Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-30
l25 PERISH WHEN
SUBMARINE SINKS
THELINER FALABA
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explosion followed. TIL, ship settled
down and sank quickly. Some OF the life
boats we're smashed. and scores Of people
were struggling in tho water when a
trawler reached the scene and rescued
lo5 of them. Transferring them later to
destroyer. Another thirty-fiye were
picked up by another fishing boat Three
OF the persons rescued had sustained in
jurics by German shrapnel and some Of
the engine room staff on the Falaba were
killed.
No Effort at Rescue,
The skipper of the fisher boat Eileen
I Emma, which participated in the rescue
work. reported that no efforts were made
! by the crew OF the submarine to assist
| the persons who were struggling in the
water
! The Elton Emma sighted the submarine
: shortly after noon, its skipper said, and
! followed the craft for moro than an hour.
The Elder Dempster company, owner
| of the Elder line Of steamers, Of which
! the Falaba was one. announced tonight
| that apparently about 12j persons had
lost their lives by the sinking of the
| vessel
for the west coast Of Africa with 40 pas
sengers and with crew of 100 men. Its
officers state that when the German
submarine appeared II whstled thrice as
! a signal for the steamer to prepare its
life boats. but that before this could be
done torpedo struck the ship near the
engine room.
OF Elder Line.
The Falaba was go feet long. net ton
mage S,O11. 1t belonged to the Elder line
was owned in Liverpool and was en-
gagged in the African trade.
The railway packet City of BRUSSELS
encountered German submarine vester.
day.
The captain of the steamer Immediately
took the aggressive and fired on the sub.
marine. which taken by surprise, started
to submerge The captain turned his
steamer quickly in an effort to ram the
submarine and he believes he succeeded
in sinking it. His vessel was going six
teen knots at the time.
Dutch Steamship Blown Up.
LONDON, March GA statement from
the British admiralty tonight says tina
the Dutch steamer Amstel has been blown
up by mine.
The Amstel was a small steamer bull
in 1906. 1t was 211 feet long. Its net ton
mage was 495.
FISHGUARD, Wales, March 29.-Thir
teen members of the crew of the British
steamship Aguila, which was sunk by tn
German submarine UPS on Saturda,
night, lost their lives. The survivors
who arrived here today say the Aguili
was sunk at a point fifty miles southeas
> of The Smalls, a group of rocks on tn
southeast coast of England.
3 The crew was given four minutes ii
which to leave the ship, but survivor
. say the steamer was fired upon while tn
3 men were getting into the boats. Tn
chief engineer and two others were kille
. by shell fire and the lives of ten othe
y men were lost.
The captain of the submarine halle
another ship and told its captain of tn
u sinking of the Aguila. The otille went t
the rescue. Captain Zimmerman of tn
;, Aguila said the submarine fired acros
u the bows of the steamer, but he speede
. UP to fourteen knots to clear the under
VI sea vessel 80 .,--.. o..
Given short warming.
The submarine was making eightee
a knots, however, and quickly overtoo
: them. The attempt OF the Aguila to es
cape seemed to arouse the anger of tn
- Germans, for they gave the crew an
) passengers only four minutes to leave tn
ship. But before this the submarin
>, opened fire, which was kept up rapid
. while the crew was launching the boat
N killing the chief engineer and two of ii
crew and wounding several others.
10 One member OF the crew rescued sal
70 that boat in which we're ten sailors
20 woman passenger and stewardess Wa
fired on and the passenger was kilIe
while the stewardess was thrown into Il
water and drowned. Finally the boat ca
lied and sank.
The captain of the Otille, which pick,
h up the remaining boat, said the subm
Iine was the C-2S. and apparently a ne