The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-20
FINLAND GETS HOME
WITH 1882 REFUGEES
lanes \. Pattcn, Retired Chi
caro- uraia Operator, Brings
In Thrilling story.
NE FLED IN 4 HORSE CART
Aided americans to Escape Also
Liner Has Trouble on
Her Voyage Over.
NE FLED IN 4 HORSE CART

MANY American refugees who were
H.. ID, tho FIRST actual lighting in Europe
go among the LOSE passengers who ar
-,,sl here yesterday on the Red Star liner
r,.,rl r.1m Dover and Antwerp.
Inns 4. patten. retired Chicago wheat
o,..t.l- r,cuuuted a thrilling story OF
b.. .,.rape from Germany in small cart
vrf r.. VII. and some other Americans
.s,.. 'e, war had begun. They were In
c,,.p,I. Bohemia. on August when
,.,, ~ the war reached them, and they
s.r,d am automobile to get into Switzer-
,,,t There was no trouble until after
,,., ,.a,.rd the German frontier.
.rr.r ms arriva! at Nuremberg was
,,t., o. police headquarters on the charge
=, ..us A spy" said Mr.. Patten. For
,,,,,,',. ms chauffeur was an Austrian
49, r, proypd my American citizenship
~ ,..k the o'clock train for Ostend
o.. r.Nt morning. and at Cologne. where
a. changed INTO a train for the Belgian
,..r,t,.. the station was crowded with
soldiers
frontier we found that the Belgians had
N,up No tho bridges I bought few
,.... II bread the first food We had had
emo. early morning, and we stayed over
n.-ht The next morning ] hired a one
hos cart and squeezed six other Ameri-
cans INTO i with myself and wife. We
r,.>eI hundreds of Germans fleeing out
~ Reg nm and arrived at Verviers the
following morning.
.rr.,r We hired another cart and
s,4.%! Tor L,ege. Three miles from Liege
We we're halted by soldiers. who said the
ROAD was mined. They showed us a
mountain road and We got to Liege late
ira, night heard that 5000 German
troops wor, blown to kingdom come on
tina, sam, mined road the following day.
we IN Liege at l =. NJ on August I
,or Ostend. We could hear the firing at
Llese. hut did not see any of the battle.
From Os'end we went TO Antwerp and got
massage IN the Finland"
Nj ritten financed several passengers
On the Finland who were stranded In
Tur,pp They had letters OF credit but
~ gold These passengers were Mrs. p.
Neg!ey OF Dayton, Ohio. and her son
william H., and daughter. Eleanor Jack
Ylrcs % \ West Thirty-sixth street. and
Maurice Rosenfeld OF sS5 West l56th
street
The Finland had great difficulty in get
ting on, Of Antwerp harbor. The channel
hu,.s were dark the harbor was mined
and y Norwegian steamer accidentally
sunk hy mine obstructed the channel. She
WAS several times stopped by English
.ruser, In the English Channel and twice
by British cruisers on this side OF the
Atlantic The Finland flies the American
fag She brought 252 passengers In the
frs, cabin. 2l5 in the second and 6l6 In
ire Storage.
The Rev. f. G. Klast OF Germantown
Kan who arrived on the Finland. haC
been serving as a Red Cross volunteer In
the hospitals in Brussels. He wal
born n Belgium, but Is naturalizet
American.
The first train OF wounded men CANT
into BRUSSELS on the evening OF August s,
ne said These were only slightly
wounded, for the more seriously intur4,
+ md been attended to at the front. Their
were lOI German prisoners brought In OF
this train and one wounded Prussiar
o'A'er | spent the whole night at worI
In the hospital"