Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-04
Two Women and Baby Die # as Result of Unwarned # Attacks by Germans.
SURVIVORS SUFFER
 V TERRIBLE AGONIES
Seamen From Britis!, Ship in Two Submarine Attacks in 4x Less Than 12 HOurs-Seyeral @ Die of Exposure.

XXX New York, April 3.-A total of 11O 2 persons, including two women and a
 baby, are missing from the two Brit sish steamships, the Trevose and the sAlnwick Castle, each torpedoed with out warning by German suhn3a rines. X vessel
 s9sF TWenty-four survivors from the ves- Hssels, six of them passengers, arrived here today on the French steamship sNenezia, of the Fabre line. which res 3cued them at sea, after they had been
 Adrift four days and four nights, dur ling which time five other men died X from exposure.
 Besides these five, two of the crew Mof the Trevose were killed by an ex- aplosion.
 Fss,. The Trevose, a freighter, five of the 2e5nembers of whose crew arrived here con the Venezia. was sunk on March s1S, when 12 days out of Newcastle, sMith coal for Alexandria, Egypt. sAGeOrge D. Gray, steward, of Shields, 5sOne of the survivors. said the U-boat Tsaent a torpedo into the ship at 10:3O
 a. m. The explosion did not sink the
 ship immediately, but two of the crew x were killed. The survivors took to the boats, in which the crew drifted suntil night, when the Alnwick Castle 2 Appeared. They had been on the
 Alnwick Castle only il hours when saiBake was torpedoed by an unseen
 U-boat.
 The Alnwick Castle was going from
 London to Cape Town. Beside her
 crew of 100, there were five cabin
 passengers and nine in the steera ge : The Alnwick Castle was 200 miles at $ sea when the disaster came. There
 were 139 persons on board, including < the Trevose's crew of 25 and the gAlnwick Castles passengers, which
 Included one woman and her three
 mOnths-old child. The other woman aboard was a stewardess.
 < "All of our six boats were launched" !"
 reads statement by Captain Chave
 of the Alnwick Castle, "before the ship sank, in 25 minutes. The sub
 marine emerged from the sea among
 the boats. and watched the ship < founder slowly, by the head, and then
 went off toward another steamship,
 which we could see about four miles
 east Shortly afterward we saw this
 steamer blown up, and later we sailed
 through the debris. but saw no sign
 Of Jboats.' ' 7.
 The ship seemed to explode like a < gfant firecracker, other witnesses
 said.
 All that day the boats kept together, x CSptain Chave said, but during the
 Nykht they became separated. In the
 bxnt with the skipper were 17 of his soWn crew, six of the passengers and { Ifi1e of the Trevose's crew., Their ra-
 f3fns consisted of less than one week s sx xxNpply of biscuit, one can of con- 7. .i0lnsed milk and two small breakers sSS 0water. Careful distribution of these
 H6Dplies was made twice each day. ss Gales disabled the rudder and blew x xVay the sail and mast, and constant 83s s1Skor, shortage of water and lack of x 9y6ep, together with the bitterly cold A wind, caused some of the men to be- SIcxme deliriOus. Two men died, and < Ixfer three more succumbed, whose x lies remained in the boat because
 g{1A survivors were too weak to throw
 Him overheard. The hands and feet sSs1 gthe men in the boat were swollen x twice their normal size, said Cap Chave. X At i D. m. on March 23 the Venezia x Yke into view. The men in the boat lie unable, because of their weak ~ s and utter exhaustion, to lend any N &3 in their own rescue.