The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-08-14
ARRIVE HOME AFTER
EXCITING VOYAGE
Liner Philadelphia Held Up by
French Submarine
1000 AMERICANS ABOARD.
Streets Near Railroad Stations in Eu-
rope Piled High With Aban-
doned Baggage.

New York, Aug. 12.-The Ameri-
can liner Philadelphia, with the first
great crowd of Americans who rush
ed from Europe after war was de-
clared, arrived in New York tonight.
There were 708 persons in the cabin
and 800 in the steerage. Virtually
all were without baggage, MANY
withou tmoney, and all told stories
OF hardships.
The Philadelphia sailed from
Southampton a few hours after Eng
land declared war on Germany. The
first day out fleet OF seven French
torpedo boats and thre submarines
was sighted. One of the torpedo
boats hurried after the liner. the rest
following slowly. Finally the torpe-
do boat-the B-7-came alongside
and ordered the Philadelphia to
stop. The war vessel circled the
liner several times, its officers look
Ing closely at the faces Of the pas
sengers crowded on the decks. When
the Philadelphia was an American
vessel and that the passengers were
Americans, one shouted in excellent
English that the Philadelphia might
proceed. The passengers cheered the
French ships. The cheer was return
ed and the war vessels steamed
away.
FREEDOM OF SHIP.
Refugees in the sreerage we're
given the freedom of the ship. The
men were sparted from the women.
however, and in some cases husbands
were separated from their wives by
this regulation.
Rather than sleep in the steerage
scores slept in the smoking room, on
the boat deck, under the boats and
life RATS, and in steamer chairs
Four persons were in every cabin.
AS the Philadelphia neared her
pier the crowd waiting on shore
shouted a welcome to the refugees.
Then for a quarter of an hour the
whole river resounded with cheers.
The regulation preventing ship.
which arrived after sundown, from
proceeding to her dock until the next
morning, was waived tonight. The
Philadelphia did not reach quaran-
tine until after 9 o'clock. The port
authorities did everything possible
to have the ship and its load of pas
sengers move quickly and an hour
and half. after she arrived in the
had gone ashore.
FROM FRANCE AND GERMANY.
Hundreds on board had rushed
from the interior OF france and Ger
many. Travellers from Paris told of
mobs swarming through the streets,
breaking windows and looting Ger
man shops. Others told OF Germans
in the French capital being beaten
by gendarmes and excIted citizens.
Streets near the railroad stations
we're piled high with abandoned bag
gage. SO great was the rush of
Americans from France to England
that small steamers, constructed to
accommodate from 500 to 900 per-
sons carried 5000 men, women and
~ children across the channel
Mrs. B. Blackmore, of Cincinnati.
passenger, left Gletsch, Switzer-
land, July 81 for Paris. She was
forced to occupy a third-class com
partment with soldiers and peasants
She sat on the floor of the car
throughout the trip. In Paris she
was informed she had just time to
catch the last train for Calais, where
she could get boat across the chan
mel. She abandoned her baggage in
the street and reached a railway sta
ton a few minutes before the train
left.
RODE BETWEEN COACHES.
Five thousand Americans and
Englishmen, men and women, we're
trying to get on the train. she said.
Some rode between the coaches rath-
er than be left. There was no water
on any OF the trains.
Howard l.. Willett of Chicago
who left Paris on the train with Mrs.
Blackmore. told similar story, and
added that the train was stopped
several times by soldiers. searching,
they said. for German spies. In
Paris he saw a gendarme seize a