Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-15
Heavy Waves Toss SUMNER
SibIe Like Cork and Twenty
six Men Aboard Are Badly
Shaken by Experience,
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES
NEARLY SUFF0CATED
All Are Obliged to Crowd Into
Little Space Below Coming
Tower in Order to Get Air
to Preserve Life,
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Eureka, Cal, Dec. 14.-Five of the
crew of the United states submarine
H-8. which has been pounding In the
surf north of here since dawn today,
with twenty-six men imprisoned in IT,
were brought ashore on brooches
buoy at o'clock tonight. The five
were followed ashore within an hour
by the remaining nineteen men Of tho
crew and the two officers.
Can BE Refloatcd.
Lieut.. II. II. BoGusch, commanding
the H-3, reported that his vessel was
lying on 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. one named Blabon suffered
three smashed fingers a man named
Anderson had his hand hurt.
Commander w. b. Howe of tho
mother ship Cheyenne, photographed
the navy yard at Mare Island for a
tug to proceed here Immediately to aid
in salvage attempts.
Some chlorine gas had been liber-
ated during the day. Lieutenant 30
gusch said, from the submarines bat
terry, but his men had not suffered
greatly therefrom.
Strikes sand Spit.
In dense fog the H-3 struck a sand
spit early today while cruising down
the coast from Puget sound on her
way to the Mare Island navy yard in
san Francisco bay. She was accom-
panied by the T. $. S. Cheyenne and
the submarines Hi and H-2. Officers
of the Cheyenne said they believed the
accident was caused by the engines OF
the H-3 becoming disabled.
Commander w. b. Howe of the
Cheyenne. directing the rescue work
on shore. said the men had been able
to keep alive by crowding beneath the
coming tower for air, in this way es-
Gaping the chlorine gas fumes from
the batteries.
The H-3 is ashore just outside the
entrance to Humboldt bay. Lieut.. II.
r. Bogusch is in command of the H-S,
with Lieut.. q. f. zemke second in
command.
AItW III NEFthb Afilts
All day until the sea swept the frail
little craft further toward the beach
to steadier position, the men of the
H-3, bottled up in the hull were rat
tied around like nuts in a barrel. one
lonely figure stuck to the bridge as
II he were dashed to the divers super
structure until the beating of the great
breakers began heeling the submarine
over and back, its coming tower
pounding the sandy bottom OF the
surf. Thon he Disappeared the
matches were battered down and crew
and officers--twenty-s in all-were
prisoners in their bottle boat.
Watchers ashore could hear family
above the grind and roar of the break
ers the short foot, toot, toot' of the
divers air whistle, dying away as the
air supply was exhausted. A telegraph
operator thought he detected the start
of a message in Morse by the divers
whistle.
Meanwhile. the mother ship Chey-
enne slowly edged its way in towards
the H-S until within the first breaker
line,
Curtain of Fog Closes In.
About noon the curtain of fog that
had lifted earlier in the day again
closed down and the mother ship NOV
ed back Wreckage evidently of the
coming tower and superstructure wat
flung up at the feet of the shore
watchers.
The Cheyenne with only one pro-
pellor put into Humboldt bay. AT