Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-04
GERMAN U-B0ATS
SINK 9 VESSELS
IN SUNDAYS RAID
$50 Passengers and Crew of a
Steamer Get Away in
in Open Boats.
ONE SHIP RUNS AWAY
NEW YORK. JUNE 4.

who operated on that day off the New
jersey and Delaware coasts
Possibly later reports may swell this
total. and it is not regarded as improb-
able that the C-boats may become active
again at any minute.
One other vessel is reported as having
been abandoned after she had been shelied
and a tenth TO have been sunk.
Most of the attacks took place Sunday
afternoon and evening. Two. perhaps
more. of them took place prior 10 May
%. So far the loss of but one life has
been established.
LIST OF LOST VESSELS.
The lost vessels, as the Navy Depart
ment had definitely established last
night, are the following
Schooner Jacob NJ Haskell of Boston,
Norfolk TO Portland sunk by she'll fire at
noon Sunday. southeast of Barnegat, \ J.
Schooner Edward II Cole of Boston.
Norfolk 10 Portland sunk by bomi
fifty miles off Barncgat, at 20 p. m.
Sunday.
Tanker Herbert l. Pratt of Philadel-
phia. Tampico TO Philadelphia, sunk off
Cape Hcnlopen sunday evening with
the loss of one man.
Schooner Isabel b Wiley, Of Bath,
Me. Perth Amboy to Norfolk sunk sun
day evening of Barnegat.
Schooner Edna of Machias, Me Phil
adelphia TO Havana. picked UP as derellct
off Five Fathom Lightship, Cape May,
y J.. on May 26
Schooner Hattie Dunn Of Thomaston.
Me. sighted as derelict May 26 off
Winter Quarter Shoal lightshIp. and
destroyed May %
Schooner Hauppaugc Of New York,
e,IpE ru-cDfI-fIyp miles off k9rDPQa1
KSteamship Winnieconne, sunk of Barne,
gat at the same time.
Carolina of the New York and Porto
Rico Steamship Company sent wireless
calls for help while being shclled by sub
marine at clock SUNDAY evening when
rs to $50 miles southeast Of Sandy
Hook.
800 LEAVE CAROLINA u BOATS
The Carolinas owners have assumed
that she was lost Her 220 passengers
and the 1870 members Of her crew took
10 the boats. her : O. ; said. and last
night a navy hydroplane alightlng at
Beach Haven y J.. eleven miles north
OF Atlantic City. reported the presence Of
three lifeboats filled with people thirty
1--WE miles off coast Coast Guard cut
tiers started for these boats forthwith
The Savannah liner City Of Columbus
was reported last night to have been sunk
during the forav of the submarines, but
no further details had come TO public
knowledge
The schooner Samuel " Hathaway
was also reported 10 have been sunk. but
without details as 10 location or circum-
stances.
Airplanes and dirigibles by the score
are patroling the air above the entire
FL oooS+ S.,br,1orIna cboSa-S haxrp
been sent out from every base along the
same stretch. and while no clues had
been found last night 10 the present
whereabouts OF the submarines, Secretary
Daniels told the naval committee Of the
House of Representatives late Yesterday
afternoon that the 'defences of the coast
against submarines were adequate.
TWO AT WORK OFF BARNEGAT.
The submarines are known to have
taken part in the operations off Barnegat
The descriptions OF them brought ashore
would indicate that they are OF no especial
" new type. in size and character holding
close, indeed, TO the class of the C-53.
whose spectacular visit 10 Newport on
Oct. 4. 1916, NAV now be taken to have
been actually what il seemed at the time
10 have been intended as-a threat of
what Germany could do If the United
States came into the war
The first news Of the activity Of the
submarines became known yesterday
morning when the or ew Of the schooner
Cole were brought to New York by the
collier Bristol, which picked them up al
30 clock Sunday night when she was
thirty-eight miles southeast Of Barnegat.
In the first official admission OF the
situation which had been persistently
j r ! Il
Navy Department said
The steamship Bristol arriving al
New York this morning reported that the
four-rnasted schooner Edward H Cole
was sunk BY submarines fifty miles south
east of Barnegat, \ J and that the
Bristol rescued the crew and brought
them TO port
1T also rescued the crew % another
sailing vessel which was sunk The
Bristol reported that she encountered
submarine thirty-eight miles off Barnegat
at 420 D. IN. Sunday and that two sub
marines were operating N that locality
SINK SCHOONER By GrNFIRE
THE steamship Greclan reported that
the schooner Jacob y Haskell was sunk
By gunfre by German submarine in the
same general vicinity al noon SUNDAY
The crew were rescued.
1T was also reported that the Isabel d
Wiley was shelled by submarine
Capt. Newcombe of the Cole stated
that his vessel was attacked by German
submarine which boarded him, took away
his papers and placed bombs on board
The captain and crew took TO the boats
Captain Newcombe stated that the
submarine which attacked him was about
200 feet long and carried two large guns,
one forward and one aft and smaller
gun amidships. He stated that he saw
distinctly one other submarine beside
the one which attacked him. The second
submarine, being i'll the near vicinity
submerged with her periscope showing
As the day wore on and more details Of
the raid off Barnegat became known
reports of the extent of the warfare grew
until it was declared that altogether
fifteen vessels had been sunk. There were
reports that at least one vessel had been
sunk off Nantucket. but this was officially
denied. There were reports of encounters
between submarines and American de-
stroyers, but these too were denied as
being without basis.