Show SUBMARINE SINKS TUG AND BARGES ANOTHER BOAT U-BOAT ATTACK OFF CAPE COD SHOTS FALLING ON MAINLAND Only Poor of the Huns Prevented Destruction of f the Tug and Barges and Death of Crew v Numbering Forty Orleans Mass An An enemy submarine submarine rine attacked a tow off the easternmost easternmost eastern eastern- most point of Cape Cod on Sunday I sank three barges set a fourth and and their tug on fire and dropped four shells ou the mainland The a action tion lasted an l libur ur and was unchallenged except for two hydroplanes hydroplanes hydro hydro- planes from the aviation station which circled over ver the boat U-boat causing her to submerge for only a moment to reappear and resume resume re re- sume firing The tug the Perth Amboy was owned by the Lehigh Valley railroad and according to estimates of marine ma mn- rine men here was worth about The value of the barges was estimated at approximately The crews of the tow numbering 41 and including three women women and five children escaped amid the shellfire shellfire shell shell- fire in lifeboats Several were wounded but only one seriously Happened to be John an Austrian of the tug crew IDs His right arm was torn way away near the shoulder shoulder der by a shell fragment The barges in tow of the tug Perth Amb y of the Lehigh Valley railroad were bound from Gloucester for New York On One was loaded with stone but the others were light being on their return trip after bringing coal to New England The attack w was s without warning and only the poor marksmanship of the German gunners permitted the escape of the crews The sided one fight took place three e miles mUes south s uth of or the Orleans coast coastguard coastguard guard station at the tip of the cape TIle The firing brought thousands to to the beach The flashes of the guns and the outline of the boat U-boat were plainly plain plain- ly seen Danger was not thought of until a shell whirled over their heads and flashed in a pond one mile mUe inland in in- land Three other shells buri buried d dt t themselves In the sands of the beach |