Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-06
$50 SURVIVORS LAND
TELLS STORY OF DEATH MET WITH FoRTITUDE BY MORE THAN 100 SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS BY RUSH OF WATER BETWEEN DECKS OF VESSEL

A BRITISH PORT, Sunday, Aug 4, | (By the Associated Press .)-The to- pedoing early this morning of the Bri- tish ship Warilda was one of the most | narrowing disasters in tEe history Of submarine warfare. The number or ! dead is vaTiously estimated from lno | to 13O and upwards and includes seV- eral women nurses.
 The ship carried 600 sick and wounded. Among them were seven Americans, two officers and five en- listed men, all of whom have beel ac- counted for.
 There were aboard eigbty-nine nurses and members of the Voluntary Aid department, and the crew con- prised about 200 men.
 More than $50 survivors brought here shortly after 6 o'clock were g,v- en first aid treatment, food and cloth ing. The patients were sent to hos pitals.
 The torpedo struck the after part Of the engine room, killing the third en- gineer and two other members Of the engine room force. The dynamo WAS destroyed. plunging the vessel into darkness.
 Just over the dynamo was the ward room which contained more than 100 patients. Most of these were killed outright by the explosion and the 1tll- CTS, many of whom had been freshly injured by the torpedo, found them selves trapped It was impossible for outside aid to reach them and all, except a few who jumped OverOoard and were picked up, perished. 1nis part of the ship quickly settled and water flooded the ward room drown ing the men caged there.
 Stories of the fearful struggle in the darkness to rescue helpless invaliLs are told by survivors. The ship re- mained afloat more than two hours, but for a great part of the time con tinued under headway because the engines could not be stopped. This condition greatly hampered the rescue work and in addition three or tour boats were smashed while being Io>- cred. throwing their occupants into the sea.
 All the soldier patients and the nurses testify to the heroic efforts of officers and crew Notwithstanding the excitement and confusion the crew under the masterly direction of the officers went cooly and methOdically about the difficult task of bringing the sick and wounded up on deck AS many as could be handled in this man. ner were placed in slings and lowered to the escorting destroyers which, by wonderful seamanship in the rodgn water managed to work in close enough to the sinking ship to take off men by lowering ropes.
 The morale of the wounded, wing on deck waiting to be taken off, is described by members of the crew as too fine for words
 The less seriously disabled assisted their more unfortunate mates 10 50 first. Women were placed in the -irse boats lowered notwithstanding their protests that they should not precede the patients. One boat, containing SIX women, was thrown against another just before touching the water and ur- set Three women from the capsiZed craft were picked up by another small boat, along with five wounded British soldiers all of whom had managed to keep afloat although each had an arm in a sling.
 The Warilda had been in the chan mel service two years and this was her first crossing from France in which she did not carry a number of German wounded prisoners. Members of the crew remarked over this fact.
 T. F. Redman, one of the stewards, had an unusual escape. He had been placed with the six women in the first boat and when the rope broke he seized another line and clambered hand over hand to the top There he managed to swing in from the end of the davit to the rail where a wound ed Tommy" awaiting rescue, seized the stewards hand and aided him to chamber aboard. This man described how one woman, becoming entangied in the ropes as she was being pla ed in the boat, was caught between the boat and the side of the ship. She was frightfully injured by the pressure and begged to be released. but no aid was possible. The small boat finally went adrift and the woman was drowned
 When the steward regained the deck he rushed below to get some of snis clothes. q stumbled over wounded in the darkness" he said. "Deptn bombs were shaking the ship. l 'inal- ly returned to the deck. There was