The Glenwood post., 1918-06-08
Several Ships Sunk by Raid.
ers and at Least Nine.
teen Lives Lost
FLOATING MINE FOUND

Washington, June 4.-Enemy sub.
marines still were operating off the
American coast today. A French tank
steamer, the Radioleine, first trans.
Atlantic craft to be attacked by the
raiders, was saved from destruction at
$50 O'Clock this morning by an Amer
ican destroyer, sixty-five miles off the
Maryland coast.
The same destroyer found the coast
ing schooner Edward R. Baird, Jr.,
sinking after having been bombed IN
the same vicinity, making seven schoon-
ers and four steamers known officially
to have been sunk by the raiders.
Reports from survivors who were
aboard the vessels, also established the
fact that during the day at least two
submarines have been at work in Amer.
lean waters. They are the U-37 and
the U-51, and report to the navy de.
partment shows that one of them, at
least, had stores to last three months.
Members of congress who conferred
with Secretary Daniels today were con-
WINGED that everything possible was
being done without lessening American
efforts to crush the enemy in France.
Secretary Daniels believes that the
main purpose of the raid is to create
demand among the people for the re-
turn of American craft that are fight
ing submarines abroad. If so, the Ger
man effort to crush the United States
participation in the war has again met
with failure. The troops have gone
forward without delay. The raiders
have created panic among coastwise
shipping, but they have done no mill
tary damage whatever.
The picking up of floating mine off
the New Jersey shore was announced
today by the navy department. Un-
doubtedly it was dropped by one of the
enemy U-hoats. Possibly the raider
was closely pursued and thought to lay
a trap for her pursuer.
The official list of vessels sunk ly
the U-boats, as given out tonight at
the navy department, included seven
schooners and four steamers. The
statement follows:
"The latest report received by the
navy department indicates that the fol-
lowing vessels have been sunk as re.
suit of enemy submarine activities off
this coast:
"Schooner Edna, 325 tons; schooner
Hattie Dunn, 436 tons: schooner Haup.
paugte, l,500 tons; schooner Isabel r.
Wiley, 776 tons; schooner Jacob NJ.
Haskell, 1,77s tons; steamer Winnie
come, 1896 tons; steamer Carolina,
5,039 tons; schooner Edward R. Baird,
Jr., 27s tons; steamer Herbert L. Pratt,
1900 tons; raised and towed to port,
steamship Texel.'
Announcement by the navy depart.
ment of these facts late toni ght, dis
closed that the raid in American wa.
ters had not ended with yesterday s
tale of destruction, upsetting the the
ory that the raiders probably were
speeding homeward. Coast patrol yes.
sells had not acted on that theory. They
now are closing in from all directions
on the scene of the raiders last ex,
plot, securing the sea for further
trace of enemy U-boats as they come.
Lewes, Della, June 4.-Sixteen of the
thirty-five persons who were in the
motor boat Of the Carolina landed here
today were drowned during = severe
thunder storm Sunday night while the
boat was drifting about the ocean
seeking rescue.
The Carolina g motor boat, according
to survivors, eapsised several times a
the storm, al passengers managed to
cling to the boat, but one by one six
teen Of them dropped Of and were
drowned. The others managed 70 right
the launch, bail her out and keep hel
akoa4.
While drifting they sighted . girl
cfinging to two dead men who were in.
sased in Life prsservers. They rescued