The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-01

sixty one passengers and forty tire
of the crew are missing.
London, March 29.-Reports oCfic
Tally confirmed by the admiralty stat,
that two British liners have beef
torpedoed and sunk by German sub
marines and a Dutch steamer sen
to the bottom in a German mine fielC
during the past forty eight hours
Both British ships were torpedoed
before the passengers and crew could
safely be transferred to the boats aud
many lives Of noncombatants were
lost. or the passengers and crew
of the two liners 1876 persons are
missing. The crew of the Dutch
steamer was saved.
One of the German submarine raid.
ers was recognized as the U-2S.
Admiralty Statement
The admiralty tonight issued tie
following statement:
The British steamer Aguila, 2l44
tons, Of the Yeoward line, bound
from Liverpool for Lisbon, was tor.
pedoed off Pembroke at 6 d. m. on
March 81. The vessel sank. Tween.
ty-three Of the crew and three pas
sengers are missing. The master
and nineteen members of the crew
were landed at Fishguard.
The British steamer Falaba, 1896
tons, Of the Elder Dempster line,
bound from Liverpool for the West
African coast, was torpedoed at twen-
ty five minutes past noon on March
rs, south of st. Georges channel,
and sank in ten minutes. The ship
carried a crew of about ninety per.
sons and about 100 passengers. About
40 survivors were picked up, eight
or whom, including the captain, died
1t is feared thar many
were killed by the explosion of the
torpedo.
The Dutch steamship Amstel. OF
1858 tons, owned by p. A. Van LIS &
Company, bound from Rotterdam for
Goole, England, was struck by a
mine at 4 a. m. March % in n Ger
man mine field off marlborough. The
crew was landed at Humber by the
irimsby trawler Pinewold.
The Falaba sailed at about the |
same hour on Saturday as the trans.
Atlantic liner Transylvania, flying |
he Cunard flag, and the White Star
liner Cymric, both bound for New
York. Earlier, reports stated that
hree vessels were pursued by the
and these are thought to
'e the vessels that escaped.
Aboard the Transylvania arc Mrs.
v. X. Vanderbilt, Chandler Hale,
oseph Hartman and W. d. Boycs,
he latter a Chicago publisher.
Unofficial reports give further de.
ails of the disaster to the British
iners. The Aguila, a twin screw
teamer built in 1909, was slgnaled
y the German submarine U.2S when
bout twenty miles southwest of the
malls, on the southeast coast of
reland. 1t was just growing dusk
'hen the raider tore down upon the
Iner from her quarter. The first
ignal made was for all aboard to
AXE to the boats, as the liner was
D be sunk. This work was starred
Immediately and expedited under Lig
lg OF further signals to speed the
'ork. Four minutes after the first
'arning signal was made the sub.
larine began to fire on the shiO. The
rst torpedo exploded near her engine
pom and the explosion killed the
hief engineer, a boatswain and the
onkeyman outright. According TO
.ories OF survivors the submarine
red on the crew as the men were
citing into the boats, and ten were
rowned. This accounts for thir-
en OF the missing. The admiralty
'ys there were ten others, BESIDES
rec passengers, who have not been
,counted for.
After the Agulla went to the bot.
she sank almost Immediate
the U-2S sped away and later hail,
the trawler ottilie, reported the
mixing OF the Aguia and the Ottilie
oceeded to the scene and rescued !
c survivors.
1875 Lost on the Falaba In
The Elder Dempster company, own.