The sun., 1918-05-02
City Of Athens. COastwisc
Vessel. Goes to Bottom
in + Minutes.
is ABOARD ARE SAVED
Survivors Are Brought to
L. S. Port by Disabled
French Warship.
WOMEN ARE DROWNED
Wireless Operator Dies at
Post-Thrilling Stories
Of Rescue Told.
WOMEN ARE DROWNED

The coastwise steamship City OF
...hens o. the Savannah Line and
erch cruiser crashed head on yester-
a. Y morning at 80 o'clock twenty
les due east OF the Delaware Capes.
crushed by the sharp ram Of the war
.u.p, the City OF Athens sank in four
1tnutes. so quickly that her l!feboa's
o,u,d not be launched and her wireless
o)erator and many Of her crew d,ei
thout fighting chance. OF 1875 souls
hoard sixty-six were saved ard sixty
re drowned. among them two women
md child. Four women were saved.
The French warship. with hole stovs
II her bow. returned to an Atlantic port
lsst night. bringing the survivors she
rad picked up in the swirling waters.
Capt. A. q. Forward. commando OF
1he liner. was able to give little informa-
,on when he was interviewed Mt the
port where he landed. He was seriously
injured and grief stricken. He did re-
port. however. that he was proceeding at
half speed. which is to say. It about six
knots through the fog. sounding the
usual fog signals. He was about twenty
suddenly the dim form OF the great
cruiser loomed up through the mist ana
The crash followed.
wireless Man DIED At key.
The City Of Athens carried sixty-nine
passengers and a crew of sixty-siX.
Among the dead Is F. !. Doherty, whose
rame must be added to the roll of wire
less heroes who have stuck to their keys
sending the o s until death, DR..
Brooks Of Atlanta, one Of the survivors,
said he heard the captain tell Doherty
vice to leave his key. The order was
ignored
Aboard the Athens. too were twenty
four young men who had just enlisted
in the United States Marine Corps and
were on their way to Port Royal. >. C''
the marines great training camp.
Nine OF them died for their country
as truly as though they met their fate
IN France Twenty French bluejack-
It's who had been sent to this country
% hll UP the crews Of French patro!
.essels in the Atlantic were riding In
ne steerage. Marines and French sail
ors alike died in trying to save others.
Civilian passenger casualty list tol-
COWS.
DROWNED.
l.N II
rACDRON. JEAN. New York city
rALZELL ISAAC. Paterson, y. j.
22W 2WHER ri HAM MiicG sIS0s ssed 4, 1s7 Ea., Ninth
,REENE, E; astoria Queens ,,.. Mas,
King. EDWARD. savannah. Ga.
tIi1 GEYToLIs 70 the Rev nav j; F; yoIS Te" f0fs
YOUNG Il. A, Brooklyn.
toDZINER. Mrs. RICHARD, al: sim
well avenue. The Bronx
sE%9Ks sE%HER d.! Ml F. ana an A!sa'' Mrs ARrHuR anl
Richard. aged :, 1870. Es., Ninth street
GEEES: %Ax, 1928 Arctic avenue Pater'
HARRiiSoS&, Mrs. FLORENCE PIcKARL
and chi!d, West loSth street Ne" fo'S
KEMP. DR.. A. j. New York city:
".cLAsKlE; ALDEN. 2a1 west h's"''
oBRIEN. J. r., Savannah. Ga.
The list OF United States Marines
follows:
DROWNED.
GINsBERG, SAMUEL, 1851 croton'
R3sENFiELD' HARRY, lls5 Nostrand
TY%G. iiS; "FSfEisa, sTEPHEx IL, JR., 10 Ninth
GRAHAM. BERCHMANS J.
MISSING.
KAHN. NAT 1919 Fyse avenue. New
Sor..
MACK, WILLIAM j.. go Fifth avenue
Lnrg Island City,
DIXON. FRANK r.
wHETMoRE, HARLEY E.
SAVED.
LILLE, WILLIAM d, 1912 Colon!a
lpsd BROOKLYN.
EiLINGER. JOSEPH s. Si' Sixth
-so' New York
MCMILLAN. DOUGLASS H.. 81 Vale!
Tosi, West orange. y. J.
HcDOEOuGH, ROBERT F.. - willard
ace, Montclsir. y. J.
EoGoFF. NED. 10 White street
Springfield Mass.
WALLS, HOW ARD j.. I:s wadsworti
s'nir. New YORK
MESSENGER. WILLIAM 4.
COOPER HARRY LEROY.
OAR Y. JACK.
FuNiCELI.O. JOHN F.
riEG, FRED c.
SPAETH JOSEPH.
THl8ODEAU. ALBERT N.
WEEKS HAROLD r.
\ WILSON,. JOHN l..
\ SIX French sailors Lest.
Sx French sailors were drowned
t1r'een were saved.
. Mrs Eta law Of BvidReport, Conn.