Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-03
NUMBER OF VESSELS
SUNK BY TORPEDOES
German Submarines Making
War on Merchant Craft
and TraWlers.
ONE SWEDISH STEAMER
SENT DOWN IN NORTH SEA
Captain Of British Ship Killed.
Boatload of Survivors From
Another Vessel Missing.

LONDON. May :. as a.m.-The Fx-
change Telegraph Company has re-
ceived dispatch from its CORE pond-
ent at Copenhagen saying that the
Swedish steamer Ellida. timber laden.
from Helsinsborg for Hull. has been
torpedoed In tho North sea by a. Ger
man submarine. She went to the bot
tom in less than three minutes.
The sixteen men and two women on
board the vessel barely had time To
make their escape in one of the small
boats After cruising about for two
hours they were picked up by a Dan
ish schooner and landed at LemviK.
Denmark.
French Steamer a Victim.
The French steamer Europe. from
Barry for 81. Nazaire. with n cargo ~
coal. was torpedoed by German sub
marine Saturday morning near Bishops
rock and sank. says dispatch TO
Lloyds from Penzance. The crew was
rescued by steam drfte-.'
Tho suhmar ne signsled the crew Of
the Europe to leave the shin. When
they had done this the submarine she'll
ed the steamer. which failed to sink.
Meanwhile. the skipper of the steam
nrltter RoSeNlne, attracted ny the NolSe
of the gun of the subna rine. made an
estigation. whereupon the subma
rine started to chase the Eosevine.
The Rosevine sent up distress rockets
and was proceeding toward the Scilly
Islands when a patrol boat. which pre-
viously had not been seen, owing to the
foggy weather, appeared. Together the
patrol boat and the drifter went back
toward the Europe. at which the sub
marine was still firing. Half a mile off
hn Ia ,tals. n
up boat laden with members of the
crew of the steamer The work of res
cue was interrupted by three shells
from the submarine. which fell within
thirty yards of the drifter.
Then, apparently alarmed at the ap-
pearance of the patrol boat. the sub
marine torpedoed the Europe, which
dsa ppea red in 4 cloud of steam and
coal dust.
The submarine carried no number.
British Vessel Goes Down
The British stea mer Fulsent was sunk
by a German submarine northwest Of
the Skellig rocks in the dark of Satur-
day morning. says dispatch to Lloyds
from Kilrush. Ireland.
boat containing nine survivors ard
the body of the captain of the steamer.
who had been shot and killed, Was
rescued by trawler and landed at Kill
the second boat of the Fulgent.
tanning the remainder of the crew.
ABERDEEN. Scotland. May q
Trawlers making port today declare
that German submarine sunk two
trawlers within fifty miles of Aberdeen
Sunday.
The crews of the two trawiers were
successful in escaping in their small
boats and today they came into port
1t would appear AS though the sub
marine ran amuck among the Aber-
deem fishing fleet In addition TO send
ing two to the bottom il chased three
patrol boat was then seen approa ching
whereupon the submarine submerged.
Damaged Trawler at Yarmouth.
YARMOUTH England. May 3.-The
damaged condition as the result Of
encounter with a German torpedo boat
off the Belgian coast on Saturday. The
captain of the trawler was wounded in
the foot, but the rest of the crew
escaped uninjured.
The Barbados reports that the trawler
Colombia was torpedoed and sunk with
seventeen hands One survivor and one
German bluejacket who had fallen over
board were brought to Yarmouth by the
Barbados.
The Barbados defended herself against
the torpedo boat with two small guns, and
the captain says the German was evident
ly hit steam seen eSca ping from
her. The wheelhouse and funnel of tho
Barbados were ridded with shot.