Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-02

All AtldHtlC IOrI, +'ldy 1.-olAly -SlA persons lost their lives, when the steamship City of. Athens, bound from New York for Savannah, was rammed and sunk by d French cruiser off the Delaware coast at 1 o'clock this morn ing. The missing include ten men and two men who were passengers, seven out of twenty -four United States ma rines who were on board, fourteen out of twenty French sailors and thir- ty-three members of the crew.
 Both ships were carrying running lights because of the heavy fog which hung over the sea. F. J. Doherty the wireless operator. was able to send out only one ''S. o. S" call after the Warship's bow plunged into the City of Athens side near the bow There was no response to the appeal for aid and the vessel sank so quickly Doher- ty had no opportunity to repeat the call He is believed to have been drowned at his post
 Many Heroic Deeds Accounted.
 Many heroic deeds were recounted tonight by the survivors. One of the heroes of the sea tragedy was Harry A. Kelley of New York, an oiler. who swam to an overturned lifeboat and dragged up on the bottom of it four
 
 sea. He held them there until they were taken oc by a boat from the l French eruiser.if
 Captain Forward, who was one c1 those saved. was painfully injured and was grief-stricken at the loss of his ship He said he was proceeding ar ! half speed about twenty miles of shore sounding the usual fog signals ! when the dim bulk of the cruiser loomed up through the mist and tht crash followed. Fortunately the SC; was calm or many more lives migh have been lost.
 Were in Their Berths. All the passengers and many of tn, crew were in their berths when tn bow of the warship plunged into tn side of the 2,300 ton coastwise yes sel Fire broke out almost immedi ately afterwards in Hold No. l. bu it had no bearing on the fate of tn ship for the flames were quick quenched by the rush of water whic poured in. Captain !. Forward, one of the vet eran commanders in the service of tn Ocean Steamship Company, owners ( the vessel, did his best to avert
 panic and man the lifeboats s 1 quickly did the doomed vessel sim however that there was no time | get the boats away and many of tllos
 who perished were trapped in the
 berths.
 6s Persons Picked Up. Those of the passengers and ere t who were able to reach the deck, a
 of them thinly clad and many Withol life preservers, plunged into the SC , The French cruiser launched lifeboa l Immediately after the crash ar : turned it's searchlights upon the ws
 ters in which men and women wei
 struggling for their lives. Sixty eigl ] persons were picked up and brougl l back to this port by the warship t which was not seriously damaged.
 The following passengers are bt
 lteved to have been lost: = M. Green, Astoria, N. Y. = James J. Kastl, MorristoHn. N. J. e - Bonzeiner, Mobile, Ala
 Miss E. G. Stiles, New York city.
 Jean Cadron, New York city. S Rev. J. P. Reynolds, New York cit q Isaac Dalzell, Paterson, N J. : Mrs. F, D. Holthan, Hyde Par
 Mass.
 Edward Clug, Brooklyn, \. Y. e R. A. Young. Brooklyn, \. Y. = D. II. McMillan, Port Royal, s. c. = The following United States m
 rines were reported drowned: F.
 Dixon, P. Van Hanegen, s. H. Tyns x H. Rosenfeld, W. J. Mack. $. Gin g eerf, H. E. Wetmore. N. kohn. S. y Tyng, R. F. McDonough, R. L. Coop,
 H. R. Weeks, H. Rosenfeld. B.
 GQraham, J. L. Wilson, J. Spaeth, k J. Mack, S. Ginsburg, N. Rogoff, F. r. King. H. E. Wetmore. j. J. Funicel IS w. A. Bossell.
 The known survivors among t
 passengers are as follows: > Mrs. R. Harrison and baby, NJ le York city.
 te Dr. A. J. Kemp, New York city. g. Mrs. Richard Bonzeiner, Mobi
 Ala.
 Alden McClaskie, New York city i'd Dr. E. L. Crooks, Atlanta, Ga. D. John Green. Paterson, N. J. ye J. F, O'Brien, Jr.. Savannah, Ga 1- Mrs. Eta Levy. Bridgeport. Conn.
 MT. and Mrs. Gewahr and child,
 Brooklyn, N. Y.
 he G. H. McMillan. Port Royal. S. c m |, Among the members of the CT b. believed to have .been lost are: es Claude Lewis. second officer.
 Charles Cooke, assistant engineer
 James Poole, oiler
 he Nick Salmos, water tender. es The City ofsAthens was a vessel n- S,648 tons gross register, built in ty at Camden. N J., for the Mercha
 and Miners Transportation Compa
 and was formerly known as the So w erset. With 9 sister ship; the ed wannee. she was purchased by sy, Ocean Steamship Company last y in and placed in the New York Say;
 nah service. The vessel replaced
 City of Memphis, formerly engaged s the same service and which was sI ,,d by a German submarine March he 1916. while on a trans-A tlantic voya n- Captain Refused to Make Statemt " Captain Forward refused to mak
 | statement tpncerning the length