South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-02
Richmond Doctor Among Sur
vivOrS Of Armenian Rescued
and Hell 5 Prisoner by Ger
mans Who Sank Steamer.
SHELL CUT ROPES OF
LOWERING LIFE BOAT
Cabin Boy of IS Tells Thrilling
Tale RivaIling Sea Fiction,
Describing Rescue by Bel
gian TraWIer Stevens.

! CARDIFF. Wales, July 2.-Several
members Of the crew Of the tor
pedoed Leyland liner Armenian,
among them DR.. j. s. Viso of Rich
mond, Va, were made prisoners by
the German submarine U-3S, which
sank the steamship. according to sur
vivors who are in Cardiff. Those
taken on board the U-3S were picked
up out of the water, after a shell
/ from the submarine had cut the
ropes of a filled lifebOat, which was
! being lowered. Instead of placing
them in another boat however, the
/ Germans retained them.
/ Ii is declared that. while the Ger
mans showed consideration for the
whites, they acted harshly toward the
negroes. Some of the negro stock
/ tenders, who were thrown into the
water when the ropes of the lifeboat
were cut. SWAN toward the sub
marine. When they tried TO Chamber.
/ on board the German sailors kicked
their hands.
! Capt. J. Trickey of the Armenian
was the last man 10 leave his ship.
Tells Thrilling Tale.
| An exciting story is told by Ernest
Robert Talbot, d 15-year-old cabin
Z boy and it has all the thrills of sea
tale by Robert Louis Stevenson.
That was my first trip" said young
Talbot, who was among the 81 per
sons who left the Armenian in the
/ first lifeboat. 1t was this lifeboat that
was plunged into the water by a Ger
man shell cutting the ropes.
The boat was about half way
down." continued the cabin boy.
when along came a shell and clipped
the ropes clean. We all tumbled into
| the water and began swimming around.
/ guess | must have been in the water
! for an hour before 1 was picked up
/ by another boat which 1 found to con
tain my brother. We were in the
/ lifebOat about . hours before being
/ picked up, but il was not so bad for
I the weather was clear and the water
( srn Doth. We all got mighty thirsty
though, and / was SO hungry l could
/ have eaten my boots. All through
the night we could see the Germans
/ firing minutes light while they looked
for another ship TO sink. After bit
we discovered the lighthouse on Lundy
/ island and rOwed in that direction
but when the Germans saw us they
| fired a shell toward our boat and we
turned around and rowed away as fast
as we could.
Al last the belSldn lEdW leI, 1EeS
! Stevens, came along and took us on
board, landing us at Milfordhaven,
Wales.
THE only officers drowned was the
fourth officer. Four Of the crew died
in one boat one had his head blown
almost off and another had both his
legs shot away.
Capt Trickey, who was the last
man to leave the Armenian, acted
splendidly.
Keep ships Doctor.
"Two of the lifeboats were found
TO be water-logged. SO Capt. Trickey
had five of the hfeboats lashed to-
gether with the water-logged ones in
the middle SO that they would not
sink.
doctor, who is on American. They
also took on board two other white
men. When the negroes tried 10 climb
on board the submarine the German
sailors kicked them off,
81 had a mighty narrow escape be-
fore Trickey surrendered. I was
standing on the deck alongside of a
negro seaman named Johnson. when
suddenly this man struck me with his
first knocking me flat As 1 fell
shell struck the deck house level,
near my head The negro had heard
the noise OF the approaching shell.
II missed him. but killed four men
inside the deck house"
twenty-five survivors were brought
10 Cardiff and are being cared for
here by the seamen's union. Several
wounded are i'm the war hospital at
Bristol.
The Armenian lasted half an hour.
after being torpedoed. according to
John Wiley. a member of the engine
room force. who said: Il was in the
being shelled II was not until a
shell came down through the engine
room sky-light and smashed one OF
the cylinders that we gave up hope
OF escaping. IL was about five min
utes after eight when the Armenian
went down with her bow high in the
air. This was 80 minutes after she
had been tOrpedOed | saw Germans
Kicking colored men. who tried 10
climb aboard the submarine
The boat in which / got away
started with only 8 in IL. but within
half an hour we had increased il TO
80. saw w. r. Parks, the ships
baker. killed. His body was blown
20 pieces"
In all about 1O0 shells were fired
az the Armenian. The cannonade was
directed hy the commander OF the
submarine who, wearing greasy brown
overalls stood leaning against the
coming tower OF the submarine.
EXPLOSION KILLS FIFTEEN.
MARSEILLES. France. July 81
Fifteen men were killed and many in