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Show 1 HARBots CLOSED; NAY BEGINS GIGANTIC HIJNT - . - - I Survivors Reach Atlantic Port; Carrier Pigeon Bearing Code Message Lands at Coney Island. SOME SHIPS MAKE ESCAPE BY ENTERING SHOAL WATER . j By International News Service. . ...... , I NEW YORK, June 3. U-boats have taken their first toll oJ ; American shipping; on this side of the Atlantic Reports received J late tonight indicate that two coastwise passenger steamers, one j steam tanker and six schooners have been sent to the bottom bj the German sea-raiders. No loss of life has been reported, however as the raiders apparently are not operating on the "spnrloi versenkt" basis. The vessels known or believed to have been snnl are: Carolina, plying between Porto Rico and New York. Carriet 220 passengers and 120 in crew. City of Columbus, plying between Savannah and New Yorfc Due at Boston early this morning, but reported. Winneconnie, a steamship of 1869 tons, bound from Newpor News to Providence, with cargo of oil. Herbert L. Pratt, oil tanker, sunk off Cape Henlopen. i The following schooners are known to have been sunk: j Edward H. Cole, in ballast, crew of eleven. Hattie Dunn, bound from Rockland to Charleston, in ballast, Isabella B. Wiley, in ballast, crew of eight. j Jacob M. Haskell, bound from Boston to Norfolk, crew o : eleven. Schooner Edna, bound to Santiago, Cuba, with oEL Hauppauge. Texel. i The crews of the Jacob M. Haskell, the Isabella B. Wiley an : the Hauppauge are still missing, as are all on board the steamei Carolina and City of Columbus. NORFOLK, Va., June 3. Naval officers here said tonight the reports indicated five German submarines had been operating alor ; the Atlantic coast, and that two had been sighted off the Virgin capes. Rear Admiral Fletcher, commandant of the Norfolk navy yari said two U-boats had been sighted off the Virginia capes, and Re; 1 Admiral McLean, commandant of the fifth naval district, said, i addition to these, two others were reported off the coast of Ne Jersey and one off the coast of North Carolina. Neither offio I had been advised of any engagement between American warshi; and the U-boats. AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 3. Hovering for two clays ov ' the sea where the American tanker William Rockefeller had be : sunk by a German submarine, a flotilla of destroyers and two se i planes finally succeeded in capturing the U-boat, according to nav , officers, survivors of the disaster, who landed here today. The sea for miles about the spot where the fatal blow stru : the tanker was closely watched by destroyers and their accompan ing seaplanes. j At last the submarine, which had stayed below the surface ' long that its air tanks had become exhausted, rose to the surf a j and was netted. I i By International News Service. ) NORFOLK, Va,, June 3. United States destroyers are report i to have fired on U-boats off the Virginia capes this afternoon. NEW YORK, June 3. The port authorities barred the dep ture of outgoing ships this forenoon. j NORFOLK, Va., June 3. The port of Norfolk-Newport Ne: was closed today to all outgoing vessels. Rumors were curni that a U-boat was sighted off the capes today. PROVIDENCE, R. I., June 3. Narragansett bay was closed (Continued on Page Four.) I U-BOATS SINK NINE U. S. SHIPS (Continued from Page One.) outgoing vessels this morning by order of the commandant of the naval station at Newport. UNITED STATES WARSHIPS SCOURING THE HIGH SEAS mi-ht so even lusher if the U-boat menace men-ace was not eliminated. COAL STEAMSHIP SAVED BY BEING CLOSE TO SHORE W T1.ANTIC PORT, June S. Frox-iniil'y Frox-iniil'y to the Xew Jersey shore saved e coal steamship Bristol, owned os the Coastwise Transportation company of Boston, from destruction yesterday. . Pursued bv two U boats, the Bristol sped