Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-06-11
-FOUR SHIPS SUNK
BY U-B0ATS OFF
JERSEY COAST
U. S. Destroyers and AirpIanes
Hunt Submarines.
IS VESSELS MAY BE LOST
American Warships Reported to Have
Sent Diver to Bottom-Captured
Another - Survivors Rescued
and Taken to Port-Big
Passenger Steamer Miss

ing.
Washington, June 4. = Secretary
Daniels issued the following state
ment:
Reports received by the navy de-
partment show that the following YES
sells have been sunk:
Jacob II. Haskell, schooner, 1852
tons, from Boston, for Norfolk, II in
crew. No passengers.
Isabel B. Wiley, in ballast, tonnage
Gil, crew eight.
Hattie Dunn Of Rockland, Me-, ton
mage 365, in ballast, for Charleston.
Edward FL. Cole, Boston, tonnage
1895, in ballast, for Norfolk, crew of
IL.
Herbert L. Pratt, steamship oil
tanker, sunk about five miles south OF
Overfalls Lightship, Delaware Capes,
So on board. Thirty-seven of the crew
landed at Lewes; one lost.
"All the crews of the above-named
vessels except one man lost from the
Pratt were rescued.
at apepars that the schooner Edna,
which was found bottom-side up sew
eral days ago and towed into Lewes,
DEL, was also victim of the subma-
rine. The crew of the Edna has been
landed at New York.
1.-THE master of the Winneconne
picked up the crew of the Hattie
Dunn.
Nothing further has been heard
from the steamship Carolina which
sent out S. o. S. calls Sunday after
noon stating that she was being shelled
by submarine. The Carolina was
reported in the same general vicinity
as that In which the schooners were
sunk the same day."
An Atlantic Port, June 4.-The long
threatened German U-boat offensive
against the American Atlantic sea-
board has started. 1t Is being carried
out by at least two, probably more,
submarines of giant construction and
more heavily armed than any under
water raiders encountered before.
The zone of operations seems to
center on the strip of water off the
highlands of New Jersey. The VIC
TINS thus far accounted for have been
coastwise vessels, no transatlantic
ship having been attacked at last &C
counts.
Fifteen Ships May Be Sunk.
Four vessels are definitely known |
to have been sunk; two others are
reported to have been destroyed, and |
one more, a large steamer, is long
overdue and is feared to have been |
lost
Reports from many sources, none
of them officially confirmed, place the |
number of vessels sunk as high as 10. |
1t Is believed this number is overes-
timated
TWO U-Boats Reported Lost.
There also are reports that the o.
boats have been accounted for by the |
American deStroyers and other de- |
tense ships which were rushed out to |
sea at the first alarm. One report
says that one of the raiders was sunk, |
and another report asserts that sec
Ond of the underwater craft was cap
tured.
This latter report said that the |
crew of the raider was being brought |
into an American port on board a de-
strOyer. Neither of these reports can
be confirmed officially.
Officers of the naval intelligence |
bureau were understood to be trying |
to confirm reports that an engagement |
took place between American destroy
ers and German submarines off the
Virginia coast
Four Small Ships Sunk.
The four vessels which are known |
to have been destroyed are all small |
cOasting schooners. Only one life is
known to have been lost aboard them.
These vessels bore the following
names:
Edward H. Cole, 1901 tons, owned
in Boston.
JAG ID Haskell, 1862 tons, owned in
Boston.
Isabella 3. Wiley, Gil tons, owned
in Bath, Me.
Herbert L, Pratt, oil tanker; one
member of crew lost.
Fear Big Steamer Lost.
Gravest fear is expressed for the |
New York and Porto Rican line |
steamer Carolina. The Carolina was
bound from Il West Indian port for an |
Atlantic port, carrying 900 passengers
and n crew of 120 members. Wire |
less reports for help are reported to |
have come from the vessel saying that |
it was being attacked.
The liner is many hours overdue At |
its destination and the time schedule |
would have brought ii to the vicinity |
In which the schooner Edward H. Cole |
was attacked at about the time that
vessel was sent down.
Report Two Steamers Sunk.
Survivors of the Cole report seeing
two large vessels sunk after the at
tack on their ship and 1t is possible