The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-07
Hespertan Loss May 70:
Berlin May Dsavoqv Act
Seven Persons Known to Be Drowned Queenstown
Says; Nineteen Still Missing Ambassador Page
Investigates Sinking of Allan Liner.
CAPTAIN SURE TORPEDO WRECKED VESSEL
Special Gable Despotch 10 THE suS


LONDON. Sept 6.-Admiralty repre-
sentatives at Queenstown report tonight
that one saloon passenger and six second
class passengers lost their lives when
the Allan liner Hesperian was struck by
torpedo or mine Saturday evening of
Fastnet. In addition thirteen members
OF the crew are said to be missing and
six third class passengers. The body
OF the saloon passenger. a Miss Casbury
OF st. John, y. r.. has been recovered.
This would make the total casualties
twenty-six. or the crew none is actual
iy known TO have lost his life.
The second cabin passengers who. it Is
feared. were drowned are Miss Ban
mister. Mrs. Fisher, Joseph Fowler. Miss
Hannah Fowler, Miss Maria Jenkins and
Miss Murray.
Because OF the confusion naturally at
tendant upon bringing so many passen-
gers and crew ashore in variety Of
boats It is possible that those tonight
classed as missing may turn up when
the checking has been completed.
Germany May Disavow Act.
Germany will disavow the attack Oh
the Hesperian, II II is established that
a German submarine made the attack.
say Berlin advices arriving here b. way
OF Amsterdam. II Is said that Germany's
explanation will be that any submarine
attacking the liner must have been away
from its base since time previous to
he isst at,Ra Of hA mott rtI.st tinV
German officials are inclined to doubt
that the liner was attacked by a sub
marine, leaning to the belief that she
must have struck mine
The Hesperian finally sank a. Gas
o clock this morning while being towed
toward Queenstown. Capt. Main and
twenty-five OF the crew who had re-
mained on board were taken OF safely
She sank by the bow. a great hole
In her starboard side forward, In water
so deep that there is little chance of
ever examining her to establish the
character of the explosion.
Capt Main. however. his officers and
all Of the passengers who have been in
tervlewed feel positive that the ship was
struck by torpedo from a German sub
marine.
The captain said to-day that the ship
had received absolutely no warning and
that as far as he knew neither a peri
scope nor the trail of a torpedo was seen
by any one on board. one OF the pas
sengers says that boatswain cried,
submarine on statboard bow" just be-
fore the explosion. but Efforts to confirm
this statement have been unsuccessful.
At the office OF the Allan Line this
evening 1t was said that forty Ave first
class passengers, l25 second class pas ,
and 1858 third class passengers
had been accounted for. The company, |
however. would not say how many are
missing. because its Queenstown agency |
has not yet checked up the complete |
lists The number OF men in the crew |
was given as 2s6.
The Hesperian carried 3,545 bags of /
mail, many OF them for the United /
States. Some OF the mail came from
neutral countries. There were also $50 |
receptacles containing parcel post matter
'or Canada. All OF the mail was lost
Ambassador Making Inquiry.
United States Ambassador Walter II.
Page has sent Naval Attache Mcbride
Df the American Embassy to Queens
own to investigate the sinking OF the
liner and to make as complete n report
~ possible.
The American Consul at Queenstown,
wesley Frost, reported 10 Ambassador
Page to-day that the list of dead may
reach rwenty lie has taken affldavits
rom the two known Americans on board.
Both were in the crew Some reports
'ay that third American citizen was
n the crew. The days investigation.
however. failed to reveal this man or 10
upset the reports of yesterday that there
we're no Americans among the passcn-
gers.
One report has it that two women
passengers died from shock and expo-
'ure after reaching shore. Another
'ays that an eleven -months-old baby of
! Mrs. jenkins is missing. II is not un-
likely that this refers to the baby that
me of the passengers tells of having
'escued from lfeboat that capsized
md shot its passengers into the water
The baby had become wedgcd in the
,oat,