The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-16
sHlP PLuNcEs TO BOTTOM NEAR
SCENE or ATTACK TAKING
WITH HER 3,545 BAGS
OF MAIL.
PASSENGERS DECLARE
NO WARNING WAS GIVEN
Consul IL Unable to Learn Of More
Than Two Americans Who
Were on Steamer, Both
Members Of Crew, and
Both Saved.

Members Of Crew, and
Both Saved.
Amsterdam, Sept. 9.-Germany will
1'savow the attack on the Hesperian,
I English reports of the circumstances
IRE fully corroborated by her subma-
'lne commander, according to a dis
patch from Berlin. Germany's explain
at'on, the dispatch stated, will be that
It submarine torpedoed the liner
without warning it was because the
u-boat had left ito base before the
Jew instructions were issued through
the admiralty.
London, Sept. s.-Accordinq to the
Daily Mail, Mrs. Chatham of Mon
sreaI, one Of tho survivors of the Hes.
perian says she saw torpedo CON-
ng as she leaned over the ships side.
London, Sept. 2. - The Allan line
steamer Hesperian with $50 passen-
gers and crew of 800 aboard, bound
rom Liverpool for Montreal, was at
lacked without warning by a German
Iubu arine off the Irish coast Just as
darkness was falling.
Too Dark to Observe Torpedo.
No submarine was seen and probab-
y 1t was too dark to observe the wake
II a torpedo, but all the passengers
md members of the crew who arrived
It Queenstown in the rescue steamers
lgree that the attack was made by
German undersea boat, basing their
opinion on the force of the shock and
he great volume of water thrown in
% the air. This dropped back on the
leck drenching the passengers who
we're taking an after-dinner promen-
nee, feeling quite safe in the belief
that they has passed the submarine
Danger zone.
Confusion Prevails in Darkness.
About 80 Canadian soldiers who had
been wounded in battle in Flanders,
were going home to recuperate Most
of the other passengers were Cana
aians returning from a visit to Eng
land, or English people on their way
TO Canada to settle.
The torpedo struck the Hesperian in
the forward engine room and the ship
immediately began to settle by the
head. Captain Main ordered the pas
scngers and crew into the boats but
with his officers remained on the
bridge.
Queenstown, Sept. six second
cabin passengers, six third cabin pas
sengers and 10 of the crew of the
steamer Hesperian, torpedoed $50
miles off Queenstown are unaccounted
tor according to the revised official fig
rres issued by the Allan line This
brings the probable death list, includ-
ing Miss Carberry, of St. Louis, N. F.,
whose body is here, up to &c.
The captain of the stricken liner re-
NAMED by his ship until it sank. He
declined to comment On the disaster
tor publication, hence the official
statement as to whether he believes
bis ship was the victim of a torpedo
or mine must come from the admir-
atty, although the captain is quoted
as having told an Allan line official
that the Hesperian was torpedoed.
Most of the survivors, passengers
and crew, will leave Queenstown by
special train and boat for Liverpool.
Ship Piunges to Bottom.
Captain Main and the officers who
remained aboard the steamer while
efforts were being made to tow the
liner to port were able to save some
of their effects before the ship
plunged to the bottom, 78 miles south
west of Fastnet, not far from the
scene of the attack, taking with her
8,545 bags Of mail, much OF it orig
mating in neutral countries.
The flooding Of the forward CON-
partments, which caused the Hespe-
rian to sink 50 much by the head as
to throw the propellers out Of the wa
ter, made the task of towing the liner
to Queenstown impossible in the
rough sea.
The names of the missing second
cabin passengers follow:
Miss Bannister, Mrs. Fisher, JOS
eph Fowler, Mrs. Hannah Fowler,
Maria Jenkins and Miss Murray.
The Hesperian sank at 6:45 o'clock
in the morning within a few miles
of Queenstown, after Captain Main
and volunteer rescue crew of Is
had made a brave fight to bring the
crippled ship into port.
During the night the Hesperian set
tied gradually by the head. Daylight
showed the decks awash and the liner
about to take the final plunge.
The captain and crew were taken
Hesperian Attack Surprises Paris.