Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-09
Nine Ships Sunk by Tor
pedoes During Raids
4 Of Sunday.
THREE VESSELS
NOT IDENTIFIED
Four British and Two Neutral Ships
Sunk BY Terpsdoss After Passengers
B and Grows Are Ordered to Small
Boats crsw Of Kingston Still Miss
ina-No Lives Lost Among Passsn-
GERS. :,

gers.
Newport, r. l.. Oct s.-Eyewitness
stories Of the torpedoing of passen-
ger and freight steamers by German
submarine of Nantucket yesterday
were told here today. Officers of a
notilla Of United States destroyers
which picked up passengers and crews
of the vessels sunni said nine vessels
fines was supposed to be the U-53.
which visited this port Saturday. and
HE other was supposed to be the u
VI. Mrs. Henry Wilson. passenger
pm the SIepnano, one OF the vessels
sunk, said an officer and members Of
the crew told her they distinctly saw
the name U-61 on the submarine that
attacked their ship.
Six vessels are known to have been
sunk and the report that the total was
mine was based on a statement by the
captain Of the Nantucket shoals light
ship.
Neutral Ships Included.
The total Of submarine victims in-t
cIuded four British, one Norwegian
and one Dutch vessel, and the three
reported lost were not identified.
The ships were the British ship
West Point the Strathdene. from New
York for Bordeaux: the Kingston. dea-;
inatiOn not stated. and the passenger
ateamer Stephano, OF the Red Cross.
line. from st. Johns, N. F.. for New
York the Bloomersdijk, Dutch. bound
from New York Ito Rotterdam, via
Kirkwail. and the Christian Knudsen,
Norwegian tanker, are the others
whose identity Is known.
crsWs Rescued Except One.
The crews OF all these vessels ex-
scepting the Kingston were brought
here today together with the eighty
three raoesnGere 0f the Stephano -
!. was Delle1oa - Hves We're Lost, ana
9itho the Kingston crew was adrift N
open boats. the sea was calm and their
rescue - expected. "a y
thirty stephano passengers were
american tourists returning from
Newfounolano. All came tnru without
injury put lost nearly All their enects.
When the Ericsson, which picked up
some of the Stephano boats. arrived
at the tlig htship, Commander Miller
said ne had observed submarine
about q mile distant and heard three
shots from the bow gun In the haze
he could dimly make out the Steph-
sAno. None OF the shots struck the ship.
The Stephano hove to and sent
message to the Ericsson: please take
VI Dh our passengers.
Women and Children Aboard.
Before Commander Miller could
comply she had loaded all her passen-
gers in their own boats. The Steph-
ano was still adoat when the destroyer
left but was reported later as sunk by
3 torpedo. the ERICSSON brought here
Twenty-Five women and ten children,
while the destroyer Balch brought
sixty mine others from the Stephano.
Eighteen Of the women were landed
at the government pier and were taken
in automobiles to tho homes OF Cover
nor =. Livinsstone Beeckman, Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and Arthur Cur
tiss James.
Dr. Andrews. Of the Grenfell mis-
sion, was one OF the four stephano
passengers taken to the home OF eEArs
Cornelius Vanderbilt. He declared the
Germans gave proper warning and then
stood by until all passengers had been
taken of.
Officers OF the Ericsson visited the
Stephano TO make sure that all the
passengers and crew were safe" he
I said. The Germans then boarded her
and opened her water cocks"
Stories OF Passengers. ~
Meanwhile the Bloomersdijk was
standing q short distance away like
steer waiting to be slaughtered" in
sthe words OF DR.. Andrews. She had
been warned to hold up.
Mrs. Henry B. Wilson, of Williams
town, Mass, said the passengers were
going to dinner when some one re-
ported that q submarine was near by.
They thought the boats were American
until the German flag was seen on the
undersea ship. Three shots were fired