Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-04-12 | Page 1 | Steamer Wayfarer is Torpedoed

WAYFARER IS TORPEDOED LONDON April 12 The liu Harrison line steamer Va Wayfarer farer has lias been torpedoed torpedoed tor tor- d and sunk by a Q German n submarIne submarine submarine sub sub- marine according according- to a message e re rec received re- re c Ived in London o by a news agency Details of the Incident are aie lacking The British h Wayfarer was teas feet pt lon long and registered Ij tons tolls She wa wi ryas milt built In ill Belfast In 1903 1003 and andwaN was waN owned In Liverpool She Sho left j Galveston Gal January 27 7 for fol Liverpool Li where she h arrived C February 17 Another m message e from Liverpool says the Vl Cu Wayfarer er has not ono gone down but that she Is making for tor Qu Queens Queenstown enl town In tow The vessel was tor torpe torpedoed pe oed off oft the islands accord accordIng according in ing to this report GALVESTON Tex April Agents tIl S of or the Harrison line in Gal Galveston veston say ay that the Wayfarer wa a requisitioned h by the British govern rn uncut nt on March 1 15 the day on whirl she he was to have havo sailed for tor Galve tn for fot nl another cargo of ot cotton colton Th Wayfarer had bc been n In the Liverpool Galveston Gal trade almost continuous for more mon than ton years 5 tj