Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-10
London, was similarly halted and

sent to the bottom. ...
Three other steamers were report
ed SUNK early today. The Kansan
meanwhile had sent broadcast radio.
grams telling of the submarines ap'
pearance in the vicinity Of the light
ship. The West Point also was able
to flash off brief messages giving
word of her plight before she was
abandoned by her crew. These dis
patches were picked up at Newport
and fleet of United States torpedo
boat destroyers were Immediately or
dered out to pick up, the crews.
Throughout the day and night the
destroyers cruised in the waters for
several miles around the Nantucket
lightship, receiving word from time
to time of the sinking Of additional
vessels. They located the survivors
of all the vessels known to have been
destroyed, except the Kingston, and
took them aboard. The crew of the
Strathdene had previously been given
shelter on the lightship. --.... , :
:@-s Flying Dutehman. ,,,, .% >. ~..- ~
The steamer, Kingston, is not men.
toned in maritime records. and her
destination was not known early to-
day. N ~ .,.,,. 80 :. =
No legendary "Flying Dutchman"
ever was the center of so much mys.
terry or the cause of so much specu.
lation or lived SO true to the tradi.
ton of being the fOrerunner OF ma
rine mishaps as the German subma.
rine, U53. which dropped 50 dramat.
ically into Newport harbor Saturday
afternoon.
Thick with Ships. '. @. -
One of the destroyer, Balch's, crew
said that he saw German supply
ship attending the submarine. The
American destroyers Witnessed the
destruction Of some Of the vessels.
In one instance the American boats
were so thick on the, scene that the
German submarine commander asked
the destroyers, Eenham and McDou.
gall to make way for him to blow up
his prey.
Eye witness stories of the torpedo
inf Of passenger and freight steamers
by German submarines of Nantucket
yesterday were told here today.
Saw U-61. ...
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 E. Wilson of Williamstown.
Mass, passenger on the Stephano,
one of the vessels sunk, said that an
officer and several OF the crew told
her that they had distinctly seen the
name, U-G1, on the submarine that at.
tackled their ship.
Six vessels are known to have been
sunk and the report that the total was
nine was based on statement OF
the captain of the Nantucket Shoals
lightship, near which the attacks took
place. The captain said that three
submarines were engaged.
The list of submarine victims in
cluded four British, one Norwegian
and one Dutch vessel. The identity
of the other three reported to have
been lost had not been learned early
today. The British vessels were the
freighter, West Point, bound from
London for Newport News, the Strath.
dene, from New York for Bordeaux;
the Kingston, destination not stated
and the passenger steamer, StephanO
of the Red Cross line. from St. Johns,
N. F., for New York.
The BlOomersdijk, Dutch, bound
from New York to Rotterdam, via
kirkwall, and the Christian Knudsen
a Norwegian tanker, are the others
whose identity is known.
The crews of all these vessels, with
the exception of the Kingston, were
brought to this port today, together
with the SO passengers of the Stepha
no, and were cared for by the officers
Of the Narragansett Bay naval sta
tion and prominent members of the
Newport summer colony. ~
1t was believed that no lives had
been lost and. although the men OF
the freighter, Kingston, we're report
ed adrift at sea in open boats, the
| fact that the weather was mild and
the sea calm made IL seem probable
that they would be rescued within 4
craft.
Thirty Amedcans.
OF the passengers Of the StephanC
30 were American tourists returning
from New Foundland and Canadian
maritime provinces. All came through
their rough experience without In.
jury, according to officers Of the Am
erican destroyers, but lost nearly al
, their effects.
Lieutenant Commander Miller o
the Ericsson who picked up some o
the boats from the Stephano, said m
attack was made by the submarine OF