The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-12
UNITED STATES
STEAMER SUNK
German Submarine Shells Vessel
After Discharging Deadly
Torpedo.
TWENTY MEN SURVIVE
Scores of American Sailors and Sol
dIers Are Killed by Shrapnel
and the Lifeboats Are
All Demolished.

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New York, Oct. 12.-More than
LOO persons perished when three
steamers were sunk by German
submarines In widely scattered
parts of the Atlantic ocean.
The Japanese steamer Hirons
Maru was sent down off the Irish
coast with a loss OF 500 passen-
gers; the Irish mail steamer Lem
ster was torpedoed In the English
channel with a probable loss Of
600 lives, and the American vessel
T~iconderoga, formerly the German
ship Camilla Rickmers, wal tor
pedoed and sheIlcd loo miles off
the Atlantic coast Of the United
States. Two hundred and forty
three men, including American
army men, perished.
An Atlantic Port, Oct. 12.-Accord.
ing to the story told by 20 survivors
of the American steamer Tf~conderoga,
t~orpedoed by a German submarine
LOO miles off the Atlantic coast.
scores Of American soldiers and sail
ors were killed or wounded by shrap-
mel fired by the submarine. A British
freighter picked up the 20 survivors.
There were $50 men aboard the IT.
conderoga, an American steamship of
t5.130 tons, and all but the 20 who ar
ished. The survivors got away in the
only boat which was not demolished
by the she'll fire from the submarine,
they said. Seventeen of the men who
reached port were members of a de-
tachment of soldiers detailed to care
for horses which were being trans
ported.
Ship Fell Behind Convoy.
The ~Ticonderoga was attacked, pre-
sumably on Oct. 2, when she fell be-
hind her convoy because of engine
trouble.
According to the survivors story,
the submarine was not sighted until
she had sent a torpedo crashing into
the side of the ship. The torpedo did
not strike a vital spot. however, and
the captain crowded on full steam in
effort to escape, at the same time or
dering the gun crews into action
against the submarine, which appear
ed about a mile off.
Our gun crews did not fire more
than five or six shots" one of the
survivors said. "The forward gun
was shot away almost at once. The
after gun and its crew was done for
almost as quickly. Then the men went
to the boats, but 1t was no use, as the
flying shrapnel was spraying the
decks and the men fell in scores.
either killed or badly wounded"
Seven of Ships Boats Riddied.
Another survivor declared that all
of the Ticonderoga's eight boats with
the exception of one were riddled with
shrapnel before they could be launch,
ed. A number OF men who tried to
get into the eighth boat we're killed
by ~shrapnel as they clambered over
the side Of the vessel, he said.
Japanese Steamer Sunk.
A British Port, Oct. 1.-THE Jap,
nese steamship Hirano Maru of 1886
tons gross has been torpedoed and
sunk. 1t Is feared that 800 lives were
lost.
The Hirano Maru was outward
bound for Japan and carried about 200
passengers. The vessel was torpes. oet
and sunk by a German submarine
when about 800 miles south of Ireland
London, Oct. 1.-THE Dublin mai
boat Leinster has been torpedoed, &C
cording to the Exchange Telegraph
company. The steamer was making 9
trip from Dublin to Holyhead.
Four hundred persons persisted In
the torpedoing of the Leinster, accord
ing to . report, which has not yet beer
confirmed.
Washington, Oct. 11.-Six oficerl
and IL enlisted men OF the crew O
the cargo steamer Herman Frasch
sunk In collision with the steamet
George c. Henry, Oct. 4, we're oficiaIl,
reported missing by the Navy depart
ment.