The Prescott daily news., 1916-01-13
ANCONA SURVIVOR
 TELLS OF SINKING
Dr. CeCiIe GreiI Says Subma'
 rine Fired Fifty Shots.
LINER WAS AT STANDSTILL

How Victims Were Killed on Deck oi VesssI-Maid Was Killed at Her Side-AIl Her Possessions, Including
 $4,0oo In Gold, Were Lost.
 If thought my affidavit regarding the shelling and sinking of the Italian steamer Ancona by an Austrian sub marine would cause war between the
 United States and Austria would rather have gone down with the steamer"
 Such was the statement of Dr. Cecile
 s. Grei the American physician, who
 arrived in the United States the other
 day Dr. Greil comes shome pennilesS. Her clothing, surgical instruments,
 jewelry, furniture and $4,000 in cash
 were all lost in the Ancona. The
 clothes she wore were purchased with
 money given her by the American em. bassy in Rome. She estimates her to. tai loss at $20,000.
 ''I remained at the table alone" said Dr. Greil, until I heard the crash of
 q shell, followed by an explosion in the forward part of the ship, The Ancona
 was slowing down. and that fact must have been apparent to the commander of the submarine, though there was thick fog outside. The ships course had not been changed. and there was
 no maneuvering beyond the reversing of the engines.
 Another shel! brought the wireless down. and when l reached the deck shots were raining all around us Eff. ty shots were fired before the cannon. ading ceased. escaped being hit sev. eral times by what seemed to me no more than the breadth of a hair l went below to get some of my things from the cabin.
 Maid Killed at Side. My maid came with me. and as was leaning over picking up some things a shot came clean through the window and tore away half of the maids head. It did not explode ip the cabin. but continued through the par dtion and exploded on the other side of the ship. ran on deck again and found them lowering the lifeboats. Suddenly remembered the receipt for 10000 lire ($4,00Ol that the pur- ser had given me and which was in bag l carried round my neck. l ran down to the pursers office and found him lying dead on the floor. When l reached the deck again l saw life boat being lowered and jumped dis tance of twenty-five feet into it. Most of the firing was done at the lOo yard range, and it seemed to be the submarines intention to sink the Ancona with shells. The Ancona was
 the fourteenth ship the submarine had attacked
 We saw some of the boats struck by shells and the people in them killed | do not believe that the lifeboats were wantonly fired on. but they were hit and sunk just the same
 Boats Shattered In Lowering. An attempt was made to lower if teen boats. but some overturned. and others were shattered by shell fire and sank. Only eight reached the water upright
 All of them seemed to be full of people. looked around on deck. There was rift in the fog, which had
 been very dense. and l saw the sub.
 marine very plainly The captain of the Ancona afterward told me he could
 distinguish faces on the undersea craft.
 The sight fascinated me for an in
 stant Then 1 went to the rail and
 saw lifeboat in which were a wire
 less operator and the chief engineer.
 Carlo Lamberti, a brave man. He
 called to me to jump into the boat and
 grasped an edge of a steel plate to hold
 the boat against the liner until 1 could
 get in.
 "As soon as our boat touched the water the one impulse was to get
 away. and the men pulled with all
 their might at the oars to put the An
 coma and the submarine as far from
 us as they could.
 Found Leaking Boat.
 Meantime" she added. we came
 upon heavily laden boat which was
 leaking. We took off five women and
 four children in order to tighten it.
 iamberti then took line from the
 other boat, and we had it in tow. He
 did his best to reassure every one
 telling us we would all be saved if
 we did as he told us Most of the wo-
 men and children. were in tears. but
 his manliness prevented a panic and
 finally brought about order
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