Meade County news., 1918-06-20
Submarines Make Successful
Raid on Unprotected Yes.
sells Along Jersey Coast.
DEATH TOLL IS PLACED At So
The Missing Are All From the steam-
or carollna-Amerlean Destroyer
Interrupts Sinking.

WdSulublOu, ~. IA destroyer
reported to the Navy Department to-
night that she interrupted an enemy
submarine attack on the French
steamer Radioleine, 65 miles off the
Maryland coast at $3.50 o'clock yester-
day morning. and had found the Amer
ican schooner Edward R. Baird, Jr.,
in sinking condition after having
been bombed.
The addition of the Baird to the
list of U-boat victims makes total
of eleven vessels now known to be
sunk.
Missing Number SO.
New York, June 5.-The list of dead
and missing from the raid of German
submarines against shipping off the
American coast apparently stood to-
night at fifty-eight, all from the steam
ship Carolina of the New York and
Porto Rico line. Sixteen of this num-
Der are known to have perished when
one of the ships boats capsized in a
storm Sunday night after the vessel
had been sunk. The fate of the 9TH
ers is not known, but it is hoped they
have been picked up by passing ship
and will yet reach shore safely.
Land More Survivors Today.
Captain Barbour of the Carolina re.
ported to the company today that he
was on board the schooner Eva B.
Douglas with $50 passengers and 94
of the crew. The schooner is being
towed to this port by tug which was
sent to aid and is expected to arrive
early tomorrow morning.
A boat containing twenty-eight sur
vivors, twenty-one passengers and
seven of the crew, arrived at Atlantic
City this afternoon.
Another lifeboat with ten passen
gers and nine members of the crew
arrived at Lewes, Del, with the re
port that sixteen of the thirty-five who
had started from the ship had lost
their lives in the storm Sunday night
New York.-Ten American vessels
are known to have been sunk by sub
marines off the North Atlantic Coast
since May rs.
The largest Of the prey to the raid
ers seeking to prevent the sailing oi
transports with troops for the battle
fields of France was the New Yorl
and Porto Rico liner Carolina, of 5000
tons, which was attacked Sunday
night about 125 miles southwest oi
Sandy Hook.
The Ships Known Lost.
Besides the Carolina the known vic
tins of the U-boat are the Atlantic Re
filming Company tanker Herbert L
Pratt, the steamer Winneconnie oi
1900 tons, the steamer Texel, 1000
tons, sunk Sunday afternoon off the
New Jersey coast, and six schooners
the largest of which were the Haup
pang new ship of 1000 tens, and
the Edward H. Cole. The Other
schooners were the Isabel B. Wiley
Hattie Dunn, Jacob M. Haskell anG
the Edna. The crews Of these eight
vessels have been landed at Atlantic
ports.
Crew of TexeI Landed.
The crew of the Texel, thirty-si1
men, has been landed at Atlantic City
The Texel, a former Dutch ship, now
operated by the United States Ship
ping Board, was sunk without warn
ing sixty miles off New York Harbor
Sunday afternoon at 4:21 o'clock.
cargo of $4,000 tons of sugar valued
at 500 ton, was lost.
Worn and exhausted from theii
long row with little food and less
water, the men of the crew were
taken in charge by Captain Holdzcom
and taken to the Atlantic City police
station for the night. Few had any
thing but the clothes on their backs
One of the crew, however, Frank RyaI
of New York City, carried in his arms
the Maltese cat, mascot of the ship
Ryan risked a rain of shrapnel thai
swept the deck of the Texel to save
the life Of the cat.
The total loss was more than two
million dollars. The Texel was oi
seven thousand tons.
Commander Humane, for Hun.
Reports brought ashore by the sur
vivors indicated that the Winnecon
ME and nearly all the schooners were
sunk by the same U-boat, which hac
been lurking in the path Of shipping
off the New Jersey coast and the Della
ware capes since late last month. The
stories told by the shippers Of the
schooners indicated that the com
mander Of the submarine was un
Ink Eradieator.