New-York tribune., 1918-06-04

and one of them told me of the battle
drive now on jim France.
"They also said that Whitehead
torpedo factory has been blown up in
Austria last week, The engineer that
ran the Diesel engine told me he had
been an engineer on the epassenger
ship George Washington, of the North
German Lloyd Line, which piled be
tween New York and Bremen before
tho war"
Captain Holbrook. who is forty-nine
years old, as his first act on landing at
the battery last night, telcgraphed the
news of his safety to his wife in Maine.
Brought Back Captains
New Silk Umbrella
Captain Gilmore, who is sixty-two
wears old, was the master of the
three -masted schooner Edna which was
owned by the A. O. Anderson Shipping
Company, so Broad Street, this city.
Captain Gilmore said he was carrying
cargo of oil from Philadelphia for
Santiago, Cuba. All told there were
six men on the ship.
We were eighteen to twenty miles
southeast of Winter Quarter Lightship
at about o'clock on the afternoon Of
may -o' oaiu SdPtdln N1unOTe, contln-
ulng the narrative. 81 was standing
near the man at the wheel when a
she'll exploded under our lee. Thinking
it was some American warship I did
not pay much attention, but went down
below and lit my pipe. A second shell
struck near by, and | knew it meant
me. Then I first noticed this big sub
marine about two miles off, with the
signals "a. B." set, which meant stop
at once.
"The submarine came right up to
US. The small boat was lowered and
an officer came aboard, telling me,
abandon ship When l was telling the
men how to get the boat, which was
lashed on the deck, clear, the lieu
tenant told me to come below"
Il suppose I acted as if | was in q
hurry to get away from the ship, but
when we got below the lieutenant said:
Don't get excited, captain. Tame your
time Well we around here an hour
and half So l picked up everything
| could think of that belonged to me-
and when l got over to the submarine
l found I'd left my new silk umbrella
After they blew up the schooner the
Germans rowed back to the subma-
rine, and | found that besides the few
things they had picked up for them
selves, they brought me my umbrella
They took a few cases of oil, as. of
course, they had electric lights on
the submarine"
Submarine Said
To Be 800 Feet Long
eve captains had plenty to eat and
they told US we might go where we
pleased on the submarine We could
go into any room except when we
were submerging. At that time we had
TO stay IN whatever compartment we
found ourselves. 1t seemed to me this
There were seventy-six men in the
crew, and there were two 6-inch guns
mounted-one forward and one aft, the
guns being 80 feet long each.
'Of course, we prisoners, although
we were treated we'll, made a pretty
big ships company andthe commander
said he was looking for sailing yes
sci TO put us on board as he didn't
want to take us to Germany. Although
we were below Sunday morning when
the submarine overhauled the Winne>
come, we knew at once when she was
sunk and twenty-siX men sent adrift.
that something would have to be done
with us. They couldn't KEEP us all on
board. For after the steamer was sunk
we went into her boats, while CAPTAIN
Sweeny and his crew set out in the
launch belonging to the Isabel Wiley.
winch was sunk a few minutes before |
the Winneconne"
The Winneconne sailed into fine
German trap on Sunday morning. ac-
cording to Henry Walsh, the first Of
iicer, whose home is in San Francisco.
Walsh talked in the absence of Captain
w. wilson, who was being interrogated
by the naval authorities. He said that
the steamer, which is of this port. had
a crew of twenty-sx men and was un
der control of the United States Ship
Ping Board. She was on her way to
Providence, with cargo of $500 tons
OF % coal, loaded at Norfolk. Va.
Ihlrd Mate Brewer called me up
morning" said Walsh. "He told me-
hat he had heard shots fired some
where ahead. At that time we were
about sixty miles east of Cape Nav,
and looking ahead saw a three -masted
schooner, with all sails set, living
nearly becalmed. There was enough
wind to fill her sails and | thought it
strange she lay there doing nothing.
lhen l saw what looked like a DESTROYER
come out from behind her. When we
got about two miles away | could see
=" "uo q oubAHdIlIlS anu CnaC the men
On deck were not dressed in white
as they would be at this time of the
year on an American vessel.
Sees Two Vessels
Sunk With Bombs
Then saw the German flag. and the
submarine sent a solid shot across our
bow. They lowered small boat and q
lieutenant came with some of the crew
alongside. telling US to get into the
boats and to row over aed lay along
side the submarine. 's
Just about the time we were leav-
ing our boat the men. on what proved
to be the Isabel B. Wiley, were going
over the side into their gasoline yawi'
or course we cbeyed and all went to
the side of the submarine. and the Ger
man crew first sank the Winneconne
and then the Isabel B. Wiley with
small bombs. The Winneconne went
iown in five minutes. They gave us
officers time enough to save most of
'ur things an dso brought along this
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