Tow" r,l land, attained shallow water wa-ter and escaped because the submarines dared not follow her farther. It was the Bristol which rescued ti e crew of tho schooner Edward H-.0.lc after the Cole s men had been adrift in their small boats for several hours. It rsu.spectcd that the IT-boats traded these small boats for the purpose 01 de- roj-int! any vessel which misht f a rescue, as the submarines hove in MRht immodiatelv after the Cole crew Had been taken on board tile Bnstnl. Captain Frederick Hart, a veteran Mass ichusetts skipper, commanded the Bristol lie said the U-boats were bisr S , ; which could so sixteen kno s an hour. His own vessel can steam onb twelve knots, and when Ihe submarines appeared the Bristol started for shore ., nil the Germans bean to sain on hei. Captain Hart set every ayailiihlc man down into the ensine room to put on all steam possible lor the twenty-live-.nile rU,0,he"b.lstot hd spread soine larse awni.V- as the weather was hot. and Captain Hart believes the Germans suspected suns, were concealed under the awnlns.s. whereas the Bristol, beins a coastwise coaler, was unarmed. The Bristol reached water ol five 01 six fathoms, as shallow a depth as she dared enter, and kept close to shore on the run to the nearest port. From the moment she fled from the U-boats until the Germans Ger-mans abandoned the chase in shallow water, the Bristol pursued a zig-zag course. Samuelsorit of Kiv(.r Rouse. Mich.. loT the'cole's crew, and Robert I-athisie. first male, of Kast Boston, Mass.. te bus the sloi v today of the Coie s d-sl ruction, paid a tribute to H. C. Newcomb their captain of Boston, for his intrepidity In the moment when an opportunity came for the Cole's crew, eleven in number, to he rescued by the American collier Bris- Th" Bristol Captain Frederick Hart, sishled the Cole's crew in one open boat with one pair of oars, a sextant, a weather "lass sleerins bv starlishl alter settins tier course by sun. trylns to reach shore nearly five hours after their vesoel was sunk." at I p. m. . , . The Bristol, coinins aloiiRside l lie coles crew, had not noticed the submarine in the distance. Captain Newcomb of the Cole said to Captain Hart of the Bristol: "Don't stop to picl; us up. Beat it. ijuick, or that submarine will S"t jou." The t'-tHKit meanwhile was niovins toward the ffristol. but Captain Hart declined to depart without first rescuing the Cole's crew. Six of the hater, together with the nine firemen on .the Bristol, went to the Bristol's firernom and coal holds, ami for the first time in the voyaeins of the Bristol, she is said to have made seventeen seven-teen knots an hour, us compared with her normal nine knots. The Bristol es-r.ip.-d by reachins shallow water, into which the U-boat would not so. Samuelsou said that prior to the appearance ap-pearance of the U-boat, alxiut 4 p. nl. Sunday, the crew bad observed so much floatins wreekase that be was not astonished as-tonished whin what he thousht at first to he an American destroyer proved to be a German submarine. Two hundred vards off. after cirelins twice around the Coir, the U-boat's captain hailed the Cole, which had been making only thirty-six thirty-six miles in twelve hours, because of lack of wind, on her voyase from Norfolk, Nor-folk, Va.. to I'ortlan'il. Me. A submarine officer, who talked sood I-'usli"!!. came aboard with bombs, and plante I two in the aft hold, two in the forward hold and two on deck. They were timed to so off In seven minutes, and they cxplod.-d at the end of that time. Six minutes after the last one went off. the ship went down, bow first. As she was sinkins the submarine sent a shell into her stern. The Cob 's crew had been siven time to escape, the captain lakins his clothes and a few instnimenfs. but the crew left without rompa-ss, drinkins water or liie-le-:ts. They set a sun course for New York, pas-'ed through fresh wreckas' winch they look to be evidence of ot'tier viciirns am) were nearly run down at dusk by an unidentified steamship, which faded to ohseia e them. After proceedinjr another fiv'e miles, they saw- an armed steamship open lire on the C-Nvit. v.