The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-22
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manned gun and shelled the fleeing
steamer.
The attack was timed at ten min
utes to Nstx o'elccs III the morning
when all but few of her passengers
were asleep. Aroused by stewards,
the passengers dressed hurriedly and
went to the upper deck where they
donned life belts and took their
places at the life boats.
They heard the scream of shells
and saw the ocean spit up columns of
water where the missiles struck
When the fire grew hot they were
ordered, for their own protection, to
the next deck below.
For half an hour the Orduna show
ed her heels to the assailant.
Through marine glasses the passen-
gers watched the low lying German
warship coming on, but the Orduna's
flight was faster than the pursuit and
after aeven shots had been fired with
out ehect the submarine gave up the
chase.
A wireless call for help was sent
out by the Orduna when the torpedo
was seen. She was then thirty-seven
miles south of Queenstown. The re-
ply, Captain Taylor says, in his Off
cial report, was that help would be
given within an hour. 1t was four
hours before the first British vessel,
small armored yacht, the Jeanette,
appeared.
Protest will be made to the United
States government by at least one
American citizen, and possibly others,
who were aboard. William o. Thomp-
son OF Chicago, counsel to the Federal
Industrial Relations Commission,
who went abroad in his official ca
pacity last March and was returning
to make his report, is the passenger
who said that he would make vigor-
Gus protest to his government.
AS an American citizen, employed
in an official capacity by the govern
ment to go abroad, feel that I
should bring the governments atten-
| ticn to the attack" said Thompson.
Il feel that l had a right to return
home on the Orduna, although she
flies the British flag, because she is
passenger ship. The fact that she
had no munitions of war aboard for
titled this opinion. 1t is little short
or marvellous that she was not sent to
the bottom with all aboard"
Whether the submarine hid behind
an American ship-the bark Nor
mandy from Gulfport, Miss.-was a
point upon which passengers held
varying opinions. A small sailing shin
| with two American flags painted on
| her side, was sighted ahead shortly
before the attack. Captain Taylor
suspicious of the craft, changed his
course. Soon thereafter the torpedo
was sighted
! There was no certainty as to the
identity of this ship that displayed
two painted American flags but one
of the passengers thought that he
made out her name to be "Normanie'
through his glasses. There is no such
vessel listed. The American bark
Normandy was known to be in the
vicinity at the time. When she reach.
ed Liverpool July IL some of heI
crew said that submarine had used
her as shield from which to ma.
noeuvre against and torpedo the Rus
sian steamer Leo-a story that the
Normandy's captain denied The Lee
was torpedoed twenty miles, approxi
mately, from the place where the Or.
duna was attacked.
The Normandy's crew said the sub
marine had held them up on the even,
ing Of July Q. The Orduna was at.
tackled the same day, but in the
morning.
The Cunard line made public late
Saturday Captain Taylor's official re
port in which he stated that he re
ceived not the least warning of the
attack and that "it was almost an
other case of brutal murder" Thi.
report asserted that the Orduna wa.
attacked under ideal conditions fol
submarines-a clear day, a gentl,
wind and a light ripple, while mos
of the passengers slept.