Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
SUBMARINE SINKS ANOTHER.
OIL Tanker TorredOed Near New
iOrk-Seven OF Crew Dead.

nv" 1OIh, august lf.-A German
submarine. approaching the very
gates of New York harbor, sank the
oil tanker Frederick II. kellogg, off
the Ambrose Cfanmc! last night.
Thirty-tve members of the crew
brought here to-day, reported that
seven others are missing. These sur
virors were picked up by an Amer-
can steamship.
The Frederick r. Kellogg was a
lie" tank steamship OF 7,127 tons
gross register, valued at more than
$l.500,000. Under command of
Capt. G. Fl. White, she was on her
way from Tampico, Mexico, to Bos-
ton, with cargo Of approximately
10000 barrels of crude oil.
The ship was owned by the Petro-
leum Transport Company and was
launched year ago this month at
Oakland, Cal.
Torpedoed without warning at
6.10 o'clock last evening, the Kellog
sank in three minutes, said members
Of her crew on coming ashore here
to-day. The force of the explosion
was terrific, they declared, and the
seven missing men who were in the
! engine room, are belieyed to have
| been killed. No submarine was seen.
| according to Capt. White.
Rowed for Three Hours.
The survivors, in small boats,
| rowed for three hours toward shore
when a freighter took them aboard.
One of the crew reported his narrow
escape when he was caught below
decks by the rapidly sinking ship.
He was carried down by the suction,
he asserted, but swan to the surface
and reached one of the boats.
Members of the Kellogg's crew
declared that while making for shore
they saw submarine operating un-
der attempted concealment A dory
suddenly rose out OF the water, they
| said. and from one of the many holes
in its keel periscope protruded.
The dory floated for some time,
the sailors asserted, as though de-
signed to attract passing steamships
toward 1t, then disappeared.
Five members of the crew of the
| sunken oil tanker were to-day off,
cially reported dead.
Another Schooner Sunk.
Washington, Aug. 15.-Seaplanes
and naval patrol boats attacked with
depth charges a German submarine
which shelled and set fire to the
American schooner Dorothy Barrett
yesterday afternoon off Cape May,
New Jersey.
Navy reports to-day said one
| bomb from seaplane exploded
within 70 feet of the bubbles and
wake from the U-boat which had sub
merged when the planes and patrols
were sighted. When the planes had
completed their attack two patrol
boats closed in and let go depth
bombs. The result has not been de-
termined
The crew abandoned the schooner
as soon as the submarine appeared
and opened fire and have been land
ed safely at Cape May. Navy dis
patches to-day did not make clear
whether the vessel was destroyed.
She was bound from New York for
Norfolk when attacked six miles from
the northeastern lightship near Cape
May.
Mine sweepers have been sent to
the scene, as there is possibility
that mines were laid in the vicinity,
as was the case when the raiders
made their first appearance in
| American waters last May.
This submarine probably is the
one which Tuesday evening torpe-
doed the oil tanker Frederick r. Kel-
logg 80 miles south of Ambrose
light.
Kellogg Still Afoat /?
Washington, Aug. 15.-The Amer
lean tank steamer Kellogg. torpedoed
Tuesday evening by German subj
marine, Is still afoat 16 miles off
Barnegat. N. j., the Navy Depart
ment was advised to-day. and there
Is a chance that she may be brought
| into port
Seven men Of the crew are still
missing, but the navy has no confir-
nation OF reports that five men we're
killed by the explosion OF the torpedo.