Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1917 — AMERICAN KILLED DURING SUBMARINE ATTACK ON VESSEL [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN KILLED DURING SUBMARINE ATTACK ON VESSEL

Negro Fkeman Slain on Board the Turino. Ou J ANOTHER U. S. MAN SAVED Forty-Three Lives Lost and Thirteen Persons Are Missing From the Torpedoed Liner California —Nine More Were Victims of UBoat War. VICTIMS OF SUBMARINES. Ships. Tonnage. Saxoaia (British) 4.855 Vedamore (British) 4,122 Turino (British) 2,702 Hollinside (British) 2,632 Varing (Swedish) 2,296 Dauntless (British) 2,157 Songely (Norwegian) 2,063 •Yvonne (French) 1,000 •Bangpuhl (Russian) .e 1,000 Boyne Cassee (British) 245 Total tonnage Feb. 8........ 23,072 Total tonnage previously.. t .119,151 Total tonnage since Feb. 1... 142,223 Number sunk Feb. 8 10 Number sunk since Feb. 1 69 •Tonnage as estimated. SUMMARY OF SHIPS SUNK SINCE FEBRUARY 1. American 1 Other neutrals 23 British 38 Other belligerents 7 •Tonnage as estimated London, Feb. 9. —An American negro tireman on the Turino, George Washington, was killed, according to a report received by the American embassy. One of the survivors is Calvin Bay, an American citizen of Fillmore, Utah. Washington was one of the three firemen who were killed. According to the information received by the embassy, his wife is now in Liverpool. An effort is being made by the embassy to find her. The Turino was a steel screw steamer of 1,850 tons, registered at Liverpool and owned by the Atlantic and Eastern Steamship company. Turino Survivors Land. Statements by survivors of vessels recently sunk show that in one case a submarine operating in the war zone employefl a Steamer which it had seized as a place of temporary refuge for crews of other vessels attacked and sunk. *The survivors who told of this procedure were from tlfe Norwegian sailing vessel Songelv and the steamship TSirino. The captain and 29 of the crew of the latter were landed. The first engineer and three of the firemen were killed.

The crews of both vessels, the survivors relate, were on board an unarmed Italian steamer for two days. The German submarine operating here used this Italian vessel, which it had armed and provided with a crew of six men, as a ship to stand by and receive the crews of sunken ships. After the crews of the Songlev and Turino had been on board the Italian for two days, the/ were transferred to the British steamer Penmount, which, was ordered to take them to port. The Germans also transferred from the submarine to the Penmount, Captain Smailes of the steamer Holllnslde, who had been taken on board the submarine as a prisoner when his vessel was sunk. His crew of 22 were left in open boats, he reported, and still are missing. ' The intention of the submarine was to sink the Italian vessel before returning to Germany, according to survivors. California Sank in Seven Minutes. London, Feb. 9. —Two German submarines attacked the British steamer California. according to officers of that vessel. It sank in seven minutes. *There was no warning of the attack. R<»ports said 43 peristed in the sinking of the vessel —13 passengers and 30 of the crew. Names of Missing Given. New Ydrk, Feb. 9.—Official cable advices that the British steamship California was torpedoed without warning were received here by the Anchor line. The names of 13 persons listed as missing were received as follows: Second Cabin —Mrs. E. Smith, Edna Smith and Mrs. Kidd, Calgary, Alberta. J. W. Alderson and son, Vancouver, B. C. (Mrs. Alderson was saved.) Mrs. W. C. O’Donnell and two chil-

dred of Philadelphia. (Three O’Donnell children appear on the ship’s passenger list.) Neil Gillies, New Kork city. ’ Miss Madge Roberts, Toronto. Steerage —Mrs. Margaret Little and one ..child. New York city, (Three other Little children apparently saved.) Miss Annie Forbes, Toronto.