Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-04-01
Another Heavy Score for
America to Settle With
PiratiCaI German Subma-
rine Warfare ChaIked Up.
TWO KNOWN DEAD AND
18 UNACCOUNTED FOR
TraWler That Would Have Res
cued Men in Small Boats
Warned Off on Pain of Be-
ing Also Torpedoed.
tsv MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WIRE,

Washington, March 31.I-Destruc-
tion without warning of four mer
chant ships carrying Americans in
their crews was reported to the state
department today in official dis
patches indicating that several Amer
leans lost their lives.
The vessels were the British steam
er Crispin, on which two American
negroes probably perished and from
s which eighteen other Americans are
reported missing; the Portuguese sail
ing ship Argo, from which three
American negroes are missing, and
the British steamers Eptafolos and
Snowdon Range, on which there ap
parently was no loss of life though
Americans in the crews suffered from
exposure.
The departments latest dispatch on
the Crispin, sent today by Consul
Washington at Liverpool follows:
Ordered Rescuer away.
experimenting consul at Swansea's
Crispin cable, 30th: Joint affidavit
four American seamen indicates two
Americans, colored firemcn, names so
far unknown, killed iby explosion;
eighteen Americans so far unaccount-
ed for in captains boat; sixty-nine
Americans on Crispin, ten firemen,
carried one gun aft; submarine Ger
man; ordered rescuing trawler leave
vicinity under threats of torpedoing."
Previously Consul Moorehead at
Swansea, in a dispatch dated yester-
day, had reported: British steamer
Crispin, Newport News to AVonmouth
with horses, torpedoed without warn
ing at p. m. March 30, off Minehad,
Ireland weather moderate, northerlN
winds, fairly heavy swells; no vessel
in sight when attacked, torpedo not
seen. First intimation of submarine
was explosion in vessel No attempt
to escape. Vessel abandoned, sank
3;l5 a. m. Boats in charge of chief
officer, picked up by fishing trawler,
taken to Mifordhaven; no casualties
among crew in these boats. Captains
boat landed in Ireland, forty-nine of
crew sent direct to Liverpool. Fore"
going information obtained by tele-
phone by chief operator"
Destruction of the Argo.
Destruction of the Argo was report
ed by Consul Armstrong at Bfistol III
this dispatch dated today:
'William Pitts and Spenser Ken
nedy, coored American seamen, Port
guese sailing ship Argo from New
Orleans for London, carrying generai
cargo, swear Argo was shelled WIN
out warning by submarine flying Ger
man flag. 900 miles off GraVesend, b
O'clock March 23. weather foush'
cold; occupants lifeboats at sea foui
days; suffered from exposure; wheh
picked up by British hospltal snip
brought into Avonmouth one life boat
with three colored Americans unac-
counted for; their names unknown.
al Thomas
Jackson, rescued, suffering from ex-
posure. No other boats nearby. Sub
marine offered no assistance, Argo no
resistance.
Consul Gaulin reported the sinking
of the Eptafolos from Marseiiles In
the following dispatch dated yester-
day:
Sinking of Eptafolos.
Mailing affidavits Roy Adams, FL
berton, Ca: James Dennis, Hampton,
Va; Edward Ryan, Suffolk, Va, IRE
men on British Eptafolos. sunk py
submarine without flag or indicatoh
of nationality, about fifty miles from
Malta, March %; weather flhe, sea
calm. Eptafolos bound from Malta
TO Gibraltar in ballast without pas
sengers or troops; carried one gun.
two gunners Vessel torpedoed with
out warning by unseen submarine
about 1890. Ryan on deck saw tor
pedo approaching. Eptafolos lmme-
diately stopped, crew entered life
boats for which ample time. Subma-
rine then appeared, took prisoner cap
tain, first, second officers, four, engi-
neers, one gunner, and ordered crew
steer for Malta, indicating course. NO
other assistance given by submarine
Eptafolos being still afloat, submarine
fired about twelve shells, vessel sink
ing in one hour at about $3.50 O'Clock.
Crew remained in boats from Friday
afternoon until reaching Malta sun
day, March 25, about o'clock IN the
morning. Sufficient food and drink
in lifeboats. Crew arrived Marseiiiss