The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-04
ONE OF MISSING
ships NOW SAFE
IN A u. S. HARB0R
City of Columbus, Feared Sunk
by U-Boats, Lands Today.
No Indication That She Was
Attacked by U-BOat.
CAROLINA PASSENGERS SAFE
Practically All From TOrpedoed
Ship Have Landed.
Three Hundred Alone Were
Picked Up by One Ship.
CRIPPLED TANK BOAT ARRIVES
Battered by Submarine Fire, 1t
Limps Into Port.
Survivors Say They "Had a
Tough Time of It."
Practically All From TOrpedOed
Ship Have Landed.
Three Hundred Alone Were
Picked Up by One Ship.
CRIPPLED TANK BOAT ARRIVES
Battered by Submarine Fire, 1t
Limps Into Port.
Survivors Say They "Had a
Tough Time of It."
Danger Is Over!

Washington, June 4.-Navy
department officials believed to-
day the submarine or submarines
that sank probably more than
ten American vessels off the At
Iantic coast was on its way back
to its base and that for the time
being the danger was over. Sec
retary Daniels announced IN the
morning that no additional ad-
vices of submarine activities
had reached the department.
AIR. r.. A. ships Are Safe.
with the arrival in port of the City
Of Columbus, all vessels controlIeo pS
the railroad administration are report
sd safe. One hundred and eleven
sbips are operated thru the railroad
adnoin3stration and all are reported In
port.
New York, June 4.-The possible
death toll from Germany's submarine
warfare on the American side OF the
Atlantic during the last ten days was
greatly reduced today.
With the landing of 500 or more
survivors of the missing steamship,
Carolina, of the New York and PORTO
Rico line, only few are now unac-
counted for from this ship.
The City of Columbus, oN the Sa-
vannah line, arrived at an Atlantic
port, bringing safely her passengers
and crew numbering III, who had
been listed as missing. Also at Attain
tic ports arrived the steamship Gre
clan, with the missing crew of the
sunken schooner Jacob NJ. Haskell; /;
the Governor Cobb, a United States
shipping board training ship with 200
apprentice seamen aboard. the steam
ship Dorchester of the Merchants and
Miners Transportation company, and
the Clyde liner Huron, from a south
ern port.
The coming to harbor of all these
vessels left unaccounted for, in addi-
ton to the Carclina's missing. only the
crew, exact number unknown here, of
the schooner Samuel w. Hathaway of
Boston.
Three Hundred on One Boat.
An Atlantic Port June 4.-Three
hundred of the passengers and crew
pl IIlt lOTptuOtu SdlOllioi
were picked up at sea in open boats
by the schooner Eta B. Douglass.
The schooner anchored a mile off an
inlet near here at 1870 o'clock this
afternoon apparently awaiting orders
regarding the disposition of its ship
wrecked cargo.
In addition. seven members of the
crew were landed at the inlet wharf
by coast guard lifeboat.
The men tarried long enough to
say they had a tough time" and
then they were whsked off to the
coast guard station. where they were
supplied with much-needed food.
City of Columbus Here
Vineyard Haven, Mass, June A.
The City of Columbus of the Sa-
vannah line. which it was feared had
been sunk by a German submarine
is safe in an Atlantic port harbor.
While the City of Columbus was
anchored some distance from shore
there was no evidence that she had
been damaged by submarines. At
the time she came into the harbor
1t mad been known here that she had
been reported sunk. No boat had
come ashore half an hour after the
ships arrival.
Tank Steamer Arrives
An Atlantic Port. June 4.-Bat-
tered and crippled by submarine
shellIlre an american tank steamer
arrived here today. She was towed
into port by navy tugs. The tanker
had become almost waterlogged as a
result of the pounding she received
from the blockading U-boat
News reached here today that an
american tanker damaged as re-
suit of a fight with a German sub
marine off the American coast had
arrived at an Atlantic por' Naval
tugs picked UP the crippled vessel at
sea and towed her in. Details were
withheld for the time
The tanker's hull was punctured