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INJURED DUKIXti ATTACKS
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NKWPORT. t I Oct, . Four Amer
ican destroyer with tit passengers and
nembera ot the crews of sl vessels tor
pedmrt by German submarines oft Nan
tet, have reached Newport. The
Krtoeeen, Jensen, Drayton and Benham. all
with aurvlvore aboard, arrival at dawm
The four destroyer carried submarine
victim passenger an follow" i
Krlcmwn, (It Drayton, ! Denham, St.
and Jensen. II,
Latest Information li that there haa
been no hra of life.
Dripping with brine, which stood out
Ilka aweat on their ateel sides from pro
llus efforts of rescuing passengers of
Ik torpedoed merchant ships, the four
United Htatea destroyers brought the first
t.rlea of the nuropcan war carried to
Amerlca'a doorstep'
While powerful searchlights flashed and
whistle sounded, the deetroyer Krlcseon
the first to arrive nosed her way back
from the, ecene of operations of aermany'a
U-boats, striking terror to shipping oft the
New" Kngland coast.
rLiaitT ok mmvivorrtt
J Of the eighty-one person picked up from
mall boats by the Krlcanon. not one wai
Injured. Virtually all, however, had lost
every peraonal belonging. They were with
out money or baggage of any description.
They had only the clothes which they "wore.
For tho flrat time In tlielr Uvea officers
and mon of the Krlcsson saw babies cooing
n tho grim warihlp. Fourteen babies were
In the boats the Krlcsson found bobbing on
the water which had become the Brave of
the steamship Stephano. bound from -St
John's to New York. Many were sleeping
peacefully In the arms of their mothers or
nurrea as the lifeboats rolled and rocked
with the gentle swell of the sea. Almost
all night tho boats had drifted. Only the
r dim light of n. lantern In tho life-saving
craft and the soft rays of the moon, shifting
Intermittently through the clouds, BerveU
tb light the scene, which but a few hours
before had been one of American peace.
LOSS OH' Tim STKI'IUNO
The passengers of the Stephano took to
Mhe small boats ut 6:30 Sunday evening.
Tney were nunu until aoout zao this morn
ing. There was no sign of hysteria or fright
as men, women and even an eight-year-old
Catherines In saloons and babies hurriedly
waVteM from lp to be buttled orer the
W tirf Into lifeboat. Only a short dis
tant away AeatM a sea green 'monster.
The submarine rested low In the water, hef
buHrltig sMes and: pointed snout giving her
the arntaranca of a giant man killing nh.
Kenr thousand miles from a home port,
theoretically In "enemy walera" and with
no known baa for supplies or fuel, the
1 Teuton was unloosing her wrath at the
alarm was glrn and a ahot came scream
ing across the bowa of the Htephano, many
of the passengers refused to believe they
were being attacked by a submarine, They
laughed when an offlcer rushed by, shouting
that nil must don Ufa preservers and take
to the boats. Hut the serious mien of the
children, the hurrying about of the crew
and a glimpse from the deck of the ehlp
convinced them.
THOUSANDS AT WATKHKnONT
Thousands thronged the Newport water
front as the destroyers put Into port with
their cargoes of human freight picked up
from the sea. Newport aoclety turned out
In force, Mra, Klsle French Vanderblll
sent lier limousine, down to the wharf, and
four women pasengers from the fitephano
were taken to her home, Other society
women also sent their cars to the dock,
and mothers and babies taken from the
U-boat's victim shlpe are being cared for
today In the palatial homes pf Newport's
elect
Arriving at the naval hospital here, the
Htepharto'a passengers and crew had their
first meat In sixteen hour.
CI IKK IN TIIIIID ATTACK
A. C Tlckell, chef of tha fitephano, cele
brated his third submarine sinking. He
was on ths troop ship Marquette when shi
ttaa aunk without warning In the Uarda
nelles. Shortly after this Tlckell was on
the troop ship Manltou. which was aunk
off Malta by a German submarine. Tho
ihef was wounded. Tlckell's only remark
today was:
"What difference do a few submarine
make? What the hell do I care for sub
marines?" This last remark of Tlckell'a might stand
aa expressing tho attitude of virtually all
of tho passengers and members of the crews
of the stricken ships arriving here today
Almost without exception they took the
s tuatlon calmly and said they were not
frightened when the first shot was sent
whistling across their vessel's bows or when
they were being put Into the lifeboats.
STEWAIIDESS NOT ALAItMKD
Mies McDonald, stewardess of tho ate.
phano, was one of the last to leave the
h'p. fihe was busy with her regular duties
and refused to take the alarm seriously.
John Kavanaugh, of Halifax, member of
the Htephnno's crew, told of seeing the perl
scope of tho U-boat some distance from the
ship before the submersible actually ap
peared In run bloom. He Hurried below
v man, Huiiirn unu even mi cisui-ieHr-uia i nearru in iuii uiuoiii, ur nurriru u
child told their stories ot being suddenly to report, but heard the ahot flrod nt the
roused from dining tables, from little social Htephano before he could give warning,
BRITISH WARSHIPS SEARCH SEA
OFF NANTUCKET FOR SUBMARINES
tfftMe Mate. I Mer to fce tt IMS,
which Mappetl at Newport Batterta-jr.
