The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-02
AMERICANS FREED
BY GERMANS
IN DEN N lark.
Yarrowdale Passengers Arrive at
Copenhagen After Months
in Prison Camps
TELL DRAMATIC TALE
OF ADVENTURES AT SEA
Subjected to Air Raids While
Prisoners at Karlruhe Put
on Ferry
(Associated Press)

Copenhagen, March -Four Amer
leans from the steamer Yarrowdale,
who have been prisoners in Germany
for three months, arrived here today
They are Dr.. John Davis, Columbus,
Miss; Orville McKim. Watertown, N.
Y; DR.. w. e. Snyder, Norfolk, Va,
and Richard Zabriskie, Engelwood,
N. Y. The four men are practically
destitute.
The men reached here with only
the clothes they stood in, and will
under the custom OF the sea, be sup
ported by the British consul until it
is possible to send them home. They
owe their release before the remain
der Of the 72 Americans, who were
on the YarrOwdale, to the fact that
as physicians or veterinarians they
rank as officers and were confined in
the officers camp at Karlsruhe. The
horse tenders and sailors, who COM
prised bulk OF the American cap
tives, are still held in quarantine"
at the prison camp for enlisted men
at Dulmen. .:,....,.t ..,sE.,.. !
a eft 10 Shift for Themselves.
The four men left the camp at
Karlsruhe in February q and travel
ed direct to Warnemunde under es-
cort, where after being subjected to
the frontier search, they were put
aboard Danish ferry and left to
shift for themselves. = @'
Few more dramatic tales have been
brought forth by the lw4r than the
story of adventure hardship and per-
lis at sea, short commons on land.
and the new danger from the sky,
which was related by the four to the
Associated Press correspondent. Snap.
ped up by the German raider in mid
ocean, they cruised around for days,
while the commerce destroyer was
gathering further prizes. Then they
made the voyage on the Yarrowdale
for Swinemuende under such condi-
TOMS that they. expected the ships
seams to open and the vessel to sink
beneath them at any moment.
In Prison Camps.
They lived for more than two
months in prison camps in Germany
On the meagre prison fare provided
by the German government without
food parcels which tighten the condi-
tion of existence Of other prisoners OF
the war. They passed through four
aerOplane attacks on Karlsruhe dur
ing which, bombs intended for the
railroad station, rained on all sides
of their camp. TO cap the climax,
they were ignorant until the last
whether they were prisoners of war
or neutrals in detention, whether
their government was doing anything
to obtain their release or whether the
United States had not already entered
the war.
TO add to their anxieties their fel-
low Americans from the YarrOwdale,
at the time when they left them at
the Neustrelitz camp to be transfer
red with other officers from the cap
tured steamer, we're in state OF CON-
plete destitution. They were INSULT
GENTLY clothed, several of them being
without shoes or overlooking during
the severe December cold, and al
though they were subsequently RENE
died when Ambassador Gerard finally
located them in the prison camp at
Dulmen.
The recital of the four Americans
of incidents concerning their capture
and their experiences on beard the
raider is one with which American |
readers are familiar from the ac-
counts of the Moewe and the Appam.
The Americans who reached Copen-
hagen say that the German raider is
the Puehme, commanded by Lieuten- !
ant Berg. /!