The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-10-11
400 LIVES LOST:
ship T0RPEDOED
Dublin Boat LeinSter Sunk in
Irish Sea-300 Sur.
viv0rS Landed.
U . BOATS IN NEW ACTION
Vessel Founders So Quickly
No Chance Given to Launch
Lifeboats.

Lifeboats.
Belfast, Oct. 10.-Four hundred lives
were lost when the mail steamer Lem
ster was torpedoed and sunk in the
Irish sea this morning. Three .undred
s rvivors have been landed at Kings
town.
Two torpedoes were fired at the
steamer One struck near the bow.
The steamer sank within fifteen min
utes.
The passengers, including many
women and some children, numbered
$50, and the boat carried a crew OF
seventy.
An incoming mail steamer reports
that she passed through the wreckage
but was not permitted to stop to do
any rescue work, in accordance with
the orders of the British admiralty.
Her passengers counted forty dead
bodies floating in the water
OF the twenty-o one mail clerks on
board the Leinster, twenty were killed
outright by the explosion and the
twenty-first was blown through the
side of the ship, being picked up at
sea later.
Survivors Injured.
London, Oct. 10.-The mail steamer
Leinster foundered so quickly after
she was torpedoed tSst there was no
chance to launch the life boats, ac-
cording to the Dublin correspondent of
the Daily Mail. number o. the sur
Vlvors landed at kingstown had been
Dadiy injured and are In the hospital
there.
Jap Steamship Sunk.
London, Oct. 1.-THE sinking of the
Japanese steamship Hirano Maru and
the Dublin mail boat Leinster mark
incidents Of a new submarine cam
paign which the Germans launched
about ten days ago, according to the
Mail. 1t adds that at that time re-
newed submarine activity became evil
dent in various directions. notably
along the routes followed by steamers
carrying American troops.
1T is reported that the new U-boats
are much larger and more heavily
armed than any which have been sent
out previously by Germany.
Six Hundred Lost.
Dublin, Oct. Ill Is believed that
500 lives were lost in the sinking of
the mail steamer L.einster by a tor
pedo in the Irish Sea yesterday, It
was stated today at the office of her
owners. Only about $50 persons. 1t
was added. were saved
Saw Fatal Torpedo.
Dublin. Oct. 11.-A passenger on
board the mail steamer Leinster saw
the fatal torpedo approaching the ship.
He informed the captain but the tor
pedo was so near thai escape was i'm
possible. The projectile struck the
side of the boat between the forecastle
and the compartment set aside for
postal clerks The weather was fine
but the sea was rough. following a
recent storm.
According to figures reported here
there were on board 6S7 passengers and
a crew of about seventy.
Dublin, Oct. 11.-Capt. II. II. Cone
In charge of the American naval air
snip service. was among the passen-
GERS or the steamship Leinster, which
was sunk by a German submarine.
capt. Cone is suffering from broken
leg.
Thrown Into the Sea.
After the Loinster had been struck
by the first torpedo and in her disabled
coIioltlon was an easy prey, the sub
marine fired a second torpedo This
struck the vessel amdships.
entered the engine room and caused au
explosion of the ships boilers
Ihere was some confusion as the
passengers tried to enter the boats and
many persons were thrown into the
sea. AS soon as the information
'eached Kingstown, tugs and destroy
ers to the number of fifteen FASTENED
% the place. Survivors say that the
submarine fired the two torpedocs
warning from range of about
loo yards. Details of the lost and
'aVed have not been obtained. Cant. |
siren, the Leinsters commander. was
lmong those lost 1t is known that
wo stewardesses were drowned. |
'ourth Engineer Jones said that If the |
econd torpedo had not struck the |
all on board except those who |
lad been directly killed by the first |
orpedo probably would have been
aved. as there was plenty of time 10 !
aunch the boats.
Blew Up Like Matchwood.
The explosion of the second torpedo,
lowever, he' said, blew the ship up like
natchWood. Jones saved himself by
umping. He was in the water one
our and was clinging to a raft when
escued by destroyer.
The rescung ships picked up scores
I persons from the water, where they
we're still clinging to upturned boats.
ats and broken timbers.' The sur
lvors were brought to Kingstown. All
we're in desperate state as q result
their hours exposure in the rough
ca. A number of dead bodies also
,erc landed.
A member of the crew said the ex-
losion of the second torpedo blew the
unnels to pieces. Some Of the wreck
ge fell on the deck and killed several
erSons.
HELD FOR DESERTloN.