Tfcer. la apparently ground for belief,
Jtowerer, thai there were two, and perhaps
three, submarines engaged.
Survivors of the BtepharA who arrived
her on boird the Krlcason, said that the
ship was warned and the passengers and
crew ctven a chance to take to ths boats.
Carman seamen then went on board and
opened her ea cock. She was neither tor
pedoed nor shelled.
TftY TO AVOID ttrtEAK WITH U. B,
This, It la believed here. Indicated that
the submarine commander was taking pre
cautions to prevent a break with the United
States over the latest outbreak of subma
rln warfare. t
The HrJeseon was followed by the United
States ship Drayton, She had on board
the master hf ths West Point He was
taken to, the IlHflsh cruiser Birmingham In
a launch, He refuted to make a statement
until he coutd confer with the owners ot
his ship.
lleports that nine ships were attacked
and that three submarines were engaged,
Instead of one, were contained In a wireless
message from the Nantucket station, picked
up by the Krlcsson.
An Important part was played through
out by this destroyer. She was In plain
view ot the attack upon tho Stephano, Of
ficers said that the Drltlah passenger ship
was halted by three shots fired across her
bow by the submarine. The Htephano car
ried seventy-three passengers, many of
them citizens of the United States,
TWO I'll HiADKM'l HANS SAVED
Two of the passengers were Charles T.
Ihnns and his wife, of Cermantown, Ta.
He was rcrimnstbla for the statement that
the Stephano had been sunk by tilling her
hold with water.
"Most of the passengers were nt dinner
when the vessel was fired on." Mr. Kvans
said. 'They were given time to put on
heavy wraps after a steward had passed
among them telling them that tho captain
had glen orders to lower the lifeboats.
"We did not know then that a submarine
wns near nor why we were to leave tho
ship ,
"The sea and weather were calm and the
oftlccrs acted rry quietly so that there was
very little confusion on board,
"My wife and f went to our rooms and
put on our roots and went on deck.
"One of the sailors told us wo had better
put on life preservers Neither my wife
nor I saw any submarine
"In the meantime wo were assigned to
places In a lifeboat, which was quickly
lowered, We had gone about n mile and a
half In this boat when we were nicked un
by tho United States naval boat,
"Mrs. Kvans and myself had been at
St. Anthony, N. V, and were on our way
home. We lost all our baggage."
lillOOKtiYN WOMAN'S 8TOIIT.
Mrs. Marlon Cutter, of Brooklyn, sala
that the Stephano waa held up about C
o'clock.
"We had Just seated ourselves when a
shot waa fired acrons the shlp'a bows,"
raid she. "Naturally we were startled.
"We were told to leave the room as
quickly as posslbIet and nn we were doing
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NEWPORT, It. I., Oct. 9. Three British
cruisers that arrived oft Nantucket Shoals
early today are scouring tho Atlantic for
the Oerman submarine or submarines that
sank at leant six merchant ships during the
lest thirty-six hours,
A urlreleits rennrt tllfWfd un bv the United
States destroyer Ericsson that the total
number of victims was nine ships had not
been confirmed up to on early hour.
Tteports of further attacks on merchant
ships were hourly expected, as thera are
more than n score of freight and passenger
ships In or near the danger xono off tho
New England roast.
Of the Imperiled fleet thirteen are British
ships and two are American. A fleet ot
(United States men ot war U patrolling the
coast to protect American neutrality,
More British warships aro expected on the
scene.
The known victims ot Germany's sub
marine wartara at the very threshold bf
the united States nret
STRATIineNB. Jlrltlih freighter, 4131 tons.
New Tork for VKrdu.
WK8T POINT, Jlrlll.h freighter, 2I1S tens. Lon
don for Newport Newt.
BTEniANO. llrltun pauenger ship, 2143 tohs,
Newfoundland for New York,
KIN08TON. llrltlih freighter, destination and
tonnace unknown.
IlLOOMgriHDMK. Dutch stesmihlp, s:oi tons.
New Tork for Rotterdam.
CHRISTIAN KNl'DSBN. Norwegian tanker,
2583 ton. New Yijrk for London.
ONE CHEW STILl. MISSINO
So far as- It known this morning no Uvea
wero lost, but the crew of the Kingston
wns stilling missing.
The German war yiubmerslble. which
brought the war to the doorway of the
so tww see re svtotei we Rr4, Tere waa
amasenieht. hat no dWrrfef.
"The captain t44 m Hm we were to get
Into the boate, ah o which were quickly
lowered. , , , , . . .
