Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-09-20
CHATTER xvlI--continued.

CHAPTER xvII--continued.
Also. by this time some of the men
mad lost their heads completely; In
z fact, had gone violently crazy, and the
rest Of us were afraid of them. We
3 were oil thinking of the fight that
might occur any moment between the
Yarr0wtlale and some other vessel and
We knew we were In the likeliest place
<$or the vessel 40 be struck. Even
&th6ukh we were not hit amidships, II
! the NIP were sinking we did not think
J the Germans would give us chance to
\ escape. We figured from what they
I had said that we would go down with
The ship. And going down on ship In
Which you are a prisoner In quite DIFF
4efunt from going down with one for
which you have been fighting. You
( arrive at the same place. but the feel
Ing Is different.
Some Of us thought of overpowering
< the crew and taking the vessel into our
rDwn hands, and we got the rest Of
The sane or nearly sane men together
Ind tried to get up scheme for doing
Z was strong for the plan and 80
were several others. but the Llmey Of
Ulcers who were with us advised
against 1t. They said the Germans
We're taking US to neutral country.
y where we would be interned, which
(. was Just what the Germans had told
Us, but what few Of us believed.
Then some others said that IL we
started anything the Germans would
fire the time bombs. We replied that
ut least the Germans would 60 west
with us, but they could not see that
there was any glory In that. For my
self, rnoagn. 30 Germans wouiu not
Ore the bombs until the last minute,
and that we would have a chance ut
the boats before they got all Of us
anyway. There were only thirteen
\ German sailors on board. besides their
y commander. This last Hun was
named Badewitz.
So the pacifists ruled, because we
could not do anything unless we were
all together. and there was no mutiny.
They said we were hotheads, the rest
Of US, but still think we could have
made dash for II and overpowered
our sentries, and either gone over tie
side with the lifeboats, or taken over
the whole ship. II would have been
better for us II we had tried, and II
the pacihsts had known what was
coming to us they would have fred
the time bombs themselves rather
than go on into that future. How
ever, that Is split milk.
We were not allowed to open the
portfolios while we were In the bunk
ers, under penalty of death. and there
in the dark. In that shrinking air. II Is
no wonder many of us went crazy.
Among us was a fellow named Har-
rington, about six feet tall and weigh
Ing $50 pounds. He seemed to be all
right mentally. but some Of us
thought afterwards he was crazy.
Anyway. do not blame him for what
he did. Harrington rushed up the
fiddley and opened the door. There
was n German sentry there. and Har-
rington made swing at him and then
grabbed his bayonet. The sentry
yelled and some others came down
from the bridge and shot Harrington
through the hand. After they had
beaten Harrington pretty badly, the
bull of the bunch, Badewitz himself,
came over and hammered Harrington
all around the deck. Then they put
him In irons and took him to the chart
room.
The next day we We're sitting in the
fiddley getting warm when the door
! opened and there was Badewtz. He
yelled "Heraus !" and began firing at
us with revolver. so we beat II back
onto the coal. Pretty soon the door
opened again. But II was only Ger
man sentry. He threw down a note
II was written in English and read
Pick out eight men for cooks" ST
we picked out eight men from the va
rious vessels and they went on deck
and rugged up galley aft.
But we did not receive any knives
forks, spoons or plates. The first
meal we got was nothing but macaro'
nj, piled up on pieces of cardboard
boxes. Then we appointed four men
to serve the macaroni, and they got
four pieces OF wood, the cleanest we
could find, which was not very clean
at that. and they dug around In the
macaroni and divided II up and put
II In our hands. We had to eat II
after that from our grimy fingers
Those who We're helped first had to &c
farthest back on the coal to eat IT,
and those who were helped last got
less, because the dlviders got more
careful toward the end and gave
smaller portions.
But we did not get macaroni very
long. A cook from the Voltaire was
cleaning q copper dixie that the mac
frni had been cooked in, aud he yves
holding IL over the side when The vos.
~ .3lca AWilv, aud drdpped ~
dixie INTO ne bdrr = sings
nff IA hI,f,