Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-30
MEMPHIS LOST;
THIRTY PERISH
Many Bluejackets Killed
Y IN Cruiser is Wreck
ed in Storm.
DRIVEN ASHORE AT
SAN DOMINGO CITY
eesween Twenty and Thirty known
TO 30 Dead, Twelve Seriously In.
Jured and Sixty seven Others Hurt.
Main Steam Pipe Bursts, causico
Disaster - Vessel Attempts 20
Leave Port.

Washington. Aug. so.-Inoomn,.,.
aovices to the navy department today
Indicated that between twenty and
thirty American bluejackets lost thar
iiVes yesterday when tho armorsa
cruiser Memphis was driven a.ho,. g.
a storm at San Domingo. Messarex
To-Day show the following dead and in.
jured:
The dead:
&. W. Rudd. chief machinist mat.
Seriously injured:
II. "A. Anderson. j. II. Thompson q
H. Wiley, A. H. Porter, r. ! on,nn
and j. P. Blackwell.
seriously scalded but viii recov...
Lieut. Claude Jones,
seriously injured: NJ. M. Mcveirb.
W. II. Plauck, T. J. Leary, II. A. Rrvnr
and ]. Keegan.
s'*ty-seven Others Hurt
Aumlral Pond reported that sixty.
seven others were slightly injured and
several men were drowned. The navv
department. was calling the hosnitaI
snip Soiace by radio today to send her
10 the scene Of the disaster,
IN MS hrst message last ntKht Al,
miral Pond said the ship would be n
total loss
Admiral Ponds second me.sara
stated that the ship would have Yot
to sea had not main steam nina
burst. -
Muster roll left on board ID safs..-
the second message said .,Only n.
complete muster has therefore bsen
MADE. Will have exact muster made
carry In tho morning and report miss-
lng. No casualties among officers.
Captain Beach last to leave ship"
Vessel ls Totally Wrecked.
Admiral Pond said all hands had
been removed from the ship which he
presumed would be total loss. To-
days message merely added. Several
men missing. believed drowned" to the
itemi2ed casualties OF the engine room
accident, which occurred while the
cruiser was endeavoring to make to
sea. The report last night said twenty
men In motor boat returning to
the Memphis had been lost.
The naval tug Potomac, which left
San Domingo City at / 80 p. M, yes
terday, before the storm broke, Ia
thought to be safe, altho there is no
word from her. The gunboat Cast,ne,
which was in the harbor at San
Domingo City. put to sea when the
storm broke and still Is out of the
harbor. She Is lost one boat
and had her steering gear disabled.
The sea was smooth In the ilarbor
until o'clock, when the storm broke.
Admiral Ponds First Dispatch.
The admiral's dispatch follows:
Memphis driven ashore by heavy
sea, San Domingo City. west Of light
house at 4: 30 2. m. She is lying close
under the bluffs: has lines ashore and
Is getting crew Off. Heavy sea came
up suddenly and ship was unable to
get up steam in time to save herself.
Twenty men Of liberty party drowned
on way back to ship. Castine (gun-
boaD dragged close in but did not
strike and got out to sea. No other
casualties known. Memphis will be
total loss. Expect to save everybody
on board"
Formerly Cruiser Tennessee.
The United States cruiser Memphis
formerly was the armored cruiser Ten
nessee. Her name was changed and she
| has been doing duty In San Domingo
| waters IN connection with the revolu-
| ton. The Memphis is OF 14.500 tons
and has a horsepower OF $4,000 Her
| complement Is 900 men. She is the
| flagship Of the cruiser force OF the
United States Atlantic Fleet.
Capt. Z. l. Beach commands the
| Memphis.
| The gunboat Castine narrowly
escaped the same fate as the Memphis
She was dragged toward the shore by
the storm but finally got up sufficient
steam to make her way to sea. The
Memphis was ship OF an obsolete
type, abandoned years ago by all
| nayies