Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-05
CarOlina's SaUed
Toys of Storm,
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with regard to the members of the crew
It was stated at the company's Offices.
and, according to the announcement that
4 but nine passengers are unaccounted for,
,tit now seems certain that several pem-
bers Of the crew pershed when one of
!. the lifeboats capsized.
The schooner came in towed by
tug and with the United States Patrol
boat 1907" alongside to guard II against
German raiders which might have at
tackled even the rescue ship.
Hoarse sirens rumbed a greeting to
the schooner as 1t passed the submarine
! net Mt the Narrows and proceeded slowly
up the bay. Men and women, who had
had the courage to- sing The Star
spangled Banner as the U-boat she,led
q tfle Carolina, lined the rail of the Doug
hoB as II neared its Brooklyn dock
where automobiles were ready. driven
3 by volunteers of the Womens Motor
Corps. Red Cross workers took i'm
mediate charge of the survivors and
hurried them to hospitals and hotels
Some of the weaker ones were near
collapse from the effects of their ex-
periences Sunday night when a thunder
s storm came UP and drenched the figures
budding in the lifeboats. 1t was in
this storm that one boat overturned
and only nineteen of Its thirty-five oc-
spants survived. The others were
sept away and perished
Those landed here were found In their
open boats drifting off Barnegat after
night at the mercy of the sea
E. w. Vogel, Paterson, n. J.. wireless
operator aboard the Carolina. told a
most graphic story of the submarine
raid.
$. o. Call from Wiley
"At about half-past five o'clock Sum-
day night" he said, I'VE received a.
wireless from the schooner Isabelle B.
Wiley saying S o S. We're being
ohelled by submarine I knew by the
gtrength of the signals that the attack
was close at hand and told the captain
-. At that time We were about fifty
y miles OF Cape MaN n. ]. The captain
changed his course land began to zig
sag while the passengers were at dinner.
About o'clock while in the dining
cabin I heard shot. I went to the
+ wireless room and started my calls for
& knew what had happened First I
nAshed: o S-steamship Carolina be-
Ing gunned by German submarine
"Cape May answered but then the
German submarine wireless operator
broke In. His instrument was tuned for
radius of only a few miles. so he
Z could talk to ships he was after and not
be overheard ashore. The submarine
said: You don't use wireless--we don't
shoot
Then repeated the S o s, and the
s BROOKLYN Navy Yard answered. The sub
marine repeated its warning I told him
Ne were stopping and then tried to S
Z o again, but the minute ! touched
the Key the Germans fired at US. tried
1epeatedly. but each time just the min
ute they caught my wireless on that
sub they sent another shot AT us
Both Brooklyn and Cape May asked
: our position, but the captain ordered me
a MT to try TO talk any more. as he was
afraid the Germans would kill the WON.
a. aboard with their gunfre
~ Before We left I destroyed the naya
teede book. then put our papers in q
4 silver pitcher and dropped them over.
hoard. The captain ordered us all out
I Gode 1t took about fifteen minutes Il
xi0ot All hands into ten lifeboats. We
\ hAd plenty OF boats"
Many of the survivors were withou
4 Dgoper clothing and some were unabl,
Z, - talk about the submarine attacl
ehout symptoms of Mysteries TIL,
1litary men aboard gave the cleares
,< 4counts- Because of the crowded
6ondition of the schooner, scores wer,
obliged to sleep on deck. Worn ant
exhausted though they were, a llttl
4 group managed to raise a feeble chez
Uhen they saw the waterfront build
2 1ngs looming vaguely through the earl,
nnorning mist.
Thought 1t Patrol Boat
1T was about six o'clock when w
s. heard the FIRST shot" said Lieutenan n
1, p. O'Toole, U. s. A. AT first w
Ho0ght II was an American patro
At But II soon convinced US other
1pe- A shot went over the bow, the,
80 screeched clear over the ship, an
61hor hit in the wake and a fourth fel
Ghorf. Then II came closer and w
eonld see II for what 1T was-a BIZ
Corman submarine with the crew ii
e yellow slickers standing on deck and twl
a. them waving German fags."
Estimates of the size Of the Germal
nrew varied from twenty-five to forty
Il vas generally agreed the U-boat wa
hnlss $50 feet long and that she carrie,
~ appeared 70 be two six-inch guns
Tor and one aft.
- boafs were launched without &C
While the pirate circled aroun
&rocnd the doomed liner. the Ger
raanA1ng idly watching the me-
- Mo ~ IN trail craft MT