Evening journal., 1918-06-06

night, when the navy reported the sink
ing OF the Norwegian steamship Eds
void OF the Virginia Capes late oI
Tuesday afternoon.
The name OF the Eidsvoid completed
roster OF fifteen vessels known L
have been sunk since the raiders begaI
: their campaign on our coast. the name
Of two vessels. the scbooners Samuel q
Mengel and Dessaus having been adde'
] during the day TO the list OF thlrteel
known TO have been attacked by tn
U-boats since last Sunday. The crew
Of the Eidsvoid and the Mengel hav
I been saved. but the fate Of the peopl'
/ OF the Dessaus has. not been cleared mp
4 The Samuel G.. Mengel an auXillar'
schooner bound from Pensacola TO tht
I city was sunk by bombs 2iO mile
. southeast Of this port on Sunday after
[ noon. The Dessaus was discovered
. early yesterday by a United States de
| strOyer floating with her stem in th'
air on the coast OF Delaware. a grea
hole By her starboard bow indicated
I that she might have been torpedOed
lbut naval men until her hull has beer
surveyed are Inclined 10 the belief thai
she was destroyed by bomb.
{ The vessels so FAR known to have
been the victims 0f submarines are the
steamships Carolina, WinnecOnne Her
bert l.. Pratt. rexel and Eldsyold, and
/ the schoOners Edna, Hattie Dunn, Haup-
pauge. Edward H. Cole.' Isabel Wiley,
Jacob Haskell. Edward r. Baird, Sam
mel Hathaway, samuel G. Mengel and
I Dessaus.
70 was learned also yesterday that
/ the French steamship Radiolelne, which
I narrowly escaped destruction by a sub
marine on Tuesday night and which
was saved by the arrival Of a United
states destroyer. gave gallant battle 20
the German undsrsea boat
on her arrival AZ an Atlantic port
her captain reported that he had fred
three shots at the raider, beginning his
ilre the moment she raised her nose
from the seas. and that she in return
had sent from fifteen TO twenty shells
screaming at his ship without one Of
them finding It's mark.
He paid a high tribute TO the eflclen-
oy Of the American destroyer comman-
der, whose vessel came racing up with
In few moments after the first shot
had been fired. and declared that es'
the destroyer bore down ON the Ger
man she was driving with the speed Of
an express train.
American Ship in Battle.
/ Another American steamship, name
4 less IN The dispatches, arrived at an
Atlantic port last nieht and said that
she had fired early in the afternoon q
number OF shots at what she believed
90 be a German submarine of the Della
war coast. Her commander said that
all he could be sure Of was that some
suspicious object had raised itself sud
denlly from the seas directly in his
course and that ne bad promptly
swiirg bruadsids 70 Il and LET Il have
fini power OF his bow and stern guns
| tie also reported that in mid7Atlautlc
No had sisiited n sailing vessel which
ny her actions datsed him 10 believe
, thst she screened b Submarine
Ills story Of this. encounter tyas In.
I terestlhg 10 naval Ofilcers from the Fac
, mat II has already heeh suspected tha
| the Submarines operating here maj
have d source Of supply from vessels
which meet them, in fnid-bcesn;
A considerable area was found tn be
sown with mines wfief naval scouts
and mine sweepets covered the terri
tory bff the mouth bf the Delaware
river yesterday. two mines were ex-
pioded and number brought up in-
ta6t
The whole Of the water used as a
highway BY vessels going In and out Of
| PHILADELPHIA had Hot Been set with
mines. hut euough at II had been TO
isad to the belief that the Gstnar
Submarines had been at work there for
s6fne time and were sN0dl the work
6f making the whole water impossible
5f navigation wheh they ware fright
ehed awsY.
f7is locality where the Eidyold was
met Is new. for the, submarines ana IN
dieates thst they have already f0tifid
tiis SYsters OF tie Delaware Capes tod
hot Is huid them through the artivity
~ American auti-snbmhrlne sea and
air craft.
Death List Now IS.
With the erew 6f The schooner sam
hd W. hathaway. who are still miss
lHs ahd the ersw Of the ,besssts. wiiich
Wss f6iihd yesterday hoatlng bottom
hb ST the Delaware Cspes, eleven tfsh
sseb, thB toll OF iivss f5ffsited 10, ths
! BelHifibs hf the stibfharlne raid Al0hs
flIis e6ast Mas SCI last night at is This
| Is based Upon the assHthptldh that az
26 persons missing from the steamship
Carolina must have Beet. drdwhed in
ths capsizing bf two ,5f her BOATS Id
! ths st6rh wiiich br6ke 5tsf the NO
| btis last siihdsy flight wheh they were
aHfift on the New Jersey coast.
A tstiy III tfis Tee6rtis bf the New
YORK; 4 Porto Isie5 1.-The yesterday
showed that nine lbassehrers and ~ 6f
sAs eretV ars still iihaebouiited for
Sixteen are kn6wn to have DROWNED by
! lhs siifvivofs bf tiie VESSEL landed at
Lewes. bel.
tiie first class passengers missing are
| b. Il. Parker of this city, Frederick
Atkinson. Maria +! Beilrsn and her lit
tie brother Eduardo; Miss prbvidencla
/ l.. Oueto. Felipe Della, Domingo Gbh=
zaiez, DemihiF5 Paasa and Rafasi Ne-
| fila.
Nf Parker lived at a35 west ii9th
street, and hts wife was the first person
allowed on buard the schooner Eva B..
! Douglass yesterday when the vessel ar
rived at Brooklyn pier bringing the
bulk Of the men and WOMEN who were
on board the Carolina when she was
held ut and sunk. He had gone to Porto
Hleu in connection with some real es-
tate which he had there
An official Of the Porto Rice Line
said yesterday that the ships total 81
officers and crew numbered iii or
these Af have been accounted for as
haiive and four bodies Of seaman have
been recovered by United States de-