Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-06-08
SUBMARINES SINK
ELEVEN j. S. SHIPS
TWO PASSENGER STEAMERS, ONE
STEAM TANKER AND SIX
SCHOoNERS SUNK.
German U-Boats Begin Attack off
Jersey Coast which Brings the War
Closer to the People of
America.

New York.-The unrestricted sub
marine warfare of the Hun has been
brought overseas. and the U-boats
have taken their first toll of American
shipping on this side of the Atlantic
Reports received on June indicate
that two coastwise passenger steam
ers, one steam tanker and six schoon-
ers have been sent to the bottom by
the German sea-raiders. No loss of
life has been reported, however, as
the raiders apparently are not oper-
ating on the 'spurlos versenkt" basis.
The vessels known or believed to
have been sunk are: Carolina, plying
between Porto Rico and New York.
Carried 900 passengers and 120 in
crew. City of Columbus, plying be-
tween Savannah and New York. Win
neeonnie, a steamship of 1869 tons,
bound from Newport News to Provi-
dence, with cargo of oil. Herbert L.
Pratt, oil tanker, sunk Off Cape Hen
lopen.
The following schooners are known
to have been sunk: Edward ii. Cole,
in ballast, crew of eleven. Hattie
Dunn, bound from Rockland to
Charleston, in ballast, Isabella B.
Wiley, in ballast, crew of eight. Jacob
NJ. Haskell, bound from Boston to
Norfolk, crew of eleven. Schooner
Edna, bound to Santiago, Cuba, with
OIL Hauppauge. Texel.
The crews of the Jacob NJ. Haskell,
the Isabel B. Wiley and the Haup-
pauge are still missing, as are all on
board the steamers Caroline and City
Of Columbus.
Naval officers at Norfolk, Va, say
their reports indicated five German
submarines had been operating along
the Atlantic coast, and that two had
been sighted off the Virginia capes.
Rear Admiral Fletcher commandant
Of the Norfolk navy yard, said two
U-boats had been sighted off the Vir-
ginia capes, and Rear Admiral Nc
Lean, commandant of the fifth naval
district, said, in addition to these, two
others were reported off the coast of
New Jersey and one off the coast of
North Carolina. Neither officer had
been advised of any engagement be-
tween American warships and the
.U-bOats.
Reports brought ashore by the sur
vivOrs Indicated that the Winnec0nnie
and nearly all the schoOners were sunk
by the same U-bOat, which had been
lurking in the path of shipping off the
New Jersey coast and the Delaware
capes since late last month. The stories
told by the shippers of the schooners
indicated that the commander of the
submersibles was unusually humane
for a German submarine officer. In
no instance, so far as known, was
life-boat shelled and in all cases re-
ported the crews were given Oppor-
tunity to escape or were taken aboard
the submarine, where some of them
were kept prisoners for eight days
before they were turned adrift to be
picked up by a passing vessel.
Scores of United States warships
were ranging the waters off the north
Atlantic coast in search of the Ger
man submarines which made their
long-expected attack on American
shipping in home waters late Monday
afternoon.
While the details of naval operations
were withheld, it Is known that de-
stroyers, fleets of submarine chasers
and other vessels are flashing their
searchlights tonight over the waters
along the coast and far out at sea from
Maine to Florida.
Hydroairplanes and airplanes arose
like flocks of huge birds from every
naval station along the Atlantic coast
when the warning was flashed to them
and soon were scouting over the waters
where 1t is believed submarines would
be most likely to be lurking. For
eign aviators and American students,
as well as American flyers, eagerly
volunteered for service.
lowering for two days over the sea
where the American tanker William
Rockefeller had been sunk by Ger
man submarine. flotilla of destroyers
and two seaplanes finally succeeded
in capturing the U-boat, according to
naval officers, survivors of the dis
aster, who landed Monday at an At
lantic port.
|. The sea for miles about the spot
where the fatal blow struck the tanker
was closely wached by destroyers and
their accompanying seaplanes.
At last the submarine, which had
stayed below the surface so long that
its air tanks had become exhausted
rose to the surface and was netted.