The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-05
|FTy-E|GHT PERSONS MISSING FOLLOWING
 SUBMARINE ATTACK

New York, June 4-The toll of dead and missing from the raid of German submarines against shipping off the
 American coast apparently stood to- night at 5S, all from the steamship Carolina of the New York and Porto Rico line. Sixteen of this number are
 known to have perished when one of the ships boats capsized in a storm Sunday night after the vessel had been sunk. It is hoped the others have been picked up by passing ship and will yet reach shore safely.
 Officials of the company have placed the number of passengers aboard the Carolina when she was attacked 125 miles off Sandy Hook ae 22o and the crew at 13o, making $50 in all. Captain Barbour of the Carolina re-
 ported to the company today that he was on board the schooner Eva B.
 Douglass with 150 passengers and 94 Iof the crew. The schooner is expected
 to arrive early tomorrow.
 boat containing 2S survivors. 21
 passengers and seven of the crew, ar
 rived at Atlantic City this afternoon.
 Another lifeboat with IS passengers
 and one member of the crew arrived at Lewes, Del, with the report that 16 of
 the 35 who had started from the shin had lost their lives in the storm Sum- day night.
 If the company's figures as to the number aboard the ill-starred liner are correct, this leaves 42 unaccounted for.
 That number might have been crowded into one lifeboat. The only possible clue to their fate was found in the fact that an empty boat, marked with the name of the Carolina, was picked up by British steamship which arrived here today It had every evidence of having been rddled by gun fire. 1t
 may have carried the passengers and sailors who still are missing. There was no official confirmation of a report that several bodies had been washed ashore at Beach Haven, N J. The commander of the coast guard at that point referred all inquiries to the navy department.
 Another ship was added to the list of victims of the U-boats when the Ameri- can schooner Edward R. Baird, Jr.. was found in a sinking condition off the Maryland coast after having been bombed.
 The navy department reported that a destroyer had gone into action against submarine which was attacking a French steamer not far from where the Baird was found
 It has been established that two sub l marines of large type took part in the raid It was the U-37 which sank the l Carolina and the U-151 which sent sev- 1 eral schooners to the bottom. 1 While all the resources of the navy were engaged in determined search for | the sea raiders, coast cities made prepar- 1 ations for any emergency. All display l lights were ordered extinguished in New York city and in cities and towns along l the Long Island and New Jersey coast 1 The orders were issued here by the police | commissioner after consultation with army and navy officers as a precauton
 not only against a possible attack on the coast, but against air raids from air planes which it is thought the submersi- bles may carry.
 Lending strength to the theory that the government may have some definite ground for a fear of air ids, Police Commissioner Enright tonight announced the signals which will tell of the coming of enemy aircraft.
 At every aviation station along the coast flocks of planes took the air today In some cases they went out to sea in battle formation.