Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-04


 to rescue my pclsOagl effec-s and SO l losI them all. My men Cnly saved what they stood in
 Sights Another Vessel
 Perhaps l would have been given more time if the commander of the submarine had not seen the Haup- pauge under full sail about or , u.iles away. Like us the Hauppause aas light and, l understand. bound from Portland to New Port News.
 They destroyed Captain Sweeuey- fine new schooner, after ordering him and his crew to take to fher boats, and within half an hour both crews were on board the submarine and both the small boats placed On the suhma- rines deck and were Iashed down.
 We were kept below for several hours, until the submarine picked up Captain Gilmore and the Edna. at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Then, guess the commander thought he mad done a good days work, for he was m a1 excellent humor, and told us sapLains that we co1ld go on deck and have a to the others that day. but later they got their chance once in | while.
 OhDHlCIgC Wduy itIiSo
 We submerged many times during the first three days on board. and, to a man like myself, who Is not used to it, it was an unpleasant expert ence. The pressure of submerginS re- suited in smashing our boats. which we had lashed to the submarines deck. and in a few days they were kind ling wood and thrown away
 "Of course we had many experiences and shall not forget Monday, May 27, when we had our dinner, with the submarine lying on the bottom in 2S fathoms Of water The commander told us it took 45 seconds to submerge the boat. and there were times when could hear them using their wire less.
 One night the wireless transmitter was so loud. it awakened us. They were sending messages either to an- other ship or to some shore station. Every night the operators listened to press bulletins sent out from America. One of them told me of the battle drive new on in France.
 l "They also said that the Whitehead torpedo factory had been blown up in Austria last week. The engineer that ran the Diesel engine told me that he had been an engineer of the passengr steamer, George Washington, of the North German Lloyd line, which piled between New York and Bremen be- fore the war"
 Sails Into Trap The Winneconne sailed into a fine German trap on Sunday morning, ac- cording to Henry Walsh, Of San Fran cisco, the first officer. Walsh said the steamer was on her way to PrOdivence, R. l.. with a cargo of 2,SOO tons of coal, loaded at Norfolk, Va.
 Third mate Brewer called me up to , the bridge about 10 o'clock Sunday morning" said Walsh. He told me that he had heard shots somewhere ahead
 At that time we were about 60 miles east of Cape May, and looking : ahead, l saw three masted schooner, with all sails set, lying nearly directly ahead. There was enough wind to fill her sails. and l thought it strange that she lay there doing nothing.
 Then I saw what looked like de- stroyer come out of from behind her. When we got about two miles away, l could see it was a submarine and that the men on deck were not dressed in white as they would be at this time of year on an American vessel. Then saw the German flag, and the subma- riue sent a solid shot across our bow. They lowered small boat and a lieu tenant came with some of the crew alongside. telling us to get into the boats and to row over and lay along ' side the submarine.
 Sink Both Vessels Just about the time we were leav- ing our boat. the men on what proved , to be the Isabel Wiley, were going over the side into their gasoline yawl. Ot course, we obeyed and all went to the side of the submarine and the German crew first sank the WinnecOnne and then the Isabel Wiley with small bombs. The winneconne went down in five minutes They gave us officers time enough to save most of our things and so I brought along by typewriter.
 When we bid goodbye to the sub marine captain at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon the weather was fine and the sea smooth" said NJ. B. Brewer oi Booth Bay harbor, Maine, third officer of the Winneconne, in describing his experiences after he and his men left the submarine in small boats. q must saw that the German skip ! per treated us decently, for he sent ] supply of water for the boats and also some cans of black bread. He said the bread was baked in April, and did not eat it because we had plenty of our own from our ship.
 Boats Get Together
 The three boats of the Winneconnt ] and the gasoline launch of the Wiley . got together Sunday night, because had light in my boat. There were thirty men in my boat, which was , the biggest With the men at the oars we struck a course for Absoron Inlet ' in the eJrsey coast.
 About II o'clock in the night we had north west thunder squall which kicked up a nasty sea for half an hour Had it lasted another half hour. we I all would have drowned Our boats were deep with the weight of the men , and their dunnage and continually shipped water during the squall.