Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-10
ANOTHER STEAMER
VICTIM OF U-BOAT
0NATLANT|C COAST
pinar del Rio Sunk Seventy
Miles Off the Shores
Of Maryland.
ONE SMALL BOAT WITH CREW
is MISSING; ANOTHER LANDS
Navy and Air Forces Concen-
trate Efforts to Bag
Sea Raiders.
SEARCHING VIRGINIA SHORES
Claimed Many Coves Provide Hiding
Places Where Men Can Rest
and Obtain Supplies.
ONE SMALL BOAT WITH CREW
is MISSING; ANOTHER LANDS
SEARCHING VIRGINIA SHORES
Claimed Many Coves Provide Hiding
Places Where Men Can Rest
and Obtain Supplies.

WASHINGTON. June 9.--Thc Amer
lean steamer Pinar del Rio was sunk
by German submarine seventy miles
off the coast OF Maryland yesterday
morning. one OF her boats. with the
captain and seventeen members of the
crew. is missing, and another with
sixteen men has landed tho vir-
Sinia coast.
\ br.ci dispatch 10 the Navy Depart
ment tonight announcing the sinking
did not say whether the snip was
shcllcd or torpedoed Hope is held
that the missing boat either has been
picked UP BY some passing vessel or
Will turn up at some poiat along the
coast.
Until tonight the raiders had not
been reported as showing themselves
since the Norwegian steamer Vin!and
was sunk off tho Virginia capes last
Wednesday evening II o'clock.
Tho Pinar del itio was "a freightcr
Of 2.50t gross tons. and was built in
South Shields. Eng. in 1895. being
chrstened the Saba. She was bought,
by an American firm some time ago
and placed under American register
u 10 dSsuiled mere Sne was engaged
either in the coas,wise or Yves, Indian
trade.
All sinkings reported 70 the Navy
Department since the submarines left
the New Jersey coast district last
Sunday have occurred Off the coasts
Of Maryland and Virginia. with severa,
OF them due east OF Cape Henry. This
indicates that the U-bonts are opcr-
al
ably of no, moro than few hundred
square miles. but In a very important
shipping lane.
COMBINE FORCES TO BAG
DANGEROUS SEA RAIDERS
Since II became known that the sub
marines were in this area. naval and
air forces have concentrated their cf-
forts there. The task of bagging the
sea wolves even in limited an area
is not an easy one. as the vessels
can submerEe and lie on the bottom.
until danger IS past. Then, too the
suggestion has been made that the
craft may have been finding refuge
at night in the many covcs and inlets
along the Eastern Virginia shore line.
and there recharged batteries and
given the crew breathing and resting
spells.
Fair weather has prevailed along the
coast since the Rio was sent down.
and even II the men in the missing
boat are not rescued at sea- they should
he able TO make land in a. day o! two.
SINKING OF STEAMER
RAISES RAID TOTAL
The sinking Of this vessel makes
nv
U-boat raiders off the Atlantic coast,
including eight steamers and ten ships
OF other types. mostly schooners. The
steamers we're the. Carolina. sunk by
suntire, with possible loss OF forty
five; the Winneconne. torpcdocd and
all aboard saved; Herbert L. Pratt,
struck mine planted by Germans, all
saved; Texel. bombed. all saved; Har-
pathian. torpedoed. all saved; Eidsvold
torpedoed all safe; Vinland, torpedoed,
all safe, and the Pinar del Rio, eiga-
teen possibly lost. The other vessels
were the Samuel G. Mendcl, bombed.
all saved; De Sauss. found off Della
ware capes. with hull torpedoed. crew
missing: Edward r. Baird, Jr.. bombed.
crew missing; Samuel w. Hathaway.
bombed. crew missing.
Unconfirmed reports reaching here
say that two moro derelicts of ships
have been sighted off the Jersey coast
and that an abandoned seapIane had
pecn sighted many miles at sea !
message received tonight from
Norfolk told of the landing of Chief
Mate Arkes and fifteen men from the
torpedoed American steamer Pinar del
Rio. The men landed at the Manteo
life-saving station on the North Caro-
lima coast about fifty miles below Nor
folk.
This is the first Information received
tat the ship was torpedoed.
The brief report of the landing OF
tho men late tonight also said tina,
one life-boat. containing the captain
and seventeen men, became separated
from the other boat during Saturday
night. and is still unaccountcd for.
The survivors are in doubt as to their
exact position when sunk. but thought
they were off the Virginia canes. TIL.
wind carried them southwark They
report that the ship was torpedoed
but gave no details.