The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-05
SchOoners Mengel and Desauss
Added to List of Hun Victims.
Heavy Firing Near Coast Heard
During Night.
CAROLINA SURVIVORS LAND
Youthful Wireless Operator
Proves Himself a Hero.
Every s. o. s. Brought a Shot
From U-BOat's Guns.


Cape May, N. J., June 5.-Fisher-
men arriving this morning declared
two more ships had been sunk by SUBJ
marines off this point. There was no
confirmation. Heavy firing at sea dur
ing the night was heard all along the
coast.
Lewes, Del, June 5.-The schoon-
er Desauss was discovered floating,
stem up, off the Delaware capes, it
was officially announced here today.
The vessel was reported torpedoed-
the first U-boat victim known to have
been sunk in this manner.
New York, June 5.-Another ship
was added to the list of those de-
stroyed by submarines off this coast
when the crew of the schooner Samuel
c. Mengel arrived here today. The
vessel was sunk IT'S miles off New
York last Sunday.
The Mengel, according to the crew.
was on her way to New York with
cargo from the West African coast.
The vessel was sunk by bombs after
the men had taken to the boats at
the command of the U-boat COM
mander.
The Mengefs commander, Captain
H. T. Hanson, said the sinking of his
vessel occurred at $50 D. m. and that
he was told by the commander of the
submarine that the U-boat had pre-
viously sunk three schooners and
three steamers, one of which was a
large passenger ship of about 5000
tons.
Lands $50 Survivors.
New York, June 5.-Bringing stor-
les of Prussian piracy at Americas
very gates, the weather beaten schoon-
er Eva B. Douglass slipped thru the
fog into New York harbor today with
ESQ survivors of the liner Carolina,
81 bmarined off Cape May.
There were 156 passengers and "a
OF the crew aboard, including Captain
Barbour and tep army officers from
the military training school at San
Juan, Porto Rico.
The schooner 'can~e in towed by a
tug and with United States patrol boat
1907" alongside to guard it against
German raiders which might have at
tackled even the rescue ship.
Survivors Near Collapse.
Hoarse sirens rumbled a greeting to
the schooner as it passed the subma-
rine net at the narrows and pro-
ceeded slowly up the bay. Men and
women who had had the courage to
sing THE Star Spangled Banner" as
the U-boat shelled the Carolina, lined
the rail of the Douglass as it neared
it's Brooklyn dock, where automobiles
were ready, driven by volunteers of
the Women's Motor corps. Red Cross
workers took immediate charge of the
survivors and hurried them to hospt=
tails and hotels. Some of the weaker
ones were near collapse from the ef-
fects Of their experiences Sunday night
when q thunder storm came up and
drenched the figures budding in the
lifeboats- 1t was in this storm that
one boat overturned and only nine
teen of its thirty-five occupants sur
vived. The rest were swept away and
perished.
1s Known Dead, 10 Missing.
Those landed here today were found
in their open boats drifting off Barne-
gat after a night at the mercy Of the
seas. All of the Carolina's compile
ment is now believed accounted for
except the sixteen lost in the storm
and sixteen more who have not yet
been checked up.
e. w. NogeI, 19, of Paterson. N. J.,
wireless operator aboard the Carolina.
told a most graphic story of the sub
marine raid.
Wireless Man a Hero.
eat about half past five o'clock
Sunday night" he said, 1--WE received
a wireless from the schooner Isabel B.
shelled by submarine 1 knew by
the strength of the signals the attack
was close at hand and told the cap
tain SO. At that time we were about
fifty miles off Cape May. N. J. The
captain changed his course and be-
gan to zigzag while the passengers
were at dinner.
About 6 o'clock while in the din
ing cabin, I heard a shot I went to
the wireless room and started my
calls, for 1 knew what had happened.
First 1 flashed IS. o. S. Steamship
Carolina being gunned by German
submarine
S. o. S. Brought Shots.
"Cape May answered but then the
German submarine wireless operator
broke in. His instrument was tuned
for a radius of only a. few miles. so
he could talk to ships he was after
and not be overheard ashore. The SUBJ
marine said. You don't use wireless
we don't shoot
Then 1 repeated the S. o. s. and
the Brooklyn navy yard answered.
The submarine repeated its warning, ]
told him we were stopping. then tried
to 8. o. S. again. but the minute ]
touched the key, the Germans fired
at us. 1 tried repeatedly. but each
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