The Sentinel=record., 1916-12-15

Eureka, Cal, Dec l4--Fiye of the crew of the United States submarine h-5, which has been pounding on the surI north of here since dawn with 26 men imprisoned in it, were brought ashore on q brooches bouy late today. The five were followed ashore with in an hour by the remaining l9 men of the crew and the two officers. Coast guardsmen shot a hne across the bow of the H-3 an hour before dark and by watchers on shore the submarine was seen to become more steady in the roll of the surf as the line was made fast Then the task oi rigging a brooches bouy was begun. Life savers were working with all speed possible to get other lines aboard. Rescuers held the fear that an ebbing tide might drag the dis abled vessel back with it.
 h a dense fog the H-3 struck a sand spit early today while cruising down the coast from Pudget Sound on her way to the Mare Island navy yard ln San Francisco bay. She was ac coml by the |. s. s. Cheyenne and the submarine H-l and H-2. Offi- eers Of the Cheyanne said they he lieved that the accident was caused by the engines of the H-3 becoming dis. abled.
 Commander W. B. Howe of the Cheyenne, directing the rescue work on shore, said the men had been able 10 keep alive by crowding beneath the conning tower for air, in this way es- caping the chlorine gas fumes from he batteries.
 The H-3 is ashore just outside the entrance to Humboldt bay Eeuten- ant H. R. Bogusch is in command with Lieutenant E. F. Zemke second in command.
 All day long until the sea swept the frai little craft further beacn- ward to a steadieT position, the men of the H-3 bottled up in the hull were rattled around like nuts in barrel. One lonely figure stuck to the bridge as if he were lashed to the divers superstructure until the beating of he breakers began heeling the sub marine over and back, it's coming
 cwer pounding the sandy bottom of the surf. Then he disappeared; the hatches were battended down and the officers were prisoners in their bot .le boat
 Watchers ashore could hear faint ly above the grind and roar of the 'reakers the short "toot, toot, toot," Of the divers air whistle, dying away as the air supply was exhausted. A tele- graph operator thought he detected ,he start of a message in Morse by the divers whistle.
 Wreckage evidently of the coming tower and superstructure was flung up at the feet Of the shore watchers.
 Signals from the coming tower re- Fo.ted al still alive but packed in the tower to escape chloride gas general ed when water leaked to the batteries.
 I4ieutenant H. k. Boguseh, com luduulHS lIie I1-DB ItlJQEttQ Illdl HIS vessel was lying an a sandy bottom had been closed up water tight and probably could be refloated with minor damage.
 Of the crew all escaped injury save two, Their injuries were minor Some chlorine had been liberated during the day. Lieutenant Boguscl said, from the batteries, but his men had not suffered greatly therefrom. Though the men of the H-3 showed marked disiaclination to talk 10 niaht after reaching shore. their few remarks revealed a peril in their i'm prisonment the watchers on shore had not thought of. Several live tor pedoes hung in frames as the sub mersible careened at times to 75 de grees.
 "The gas was kind of bad" saiS one. and we got 1umr ed auout. bu what We watched while we were hana = =. - .- -.- -