Reducing the Threat of Chemical and Biological Weapons: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... seaman) sustained a sprained back; two other men were hurt. One had his head split, and the other a split nose--making three men injured slightly and the chief engineer seriously. The chief engineer was in his room; the explosion took place right under his room, and the debris thrown up wounded him, He thinks himself a piece of torpedo went through his shin.' No other fragments of a torpedo were found. Lieut. J. W. Flemming, executive officer of the Saetia, placed the confidential papers of the ship in a weighted bag and threw it overboard. Two of the men, Ensign E. E. Cornell and C. E. America, an oiler, are certain they saw the conning tower of a submarine not more than 200 feet away. However, it is thought probable that they saw part of their own wreckage, and that the ship was sunk by a mine. A total of 85 survivors were later accounted for. On October 27, 1918, about 10 p. m., the Ohaparra, Cuban steamship of 1,505 gross tons, with a cargo of sugar, bound from Cuba to New York, was blown up by a mine 10J miles south by east off Barnegat Light. The crew of 11 men came in the Inlet with the captain in one of their own boats; the balance of the crew landed on North Beach, Coast Guard Station 112. Capt. Jose Vinolas, the captain of the Chaparra, testifies that he is a native of Barcelona, Spain; that he was the captain of the Chaparra, and that she was flying the Cuban flag, her owner being Empresa Naviera de Cuba, S. A., Habana, Cuba. That they had a full cargo of sugar consisting of 14,000 bags. That the agents for the ship in New York were Manuel Caragol & Son. That they sailed from Cardenas, Cuba, on October 22, 1918, bound for New York. At the time of the ship's destruction her location was: South 60, 10 miles from Barnegat, ...