The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03

New York. Sept 3-Thirty-fiye :. n1ryiyors of the steamship Arabic. which was torpedoed by German submarine on August 20, reached New York yesterday on the American liner St. Paul. from Liverpool The Statements of these passengers in every instance verified the reports That no warning was given the Arabic. that she was not conveyed, and dio n,,f carry protection of any kind Against submarine attack. Six other passeneers arrived on the White Star Adriatic. and had much the same stories to tell. An officer of the Ad- rfatic asserted that the German sub marine had been caught in a net.
 The fact that so few lives were lost when the White Star vessel was sunk was due entirely to the fact that the iifeboats had been swung out and 9 made ready for just such an eTner- vencv Aff the passengers said that they had heard rumors that the sub marine which sank the Arabic had been destr0yed,ra but. there had been no omciaI reports to confirm this.
 Major c. L. Money whose home Is in Stratfords Ontario, said that ar fer getting his two daughters and brother off in the boats he had. put on a lifebeltS and jumped overheard.
 srThere was no room in the boats said Major. Money. 4'I was in the wa fer for two hours before was picked up Just after jumped l saw the little TattersaH girl in the water, and tried to reach her, but could not Her head was badly hurt, apparently by a piece of wreckage. When had been in thenwater about 15 minutes man aged to get hold of a plank, and iittle1 ater I cut away my lifebeit oe- cause it was worrying me. When was finally picked up-I found myself he L. fersa1l girl. She was in very bad eondftion and. in fact, most of those in the boat thought she IFas dead l pulled and bounded her until finally she opened her eyes and noaned, Don't; you're hurting me. was, heard her speak.
 ficked Up by Cruiser.
 Claude M Roode, who was in cyne Of the boats picked up by the British cruiser Magnolia, ascribed the small loss Of life to the 1evel-headedness of Second Oncer Steele of the Arabic According to MT. Roode, it was Steele room to reverse the engines, thus stopping the ship and giving the deck hands. a chance to get the nfeboats over
 .sIt was also due to SteeIe's pres ence of mind that our position was sent by wireless to Queenstown" said Roode. When we sighted the Duns- ley and saw that she was in trouble Steele ordered the wireless operator to send out her position and when our own boat was hit by the torpedo our operator simply had to send off the s. O.. s. call as we were close to Dunsley. aNVe learned afterward that the Dunaley had been used as a decoy. When the Dunsley was hit her captain wanted to stay by the ves- sel in F1ffeboats. but was told by the submarine that If he didn't get away they would shell him.
 seTle submarine lay close by the dng to it's rescue, when they fired a torpedo at us, The only warning we received was q cry from one of the -ofacers of. Here it comes We could see the torpedo coming towards us at a distance of about 800 yards. It was just a streak of light green and was coming right toward the center cf the vessel. Before it struck had run almost to the bow of the ship"
 While we were in Queenstown, Ofneer Steele told me that the sub- marine which sank the Arabic had been destroyed. This was on Satur- day or Monday, do not remember which He said she had been caught while in the act of sinking another vessel
 TheSuuic1ness of rhe work of saw Ing the passengers was praised by many.
 sThe rescue work of lowering the iifeboats was accomplished in four and a half minutes after the Arabic was torpedoed,'' said w. E. Ramsdell. an American collector. who has lived in London for some time If it had not been for the obedfence of the engineers in staying by the engines and, carrying out Captain F,incI's or ders, to reverse the engines after the boat had been torpedoed. and the water was pouring in around them in torrents. probably not one of the passengers and crew ould be alive at this minute. Nearly all the men in the engine rooms were lost.
 All Away in Five Minutes.
 'tEverythfng was prepared for an emergency of this kind, otherwise we land been lowered in the incredible period of four and a half minutes. was the last man in the last boat lowered, and was the only one to save a suitcase and a grip. The rest of the passengers envied me my good lack. for they had nothing except what they haa en their bodies. and the majority had very few things on their bodies.
 s.I thought we were going to be swarnped because the bow of our life boat caught on the bulge of the ship. lifting the bow of our boat up while the stern was under water. The wo- men in the stern, one especially, who threw her arms over the other won- en, succeeded in staying in the boat, although they were all under water. Just then a wave released us from the sinking ship. As the ship sank we were in the vortex, and were stitched on our amends. The only thing that saved us at that Juncture qas tlbat the steam intermingling with