Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-06-08
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-5ig
Passenger Steamer Miss
ina.

washington, June 4. - secretary
Daniels issued the following state
ment:
Reports received by the navy de-
partment show that the following YES
sele nave been sunk:
Jacob H. Haskell, schooner, 1852
tons from Boston, for Norfolk, IL in
crew. No passengers.
Isabel E. Wiley, in ballast, tonnage
b11, crew eight.
Hattie Dunn of ROckland, Me-, ton
mage 3G5, in ballast, for Charleston.
Edward H. Cole, Boston, tonnage
1895, In ballast, for Norfolk. crew of
II.
Herbert L. Pratt. steamship oil
tanker. sunk about five miles south of
Overfalls Lightship, Delaware Capes,
IS on board. Thirty-seven of the crew
landed mt Lewes; one lost.
"All the crews of the above-named
vessels except one man lost from the
Pratt We're rescued
at apepars that the schooner Edna,
which was found bottom-Side up sew
eral days ago and towed into Lewes.
Del, was also n victim of the subma-
rine. The crew of the Edna has been
landed at New York.
THE master of the Winneconne
picked up the crew of the Hattie
Dunn.
Nothing further has been heard
from the steamship Carolina which
sent our :. O. S. calls Sunday after
noon stating that she was being shelled
by a 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 1.-THE long
threatened German U-boat offensive
against the American Atlantic sea-
board has started, 1t y 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
coa>cwiSe vessels, no transatlantic
ship having been artScked at last ac-
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-
tlmated.
TWO U-Boats Reported Lost.
There also are reports that the u
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
30 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, 1871 tons owned
In Boston.
Jacob Haskell, 1867 tons. owned in
Boston
Isabella b, 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 a West Indian port for IN
Atlantic port carrying 30 passengers
aud crew of 10 members. Wire