American Steamer Nebrask an Torpedoed of HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 122 AMERICAN STEAMER BY SUBMARINE OFF IRELAND Nebraskan, Flying Stars and Stripes, Hit While Forty Miles Southwest of Fast net; No Lives Lost; Vessel Carried No Passengers NEWS CREATES BIG STIR AT WASHINGTON Some Officials Think Ship May Have Struck Mine; Carried No Contraband; Down at the Bows, Boat Is Proceeding Back to Har bor London, May 26, 12 Noon.— The American steamer Nebras kan. Captain Green, from Liver pool, May 24, for Delaware Breakwater, was torpedoed yes terday by a submarine at a point forty miles southwest of Fastnet, off the coast of Ireland. The sea was calm at the time. The crew at once took to the boats and stood by the steamer. It was soon ascertained that the Nebraskan was not seriously dam aged. She had been struck forward, and her foreholds were full of water. The crew returned on board and I got the vessel under way. No live* j were lost anions? the crew. The Xe- I braskan did not carry any passengers, j The foregoing information was re ceived to-day by the British Admiralty in London and it was at once com municator! to the American embassy. Immediately she was struck the Ne braskan began calling for help by wireless. Browhead received the wire less communication at 9 a. m. yester day from Crookhaven. The American steamer Xebraskan. Captain Green, Is owned by the Amer can Hawaiian Steamship Company, of York, and Is of 2521 tons net |^regis*er. Thf'Xebrsskan was bound for Dela ware Breakwater in ballast for orders. This means that upon arrival there the agents of the ship would direct its master to proceed to any port where cargo might be procured, pos sibly to the Pacific coast via the Pana ma Canal. The Nebraskan sailed from New York. May 7, and arrived at Liverpool on May 19. Previous to the war the ship had been active in trade between northern ports and Galveston, but since the outbreak had made one voy age to London and one to Bremen. Bryan Awaits Details Washington. May 26. Secretary Bryan said the State Department's in formation of the Nebraskan incident was too meager to permit the forming of an opinicyi. He said a full report [Continued on Pajre 10.] Motorcycle Officers Will Patrol City Day and Night With the arrival of the two new motorcycles at the police station to day improved police service is prom ised. In addition to being subject to emergency calls Motorcycle Officers Fetrow and Schelhas will patrol the city regularly. With the present number of patrol men on duty day' and night, certain streets and districts are patrolled once every hour; sometimes only once in two hours. Motorcycle officers will now cover the entire city, day and night. This will mean an officer within close call at least every half hour. POOR BOARD THANKS STUDENTS Tech High Field Sootion Commended by Resolution: Blue Prints to Be FVamt' with a bullet in her heart, in a bedroom In her home in Brooklyn. In an adjoining room lay two of her three children. Josephine, one year old, and Francis, aged 4, with cords drawn tightly around their j nocks. The boy was later revived, but the baby died. Detectives said that it was their theory that Mrs. O'Neill became sud denly demented, tied tlie cords around the children's necks and then believ ing them dead, shot and killed herself. A revolver lay on the floor near her body. DUTCH LINER RAMS FREIGHTER; WARSHIPS RESCUE PASSENGERS Ryndam, Bound For Rotterdam, Badly Damaged in Col lision 15 Miles Southwest of Nantucket; United States Battleships Take Off Endangered and Convoy Stricken Ships to New York New Tork, May 26.—The Dutch liner Ryndam, which sailed from this port yesterday for Rotterdam with 77 passengers and a million dollar cargo, was badly damaged In a col lision fifteen miles southwest of the Nantucket shoals lightship at 4 o'clock this morning with a tramp freighter, Joseph J. Cuneo, which sailed from Boston last night for Baracoa, Cuba. Both vessels were seriously injured. The Ryndam wireless reports indi cate that she was struck aft with such force that hold No. 5 filled almost im mediately, water flowed freely into the engine room and began to creep up in hold No. 6. The Cuneo's bows were smashed in badly. Transfer Passengers S. O. S. signals were flashed from the Ryndam's wireless and her pas sengers were transferred hastily to the Cuneo. One hundred and sixty of the Ryndam's crew of 200, likewise were put aboard the freighter, leaving only forty men aboard the liner to navi gate it. United States battleships In the vt |clnity answered the wireless calls. At ] 7 o'clock, three hours after the colli sion, the battleship South