El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-12

man aboard had a grin and a joke all
me .sB Srltts a we'll directed shell from the
S,,b soon chased the smiles away, for
If landed square1y above our sleeping
Quarters forward and tore tnrouE II
rirht into them, where 1t exploded; IN
a second the fire alarm was souhuee-
Believe me, no fire department ever
worked harder than we did 10 ger
tbs+ fire out, but not until it had de-
stroved all our clothing and personal
While all this was going on Kip
was keeping in touch with the os-
strover. Every time anyone would
mass the wireless they would be sure
10 stick their head in the door ana
shout: How she coming, kip ana
kin would grin back and say:
Like the Twentieth Century
Limited; II this old ice cart VIII Only
hold together little while longer
Aboard the destroyer one Of the
sailors told me afterwards they were
working like mad to get every ounce
Of steam possible into her. livery
Mate in her was vibrating, Tor she
was making better than 20 knots All
hands were tremendously excited, LOT
Kin had told how the Heinie was
smothering US with shrapnel.
Don't Surrender @NeTer1
AL0nE a llLElG dANEA ~ L 49,
the radio room and relieved Kip. AT
the key Afterward he told me that
the DESTROYED wireless man had been
giving good CHEEKY dope on holdinS
out and not TO take TO the boats De-
cause they would be on the scene IN
Just as took my seat and pulled
the receiving set over my head the
wireless man on the destroyer spelled
out:
Ny hand was on the key, ana
without thinking I tapped out in
tinctively:
NEVER
"a second later a shell dropped
plumb into the passageWay Just for
ward Of the wireless room-ano
crashed down into the engine room
THE wireless went dead The steam
line was broken Big clouds OF steam
came pouring up from below. Suckers
bleeding badly, came crawling out
The third engineer was hurt serions-
". So were two other engine room
men. Altogether that shell got seven
ship Stops.
TO cap the climax OF our misfor-
tune, the ship started to slow up Fin
ally we stopped altogether. It was
a ticklish moment Unable TO maneu-
yer the ship, we were at the mercy OF
the submarine
And the sub was slowly getting
around to our stern where she could
creep safely in on Us and get IN the
finishing touches
Shells still came at US regularly.
Talk about your just in the nick
Of time stuff. We had all gone to our
stations ready TO abandon ship when
the destroyer doomed up. Maybe she
didn't look good.
another shell got us-went right
through a hatch cover into the hold
But now we had made up our minds
to stick
Destroyer Gets Submarine.
you couldn't see that destroyer so
big was the wave she was making.
About 11:15 she gets the range Of the
over him Then, with final shot at
US, the sub dived and we all sat down
on deck. laughing and crying and
a navy doctor and several navy
men came aboard and after four
hours work on the engines we got
under way. We got in with convoy
next day and saw two ships Of the
convoy torpedoed right under our
eyes
"On the way back we went in with
a convoy out Of an Irish port A few
hours out I saw the American de-
stroyer make a dash for the center Of
the convoy. A sub had made a daring
appearance. The destroyer fired about
six shots and then swerved almost in
her own length. Next minute we saw
a big explosion in the water
1T was a depth bomb. A minute
later the nose of the sub poked up
diagonally from the water. We could
see the Germans crawling out OF the
coming tower and holding UP their
hands Later the sub went down"