-hieh had not left the vicinity of tne'Cole'i rew. The submarine subma-rine at once save battle, and this duel terminated with the destruction of the merchantman, as the latter-disappeared in a manner to Indicate she was sunk. The Cole crew continued to row, with the l'-ho.it still diseei nihle. and presently present-ly heavy films was heard and another steamship was nbservrd to lie the object ob-ject of attack. This vessel, too, was believed be-lieved by the Cole's crew to have been sunk. 15 SURVIVORS OF THREE VESSELS REACH NEW YORK AX ATIVAN TIC l'i HIT. Juno Kif-liM-n mrvivfiis of ihie vo'cIm sunk h 'ieniian Pubmarlnrs nff tho Atlantic rou.M and semi1 ot 'shorn wi-re ii-port-'d to have been held prisoner eleven d;i'M on a I'-hoat re.ohed here late today on an Amerienn .ship - which pb Ued ihem up after t tie uhuinnne set thim adtjfl. The fifteen met) ,Veie Mllvivoi'S of two .-it liiHinrry and an oil tanker, tt was re-pnrl'-d. navy uard ship hulled t hr , vesM.'l after site I r i" i the (niarantlne station sta-tion and officers irnm the nnvy intelU-pniifd intelU-pniifd tiuieau ho.ird'd her to ijtjesllnn ttir nfn. CARRIER PIGEON FROM THE OCEAN REACHES SHORE S KVV Y i.'tUK , .In no A ni Nterious (ntTler pi(;'"n flyln; from the ocean a.ii;hlerl on Die hoard wnllt at. (,'oney island today. Around the rh;ht. leR 'f tin hird was a tin carrier, on the in-fitlo in-fitlo i.-f wdilch wen' tlie riKurcs "H.'' A )iecniiai- thhijr ahouL the bird I ha t when a pei son i n el v ilia n clot hrs i 'a rim near It. would try to attack hi in. When a pa t roln inn arrlvod. however, to take Ihe plivcon to the .million, the bird became ViM'V docile, He.niil)Kl.V rrooK-ni'hiK rrooK-ni'hiK the iinH'itrin. The mi v y Int ell luetic" hut ea u wan not I-ficd. I-ficd. FLOCK OF AIRMEN PATROLLING THE ATLANTIC COAST NKW Vf ItK . June :t, l"irty or moro iiirplji hps. nd n forced h- h .1 rn-;i 1 1 pin nes. were litday I'-.itndlhiK tho l.unn Island ciiSt, every r tbr.e I''c r UeepillK n, fdiarp loolum I. for host 1 le mi 1 1 una rl nes. The alrcral'l moved as far nut mt fifteen fif-teen m iles from shorn ami la t rr In (ho day I he pill rol was e:. I e in led to I ho New .Iwsey coast. All ifdorma ( ion wnn rofnsr-d hv tho lid lit n ry a u I laul I les, bul it wns report ed (hn force of I'Ivoin Would lie augmented a mi 'on mm posslhle by no tu Iters of French, ltrilish and Italian airmen who now n ro sen 1 1 ei-cil In it via I Inn I ra In I n; ca mii:i t hi'our, hoi 1 1 1 he con 11 try 11:1 in-ht in-ht ro. I nrs. PRATT SENT DOWN BY U-BOAT OFF CAPE HENLOPEN MllAhKU'IMA, .hino :.--Tln American Amer-ican lank .Mcnmer Herbert I Trali. Mexico Mex-ico for Philadelphia, with 11 car,;o of oil, w:ih mini hv a tjernmn t: Itoal todav off ( ':' I lenlopi'ii al t be hi'mlb of I lm I ). ;i-winv, ;i-winv, up w h I' h ri vr f 11 1 ic ahip uimIh are workhiK ol top speed to oveivoiurs the f , 1 1 h 1 1 1 a 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 n 1 h 1 - Trior to idiiUlnw t hn I'ratt, tlm Hiilirnn-I'lnc. Hiilirnn-I'lnc. Ilivd nl ttie KrttlMh tanker Ano, hvil. XEW VORK, June 3. Score? of United States warships were ranging the waters off the north Atlantic coast tonight in search of the German submarines sub-marines which made their lonr-erpccted attack on American shipping in home waters late yesterday afternoon. While the details of naval operations were withheld, it is known that destroyers, de-stroyers, fleets of Gubmarino 1: haters ami othpr vessels are ilahiii their searchlights tonight over the waters alon' thu coast and fax out at sea from Maine to Florida. Hydrnairplanes and airplanes arose like f locks of hiie birds from every naval station alon the Atlantic coa.