Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-11-09

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wara helsfed heavy black slanke he-
saa To pour esis 1T numerous stacks
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WHs almost hidden from view. About
sis minaiea after sals signal WIS made
the Jsryts stood eat 10 sea. bound for
Nantucket }!gstt vessel, making ST the
start i speed al 20 knots. The won,
tierful work of the Jarvis will long bs
remembered AS breaking records for
getting unsier way.
Naw the race wns on ia short
tiiue ,hese eaEae Il toat fsem The tef-
peio stntion This was the Drayten
uuaer Way. Almost Immediately an
oiler, the Ericsson, D1oFed cut; then
another, The D'Isrien.
Thrilling Race.
out the sllips steamed. | cannot re-
member tEae exact order of leaving, he
Ing on watch. and very busy, bat ! do
know, on account Of The return of our
small boats, wo were fifth from the
lasf to leave. We then commenced
Our pursuit Of tlle destroyers ahead.
My what a beautiful and thrilling
race II wasI
About two miles away. eli our star
board bow. was the destroyer Cnnyng.
ham, aud dead ahead. asont three
miles, The limit Of visibility, due TO
heavy haze two other destroyers. Slow
Is we gained an the Conynghanl, but
lost our advantage I'm few minutes
GU account of slight trouble Ia the for
ward f1rerooIn. seen we were at It
again while in the meantime the Win
slow had passed Us and the Nicholson
was now close off our port quarter. No.
2 boiler WAS now cut IN, and rs our
speed wRs by this Time almost maxi
mum we practically few over the wa
ter The Nicholson was soon left l,e-
hind and the conynghan was rapidly
being overtaken.
Soon we passed her. The ship ahead
drew nearer to us. the captain nt this
time sighting destroyer bearing or
our port bow. With the aid of power
ful glasses made her out to be the
Mccall. Sweeping around. / made out
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US. -Four destroyers were now passed,
u-53 is Sighted
al told, we passed 1T least ten de-
stroyers. which had left Newport be-
fore us and were capable Of making as
much speed as the McDougaI under or
dinary conditions. The last three ships
We're overtaken within sight OF the
light vessel, of which we were now
abeam, just three and one-half hours
after taking our departure from New
port. A remarkable run, you must adj
nit, d distance of 100 miles covered In
tile time mentioned above, from cold
start and with half the crew and off,
GERS ashore.
With the light vessel abeam, we had
the first opportunity to witness part
of tlia tragedy. a short distance to
the eastward of the lightship was a
large Dutch steamer, the Boomers
dijk. She had beautiful lines for a
freighter. Flying from her stern was