Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1914 — 268 KILLED BY MINE [ARTICLE]

268 KILLED BY MINE

British Cruiser Blown to Atomi in North Sea. CspL Francis M. L*aka and Fifty of Crew Rescued by Torpedo Boat and Fishing Craft London. England. SepL B—lt la learned on reliab'je authority that Capt Francis M. Leake and 50 of the crew of the British cruiser Pathfinder, sank in the North sea by a mine, have bees saved The others of the crew of 251 have not been accounted for. The destruction of the Pathfinder occurred about four o’clock in the after noon at a point ten miles northeast ol Saint Abb’s Head, Scotland. W hile it was patrollng the coast th« cruiser struck a mine, which exploded near its magazine. Trawlers ten milei distant felt the shock. From Eye month, 14 miles from .the scene of the explosion, a huge cloud of smoke was visible on the horizon. A torpedo boat destroyer was the first to the rescue She was followed by the Saint Abb’s motor lifeboat.

The Pathfinder was literally blown , to pieces and the sea was strewn with j wreckage. ! A message received in London states j that in addition to the motor lifeboat several steam drifters hurried to the j spot where the Pathfinder sank. About ninety of the crew of the | Pathfinder dead and wounded were picked up by torpedo boats and takes to a hospital at the naval base. Cajv tain Leake and several other officers were saved According to official announcement, the casualties among the officers were one killed, eight missing one seriously wounded and one slight ly wounded Washington, SepL B.—A battle between the British criser Warrior and the German cruiser Goeben in the Bosporus, in which the Warrior was chased to shore and stranded, is reported in a wireless dispatch to the German embassy. Jhe dispatch contains no details. Interest was added to the teport by the fact that the Goeben and the cruiser Breslau were reported to have been sold to Turkey after they took refuge in the Dardanelles when chased by British and French warships in the Mediterranean at the beginning of the war. If the cruiser is really in the possession of Turkey the dispatch means a conflict between British and Turkish ships and the entrance of Turkey into the war.