Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — SHELL KILLS EIGHT IN BOAT [ARTICLE]

SHELL KILLS EIGHT IN BOAT

German Submarine Fires on Craft Filled With Survivors. London, June 29 The Elder-Demp-ster .steamer Addah was torpedoed without warning and sunk by a German submarine on June 15. The submarine fired on the captain s boat, killing eight men. The Addah was a vessel of 4,397 tons gross, built in 1905, at New Castle. It was 350 feet long, of 48 feet beam and 20 feet deep. The Times understands that three passengers of the Mongolia, two Englishmen and a f’arsee, are unaccounted for, and that four British engineers and ten Lascars of the crew are believed to have been killed in the explosion of the mine.