-t when the warning was flashed, to 1 linn and soon were scouting over the waters where it is believed submarines would be most likely to be lurking. Foreign aviators and American students, as well as American flyers, ear." 'fly volunteered for service. More than a hundred airplanes and dirigible balloon? left Ila.eihurst aviation avia-tion field alone on scout duty. Xenrly all tho aircraft wore manned by regular armv aviators. Thnv circled ovpt Long Island sound and off the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to the eastern extremity of Ijong Island. In their flights today the aircraft were not armed, but in a short time they will be equipped with moinh-diop-ping mechanism and machine guns. The j machines pressed into patrol service to-! to-! day had been used for tra.ining purposes. pur-poses. Tin only way of hearing from the vessels in peril" was by the flash of their wireless. Kven if S. O. S. en II ft were received, nothing could be done by their sister ships .except to wait, for, following the stern and heartbreaking rule of the men in the Gorman submarine subma-rine campaign, no merchant vessel could aid through fear of their own destruction. Hut it was known that the alert wireless operators of the American navy would pick the culls land that dest rovers or other v. arc rat t I would steam lull speed to tho rescue. The Mvdo line officials were wor-! wor-! ried ton ight a bou t tho sa f cty of Ihe I steamship .Mohawk of that line, which left Chalentnn yesterday afternoon with approximately L'-jd passengers. Xo word had been received from her today, and it was considered passible t-he might have been in the path of the enemy submarines. owinc to tho vpssoI travehns IrtU he lle to tr.-t aw:iy l.nhnrmcl Tho Ai.o Psc.l ti K'.-i'dy isUii'l. 1 ilt 10 ocloc Witliin twi-nlv niinntcs from the lime tho 1Y..U v:.s Mink. n:ival v-psels gave i-lm-ic to tlir sul niarine, anrt in a very short time th.-r.-att-r the warships ciwned fin- on some thine at sea. lull it Is impossible im-possible to say just v.liat o.eun'e.l The crew vf the I'ratt was landed at Ihe Fourth ihstri.'t naval station at Cape lienlopen and eared lor durin Ihe nl:,-hl. Tlie steam pilot boat Philadelphia answered an-swered tho tanker s sicmils and look the four boats in tow to the government iron pier below I .ewes, pel. At the oi'tlees or the Fourth naval station sta-tion In this eitv, information was given out thai all ihe erew of the I'ratt had been rescued and official information Horn tho ruvv (1. -partment .showed the tanker h id been torpedoed. The Herbert U i'ratt was owned bv the Atlantic Kcl'inini; company com-pany of Philadelphia, one of the Standard till group of corporations. She was T.oT-net T.oT-net tons. Host on Port Closed One Hour. I'OSTON. June :l. The port of Itoston was cl.ed for an hour or more by naval MUlhorities today, after retelpt of first reports of submarines off the coast, hut was reopened later to all shipping. Iioom in Enlistments. XIOW Vi IKK. Juno One hunrlrol men enllstc.l In the naval mllilla between the hour when news of the I'-boat campaign olT the New .ler..ev coast lirst became known on the street and tho closing of the n cnilllng office here tonight, according accord-ing to a nuounceinent made, by the enrollment enroll-ment officer tor this branch of the slate ser- U e. The volunteers, he said, "wanted rc enge." Haskell's Crew Rescued. AS' ATLANTIC FORT, June The coualwise slrauiship, llri'.'lan. rescued the ciew ol the schooner Jacob M. .Ila.skell. victim of a Herman submarine, accord-log accord-log to information received hero tonight. The ilrecian la dun here lomorrow morning. morn-ing. She Is one of Ihe. fleet of the Merchant