The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-12-01
TURKS SAVED MANY
LADY TELLS HOW OTTOMAN
Sub RESCUED PASSENGERS
Is DROWN in MAD PANIC
Steamer Approached by Submarine
Passengers and Crew Rush to
Boats and Leap Oyerboard-Sub
Crew Rescue Many by Use Of Life
boat and Assist in Work for Five
Hours.

boat and Assist in Work for Five
Hours.
A Turkish submarine stopped
the British passenger ship Baru-
los in the Mediterranean after
twenty-five passengers had been
drowned and helped rescue many
of the two hundred and fifty pas
sengers who had gone overheard,
according to Eleanor Franklin
Egan, an eyewitness, who arrived
in New York Sunday on the steam
ship New York.
The Barulos, according to Mrs
Egan, who is write returning from
a six months trip through southern
Europe, left Piareus for Alexandra
October @. The ship flew the Brit.
ish flag but her crew was Greek
The passengers, mostly third class
were chiefly Greeks and Orientals.
When about five hours south OF
Crete, the ship picked up two boats
containing tho crew of the British
steamship Sailor Prince, which had
been sunk by submarine.
The Barulos, Mrs. ,Egan said, car
ried only four hfeboats, each with q
capacity for thirty persons. Excite
ment following the picking up Of the
fever heat when suddenly subma-
rine came to the surface about two
miles distant and fred a skot ovc7
the Barulos.
Instantly a wild panic broke
loose" said Mrs. Egan. Lied by the
crew and the gre room force, the
passengers rushed for the boats; wo-
men, unable to get to the boats,
threw their children into the sea and
jumped after them. Frightened sail
ors cut the ropes holding the small
boats, and when the boats crashed
into the water three Of the six were
swamped and emptied Of their human
loads.
Il was ct the rail when the sub
marine appeared and I started back
toward tho stairs leading below and
was caught IN the rush and literally
forced over the side into the sea. /
had a hard time to keep above the
water, my difficulties being aggra-
vated by the struggles of others. :,
''It seemed that / hid no sooner
struck the water than the submarine
appeared under the bows Of our
ship. On her deck I saw a number
of men with an officer whom took
to be en- Austrian. The subr. ersible
had her eouapsible Hfeboat ont, and
the submarine crew were pulling peo-
ple out of the water onto her decks.
The officer was holding up his hands
shouting to the people in the water to
be calm. heard him in perfect
English: For Gods sake go back to
your ship. We are not nlurderers.
By this time I worked my way some
distance from the ship and was pick
ed up by one of the life boats.
"The first Of tho panic over we
rowed back to the Barulos and were
taken aboard. Women and children,
many in q half downed state, were
crowding tho deck Of the submarine,
which remained alongside. When all
the rescued wero returned to the
Barulos a tell showed that twenty
five were missing, fourteen children,
seven women and four mo-. Two OF
the latter were British s:ilors from
the Sailor Prince, who lost their lives
diving overheard rescLing children.
"In addition to the twenty-five
drowned many were wounded. Sew
eral were taken into the submarine
and treated by our ship doctor, who
went aboard at tho invitation OF the
submarine commander" 9
Mrs. Egan said sho witnessed
many heartrending scencs. "OIe
woman" she said, "wo had lost her
three children by throwing them
overheard, went stark mad. In the
steerage was troop Of Japanese
acrobats. One Of them, woman,
withan infant, was seen almost ex-
hausted trying to cling to the sides
CT tho ship. A rope was thrown into
her hands, but looking up, she e&-
claimed in English: Don't mind me.
I belong to no one, and have no o1e
to care for me. Help some one else.'
with these words she passed the
rope to another woman and, with
her babe in her rms, sank.
1.-The rescued B1it!ct sailors prov
ed heroes. They not only tried to
quell the panic but rescued many
persons.
"Only one shot was fired by the
submarine. She remained alongside
for FIVE hours or until all possible
rescues had been made and the
wounded had been attended. She
then disappeared under tho water
and we proceeded to Alexandra
without further incident.
81 did not learn her name or des-
ignating number but she was ono OF
tae largest boats of her kind have
ever seen. Tho captain of the Sailor
Prince told me that he recognized
her as the one that had sunk his
ship some hours previous, although
at that time, he said, she flew the
Austrian colors. Her deck armament
consisted Of two twelve-pcunders,
which were in plain sight: The Sail
or Prince, her captain said, was given
twenty minutes to get her crew into
the boats before she was sunk by
nine shots fred into her hold
Available shipping records do not
contain the name Barulos. THIS may
be due to frequent changing of names
and remaining Of ships captured IN
tho war zone