Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-30

ana tie engines had not been stopped.
II was some time before they topped
OF their own accord and the ship lost
! her headway
After the ship was hopelessly lost
and the crew I'm the boats the sub
marine came alongside the third off,
GERS boat and asked us in English
| the name OF the vessel. her tonnage
ard who her owner, were. The com
| mander was MASKED ard wore auto
goggles. He then fired two shots into
/ the engine room 10 hasten the sink
! ing and then steamed away OF the
gIrface
"Tho ccptair's boat was picked 40
by a Spanish tr;twler and the chief Of
lic1r's boat landed in Morocco after
three days This boat was fired on
BY an armed ship, IL shells being shot
at H. probably mistalling 1t for a sub
marine. The third officers boat was
picked up 10y an English steamer,
which was afterwards engaged by \
submarine armed with two guns. The
steamer was hit twice, but escaped by
means Cf her smoke screen and
Jpeed The three United States navy
gunners. who had been i'm the life
| boat assisted the British gunners
during the action, which lasted until
our gunners were warnly praised by
the captain of the vessel in his report
TO the admiralty. After landing they
were sent home in anOthr British
steamer and stood watch and watch
with these English gunners during
the voyage
Tho chief officer OF our own
tanker which was tOrpedoed had been
| formerly a chief gunner's mate in the
ln nf
! sistance. II was also due to his sea-
manshinp and the navy style of rig
| ginr the lfeboats that we were sue
ceSsful I'm getting them away. There
was only one American sailor in the
! forecastle and he had IA dishonornhle
/ discharge from the navy. There were
| No Americans in the frcmau's quar-.
/ tcrs. The crew consisted of Greeks
! Spaniards, llollsndcrs and SHedes.
! When the general alarm was sounded
these people dropped everything and
| flew for the lifeboats To stop this
| gave loaded pistols to the captain.
| the chief officer, and the chief engi-
! neer on watch"
The gunner who wrote the report
! omitted To mention that these life
boats contained his men and the
ships crew were two hundred miles
from the nearest land. l3y Gods
mercy they managed TO escape f0un-
derins or starvation and a faVoring
breeze enabled them to hoist sail and
so tighten the task Of bending at the
heavy oars. They lived on the ratiops
which were stored In boats for such
an emergency, a slim allowance but
enough to keep body and soul to-
gether. The most grevious hardship
! was shortage OF tobacco. one man
had a little In a bag, so they dried il
on thwart and doled out pinches,
which were rolled into cigarets and
smoked to the last ash while stuck on
knife blades.
The incident OF the American ana
| English gunrcrs serving together 20
fsht off n submarine was the first OF
the kind In the war, bit OF real his
I tory In way. II proclaimed that
/ once again blood is thicker than
water" as Commodore Tatnal de-
/ clared when the red ensign and the
Stars and Stripes flew together in
front OF the Taku forts.
These records Of sinking an d
drowning may resemble each other in
certain details. but they help 10 drive
nome the truth which the American
people must grmly learn for them
/ selves These ATTACKS and murders
are directed by a foe which has dis
carded all the dictates and precepts
4 humanity whose morals are thosN
of the dark ages, which is bent upon
| obliter1ti0g NyiN tuion itseli The
story uf the chief gunner Of the
American steamer Orleans helps To
sugges; what Germany means by the
freedom OF the seas"
1T had just turned dusk and / left
the bridge ana went TO the forward
gun and changed the power OF the
sight telescope and tested out the
night sighting circuit From there
Went TO the after sun, when tor
ICdo struck the ship ahaft the no. ,
hatch about one hundred feet from
/ the bow. There we're two distinct
shocks and the water flew n hundred
feet In the air. The ships crew
rushed into the boats with no one 70
lower them. II was every man for
himself.
THE boats assigned to the armed
guard were blown away into the air
| told the guard to get into the other
/ boats rs best they could and went
into No boats forward on the port
side This boat was filled and nobody
trying to lower IT, came Up the for
ward full and with two OF my men
| lowered the boat within five fees Of
the water and gave the order TO hold
It there. The ship still had great
| headway.
81 then went down into tie engine
! room and found tho engines had not
! been stopped, Being unable to stop
them myself l returned on deck ana
/ sung out that unless tho engine were
| stopped no boats could be lowered,
! Captain Tucker who was on deck,
/ called for a volunteer to 20 down and
! stop the engines. one Of the assist
ant engineers. Mr. Kelly, climbed out
and went below az great risk OF
drowning with the Ship which wns
going eight knots ut this time
"When | came on deck somebody
cut the forward falls Of the boat and
"a men were thrown into the water.
The keel II the boat smashed the bow
Of another boat Just ahead Of IL, Two