Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-07-22
SUB APPEARS
Il OFF CAPE COD
AFTER HOURS OF SMELLING
SINKS FOUR BARcEs AND
DAMAGES TWO BOATS.
THREE ON BOARD INJURED
SUMMER CROWDS LOOK ON At
oNE.sIDED BATTLE WHICH
LASTED AN HOUR.

Orleans. Mass. July GA Ger
man submarine attacked the tug Perth
Amboy Of the Lchirh Valley railroad
and her four barrcr, three miles oe
this town ON the southeastern elbow
Of Cape Cod at 1880 o'colck Sunday.
The oue.sided battle lasted one
hour and half. The tug was burn
ed TO the waters edge by shell fire
while the hargcs Iansford and %.
7ss No 4O3 and, number 7O4 were
sunk by run6re.
The hargcs were bound from Glou-
eester for New York and only one
was loaded. her cargo consisting os
stone
OF the a. persons, including three
women and five children on board,
three men. Cap, Charles Ainslie OF
the Lansford and John Bolovick and
John vitz. Austrian members Of the
ting crew were wounded. Bolovich
probably will lose an arm, Vitz had
one hand blown of. These two we're
sent 10 the Massachusetts Genesal
hospital in Boston.
Capt Ainslee was wounded in both
arms by schrapnel and was treated at
the home Of J. c. Danforth Taylor OF
Boston.
The attack was witnessed by large
crowds Of summer visitors who had
flocked to the cape for week end,
seeking relief from the heat wave.
All accounts agreed that the sub
marine shooting was very add.
:, Her torpedo work was no better.
According to Capt. Ainslee Of the
I.ansford. she launched three torpe-
dos at the tug and all went wild.
seaplanes Make Attack.
The attack occurred only few
) miles from the naval aviation sta
ton at Chatham. Three seaplanes
attacked the raider with bombs, ae-
eording to Rear Admiral Spencer S.
Wood. commander Of the first naval
distric The fire was returned keep
ing the planes high. Finally, however,
the U-boai submerged and was last
ohy@rvcd heading south.
Tonight the tug was still anoat
aud il was thought she could be saved.
The net result of the raid was the
sinking Of barges valued in the ag
grerate Of 5000 and the serious
damaging Of a tug valued at $500
coo Mt the expenditure Of three tor
pedoes which II Is estimated cost the
German government a total Of si5.-
goo.
Looking for Collier.
I The appearance Of the raider so
near the treacherous shoals and tide
rips Of the caps and her subsequent
actions caused smazement to the
thousand Of witnesses rather
than condemnation. Residents Of the
4 cape could not understand why she
wasted shells on the feet Of barpes
q returninr 20 coal port. II was re-
ported. however. that the real prey
sought by the undersea boat was a
large collier northbound
y Two colicrs the Arlington aud J.
h 7. King passed Orleans shortly before
the Perth Amhoy was fired upon. but
both passed through the danger zone
4 In safety
a Three women and five children did
not suffer physical harm, although one
Of the women who had been making
her first trip at sea tainted after
she had been placed in a small boat.
OF the children was ll-year-old
boy, who at the first sound Of the
8 battle grabbed an American flag and
81 shook Il defantly toward the U-boat.
q The lad Was still clinging to the
! color held proudly above his head
when he landed on the beach.
Evidently Had Chart.
n The German commander either took
long chance or had an exact chart
OF the dangerous shoals and shift
4 Ping sand bars off the cape. Il would
: be impossible for him 10 submerge
70 any great depth and the scene Of
his exploits Was not one IN which
undersea boats might be expected 10
operate. Tonight he was being hunt
ed by patrol vessels aud other war
craft.