Mer-chant and Miners' Transportation company. FATE OF CAROLINA'S CREW ! AND PASSENGERS UNKNOWN j N W ( K K , J a n c. '. N'inu . m r r-; r-; ican vessels were known tonight- to have heon sunk bv (ierman suliniarines off tho north Atlantic coast since May 25. Tlie l;irp''t to f;i!l prey to tho raWl-oiH, raWl-oiH, whicli arc seeking to pro vent, tho sail) of transports with troopH for the battle, fields of I' V a 1 1 c e wi 1 thu Now 1'ork and Porto Rico liner Cn rolling ro-lling of -S0O0 tons, which was attacked Sunday niht about 125 miles southeast south-east of Snndy Hook. The fate of over L'i!0 passengers and crew of 130, who took to the boats v:hen Hhe bean to fall about the vpy'd, vas unknown 1 late tonight, but there was hope they had been picked up by some passing ship or would rcacli shore safely in tlie Hniall boatn. Not a life was lost in tin-si tin-si n h iri-; of the .other shi pH, according i to the late reports tonight. I'.csidis the Carolina, the known vie-tirns vie-tirns of the I '-bouts are tlm Atlantic Kefiiiin;; corjipany's tanker Herbert 1-. Pratt, the steamnliip Winurinnio of tons :tnd six s-'hooiiers, the, bti-ost bti-ost of whi'h were tin; 1 1 a tippa n;,'e, 11 new ship of 1000 tons, and tlie Ivlwarfl II. Cole. T"he erews of these ei"ht ves-seb: ves-seb: lm'e been intidcd at A thin tie ports.' He port s biTtiiohl a sii ore by t in survivors sur-vivors ind ica teo that the VVi imeconn ic and nearly all the schooners were juinU by the same H-bnnt, which had beep lurking in the path of shipping off the New Jersey coast :ilid the Pelawaro capos since late last month. The stories told by tho skippers of the R'hooner:-! in'lienteil thnt the commander of the ' siibriiersibb-s w.'n uniiMially huuiaru! fur a Cernian .Hulunarine officer. In no in-sta in-sta 11 ce, so fa r as k nowu, wan a I i f c-boat c-boat shelled n ml in all cases re or ted tho crews were ;d en oppfu tu n i t y to oscii pe or were t a It en a board the su 1-m 1-m urine, where some of them we 0 kept prisoners for eijdit, (lays before they were turned ndril't to be picked lift by a passing vessel. STEAMER TEXEL SENT DOWN SIXTY MILES FROM NEW YORK ATfvANTK CITY, N. .(., .Iuik; .'.-The Ft earner Tex'l was sunk bv n. f lermnn Hubinarine .Sunday afternoon sixty mlle ofr t l;e eoast. The crew of thirty -Hix men la nder hf re t onh;bl . Tlie Te-1 witn Amerlean learner and was bound from I'orto Kh-o for New York with 42. '''( ba'n of auuar when iiio fell In with tlie 'Ptniaii nulMiiarlne. I 'a t r iek H u.'.t on fif C100J vn, able Hea-riMin, Hea-riMin, n;i!i al (hf; wheel, when he wan :l ;i r'l led i 4 : 20 p. in. Hundav by a rliot I'Hn j U'A ep ii- to (he bow. Th I eo frl iol n vi re fired, the m eond .';liot !' I in 1 1 erln x y.D. :i hat-h and reril lerlnc f'PlirilerH all aiound M avion, who, however, wa.a not InNfd. ' Tin- er, Mima nder1 of the Kiihniarinn pipokn perfe, 1 KmHImIj. 1 hi:.o. f 1,1. The German Ger-man yk i ppe r a me ubo;i rd I he Te vi-l a I. i-V., will, a detiiil or ine,, ,l,)d orrb-red I lie ei'-W to If.ive lie -u.ainer al once, ail h- v.iin roini: to beml, ihe -hl(,. 'I he., blew be,- uF, ;,,) r,.. v;,nK at :,:.':0 p. m. sixiy miles out of New York ha rbor, The erew or the ''exe, el (o their Own r'-foitrees a nd without food or water-. Mlriiek 11 eourae direellv Io',ard Mhotc and landed here. AH uicl'it hn- they niado their wav tfiwnrd shore, Totlav they muv an aviator in . .-'eaplane and when la-Maw la-Maw the Txe"fl en-w lie HI on the wa - I er mill cane a Ion ::nide. lie F.ni be would no ashoro and fuunmon he hi, Imt did tad lelnrii. Tlie ereW- of tile Teyel wern tlllil-n III ( hat re by tin nuiHl jp'ard when I he v la nd-d here a nd were ;d en qua it era at poller- heiuhpm 1 I er.M for tho iiij:ld. W;ir Risk Rales Jump. N ICW YtMMv. .lun- :. 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