The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03
ARABIC SURVIVORS ARE
 AGREED ON FACT THAT
 NO WARNING WAS GIVEN
Three Dozen of Them Reach New York City American Liner St. Paul and Declare That Preparedness of Vessel For Such An Attack Was All That Prevented Loss of Life.

the cold water, threw great geysers in the air, and this undoubtedly kept us ahoat.
 Just before we got away from the side of the Arabic 8 man came to the rail and threw two bulldogs into our boat He then attempted to Jump oyerboard with his mother, but she fell backwards Before he could make another attempt the water had risen to where he stood, and he step ped off into the water. He swan on his back and held his mother pn until he was struck on the head hv some wreckage and knocked sense less. When he regained his con- seriousness his mother had disappear ed from the surface of the water. 1t was pitfful- to hear his cries. Our boat rescued him:
 we had a. very hard time because there were about forty women, ana children in our boat and only five
 nen-only. one sailor among us. How ever, all the men knew how to row, and so did some of the girls and we went along picking up people out of the water, finally rescuing Capt. Finch We were mighty glad to get the captain and two or three sailors in our boat. We felt perfectly con fdent from then on. Our boat con tained several persons injured by the falling wreckage. One woman had a rib broken, another a broken arrn- A man had all the flesh torn off the side of his head He died the next day. from exposure.
 We were in. this boat from about 9:45 in the morning until about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. when the British cruiser Magnolia, picked us up. The officers and crew were most kind to us. They gave us their clothes so that we could get dry wearables on, and anything the ship had was ours. We landed in Queenstown about o'clock in the evening, and the Irish people there received us in a, most hospitable manner. They could not do enough for us.
 s'The German submarine that tor pedoed us used the cargo ship Duns- ley as a decoy. As soon as the cap-5 tain of the Arabic got near enough to the Dunsley to ascertain the trou- b1e. he turned as fast as he could, but the submarine, hiding behind the Dunsley, had our range, and, of course. we could not see the periscope of the su bmersible. She fired her torpedo undeP water, and the first we knew of the torpedo, it was like. a green streak in the water coming toward us. At that moment the bugler blew the alarm, and every sail- or was at his post.''
 MT. and Mrs. P. w A. Collier lost everything they had when the Arabic went down.
 ''Mr. Collier had just been down to our cabin and put his money in the trunk when the torpedo struck us, said Mrs. Collier. .'The trunk had double lock on it, and he was afraid he would not have time to get it be- fore the ship sank. These clothes I have on were given to me in Queens town. I hope that the government will do something for us.
 sgThe list of the ship caused some of the Hfe-boats to capsize. She. sank stern first, and just before she disappeared entirely she was almost astern on the starb oard side. The vessel went down in about seven minutes and it is truly remarkable that so many were able to get away. We heard rumors while in Queens town that the submarine which sank the Arabic had been sunk, but could not verify this fact.''
 Zellah Covington, a pIaywright-au- thor. said that he and his wife, as well as many other passengers on the Arabic, were on deck watching the sinking of the Dunsley. While they were thus engaged it seemed that the Duns1ey was struck by another tor pedo.
 Christopher McTamney said that be- fore the Magnolia picked up the boat he was in she fired five shots at some object supposed to be the peris- cope of the submarine. This was while the cruiser was still about a mile away from the lifeboats, and the shots were fired in the opposite df- rection. A strange coincidence was the meeting of Covington and Me "a had ago, and had not seen one another for years until they met in the life boat.
 Katherine R. Davis, Commissioner of Correction, went down the bay on a revenue cutter this morning to meet Dr. Aubrey Gaulter and obtain from him a first-hand story of the last hours of Dr. Edmund T. Wood, who lost his life when~the Arabic went down. Dr. Wood was an old-time friend of Miss Davis. Mrs. Wood was on the pier awaiting Dr. GauIter when