Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-28 | Page 2 | Destroyed Sunk near Panama

OESTflOYER Willi FAIIIA -Steamer Rams War Craft; One Dead, Two Injured and Fifteen of Crew Are Missing SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28. Further tletails of the ink- j ingot the United States destroyer j Woolsey, which was cut iu two i by the steamer Steel Inventor, lit mile north of Panama yester- J day, were awaited here today. Early this morning the casualty I Hat itill atood at one known dead, wo Injured and fifteen mis;nff. Ad- vices here did not how where there were bopea of the missing still being alive. Mom of them were from the flreroora" "irew""brThe vmolaey. The collialon occurred during the early houra of yesterday morning. The Steel Inventor, re porta here said, crashed Into the Woolsey and her heavy Iron prow cut almost complete-. complete-. ly through the sides of the destroyer, which sank quickly. The Steel Inventor waa only sllght-ly sllght-ly damaged. Shs was a 1400-ton vessel, ves-sel, hound from 8an Francisco to ew York. The Woolsey waa a destroyer attached at-tached to. the Pacific fleet. On- two prevloue occasions It had been in minor accidents. Commander H. C. Gearing Jr. was master of the Woolsey. There were I about 120 men aboard.