The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-01

first hit the wireless department. OF
the twelve living men who moment
ago were seated before the apparatus
there is nothing more TO be seen. Moth
ing is left but a smoking heap of ruins
The second shot again pierced the fore
part of the ship. The entire fore part
of the vessel as far as the Liesel mo-
tor room was past saving Another
broadside meant for the Lutzow fell
short, but a torpedo boat close by dis.
appeared. leaving only few odd pieces
of wood and a smashed lifeboat drift.
ing round. II is now half past seven,
and the hostile circle grows ever small
err. The Lutzow and the Seydltz lie
with their bows deep in the water; both
are badly mauled. The fore part of the
Lutzow was in flames. Shells burst
against the ships side in rapid success
sion. A terrible sight is presented on
board the Lutzow, and it needs iron
nerves to look upon il coolly Hundreds
have lost their lives, while many have
lain for hours in torture, and the fight is
not yet over. The bow is now crushed
in and is entirely submerged The four
screws are already sticking half out of
the water, so that the Lutzow can only
make eight to ten konts an hour, as
against the normal 80"
"The admiral decides to transfer to
the Motke. He gives orders to turn ard
get away from the scene of the fight, but
the Lutzow has not gone mile before
she receives broadside of 3s-centimeter
shells. The entire ship was filled with
the poisonous fumes of the shells, and
anyone who failed to affix his gas-mask
was doomed to be suffocated.
at was three quarters of an hour be-
fore the lighting installation was re-
stored. Then for the first time could the |
extent of the damage wrought by the
salvo be seen. One of the shells had |
landed in the sick bay. Here there were
.hree doctors and fifteen attendants be- |
sides 100 to $50 wounded. OF all these
only four remained alive. These four
we're hurled into the next compartment
by the air pressure; there they lay UNI
conscious.
The Lutzow was now complete
wreck. Corpses drifted past. From the
BOWS up to the first 30.centimeter gun
urret the ship lay submerged. The 9TH
r gun-turrets were completely disabled
With the guns sticking out in all d.
ections. On deck lay the bodies of the
ailors in their torn uniforms, in the
midst of the empty shell cases From
he mast fluttered torn flags, twisted sig
al lines and pieces of wire of the wire
ess installation. Had not the lookout
lan and the three officers on the com
1ander's bridge given signs of life, the
.utzow would have truly resembled a !
hip of the dead. Below, on the battery
eek and in the coal bunkers, there still
" manageable wounded, but there was
o longer a doctor to attend to them (;
Might came on and hope was enter
aimed of getting away without fur
ler encounter. But at 8 o'clock in the 9
light news of the approach of two Brit a
h cruisers and five destroyers was re. c
lived and Just at that critical time
lie fore and middle bulkheads gave way. |
Orders were given TO quickly carry f
lie wounded to the stern. Then the or s
sr rings out: All hands muster in d. V
sion order shaft A tumult arises on e
lie lower deck, for everybody is now S
int on saving his life. 1t is impossible b
that short space of time to bring up t.
| the wounded, for they are scattered 4
erywhere. Eighteen men had the good j
rtune to be carried up, but all the rest :,
ho could not walk or crawl had to be :,
It behind. !.
The q men shut up in the Diesel dy-
mo chamber had heard the order
rough the speaking tube, for many, =
I'd with anguish, screamed through the =
be for help, and it was learned that r
o of their number lay bound because 9
ey had become insane. Inspired by re
cir sense of duty, these sealedup men
d continued to carry on their work in ~
Ter to provide the ship with light. at
The torpedo boats now quickly took ha
the crew of the Lutzow, and those. OF
{ behind were doomed to death. 1t iii
S resolved that no piece of the yes co