The Washington times., 1917-10-22
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paying no attention to the ship
wrecked men, as the safety of the
men in the water as well as Of the
ships depended on it. ..--
No one on the Antilles or on the
conveying vessels which brought the
survivors here saw the undersea
boat In the two hours occupied by
J. the search the men in the water un-
derwent a trying ordeal. While the
search was under way, those who
had found resting places on the RATS
were not so badly of, but more than
score were hanging to floating OBJ
. jects and getting badly chilled. For
4 tunatelV every man had on a life
preserver, but the moments when the
= rescuing ships were out of sight were
f. trying ones.
Finally, when the commanders Of
r the convoy ships had satisfied them
selves that the submarines had dis
, appeared and there were no others
= about the work of picking up the
survivors was begun. A quiet sea
was running, but 1t took some time
to get the men all on aboard, and it
was IL o'clock before the work was
"a completed. Then the ships started
1ofor this port.
Survivors Refuse to Lenve Pier.
Their arrival here was attended by
affecting scenes. There were 100 sur
vivors who refused to leave the pier
until they knew who had been picked
mp by the other rescue ships. An hour
later the second ship came in and
. landed the occupants of two OF the
/, siifeboats. The men greeted each
other on the pier in a spirit of thank
fulness that they had been saved and
q count of the missing was taken.
The survivors were most grateful
to the crews of the two ships, among
FPhom were a number of young col
fllege men serving their country as vol
unteers. They gave the Antilles men
dry clothing from The skin out. plenty
of hot food and drink and put them in
c their berths and attended their needs
- In every way.
are all Of the same tenor-that the
submarine was not seen by any one,
htat the explosion was the first inti-
: nation any of the vessels had of the
/. Su bmsrine's presence, and that the
:: loss OF life was due to remaining too
long on board the Antilles in the hope
OF getting shot at the submarine.
Explosion First warning.
NAAGdBOdu. VINO was re-
turning home after finishing his work
, in the American field service, said
that he was in a cabin on the port
side Of the ship and was awakened
by a, tremendous crash which knock
: ed me out of my berth, sma5hed the
glass portfolio. and threw a stream
OF water into the stateroom.
Il scrambled into my clothes, put
on my life preserver. and hurried on
deck. There 1 found men already
getting into a boat. l was told that
q torpedo had entered the engine
,froom, killing many men by blowing
in the side Of the ship. ran to
lifeboat No. . and got in with Brig
, adler General -, the ships purser.
Z and a few sailors. In lowering the
boat II dropped suddenly. We were
all thrown into the sea.
u was swept around to the stern
: of the ship and there saw the purser
to get hold Of the boat and push II
toward me. We held on for about
two hours, and all this time the ships
did not try to pick US up but steamed
about looking for the submarine. We
Euould think they were coming TO US
when they would disappear again.
Il was getting pretty tired after
being two hours in the water when
one OF the lifebOAts worked away
and pulled US in. We were taken
aboard ship an hour later. Most of
the men lost were killed by the eX-
plosion of the torpedo. Only three
lifeboats were afloat when we were
picked up. Three OF the FIVE had
either capsized or overturned when
lowered