The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-26
Nebraskan Attacked by PlungeT
OFF Irish Coast.
Crew Takes to Boats, but Later
Returns to Post.
VESSEL IS OUT OF CONTROL
FOrehOldS Full of Water; She
Is Down at Bows.
Captain, Making for Queens
town, Sends Out S. D. 5.

town, Sends Out S. o. S.
London, May 26.-(5 p.
m.)-The American steam
er Nebras kan passed
Queenstown this afternoon
on her way back to Liver
pool. She was proceeding
under her own steam at 8
knots an hour.
London, May 26.-Q1:1
p. MA m age to
Lloyds from Kinsale, Ire
land, states that the Ne
braskan passed that point
at II o'clock this morning,
apparently bound for
Queenstown. The Nebras-
kan was down at the bows.
She was proceeding under
her own steam and flying
the signal: 81 am not under
control"
London, May 26.-(12 noon)
The American steamer Ne
braskan, Captain Green, from
Liverpool, May "a for Delaware
Breakwater, was torpedoed yes
terday, by a submarine at a
point forty miles west-south-
west of Fastnet, off the south
coast of Ireland.
The sea was calm at the
time. The crew at once took to
the boats and stood by the
steamer.
It was soon ascertained that
the Nebraskan was not serious
ly damaged. She had been
struck forward and her fore
holds are full of water.
The crew returned on board
and got the vessel under way.
No lives were lost among the
crew. The Nebraskan did not
carry any passengers.
The foregoing information
was received today by the Brit
ish admiralty in London and it
was at once communicated to
the American embassy.
Immediately she was struck,
the Nebraskan began calling for
help by wireless. Browhead re-
ceived the wireless communica-
tion at 9 a. m. yesterday from
Crookhaven.
The Nebraskan flew an Amer
lean flag and carried an Ameri-
can cargo. The vessel was un-
der charter to the Atlantic
transport company, a British
corporation.
These facts were positively
stated here today at the office
of the American-Hawaiian COM
pany. 1t was declared the fact
that the Nebraskan was under
charter to a British corporation
would not change the flying of
the American flag.
The American steamer Ne
braskan. Captain Green, is own
ed by the American Hawaiian
Steamship company of New
York and is of 1924 tons. net
register. On her last eastward
trip she left New York May z
for Liverpool.
American Officials Shocked.
The torpedoing of the Nebraskan
was a shock to American officials
here Apparently it occurred before
O'Clock last night All foreign ves-
sells leaving Liverpool recently have
had their names and nationalities
painted in large letters on their sides,
and have flown large flags.
Yesterday evening was clear and
the period between and 9 o'clock is
at this season.
message to Lloyd said an armed
trawler went to the assistance of the
Nebraskan and stood by her all night.
The German submarine canpaigp
is continuing actively. Dispatches
from Norway say the people of that
country have been aroused by the
sinking last week of the Norwegian
steamer Minerva and the attempt to
torpedo the Iris, which went to her
assistance
The steamer Cromer, loaded with
passengers, had a narrow escape from
being torpedoed. while bound for
Rotterdam yesterday A submarine
fired a torpedo without warming. 1t
missed the ship by only fifteen Yards
According to the captains story to
Rotterdam correspondents the peri
scope was seen 500 yards distant and
then the wash of the torpedo, which
was moving so rapidly that nothing
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