, Mobile, Ala MISS E. G. STILES, New York City. JEAN CAE-RON, New York City. THE REV. J. P. REYNOLDS, New York City. ISAAC DALZELL, Paterson, N. J. MRS. F. D; HOLTMAN, Hyde Park, Mass. EDWARD CLEG, Savannah, Ga. GAW DONE, Brooklyn, N. Y. R. A. YODNG, Brooklyn, N. Y. The following United States marines were reported drowned: F. R. DIXON. P. VAN HANEGEN. S. H. TYNGE. ' H. ROSENFELD. W. J. MACK. S. GINSBERG. H. E. WETMOHE. Among the members of the crew believed be-lieved to have been lost are: CLAUDE LEWIS, second officer. CHARLES COOKE, assistant engineer. engi-neer. JAMES POOLE, oiler. NICK SALMOS, water tender. The loss on the ship and cargo was estimated es-timated by the Ocean Steamship company to exceed $2,000,000. The major part o the cargo was made up of cement, rope, foodstuffs, general merchandise and parts for machine guns. Part of Crew Saved. PARIS. May 1. The French submarine Prairlal has been sunk as a result of a collision with a merchant ship, it was announced an-nounced today. Part of the crew of the submarine was savedw The Prairial was built at Cherbourg ten years ago. ( She was 167 feet long and displaced 400 tons. Her complement ordinarily ordi-narily was twenty-four men. Norwegian Ship Sunk. AN ATLANTIC PORT, May 1 The Norwegian steamer Fjell was sunk off the Virginia coast at midnight last night when she collided with the British steamer steam-er Livlngstonia. The Fjell crew was I saved by the Livlngstonia and landed here today. The collision occurred in a heavy fog. The Livingstonia, outward bound from this port, crashed bow on amidships of 1 the Fjcl, which was coming down the roast, with a great hole in her hull the Norwegian vessel sank soon after the crew had taken to the boats. Captain Johanneaen of the Fjel and his crew lost all their effects, many of the men reaching the boats half clothed. Tho j captain said his ship was soandlng her fog signal regularly and taking all proper precautions, and that the LJvinsstonia would be libeled for damages. The British captain would not discuss i the collision further than to Bay that he would make a full report at the proper j time. The Fjel was a little vessel of 5S1 net tons. The Livingstoni.Vs net tonnage is ! j Nineteen Lives Lost. LONDON, May 1. Six officers and thirteen thir-teen men are missing as the result of the naval disaster reported tonight bv the British admiralty. The sloop Comslip was torpedoed and sunk April and five of-fleers of-fleers a.nd one man are missing; and torpedo tor-pedo boat No. 90 foundered and from her One office and twelve men are missing. I |