The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1914-11-06
TWO CRUISERS SUNK
AND TWO DAMAGED.
Took Place Sunday
on Coast of Chile Ie---Monmoufh
Sunk and Good Hope Torn Up
BY Explosion Aboard-- -.BHtish
Ships Escaping Said TO Be
Bottled Up.

Valparaiso, Nov. 3.-Admiral Graf,
von Snee, commander of the German
Meet IN Pacific waters, arrived here
thls morning and made the following
report concerning a naval engage
ment with British warships at sea off
Coronel last Sunday evening:
"On Sunday, November /, between
D and o'clock in the evening, during
heavy rain and rough weather off
Coronel we sighted the British men of
war Good Hope, Monmouth and Glas-
gov and the armored cruiser Otaran-
to.
An engagement ensued Immediate
ly. All the ships opened brisk can
nonade with all their artillery.
Ihe Monmouth was sunk and the
Good Hope, after great explosion on
board. took fire. Her subsequent fate
is unknown owing to darkness having
set in.
"The Glasgow and the Otranto
were also damaged, but the darkness
prevented our obtaining knowledge of
the extent of it.
"Our ships, the Scharnhorst and
Nurnberg, were not damaged. The
Gneisenau had six men wounded. The
rest of our ships also were undam-
aged"
Account of Battle.
valparaiso, Chile, Nov. 3-The Ger
man warships Gneisenau, Scharn-
horst, Nurnberg, Leipsic and Dresden
today attacked the British fleet off
Coronel, Chile.
The British cruiser Monmouth was
sunk. The cruiser Good Hope was
very badly damaged and she was on
hre and is supposed to have been lost.
The British cruiser Glasgow took
refuge in the harbor Of coroner and is
The German batteships Scharn-
horst, Nurnberg and Gneisenau an
chored at midday. today in Valparaiso
harbor, uninjured.
The Good Hope, Monmouth and
Glasgow were under the command of
Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Grad
oek. They had been searching South
American coasts for several weeks
for the German cruisers which had
heen destroying British merchant ves
sells.
The Monmouth was 44O feet long
and 66 feet beam and of $500 tons
displacement. She had fourteen 6-inch
guns, eight 3-inch guns, three 81
Founders and two 18-inch torpedo
tubes. Her complement was 655
men. The Monmouth was built in
1899.
The Good Hope was the flagship of
the squadron. She was 500 feet long,
II feet beam and displayed 14,1OO
tons. She was built thirteen years
ago and represented the British ma
ton at the jamestown exposition in
1907. Her armament consisted of two
9.2-inch guns, sixteen 6-inch guns,
fnIlrtnnn
ers and two 18-inch torpedo tubes.
She had complement of 900.
The Glasgow was built in 1909. She
was 430 feet long, AZ feet beam and
displaced 1920 tons. She had a com
plement of 376 men. Her armament
consisted of two 6-inch guns and ten
4-inch guns. She was equipped with
two 18-inch torpedo tubes.
Glasgow Also Damaged.
Santiago, Chile, Nov. 3.-The Brit
lsh crusier Glasgow is also reported
to have been badly damaged in the
naval battle off Corone.
The German armored cruisers
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are sister
ships of 1000 tons. Both were built
in 1906 and are 440 feet long on the
water line. Each has complement
of 765 men, carries eight 2-inch and
SIX o-lncn guns, twenty Z4-p0underS,
four machine guns and four torpedo
tubes.
The Scharnhorst and Geneisenau on
September % bombarded and destroy
ed Papeete, on the French island of
Tahiti, in the Society group. They
also sank the dismantled French gun
boat Zelee in Papeete in Papeete
boat Zelee in Papeete harbor.
The Nurnberg is a smaller cruiser
of 3,540 tons and carries 295 men. She
has ten 4.1-inch guns, eight 5-pound-
ers, four machine guns and two tor
pedo tubes. 1t is believed she is the
vessel which cut the cable connecting
the United States with Australia in
September.
The Dresden and Leipsic are also
small cruisers. The Dresden is of
$500 tons and the Leipsic of $3.50.
They have compliments of 321 and
286 men, respectively
All Perished on Monmouth.
Santiago, Chile, November 3.-All
hands are reported to have perished
when the British cruiser Monmouth
took her plunge beneath the sea after
thirty minutes of fighting with the
Germans off Coronel, according to ad-
vices received here.