Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-11-18 | Page 1 | Torpedo Boat Sunk; 33 Drown

TORPEDO BOAT SUNK; 33 DROWN Collides With a Cruiser and Goes Down; Several Sev-eral Are Rescued. KIEL. Nov. 18. Torpedo boat S V2i collided col-lided last night near Buclk with the sinill cruiser Ciiuine. The torpedo boat sank and one officer and thirty-two seamen arc j missing. The disaster occurred during the maneuvers maneu-vers in Kiel bay. A torpedo boat division was making a regulation 'attack upon the 1'ndinc, which had blinded her lights. Iji-l- r she suddenly used her searchlight. which confus'-d the helmsman of the S VM ''and the torpecio boat got under the t'ri-l.linfs t'ri-l.linfs bow ami was struck amidship, caiisii:g t! e 1 oil-r of the S Uii to explode. The siuid- lines of the catastrophe explains ex-plains the great iiumlo r of vietims. It Is believed tli;it nil the missing members of th rrew w re killed or drowned. Several wounded officers were rescued. Kmperor William, who arrived here at noon for the swearing i:i of ttie naval leeruits. ordered a dttailed reirt to be n.iule to him.