Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-02-26
U. S. SHIP IS SUNK.
STEAMER EVELYN WITH CARGO
OF COTTON SUNK IN THE
NORTH SEA.
CAPTAIN AND CREW SAVED
English Vessel Carrying Troops TO
France Reported to Have Been De-
4 stroyed-other Crafts Tcrpedoed
by German Submarines.

Berlin, Feb. 20 (via London) The
american steamship Evelyn, which
left New York January 20 with car
go of cotton for Bremen, struck a
mine off Borkum island in the North
sea on Friday. The vessel sank. Her
captain and 81 of her crew were saved
by a German steamer. 1t has not been
learned what nation placed the mine.
(The Evelyn was single screw
steamship commanded by Captain
Smith. She belonged to A. H. Bull
& Co. of New York and was chartered
by the Harriss-Irby Cotton company to
take cargo of cotton to Bremen.
She was built in 1883 at Southampton
and was of 1896 tons gross burden.
She was 252 feet long and 1868 feet
beam.)
Washington, Feb. 23.--Official an
nouncement that the American steam
ship Evelyn was blown up and lost on
Friday in the North sea was made
on Sunday when the state department
gave out the following cablegram re-
ceived from the American consul at
Bremen:
The Evelyn, Captain Smith. agent
Bull & Co Of New York, blown up
Friday at Borkum. Crew saved. Ship
and cargo lost. This telegram via
Rotterdam
Secretary Bryan at once had the
cablegram reported to the ambassa-
dor at Berlin and London with In
structions to see that every provision
was made for the crew and to report
all facts of the explosion as soon
as obtained. The message fails to
state whether the vessel was de-
stroyed by mine or some other
agency, but In the absence Of definite
information 1t is presumed a mine
was the agency.
The explosion took place probably
twenty to twenty-five miles north of
the German town OF Emden. Borkum
is one of the east Tristan islands. 1t
is not known by what route the Evelyn
reached Borkum, but as Bremen, her
destination, is east of Borkum, It was
thought that she had put through the
English channel.
An English transport with troops
OF Kitchener's new army which is be-
ing rushed to France on board, and
another steamship accompanying It,
have been sunk. according to a wire
less dispatch from Berlin received on
Sunday by the international News
Service, via Sayville, N. J. This is the
first news of disaster to military
transport which has reached the
United States.
Berlin dispatches via London fail to
mention the sinking of the transport,
and it is believed the item was de-
leted by the English censors.
In addition to the two ships men.
toned in the Berlin dispatch three
more were destroyed in the blockade
OF the British coast Sunday, making
the total ten sincs the Germans in.
augurated their campaign against
British shipping.
According to London Central
News dispatch. the British trading
ship Downshire was sunk by a Ger.
man submarine off the Calf of Man,
an island in the Irish sea. The crew
was given Ave minutes in which to
take to the boats. They were picked
up by trawler and landed at Dun.
drum. in County Mayo. The Down.
shire Is the second merchantmen
sunk since the German blockade be.
gun
Berlin, Feb. % ((wireless via Saw.
ville).-Main army headquarters f.
sued the following statement:
"on the western front near Nieu,
port an enemy ship, probably a mine.
sweeping vessel, touched mine and
sank. One of the enemy destroyers
disappeared when it was shelled hy
the German land batteries"