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Show TORPEDO BOAT RESCUES CREW Eight Men From the Healdton, One Badly Injured, Are Saved. ACCOUNT OF SINKING All Efforts to Save Nineteen Men in Capsized Boat Fruitless. THE HAGUE, Mnreh 23. via London, 2:25 p. m. A second boal from the Healdton has been brought to TW-pchclling TW-pchclling by n Dutch torpedo boat, with Hcln nin, including one badly injured. One Dutchman had jumped overboard, losing his life. The third boat, containing 19 men was overturned over-turned When the ship capsized. All were drowned, making a total of 20 lives lost out of the crew of 41. Of the 13 Americans on board only six-wore six-wore paved Two Dutchmen also were among the victims, others of whom were Spaniards, Norwegians and a Finn. Detailed accounts of the sinking show that the Healdton, after considerable con-siderable dnlay al Halifax' on her way to Rotterdam, proceeded to Bergen, Norway, where she received orders to resume the voyage to Rotterdam Nothing of especial import happened until Wednesday at about 8:15 p. m. Notwithstanding the electrically illuminated illum-inated words ' Healdton, New York," between the masts, the vessel was bombarded suddenly by an invisible submarine, which first shot away the illuminated name and thereupon without with-out warning twice torpedoed the ves Bel. Fire broke out at once followed, by an explosion in the machine room and the crew immediately sought safety safe-ty in the boats, not having a minute to dress or collect any of their belongings. All efforts to save the 19 men in the overturned boat were fruitless. The boat with 13 men, including the captain, was sighted on Thursday by ill-: steam trawler Java which had just put, to sea but immediately returned to Ymuiden with the shipwrecked men. A number of these survivors were In their underclothes and all were terribly ter-ribly exhausted by the night's fatigue and exposure in the open boat to bitter bit-ter cold and snow. They had not even enough strength to come alongside along-side the trawler, whose skipper had j in apply his best seamanship to ap-1 proaeh the boat without running it down ince on board the trawler some of the survivors fell to the deck in a faint from exhaustion. According to the captain of the Healdton, one of the torpedoes hit his vessel in the stern and the other amidships amid-ships Dutch fishermen say they observed ob-served the glow oi the burning steamship steam-ship in the distance, at first believing it to be the northern light6. On Border of Danger Zone. In a dispatch from Ymuiden it is said that apparently the Healdton was j withiu. or on the border of the German Ger-man danger zone, east of the free channel. Nothing could be distinguished distinguish-ed of the nationality of the submarine which fired without emerging fully and disappeared Immediately. In addition to the illuminated sign the Healdton's nationality was lndl i1 cated by the fact that she was flying L the American flag and had her name I painteu on the sides. The Dutch cook 1 1 was among the four survivors of al( ship recenny torpedoed. Six Americans Saved. ROTTERDAM, March 23. via London; Lon-don; 4 p. m The six Americans saved ' from the Healdton are Capt. Charles Christopher of Brooklyn; J. Caldwell I ot "New York, chief engineer, and G. Bmbry of New Orleans, first assistant assist-ant engineer, all of whom landed at Ymuiden: O. O Willerup, chief mate; Y. Swensen, second assistant engineer, and L C. Johnson, third assistant engineer, en-gineer, who landed at Terchellmg. |