New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-22

three put on respirators and kept the
fans going till all the fumes, etc, were
cleared away"
To each man you will observe his
own particular hell, which he entered
of his own particular initiative.
Lastly, there were two remaining
of 'em-one wounded in the right hand
and the other in the left-who took
the wheel between them all the way
home, thus improvising one complete
navy pattern, quartermaster, and re
fused to be relieved during the whole
thirty-six hours before the ship re-
turned to port"
Exit the Brave Eblis Men
So the Eblis passes out of the pict-
ure with "never a moan or compliant
from single wounded man.. and IN
spite of the rough weather OF June !
they all remained CHEEKY" They had
one Hun cruiser torpedoed to their
credit and strong evidence aboard that
they had knocked the end out OF an
other.
But the Gehenna went down, and
those of her crew who remained hung
onto RATS that destroyers carry tlil
thew were picked up about dawn by the
Shaitan. third in line, who at that
hour was in no shape to give much
help. - cLo sav
tho unknown cruisers overtake the no
tilla. saw their leader switch on
searchlights and open fire as she are"
abreast of the Gehenna and at one
fred a torpedo at third German r Snip'
The Shaitan could not see the hpIis'
her next ahead, for. as we Know thS
Tblis. after firing her torpedoes' mao
hauled off to reload. When the enemy
switched his searchlights on, the Shal-
tan hauled out. too. 1t is not whoie-
some for destroyers TO keep on tIe
came course within a thousand yards
of big enemy cruisers. She picked up
a destroyer of another DIVISION the
Goblin, who for a moment had not DeeI
cauoht bv the enemy's searchlights and
had contrived, by this direst ooscuri ~
10 fire a torpedo at the hindmost OF the
cruisers.
Almost as the Shaitan took her sta
tion behind the Goblin the latter was
lighted I'D by large ship and heavily
fred at. The enemy fed, but she left
the Goblin out of control, with grlsly
list of casualties and her helm jammed.
Goblin and Shaitan Collide. .,
The Goblin swerved, returned and
swerved again. The Shaitan, astern,
tried to clear her, and the two fell
aboard each other, the COLLINS bows
deep in the Shaitan's fore bridge
While they hung thus locked, an un-
known destroyer rammed the Shaitan
aft, cutting off several feet Of her setrnn
and leaving her rudder damned hard
over. As complete a mess as the per-
sonal devil himself could have devised,
and all due to merest accident OF few
panicky salvos.
Wounded Men Catapulted
Presently the two ships worked
clear, in smother of steam and oil,
while after she had parted from the
Shaitan the Goblin discovered several
of the Shaitan's people, some of them
wounded, on her own fo'c'sle, where
they had been pitched by the col
lision.
The Goblin, working her way home
ward on such boilers as remained.
carried on a one-gun fight at few
cables distance with some enemy de-
stroyers, which, not knowing what state
she was in, sheered off after few
rounds.
The Shaitan, holed forward and
opened up aft, came across the sur
vivors from the Gehenna clinging to
their raft and took them aboard. Then
some of our destroyers were
thick on the sea that night-tried
to tow her stern first, for the Cob
lin had cut her up badly forward.
But since the Shaitan lacked any stern
and her rudder was jammed hard
across where the stern should have
been, the hawsers parted. And after
leave asked of lawful authority across
all that waste of waters they sank the
Shaitan by gunfire, having first taken
all proper steps about the CONFIDENTIAL
books.
Yet the Shaitan had her little crumb
of comfort. While she lay crippled
she saw quite close to her German
cruiser that was trailing homeward in
the dawn gradually heel over and sink.
The Gehenna Dies Not in Vain
This completes my version of the
various accounts of the four destroy
ers directly concerned for few hours