Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-22
NAVY SEARCHES
FOR HUN U-BOAT
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tiASS DSSh Vi d COIlCluSlNe udtuiS
feature of the attack yesterday
was the fact that the submersible
opened fire without warning. In all
other reported cases of attack upon
an American coastwise boat, warn
ing was given.
Orleans, Mass, July 22.-Efforts
were made by a wrecking fleet to-
day to raise the three barges sunk
by a German submarine off shore
near here yesterda'' and to salvage a
fourth barge and the tug Perth
Amboy, damaged by shellire from
the submersble.
If the barges and tug can be saved,
as expected, the exploit of yester-
day will prove costly bit of bus
mess for the Germans. 1t is esti-
mated that the three torpedoes
launched at the boat cost $4,000
each, to say nothing of the other
ammunition expended in the hour
and halfs bombardment of the
vessels.
Orleans, Mass, July ga Ger
man submarine attacked the tug
Perth Amboy, of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, and her four barges three
miles off this town on the south
SoStSlh ClDOW Oh cape SOu OF AO.pN
O'Clock yesterday morning. The
one-sided battle lasted one hour and
a half. The tug was burned to the
waters edge by shellfire, while the
barges Lansford and No. 766, No.
403 and No. 740 were sunk by gun
fire. The barges were bound from
Gloucester for New York and only
one was loaded, her cargo consist
ing of stone.
OF the forty-one persons, includ-
ing three women and five children,
on board three men = Captain
Charles Ainslie, of the Lansford.
and John Bolovich and John Vitz
Austrian members of the tug crew,
were wounded. Bolovich probably
will lose on arm. Vitz had one hand
blown off. These two were sent to
d hospital in Boston. Captain Aims
lie was wounded in both arms by
shrapnel and was treated at the
summer home of DR.. j. Danforth
Taylor, of Boston.
Large Crowd Secs Attack
The attack was witnessed by large
crowds of natives and summer visit
ors who had flocked to the cape for
the weekend, seeking relief from the
heat wave. All accounts agreed that
the submarines shooting was very
bad. Her torpedo work was no
better. According to Captain Aims
lee, of the Lansford, she launched
three torpedoes at the tug and all
went wild.
The attack occurred only a few
miles from the naval aviation sta
tion at Chatham. Three seaplanes
attacked the raider with bombs, ac-
cording to Rear Admiral Spencer s.
Wood, commander of the First
Naval District. The fire was re-
turned, keeping the planes high
Finally, however, the U-boat sub
merged and was last observed head
ing south.
Last night the tug was still afloat
and it was thought she could be
saved. The net result of the raid
was the sinking of barges valued in
the aggregate at 100000, and the
serious damaging of a tug valued at
100000, at the expenditure of three
torpedoes which it is estimated cost
the German government total of
$4,000, and a quantity of ammuni-
ton.
Collier Probably Real Prey
The appearance of the raider so
near the treacherous shoals and tide
rips of the cape and her subsequent
actions caused amazement to the
thousands of eyeWitneSses rather
than CONSERVATION. The natives of
the cape could not understand why
she should waste shells on a fleet of
barges returning to a coal port. 1t
was reported, however, that the real
prey sought by the undersea boat
was a large collier, northbound. Two
Golfers, the Arlington and the ]. B.
King, passed Orleans shortly before
Il hAxF 6V-n1
but both passed through the danger
zone in safety.
A fog bank lying four miles off
shore hid the U-boat from her ap-
preaching victims. The Perth AM
hoy, steaming leisurely through the
warm summer sea, was unaware of
the presence of danger until a deck
hand sighted a streak in the water
shooting by the stern. Before he
realized that it was a torpedo, two
other missiles sped by, wide of their
mark. He shouted a warning. At
the same instant there was a flash
from the fog and a shell crashed
through the wheelhouse. A frag-
ment of the flying steel took off the
hand of Vitz as he grasped the
spokes of the steering wheel. In
quick succession came other shots,
of which struck home.
Captain Ainslie Struck Down
Captain j. II. Tapley, who was in
his cabin at the time. ran out on
deck just as the submarine loomed
out of the fog bank, her deck gun
flashing out its storm of steel. The
bombardment set the tug on fire,
and the German turned his atten-
tion to the helpless barges.
Shrapnel bursting over the Lans-
ford, second in the tow, struck down
Captain Ainslie.
amazing. For more than an hour
the blazing tug and the drifting
barges were under fire before the
enemy succeeded in getting home
enough shots to sink them. In
the meantime the submarine crept
nearer until her range was only a
few hundred yards. This at length
proved sufficient. The barges disap-
feared beneath the surface one by
enc until only the stern of the Lans-
ford was visible. The tug was a
blazing hulk.
The crews, with the three women,
the five children and the three
wounded, rode ashore while naval
hydroairplanes came out, located
the U-boat in the haze and engaged
her unsuccessfully. But the raider
was given an example of the spirit
his strange maneuver had aroused.
Intrepid Boy Defiant
When the U-boat appeared out of
the fog, little Jack Ainslie, the IL
year-old son of Captain Ainslie, of
the IansfOrd siphted IL The hov