Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-09-06
Sinking of Vessel Makes
Probe of Attack
Impossible.
HIT WITHOUT WARNING,
PASSENGERS DECLARE
Total Loss OF Life May Reach
20, Consul Frost Wires-6z0
We're Aboard the SteameS.
TWO AMERICANS, PART
OF THE CREW, RESCUED
Allan Line Officials Receive
Only Fragmentary Reports
of Disaster.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
QUEENSTOWN. Sept. g., 3D.. m
One first cabin passenger. six second
cabin passengers and six third-class
passengers on the liner Hesperfan.
which sunk early today, are unac-
counted for, according to a statment
made this afternoon by the Allan Line
agent here.
A woman's body has been Identified
as that of Miss Carberry, probably OF
| Newfoundland
About 1000 sacks ofsmai went down
with the Hesperian. The point at
which the vessel sank Is about ian
miles west of Queenstown.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 6 (12:47 D. n.,-Tha
Allan Line steamer Hesperian sank
at 6:45 this morning within a few
miles of Queenstown, after Captain
Main and a volunteer rescue crew 81
twenty-five had made a brave fight
TO bring the crippled ship into port.
During the night the Hesperian sat
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
orr by rescue boats. and landed later
In Queenstown by the Star Dmpress.
The sinking Of the Hesperian In deem
r water probably will prevent an in
: vestgation to determine whether tho
: disaster resulted from a sp1bmarff7e' !
o torpedo or from a mine. PASSENGERS
and crew assert positively that ths
Vessel was struck by torpedo but
thus far no statement mas been OBJ.
/ tanned from any one who saw a slab-
marine or n torpedo.
The American embassy is receiving
reports from Wesley frost, American
, consul at Queenstown, on the ques-
: non Wnether warning was given to
the liner. Persons so far seen by
Mr. Frost state that no warning wae
given. Captain Mains statement
, PROBABLY Will be taken later today
Number Unaccounted For.
, The list of identified survivors still
i leaves considerable number of per-
, sons unaccounted for. The Allan
/ Line Is confident the final Checking
up will show no loss of life, except
for the death of one or two persons
, after reaching Queenstown
81 Contradictory reports were received
, here today about the loss of life In
, the submarine attack on the Hes
! perian. Offices of the Allan line gave
out statement, before news that the
Hesperian had sunk reached here.
that the $50 passengers and 300 mon
OF her crew had all been put into
boats and had reached Queenstown in
safety.
Two Women Reported Dead.
Press dispatches, however, reported
the death of a Miss Carberry. who is
ie-saf Il
the boats and to have died from the
: shock, and of another woman who
was badly injured and died in one Of
the rescue steamers while en- route to
Queenstown.
The injured number about thirty.
For the most part they were passen-
= gers In two of the boats which cap-
8 sized in the darkness before they
: struck water.
n Not more than two or three Ameri-
$ can citizens, these members of the
e crew were reported aboard the Hes
: perian Queenstown dispatches today
said that no Americans were injured.
= The American embassy thus far has
o received only brief dispatches relating
Y to the attack on the liner. All the
g passengers landed at Queenstown are
: reported to be unanimous In their
declaration that the Hesperian was
8 attacked without warning.
One passenger. C. S. Blue, Of
Ottawa, Canada, member of the Han
sard Parliamentary Corps, declared
:, he heard the cry, Submarine on the
, starboard quarter" just before the
= steamer was struck. Others said no
) submarine was sighted, and that the
Hesperian was plowing along through
the dusk, and that in all probability
neither the periscope of a U-boat or
the fash of an onrushing torpedo
would have been visible.
! The Allan Line offices here have rel
: ceived only fragmentary reports oil
the attack on the Hesperian, com
muncated through the admiralty. On|
= the basis of these early reports offi-|
cials said today they believed the|
= steamer was given no warning and|
had no chance of escape. though shel
was capable of more than sixteen|
! knots an hour
= Consul Frost at Queenstown, wired
= Ambassador Page that the Hesperian|
= carried a 47-inch gun, mounted att
. her stern. The admiralty did not|
:. :. confirm this report but officials said
: that possibly 1t was true. They add
: ed that the very fact that the gunl
:, was mounted at the stern was proofI
. that it was to be employed for del
fensive not offensive purposes.
Frost reported that so far as he5
= had been able to ascertain only twdI
u Americans, members of the crew.l
were aboard the Hesperian. He said,
he was awaiting the report Of the
Hesperian officers, who remained
aboard the liner, and that the onlX
:. member of the crew that had beer
u interviewed was the assistant pursefS&
who. Frost wired, said that the vessH
was torpedoed without warning,
e Less than an hour after the Hes@
: perian sent out her first wireles>
: calls for help. fleet of rescue
:. steamers surrounded her. Then
picked up the passengers and many.
: members of the crew and headed f9i
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