Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-29
Vivid Story Of Experience in
Mediterranean Told by AM
edcan Woman Writer on
Her Arrival in New York.
AUSTRIAN COMMANDER
SHOWS HIMSELF HUMANE
Calls to Terrified Men and
Women Urging Them to Be
Calm and ExcIaiming I'VE
Are Not MurdererS,

f.y uoaAiAa JouasAt SPECIAL Lahatn "lNal
Nh YORK. NOV. 2S.-A Turkish
.obmarin, stopped the British pas
songer ship Barulos in the Mediter-
-aneap and after twenty-five persons
MAJ hecn drowned, assisted in rescu-
inc many of the $50 passengers who
had gone overheard in panic, ac-
cordire TO Eleanor Franklin Egan. an
c,o witness. who arrived today ON the
steamship New York ,,
The BarulOs. according 70 MIS-
pran ,Who is "A writer returning from
n six-month trip through southern
Europe. left Piraeus for Alexandra
an October .. Although the ship rev
the British flag, her crew was Greek,
The passengers, a majority thIu
class being chiefly Greeks and orr
entails when about five hours south
of Crete the ship picked up three
boats containing the crew of the Bilt-
ish steamship Sailor Prince, which
had been sunk by a submarine a lew
hours previous.
Wild Panic Occurs,
Tho Barulos Mrs. Egan said, car
red only four lifeboats, each with
capacity for thirty people The pick
pg up of the crew of the Sailor Prince
created q feeling Of excitement which
was at fever heat when suddenly
submarine came to the surface about
Two miles distant and fired shot over
the BarulOs. evidently as a signal Tor
her TO stop
Instantly wild panic broke loose,
said Mrs, Egan. Led by the crew
n ihl 'ife rUOn ieYet ,3.r pt4s a.
gers rushed for the boats. Women
nnahle to get to the boats, threw theH
children into the sea and jumped after
them. Frightened sailors cQt the ropes
holding the small boats and when the
latter crashed into the water, three OF
the six were sWamped and cmptied OF
their human loads. ] was caught IN
the rush and literally forced over the
side into the sea.
Officer Most Humanc.
IT seemed that | had no sooner
struck the water than the submarine
appeared under the bows Of our snip
On her deck ] saw a number of men
With an officer whom | took to be an
Austrian The submersible had her
collapsible lifoboat out and the sub
marine crew were pulling people out
ot the water onto her deck. The Of
ficer WAS holding up his hands shout
ine to the people In the water TO pc
calm I heard him say in perfect
English For God rs sake go back 10
your ship we are not murderers.
The first of the panic over we
rowed back to tho Barulos aud were
taken aboard Women and children,
many in a haf-drowncd state, were
crowding the deck of the submarine,
which remained alongside When al
the rescued were returned 10 the ia
lulos poll showed that Twenty-Five
were missing fourteen children seven
Womtn and four men.
iicart-rcndiug Scenes Occur.
In addition to the twenty-five
drowned, maay were wounded in the
panic, several of the most serious
were taken into the submarine ana
treated by our ship doctor who went
aboard nj the invitation OF the sub
marine commander"
Mrs. Egan said she witnessed many
nearl-rending scenes.
one woman she said, who had
Wsl her three children, by throwing
mem overheard, went stark mad. IN
ihe steeragc was a troop Of Japanese
acfobats one Of them, woman,
with an infant child. was seen almost
'1hausted trying TO cling to the sides
VI the ship. She was surrounded by
many others A rope WAS thrown into
nef hands, but looking up. she eX-
ylamtd in English: Don't mind me-
belong to- no one and have no one
F" ,afe for me- Help some one else.
with these words she passed the
,opo to another woman. and with her
0Aoe IN her arms sank from sight
Only One Shot Fired.
only one shot was fired by the
9upnarinc She remained alongside
~ I'VE hours, or until all possible res
sues had been made and the wounded
nau been attended She then disap-
ReaFed, and We proceeded to AleXan-
Uh without further incident.
~ did not learn her name or desis-
oHns number but she was one OF
~. largest boats of her kind | have
gr seen. The captain of the Sailor
th.e told me that he recognized her
es az INC same one that had sunk his
'P some hours previous, although
tnat time he said she flew the
usFlan colors Her deck armament
INSISTED of two twelve FOUNDERS
T,"lvh were in plain sight as she came
biphsslde the Barulos The Sailor
tce' her captain said was given
'Hiy minutes to get her crew into
'Ae boats before she u-as sunk bv