Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-13
SECOND OFFICER OF FRYE
TELLS OF ITS SINKING


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'sssiaap officers who boarded his shin CON
SSsnlted among themselves before decid-
ling to send the ship to the bottom. and
ssaKEeeu mat IL might be in violation OF
law, and that their gov
sfsrnment might be called on TO make
ESsreparation.
50 but the Germans were concerned as
NO their own safety, and. rather than
sSrun further risk, they sank the Ameri-
8Ss.uii and fed from the path over which
@lhe wireless OF English cruisers was
sfriattiing, inqu!ring and warning mes
ssages.
SAILING SIIlP
sis3 IL SENT TO BOTTOM
In the meantime a French sailing
SNIP. the Pierre Lott. had been
sS sighted. and. while a German crew
awas aboard the American. the
Si'rinS Eitel Friedrich set off for the
~ other vessel. This was boarded. ana.
%tatter the crew and cargo were taken
~ oH, sent to Dary Joness locker. Re-
atnrnins TO the William l. Frye, the
sSer1nan took off the master, his wife
land TWO children and the crew, thirty
Two souls in ALL ana decided for de-
"a struction.
II a bomb was placed in the fore hatch
being connected by a time fuse The
William J.. FRY" had all her canvas
spread ana WAS drifting on an un-
STEADY course when the explosion came
Nl"ehtE-eight minutes after tn. bombs
had been set Captain Herman
Niehnc, the master, turned his head
so 1hat he might not see the orstruc-
alon OF his vessel Mrs. kichnc ana
her two children HAD fled TO a cabin
"a .lT
ahiosion came Airs, kichnc went.
s9'hey We're but a quarter of :, mile
away.
ltAND PLAYS GERMAN ANS
AS AMERICAN SHIp GOES DOWN
While tho abandoned American YES
-sel drifted the German band broke
unto the strains of the Fa,borlnnd
Song. for 1t was the Kaiscr's birthday.
sand the William i. Frye was tho sec
s,ond trophy To he won for his caus.
Nheh the bombs burst the William =.
Frye was blown Ia pieces The mas,
was carried away. the galley ana after
Habin were hurled into the air. Tho
suecks were torn asunder and the
tatches We're blown to the four winds
2Aild So with the air gushing throurh
Ner Nitals, making wildly weird
sound that could he heard aboard the
commerce destroyer, The shin went
suown, stern first. She was but another
vessel whose broken timhers strew the
g%hEc OF the German cruiser
FoF elGht months the I'rinz I.itcl
yfriedrlch scourGed the South Atlantic
Sshe Kept always 10 the track OF RI.
gazing vessels, which ply a middl.
course between South America and
hirica' Hearing and seeing. she was
never heard nor seen except by those
1nstr
she never talked over her wireless when
t2ther ships We're about. but sh. listened
faiways. the story runs. with n spcci,I
slhstrument attached to her wireless
Southt.
RECEIVED NEWS oi,
:, WAR by WIRELESS
Sfws of the bombardment of Scor-
borough ana iIartlepool were flashed IN
"eH ana when an English vessel WINS
sen' !" INC ho'ion by "a German sub
marine the commander Of the German
knew. lie knew the track used hv al
tie SAILING vessels, and himself the mas
Ter OF a steamship he knew that enemy
cruisers would follow the inner track
lie kept 10 the open sea. where ~;
prizes travelled. and. with the ySrom'
pm" Wilhelm and the KARLSRUHE he
swept the sea clear Of every mcrchon,
vessel that crossed his bows
me cruiser rowecd always with her
IN
STRIKE Il match on deck even Tor . Gig
;pttte. When IN enemy vessel an
preached the foreign crews aboard were
seat below, and they were not allowed
70 come above again until the danger
WAS passed. Her wireless was MOI
strong enough 10 carry to friendly
shores but the aurm"p comiuandcr
1ashioneo stce! kit .smi sent it ulofi
70 catch messages from home and The
AEhispcrcd wireless OF hclilgercnts
REPofrIiD tAIri RE oE FRYE
Is: TO HEi'i.I\ Hi WIRELESS
ssNr. Davis says thai the German can
1aF reported his captures TO Ecrli. ;t,d
received orders FROM Berlin BY means oi
his kite, and that ne caught every So.
pal hhshcd from ono enemy man war
1osthc other. on tn, night OF rc{I,I.,r,.
2s, while the Priu2 Eitcl Erirda,.,,,i,
was steaminp north, the lookout ei,t,
fdla threc-f funnel English cruiser nm.
hing south. The German siopnea i'm
lgedately. and later sne heard six Eur-
fish cruisers, steamug fifteen miles
Nirelcss
..They were asking each othor if the
/. iSinz Eltel Fricdorich. or the Earlshruc
orE the kronprinZ Wilhelm had b,nr
seen or hearG OF and one replied that
She had heard Of none OF the German
commerce destroyers since the battle Off
The Falkland Islands In tho darkness
With all her lights out tho German,
hpYe 10. and waited until the enemy had
passed.
She was safe All the time apains,
enemy warships because she carried
Neutral PASSENGERS. ii she had been
!, Encountered her comnandcr Il is said
! fEould have run up signal That he had
Messengers aboard, and his only fate
Mould have been capture. Dut tncrc
X tSas nothing to prevent him from de-
sfroying vessels Of the mcrchan,
f:sarine.