Carolina was standing alongside the Cuneo. The Ryndam's passengers and those of her crew who had been transferred to the Cuneo were taken off by the South j Carolina. The battleship was directed by wireless from the Newport navy yard to convoy the stricken liner to this port. With the South Carolina alongside, the battleship Texas ten miles astern the battleship Louisiana in the near vicinity and the Cuneo slowly following the Ryndam was steaming at slow speed for this port, one hundred and twenty-four miles east of Ambrost channel lightship at 10 o'clock. At that iji»> i r^/y- •* ••y - '*' "Tf •* 'tT I** 1 ** •*Tf " 'TP " 'TP " Tr~ T NEBRASKAN UNDER OWN STEAM | Lenrfww, May 2S. 5 P. M. The American steamer 1 Nebraska* passed Queenstewn ♦ni? itn nOM on her way w back to Livanteel. She was proceeding under her o\ra I steo . an ho - . a PRESIDENT GREETS CHINESE 1 Washington, May 26. —Deep interest in the future of % China was expressed by President Wilson to-day in wel coming the commission of Chinese businessmen touring | t .ke United States to atudy commercial methods. FIRE 860 COKE OVENS f ConnellsvUle, Pa., May 26. The H. C. Frick Coke Company to-day fired 860 idle over , making 1100 ovens . fired with the past weak. Thare are now 21,895 ovans in 1 operation in the Conaelleville region, all of tkem on six days a week. I • Washington, May 26.—The battleship South Carolina |£ wirelessed the Navy Department to-day that she had 250 J I personf from the Ryndam on board and expects to land them JL in Mr.->' York to-night. Reading, Pa , May 26. Charles Bausman, aged 25 i ► years, who murdered his wife last Thursday near Robesonia, by cutting her throat, during a family quarrel, was captured II by a posse in a barn near the scene of his crime this after inoon. Paris, May 26, 7.10 P. M.—The Italian government to day declared a blockade of all ports on the Austro-Hun garian coast. London, May 26, 4.22 P. M. The condition of Kin;: , Constantine of Greece, continues critical, according to a : dispatch received today by the Exchange Telegraph Com 1 , pany from its correspondent at Athens, to-day. 1 ' Paris, May 25, 6.10 P. M - Nenrly 11,000 women of the I middle classe? have enrolled in a female police force au ( * thorized by the Italian government. They will undergo I special physical training, and wear uniforms, j I Meaaluis, Hollud, May 28, via London, S.JO P. Mv— ( The steamer Imber arrived here to-day from Liverpool and ! reports that she was pursued by two German submarines in the North Sea. MARRIAGE LICENSES Nile I*. Reed and Alice M. Zflgler, York county. Blair Coleman and Margaret A. Dodd, Wlconlnro. Fred S. Steely. L) k«u township, aad Daisy V. I mholta, Grata. 12 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT. hour her captain sent a wireless mes sage to the Holland-American line,her owners, saying tnat the Ryndam's en gines were much strained but were ' still holding out. Previous messages from Captain Van Der Heuvel asserted that tha water was gaining in hold No. 6 and that the ship would have to he aban doned if the water gained much more. Only Six Americans Aboard So far as the line knew there wera only six Americans among the pas sengers. The other passengers. It was said, were Europeans returning home. The Ryndam, a vessel of 7.976 tons register, net. was built in Belfast in 1910. Her length is 550 feet, her beam 66 feet. The Cuneo is a steamer of about 800 tons capacity. She car ried a crew of twenty men and no passenegrs. Her length is 210 feet. Dispatches sent during the forenoon by the South Carolina the Ryndam was making 13 knots on her way to this port. This speed, if maintained, would bring her to New York late to night or early to-morrow morning. The Ryndam's cargo consisted chief ly of foodstuffs and was valued at ap proximately $1,000,000. The bulk of her shipments were consigned to the The Netherlands over seas trust at Rotterdam. The list included 266,000 bushels of corn, 5,000 bags of flour, 600 cases of linseed oil, 200 bales of cotton, 300 kegs of wire nails and fif teen boxes of corrugated sheet iron. Although the cause of the accident has not been stated, It was believed that a heavy fog which was brought up by a southeasterly wind late last night was responsible for the collision. Fortunately the sea was not heavy at the time the steamships crashed to gether. So far as could be learned the ca bin passengers included only six Amer icans, as follows: Mrs. Martha I>aly, of New York; Miss Crete Egerero, of Baltimore; Miss Wilhelmlna A. Engle, of Boston: Mrs. Martha Hebel, of this city; Henry |L. Van Praag, of this city, and Paul Kubein, of Philadelphia.