The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-23
TRANSPORT ON
RETURN TRIP
.UNDERCONVOY
is TORPEDOED.
Antilles Hit In Engine Room Goes
Down Within Five Minutes;
Neither, Patrols Nor Ships
lookouts Sight Submarine
SEVENTY LIVES LOST IN
SECOND NAVAL DISASTER
One Hundred and Sixty-seven
Are Saved Owing To Sufficient
Number Of Life Boats To Ac-
comodate All On Board

WTASHINGTON, October Fl
w - ASSOCIATED Press)
Loss of the United States Trans
port Antilles with seventy lives
was reported yesterday by the
navy department. The transport
was homeward bound and was
under convoy but she was reach
ed in vital spot by a torpedo
discharged from a Teuton sub
marine that had not been sighted
by the conveying vessels nor by
the i'll fated transport. The dis
aster occurred on Wednesday last
and, although announcement to
that effect has been made by the
navy department, it is believed to
have occurred far out in the AT
lantic. One hundred and sixty
seven were saved. .,,
SEVENTY LIVES LOST
OF the seventy lives lost with
the torpedoing and sinking Of the
Antilles, sixteen were soldiers,
returning home, four were Of the
navy branch Of the service, three
officers of the ship and the re-
naming forty-seven were mem
bers of the ships crew.
The known dead are +. l.. Kin
zey of Water Valley, Mississippi,
and wv. Hunt Of Mountain
Grove, Missouri, both second
class seamen of the navy; c. L..
Ausborn OF New Orleans and II.
F. Watson of Rutland, Vermont,
both radio electricians in the
navy; Third Engineer. Walker Of
the ship and two junior engineer
o fl GERS named Boyle and
O'Rourke. s
The names of the engine crew
and other members OF the ships
crew who were lost and Of the
soldiers, cannot be determined UNI
til the records at the point Of de-
parture in France ,rhave been
examined. ~ . .,..
1t is believed that all OF the
members Of the engine room
crew who were on duty at the
time were killed by the explosion
of the torpedo which struck the
vessel abeam of the engine room
and there exploded, tearing
gaping hole from which she fill
ed and speedily sank.
ADMIRAL REPORTS
In his wireless report to Secre-
tary OF Navy Daniels, Admiral
Sims says that the Antilles.
lomeward bound and under con-
voy of American patrol vessels
was torpedoed and sank within
FIVE minutes. No U-boat was
seen by the lookouts aboard the
patrol boats that were conveying
the transport nor did any aboard
the transport see a periscope
either before or after the explo-
sion. .- E....... T..
Following the receipt of Admiral
Sims report Secretary Daniels issued
the following statement; t,'.,.. ...'..... +.
Daniels Comments ~
While the department feels with
keen sorrow the loss of human life In
the disaster to the Antilles, officials
feel deep relief that the accident oc-
CURED while the vessel was on its
hOmeward course, II is notable that
the number rescued is due, il is be
lieved, to the rigid rule requiring that
enough boats be carried TO provide for
every man, even If the boats ON one
side Of the ship should prove useless
through listing No high officers were
scheduled to return on the Antilles.
This is the first reduction in the trans.
port fleet .s .....| ].
The torpedOed vessel was steel, full
powered, and built for both passenger
and cargo service. She was 42O feet
long, had beam of ffty.three feet,