Gunnison news-champion., 1916-10-20

70 this side Of the Atlantic Sunday
was pursued reien,lessly throBghoui
the night Wlrr the dawn cane re
ports Of more vessels torpedoed and
sunk The captain Of the Nantucke;
NEhtship. OF which the attacks or
passenger and freight ships wei.
made. reported that three German
submarines we-" operating south and
southeast OF Nar'rcFe' and that a TO
tai Of niue vessels hal been destroyed
The Identity o. three Of this number
was unknown. but ships from the
American des'7oy .r aotiIla az Newport
we're searching the seas for the rrews
tha, were supposed &c have taken TO
their small boats
Rushing to give battle 20 the sub
marines. three British cruisers were
o- Nantucket shoals.
The passenger AMI crew o, the Red
Cross steamD- S'e0hl-o and the crews
OF the British f-clra'e-s Strathdene
and Westpoint and the Dutch f-eicht
or Bloom ersdijk ant the Norwegian
freight steamer Christian Knuison
destroyed Sunday. we're landed at
Newport, r. I.
Kingston wer" missing but the men
were reported to be IN lIfeboats thirty
miles southeast OF Nantucket.
More Than ore suSsea.
There is no doubt in the minis o,
nava1 officers that one OF the engines
o, destruction was the German U So
which delivered mail for the German
ambassador Count Be-nstorff. at New.
port The belief is growing that the
r.53 is only one o' fotilla ~ Ger
man submarines gathered for attacks
on vessels OF the allied nations and
neutral bottoms carrying contrahand
o. war Their operations so Far as
known have been south and southeast
OF Nantucket islani and from three to
ten miles OF shore
Shipping at ports along the New
England coast has been held IN TO q
great extent and vessels at sea were
reported making for the nearest bar
hor. The sudden onslaught OF under
sea craft had thoroughly terrified
shipping interests engaged in carry.
ing munitions OF war.
American Steamer Held un. i
The American steamer kansar.
which was held up by submarine OF
Nantucket, arrived at Boston. It cap
response to the signals of distress
from the Westpoint, but finding that
his assistance was not required he
proceeded to Boston.
The richest prize bagged by the
Germans yet was the passenger liner
Stephano, which had just rounded the
east end OF Nantucket when I, fell
prey to a submarine The vessel car
ried eighty-three passengers, including
thirty Americans. The Stephano was
valued at 100000 when It was
launched three wears ago. Its naval
value was due to the fact that Il had
been sold to Russia and was soon to
be used as an Ice breaker.
Toll Taken by subseas.
The record of the submarine war.
fare, as brought to land by wireless
dispatches. follows:
The Strathdene, british freighter.
torpedoed and sunk off Nantucket.
Crew taken aboard Nantucket shoals
lightship and later removed TO New
port by torpedo boat destroyers.
Tho Westpoint, British freighter.
torpedoed and sunk OF Nantucket
Crew abandoned the ship in small
boats after a warning shot from the
were taken aboard a destroyer.
The Stephano, British passenger
liner, plying regularly between New
York. Halifax and ST. Johns, forpe-
coed southeast OF Nantucket. Passen-
gers and crew, numbering 140. were
picked up by the destroyer Balch and
brought to Newport.
The Kingston. British freigh.er. tor
pedoed and sunk southeast Of Nan
tucket Crew missing and destroyer
searching for them
The Bloomersdijk. Dutch freiShter.
torpedoed and sunk south Of Nantuck-
e: Crew taken aboard a destroyer.
The steamer was bound for Rotterdam.
The Christian Knudson, Norwegian
freighter, torpedoed and sunk near
where the Bloomersdijk went down.
The vessel was bound for Liverpool.
Stories Of Eyewitnesses.
Eyewitnesses' stories of the torpe
doing of passenger and freight steam
ers of Nantucket were told at New
port. Mrs. Henri B. Wilson, passen
ger on the Stephanc. one of the YES
sells sunk. said that an officer and sew
eral of the crew told her that they had
distinctly seen the name q 81 On the
submarine that attacked their ship.
It was believed :hat no lives had
been lost and although the men Of the
freighter Kingston were reported
adrift in open boats, the fact that the
weather was mild and the sea calm
made IL seem rrohable that they
would be rescued soon.
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