Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-10-26


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and then she dived again and swan
away under water.
Wireless Operators Die.
The personnel of the. list of saved
and lost tells part of the story. The
third engineer officers-civilianS-
are gone We're below attending 70 their
business with the engine crew, which
will be found to constitute the greater
number of the lost. The rest OF the
crew victims were doubtless not on
duty, probably sleeping after their
shift in the enginerOoms.
Seamen Kinsey and Hunt of the
navy are missing. They must have
been members of the gun crews.
Radio Electricians Ausburn and
Watson also were on the list of cas-
ualties. They must have been the
wireless operators who were sleeping
below, while two others, more fortu-
nate. We're answering and receiving
messages.
No Chance to Send S. o. S.
1t is probable that the engines were
put out of commission at the instant
Of the explosion and that there was
no chance to send a final message
cracking through the air.
The 16 soldiers who were lost of the
total of 33 on board probably consti-
tuted the sick list, and those who for
other reasons were below, for when
they go through the danger zone life
preservers are at hand for everybody,
and with the conveying vessels near,
nearly everybody who was on deck or
could get there would be picked up.
Five minutes was all the time there
was to launch lifebOats, SO it may be
assumed that few were saved by this
means, though, as it is customary to
swing them out during the passage of
the infested waters; doubtless some
managed to cling to these until the de-
strOyerS could rescue them.
The Antilles was registered to carry
a crew of 100, so 80 were saved. Most
Oh TIE OlIeIS HluSl hGiNC UCCh hlAINu ~
the explosion as they were shoveling
coal and attending to the engines.
Attack Probably in Day.
The circumstance that all the army
and navy officers were saved, as well
as most of the ships officers, indi-
Gates that the attack was by daylight,
when they would naturally be on deck
or in what, in the Antilles passenger
DAYS. were the salons, from which
they could reach the deck at once.
That the U-boat was able to torpedo
an armed vessel, conveyed, and pre-
sumaJly protected by the defensive
camoufiage recently devised, surprises
only the laymen.
The navy people say there is no alb
solute protection possible, but many OF
the transports have had encounters
with the underSea boats and have es-
caped by reason of their very precau-
lions.
sThey are bound to get one of us
once in a WHILE" is the way the navy
men talk about this phase of the war.
All Survivors Believed Sate.
Probably the attack on the United
States transport Antilles was made
we'll ont at sea. 1t took two days for
tbe news to reach Washington, and
the dispatch shows the time that must
have elapsed before definite word
could reach Admiral Sims.
The survivors are believed to be al
ready safe ashore somewhere in
France or England.
Antilles Owned by Morgan Firm.
New York, Oct 20.-The Antilles, a
freight and passenger steamship of
5S7S tons gross, owned by the South
ern Pacific Steamship company Nor
gan line), was one of the crack Ameri-
can coast liners. She piled between
New Orleans and New York and had
carried thousands of persons TO the
Mardi Gras celebrations in the south
ern city. The vessel was taken over
by the government as a transport early
in the war.
Cant. III. f. Boyle, master of the
Antilles. retained his command when
the vessel entered the government
service. as did most of his officers. The
crew, as recruited by the quartermas-
ter's department, included many of the
men who had served on the steamship
when she was in the merchant service.
The Antilles was built by the Cramps
at Philadelphia in 1907. She was 421
feet long. with beam of 53 feat Snd a
depth Of 81 feet.