The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-06-07
HARPATHIAN
IS SENT DOWN
BY SUBMARINE
Crew Landed at Old Point
COmfOrt-One Member
Is Injured.
r-BOATS' TOLL .16 SHIPS
Destroyer Which Fought
Raider Holds Back Re-
port Of Battle.
r.BOATS' TOLL .16 SHIPS

T0rpedoed and apparently without
warning, the British steamship Har-
pathian was he sixteenth victim Of the
German U-boats operating in American
waters. She was blown up at . o'clock
Wednesday morning OF the Virginia
Capes. showing that the raiders still are
travel which leads from Chesapeake Bay.
Capt. Owen and his crew. one Of them
injured by the explosion. were landed
last night at Old Point Comfort by the
steamer Palmer. which rescued them
after they had spent twenty-six hours
in open boats. Capt. Owen said his
vessel sank in seven or eight minutes
and they hardly had time to get tho
lifeboats clear. Further discussion was
cut short by the Government officials.
who took charge Of the captain and
crew.
Was Sank without warning.
1t u to be recalled that the skipper Of
one OF the u-boats told American sea.
men whom he had taken captive that
he would show every courtesy to Ameri-
can masters and crews. but that he
would sink British ships without warn-
Ing. It IL not certain whether the Har-
pathian was armed. 1t IL supposed she
was. She was n vessel of 4.5Ss tons.
Members Of the crew Of the Harpa-
THAN said after they had taken to their
boats ana their ship had gone down the
U-boat came to the surface In their
midst and gave them water and Ameri.
can tobacco. - ,g,, 4. g.,.-,..,
TWO OF the members Of the Harpa.
thian's crew we're injured, one severely
and the other slightly. Others are suf-
fsring from exposure.
All Of the other victims OF the under
sea terrors have been given ample warn
ing and time to launch boats. except
the tanker H. L. Pratt. which struck a
mine. Tho Harpathian. too. Is the first
vessel on which the submarines have ex-
pended . torpedo.
The Eidsvold was sunk OF the Vir-
etnia Capes At o'clock Tuesday after
noon. Nothing had been heard from
the U-boats from that time until the
sinking Of the Harpathlan. The U-boats.
however. were further out when the Har-
pathian was sunk than when they got
the Eidsvold.
According to the captain Of British
steamship in an Atlantic port yesterday.
he exchanged ehots with = submarine
on June 4, about forty miles OF the Del
aware capes.
The Navy Department was still with
out word yesterday from the destroyer
which attacked one Of the submarines
on Tuesday while the U-boat was she'll
ing the French steamship Radioleine at
long range. The destroyer Is still at sea.
Hope Given Up for 70.
Little doubt remains that all Of the
twenty-six persons who were listed a.
unaccounted for when the Carolinas
lists were checked up on Wednesday
were drowned when two OF the vessels
boats capsised in . thunderstorm last
Sunday night. Sixteen were reported to
have been drowned when the ether sur
vivors reached land. Since United States
destroyers have been over every foot OF
that part Of the ocean where the Caro-
lima was destroyed without finding any
trace of another Of her boats it Is con-
sidered practically certain that all OF
the twenty-six lost their lives at the
same time.
There are still missing also the crews
Of the schooners Dessaus and Samuel w.
Hathaway. The Dessaus was found
floating OF the Delaware Capes on
Wednesday with 4 hole in her bow. but
the Hathaway's owners maintain that
she was too far away from where the
submarine operated to have come to
any harm from them and must still be
on her course. She was bound for Brasil.
According to their calculations she 10
somewhere on the northern coast OF
South America. She was reported BY
the navy as destroyed on Monday and
the officers of one Of the submarines
boasted to seamen who have since come
ashore that their vessel had met and
sunk her.
The officers and crew Of the schooner
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