Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-10-11
wALHAIIA, oARoL1NA WEDNESDAY October H. 1o1o
German U-Boats Wreck SHIPPING
Along New England Coast.
Six Ships Known Have Been Sunk-Reports In
dicate that Nine Went Down-Probably Three
Submarines in Raid.

the victims of German submarine at
tacks in the vicinity Of Nantucket
lightship yesterday and last night.
These men, who were thought to
have left their ship before she was
sunk, were reported to have been
rowing their small boats some thirty
miles off the lightship early in the
day, but number OF United States
destrOyers crltiSed over a large ra-
dius during the forenoon without
sendlnS ashore any message that
they had found the Kingston's crew
Even the name of the sunken YES
sci remained in doubt. No steamer
Kingston has been reported i'm mari
time registers as having been in
these waters recently.
Three Ships Not Km vn.
Although the captain OF the light
| ship reasserted that three subma-
rines had sunk nine steamers, the
names Of three Of the destroyed ships
had not been determined. Neither
| had any OF the submarines been posi-
lively identified, although opinion
was almost unanimous that one was
| the U-53, which called at Newport
Saturday, and passengers landed
from the Red Cross liner Stephano
quoted members Of the crew as hay-
Ing been emphatic in their state
| ments that the submarine which
sank the Stephano was marked
U-61.
Early in the day several of the fleet
Of United States destroyers which
| went to the rescue of the men, wo-
| men and children set afloat In open
ofS hrnDuht {nto ~
sengers and crew Of the Stephano.
| officers of the naval training station
at Newport the Dutch steamer
Bloomersdijk and the Norwegian
steamer Christian Knudsen.
Eyewitnesses Give Story.
Newport, r. l., Oct. 9.-One Of
,, the destroyer Balch's crew said that
he saw German supply ship attend
ing the submarine. The American
destroyers witnessed the destruction
of some of the vessels. In one in
stance the American boats were so
thick on the scene that the German
submarine commander asked the de-
stroyers Benham and 'McDougall &c
make way for him to blow up his
prey.
Eyewitness stories Of the torpedo
ing OF passenger and freight steam
ers by German submarines off Nam
| tucket yesterday were told here to
day.
According to report brought by
officers Of flotilla Of United States
destroyers which picked up passen-
gers and crews of several of the YES
sells destroyed, nine merchant ships
| were sunk.
! One Of the submarines Is supposed
to have been the U-53 which visited
this harbor Saturday and another
| was declared to be the U-61. Mrs.
Henry b. Wilson, OF Williamson,
Mass, a passenger on the Stephano,
one vessel sunk, said that an officer
and several Of the crew told her that
they had distinctly seen the name
| U-6l on the submarine that attacked
their ship.
Nine Vessels Sunk,
Six vessels were known to have
been sunk and the report that the
total was nine was based on a state
ment of the captain Of the Nantucket
Shoals lightship. The captain said
that three submarines were engaged
The list Of submarine victims includ-
ed four British, one Norwegian and
one Dutch vessel. The identity Of
the other three reported to have been
lost had not been learned to-day.
| 1t was believed that no lives had
been lost, and although the men Of
the freighter Kingston were report-
| ed adrift In open boats, the fact that
the weather was mild and the sea
calm made 1t seem probable that they
would be rescued.
30 Americans on StcphanO,
OF the passengers Of the Stephano
80 were American tourists returning
from New Foundland and the Canad-
ian maritime provinces. All came
| through their rough experience with
out injury, according to officers Of
the American destroyers, but lost
nearly all their effects. Some saved
a few valuables, but their baggage
| was lost.
Lieut.. Commander Miller, Of the
Ericsson, which picked up some Of
the boats from the Stephano, said
that no attack was made on this ves-
sci until all on board had left. When
the Ericsson arrived at the lightship,
Commander Miller observed a sub
marine about mile distant, and al
most Immediately heard three shots
from the bow gun Of the submersi-
Bile. Through the haze he could
dimly make out the Stephano, the
object of attack. None of the shots
struck and probably none was aimed
directly at her. The Stephano hove
to Immediately and sent message to
the Ericsson saying, "Please take off
our passengers"
Before Commander Miller could