The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-07-25
SUBMARINE SHELLS
AMERICAN COAST:
8 BARGES SUNK
Thousands on Beach See One
sided Battle.
WARSHIPS ARE IN PURSUIT
Tug and Its Tow Are Attacked Off the
Eastsrnmost Point of Cape Cod
No Lives Lost, is
Report.

Washington, July 22.-American
warships from the first naval district
are combing the waters off Cape Cod
for the enemy submarine operating
there, the navy department announced.
Orleans, Mass, July 22.-An enemy
submarine attacked a tow off the east
eminent point of Cape Cod, sank three
barges, set fourth and their tug on
iire and dropped four shells on the
mainland.
The action lasted an hour and was
unchalleuged except for hydroplane
from the Chatham naval aviation sta
ton, which circled over the U-boat,
causing her to submerge for only a
moment, TO reappear and resume fir
ing.
The enemy submarine attacked the
tow four miles south of Orleans life
saving station. The tug stood by the
barges until she was shelled and her
self on fire when she disappeared.
The crews of the barges, comprising
16 men, three women and five children,
reached shore in small boats.
One Man Is Injured.
Only one of them, a man, was in
jured by flying wood splinters in an
arm. The submarine was plainly seen
from shore.
Two barges were sunk by torpedoes,
but it required a hundred shells to
sink the third barge.
In the midst of the Smelling an eleven
year-old boy on barge seized small
American flag and waved it defiantly
in the faces of the German gunners.
He still chung to the flag when he was
brought ashore.
a hydroplane from Chatham station
attacked the submarine and appeared
was atloat.
The attack began at II n. m, and
lasted an hour Two shells struck the
water 800 yards from the shore which
was lined with thousand persons at
tracted by the firing.
The sea was calm and there was no
wind. The barges had only four small
lifeboats intended to accommodate five
persons each but all of the crews of
the barges were safely landed at Maui
set Harbor.
Crew of Tug Is Landed.
The crew of the tug, II men, were
rescued and brought ashore by the
crew of the Orleans life-saving station.
Only two of them were injured, one
seriously. The latter was an Austrian,
twenty-five years of age, whose right
arm was blown Oft.
The tug was the Perth Amboy, bound
for New York with empty coal bargeS
The captain was J. II. Tapley, who
with his crew, is being cared for here
The men were without funds and UNI
able to proceed TO Boston.
The submarine was large one, ap-
parently 400 feet in length.
The tow was bound south for New
York Much shipping was passing at
the time and regardless of the danger
to themselves, several vessels went to
the aid of the barges, the lifeboats of
WHICH were lpNtu tSllbit ny llltSC
other vessels.
The women and the crews We're ter
rified, and one who was making her
first trip at sea tainted when brought
ashore. OF the II persons on the tug
and barges only three were injured.
The flashes of the submarines guns
were plainly seen from shore. The
tug. with the three barges in line, was
putting along slowly when surprised
The first torpedo launched struck the
leading barge, which heeled over and
sank quickly.
The second torpedo similarly dis
posed of the third barge. The second
barge, smallest of the tow, was left
vulnerable, and, with the tug, was
shelled for an hour before she sank,
The tug was hit repeatedly and was in
flames when the aviator appeared, cir
cling over the submarine. The latter
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