The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-17
After a Submarine Fails in It's
Efforts to Sink Same with
Torpedoes.
IMANY AMERICANS ABOARD
Incident Upsets Washington
Theory That Germany Would
Heed Americas Request.
~, ..,.e,ATro 5rsuss,

Heed Americas KeQueSt.
tpx AssoeiArEr pe1ss,
/ NEW YORK, July - assem-
aboard the British passenger liner
/ Orunda. which reached here today,
said that a submarine attempted TO
/ torpedo the vessel at s o'clock on the
morning of July 8. but failing In 1tH
lefforts. fred six shells at the steamer,
none of which took effect Few pas
Isengers were on deck when the attack
occurred.
Baron Rosenkrantz. OF DenmarH,
one OF the passengers, reached the
deck as the Orduna was fleeing from
its assailant and witnessed the attack.
The submarine chased the steamer,
it was said, for considerable time.
Tehre were twenty-one Americans
aboaLs the Orduna, it was learnens
when it locked here. Passengers say
/. the ubmarine attack was made with
out previous warming
/ Ten minutes before the attack q
sailing ship, with two American hags
painted on her side was seen ahead
Captain Taylor became suspicious of:
this craft and began maneuvertng his
ship. Then came the attack, the nrAt
warning of which was the streak Of
torpedo, which whirled through the
water and missed the Orduna's stern
by ten yards or thereabouts.
Stewards ran below and aroused
the passengers. With clothes hur-s
riedly fastened they made for the MP
per deck. Life belts were adjusted
and lifeboats swung out. From e.
Isubmarine or the starboard there
came shell. Captain Taylor turned
| the stern of the ship toward the as
sailant and ordered full speed aheaq.
Within two minutes another sxlqass
| this time passing over the head OF the,
assembled passengers, was tired.
third she'll passed overhead, SO close
that it seemed to clip hteboat. Cap
| tain Taylor ordered the passengers 10
| go to a lower deck.
| The Smelling continued. shots fall
| ing about the steamer at Intervals.
from two to five minutes. For aooNsl
an hour the submarine pursued the:
liner with the span of water between
them lengthening each minute. Seven
Ishots were fired in all. Four of them
passed over the deck. The other
three fell close to the ship. Then the
submarine, distanced. gave up the
chase.
Baron Rosenkrantz, one OF a group
with the captain on the Dr1cges de-
scribes the attack in detail We
Ileft Liverpool about $3.50 O'Clock on
the afternoon of Thursday, the
eighth" he said, cat $3.50 o'clock by
nay watch, the first missre, a torpedcs
was fred A few minutes before that,
however, we saw small sailing ship
ahead of US. It had two American
flags painted on the side and was
turned toward us. It was broadsided
to us 1anAseemed to be beating up the
wind We could see it over the bows.
Some of those aboard besseved thar
the ship was hiding submarine be-
hind it. OF this. can ua5 that we
passed the sailing ship at consid
cradle distance. Having done this
most of us forgot it. A few minutes
|afterward looked through my
glasses over the sea and saw q white
streak coming towards us through the
water. wasn't sure at first that 1t
was a streak such as the wake of q
torpedo or the periscope of subma-
Irine, but the question was soon set
tied. It was a torpedo. We cQtIN
see 1t coming toward us nI high speed. &
When 1t appeared to be half a mile
or 50 on, the Orduna seemed to jump
ahead and second afIerward to
swerve to one side. 1t looked, then
as If the torpedo would strike us aft
But it didn't. 1t passed not more
than ten vars behind the ruddeT
as 1t passed by.
"A short time after the torpedo
had clipped past the Ordnna,s stern
it may have been fifteen minutes
1t may have been half an h0Jir
submarine came into sight. We were
not specially surprised to Sc It. bjit
what did surprise us was Its 1ucar
from the port, and the submartne
that now doomed I'M waa AhAfE our