'Darkness had fallen by that time and
we did not pee the ship again."
ttOCIETr FOLK HELP
Mrs. Elsie French Vandtrbllt. Mra. H
Livingston BeeCkman and other members of
the millionaire colony here had automobiles
at the pier to give .aid to the survivors.
Mra. Cutter waa pna of thote assisted by
Mrs. Vandwbllt
The chef of the frlephano. A, C, Tlkkel,
of New Tork, said that the captain had been
warned by a wireless meesage at noon that
a Oerman eubmarlne was in tho neighbor
hood "I was working Itv the galley when I
heard the first shot, about ' o'clock."
sold Tlkkel "We had Just started to ssrve
dinner Stewards came ranntng down, ssy
Ing a shell hnd struck the water about five
yard from the ship. Captain Smith Im
mediately stopped the vessel and aent down
word we should all be prepared to leave at
once Women and children were placed In
the biats first and we nil made oft.
"I distinctly saw the submarine. Aa we
approached the Ericsson I saw her decks
cleared for action and we wondered It sha
were going to open rtro on tho Oerman
boat
"We were all taken on board the Erica
son. I was standing on the-deck watching
tho submarine when Tier conning tower
opened up and four men appeared, In some
mysterious way the side ot the submarine
seemed to open and a small boat appeared
as It by mnglc. It started for the Stephano
Just as the last lifeboat left the ship.
CAITAIN LAST MAN TO LEAVE
"Captain Smith was the last men to leave
his ship. He was only about 2.00 yards
away when the German seamen boarded
tho vessel. They scurried about on ths
decks for a while arid then went below.
Five minutes latrr they reappeared and
Immediately the Stephano began to settle."
lee Burton, fourth engineer, and John
Kavanaugh. third engineer ot the Stephano,
corroborated Tlkkel's story.
There wero ten children among the refu
gees on the Ericsson, one of them an Infant
In urms. The total number of refugees on
the Ericsson, the Drayton, the Benham and
Jenkins was 2 16,
FIVE AU1ES' VESSELS DEFY
U-BOAT; SAIL FR031 NORFOLK
NOHFOLK, Va . Oct. 9. News of the
arrival of the U-5J nt Newport, It. I al
though Immediately transmitted to Allied
merchant ships In the harbor and to ship
ping agents, failed to check sallings.j Three
British and two French merchantmen, car
rying cargoes ot food, horses, etc., cleared
for European ports.
The presence of the submarine; was also
marie known to warphlps off the Virginia
Carolina coast, with Instructions that mer
chant ships at sea be notified. The warships
are expected to haunt the lanes of travel
to convoy ships through the danger cone.
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U. S. COURSE CORRECT
Authority on Internstlonal Law
Holds U-Boats.Were Wholly
Within Rights In Sink
ing Nine Ships
COULD NOT INTERN U-&3
Herman submarine' attacks on belligerent
ahlpg off the American coast are not In vio
lation of International law, according to
John Frederick Lewis, an authority on In
ternational and maritime law.
Mr. Lewis today said that the undersea
boat U-It was within her rights In putting
In at Newport and that the subsequent
commerce raiding, In which nine ships were
reported sunk, was within the bounds of in
ternational law
The possibility that the commander of the
U-II be for leaving Newport Saturday nft
ternoon acquainted himself with the move
ments of vessels and took on a pilot fa
miliar with the Nantucket water, waa
hinted at by Mr Lewis.
COULD NOT HOLD V-tl
"In answer to youh question aij to
whether or not the United Btates Govern
ment should have Interned the U-M when
It arrived at Newport, I am of the opinion
that the United States would not have been
justified under International law In At
tempting to Interne the boat." said Mr.
I,ewla, "A submsrlne war veasel haa, the
aame righta aa any other hind Of war
v easel."
These rights, according to International
law. Include the rlsht to twenty-four hourn'
atay In port for the purposea of making!
repairs and taxing on supplies sunicieni lor
the trip tn Its nearest home port.
"Aa you have Informed me. she took on
no supplies and did not refit." Mr. Lewis
continued. "She probably obtained copies
of the published Information given out by
the New Tork Maritime Exchange as to
the movements of vessels to and from port,
and may have obtained a local pilot.
ItAIDINO NO VIOLATION
"Her errand, that of commerce raiding,
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agencies m advising, "heir vessels i of tae
presence or the U-S1 were hJ onlnlori
American neutrality. I ?U?0e-Tne"
that there were not such a ,llhl0fJJM
acta are those of lnlWldpaU with reference
to their own property or Hi; fP J
their iromuanle, and are not " 0I
the.Covernmf ot ot the United Blts.
V. S. RESCUERS FAIL. TO, FIND
CREW OF BRITISH FRBWIlTklt
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paYtment was advised by Admiral f
by telegraph today th "rttt1' ?J
stroyers had been uhabl to flnd ""
of the nrltlsh frelghtef Klnirstr.fi. sunk by
a German submarine off Nantucket
If the crew boa been saved. WM. "
porled. It was by a merchant ah P ''ch
has failed to report the fact officially.
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