Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-06-05

ship Carolina by German Subma-
rine.
Atlantic City, N. j., June 5-A vivid
and graphic story of the sitting Of
the New York and Porto Rican Line
steamship Carolina was told BY Mrs.
A. L. Seymour, of New York one OF
the twenty-seven survivors WHO land
ed here at 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon in one OF the Cardinals life
boats.
AS in the case of the othe- vessels
sunk by this courteous German pl-
rate, the passengers and crew were
given sufficient time to get -nto the
boats and away from the shi7 before
she was sunk. The Carolina was
bombed or torpedoed when he life
boats had rowed about fifty yards
away, according to Mrs. Seymour.
eve had just started for dinner"
she said, "when shell screamed a
warning across the trent OF the ship.
can't describe how I felt when we
realized that we were being attacked
without warning by q submarine.
81 flung my arms about my daugh-
ter and held her close My mind was
filed with all kinds OF fear. l thought
of the women and children Of France
and Belgium and how they had been
treated by the Germans and don't
know whether I screamed o" mott
was awful.
"Then came another shoi-sirapne!,
they said it was, and it sriintered
something in the bow Of the ship.
"Thcre were no arms on board ard
the captain ordered the snip stopped.
In few minutes something scraped
along the side. 1t was boat from
the submarine. The officer in COM
mand spoke good English. He told
mr. captain. who nc: him ~ RI" Top
CT the ladder that he was gong TO
sink the ship. but he would give Us
time to get off in the boats.
"He examined the ships pauers and
then waited with his men while we
scrambled into the boats. Lis men
were heavily armed.
"There were more than 200 passen-
gers and more than 100 in tie crew.
The women and children went first.
l want to say that the crew, although
many of them could not speak Eng
lish, acted splendidly
THE boats were lowered and when
everybody was taken off the ship we
pulled away. We could see the lights
of the other boats bobbing up ard
down. We were all afraid. Every
minute we expected the Germans to
shell US.
"We were about fifty yards away
W. en- there came binding flash and
an awful explosion that rocked our
boat. l don't know whether they
shelled, bombed or torpedoed The Car
DINA, but we could see that she was
sinking.
"In the night we were separated
from the other boats Lieut.. McLaren
and Chief Purser Nortz looked after
US wonderfully. The nen did their
best to keep our spirits up and tried
to make US comfortable during those
long hours Wien they were rowing
through the darkness.
They insisted that we eat what lit
tie food there was and gave US NEST
of the water. They gave US their
coats, overalls, jumpers-evcrything
they could spare to KEEP US warm.
"When we sighted land we were tod
by Lieut.. McLaren that it 10 ,ked like
Atlantic City. Did it look good to
US? Well, rather.
"And when we came ashore you hcd
the band playing fer US, just as if
you knew we were coming"
Lewes, Del, June 5.-Nineteen sur
vivors, passengers and crew, of the
summarized steamship Carolina, w're
landed here yesterday and brough: a
narrowing tale of thu sea, the news of
the loss of sixteen of their number
and remarkable rescue OF girl
while they drifted helpless on TIE
ocean during a severe thunderstorm
Sunday night. Ten boats left theACir-
DINA before she was sunk by the Ger
man submarine U-37, all passed
through the same storm, and the s1r-
pivors here said they had felt sure
affifzwere lost hey expressed great
Joy when Informed that most Of the
Cardinals company had been saved