Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1915 — GERMANS TORPEDO LINER HESPERIAN [ARTICLE]

GERMANS TORPEDO LINER HESPERIAN

Steamer Remains Afloat and Rescue Ships Pick Up Survivors From , Boats—Americans Aboard. The Allan line steamship, Hesperian, was torpedoed by a German submarine at 8:20 o’clock Saturday night off the coast of Ireland, 100 miles southwest of Fastnet. Approximately 350 passengers were on board, one or two of them Americans. All were saved, according to the latest report issued by the Allan line. It is reported, however, that eight members of the crew were killed. The steamer did not sink and was reported proceeding, under convoy, to Queenstown, where all of the passengers and surviving crew were taken by rescue steamers, summoned by wireless calls for help. Passengers landed at Queenstown asserted that the attack was without warning. The U. S. embassy there had not yet received any information on this point. The attack upon the Hesperian came just as darkness was falling. The torpedo struck her forward of the engine room, tearing away the forward part ,so that wster rubhed into the forward compartments.