DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

VARIOUS AMERICAN VESSELS OR FOREIGN
VESSELS WITH AMERICANS ABOARD IN­
TERFERED WITH BY SUBMARINES OR
MINES.
Pile No. 300.115Ev2/l.
Cases of the "Evelyn" and "Carib."
Ambassador Gerard to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram—Paraphase.]
No. 1657.] AMERICAN EMBASSY,
Berlin, February 22, 1915.
Mr. Gerard states that it is reported by the Consular
Agent at Bremerhaven that the vessel Evelyn was sunk
by a mine on the night of the twentieth between Norderney
and the Isle of Borkum. One of the three boats,
which were manned and left the vessel, is missing. It
is said that a German scout boat saved the captain and
twenty-eight men of the Evelyn. American steamers
now at Bremen can take the survivors to America.
File No. 300.115Ev2/4.
Ambassador Gerard to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
No. 1659.] AMERICAN EMBASSY,
Berlin, February 22, 1915.
Consul General Bremerhaven reports steamer Evelyn
ran on two mines nineteenth, four a. m., near Isle Borkum,
sank seven hours later. Only two boats manned:
Captain Smith, thirteen men, Dutch pilot in one; First
Officer Senson, thirteen men in other. First boat said
to have been rescued ten o'clock Saturday morning, but
present whereabouts yet unknown. Latter boat picked
up by German scoutship Mars four o'clock Saturday
afternoon; taken to Heligoland. Thirteen men brought
to Bremerhaven, put in sailors' home. Spanish stoker,
Hans Haro, frozen and buried at sea; appears to be only
death. Other survivors expected to-morrow. Those in
Bremerhaven out of danger.
File No. 300.115019/4.
GERARD.
Ambassador Gerard to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
No. 1687.] AMERICAN EMBASSY,
Berlin, February 25, 1915.
Consular Agent, Bremerhaven, reports Carib apparently
ran on mine twenty-second, eleven a. m., ten miles
west Norderney, soon sank. Three of crew of thirty
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