Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-12

An instance of the many rescues by the Mounsey is that of T. l.. Camp bell, Memphis lawyer and a secre- tary of the Y. M. c. A. He weighs | 22O pounds. He was perched Oil the Otranto's rail awaiting a chance to spring upon the destroyer the third time the Mounsey came up. as he leaped the Mounsey lurched away and instead of landing i'll the middle of the deck as he had hoped to do, one of his legs caught in the cable on the side of thed estroyer. Campbell pull ed himself aboard uninjured
 Waved a Farewell.
 "Just when the destroyer was pull ing away the last time" said Camp bell today "the men lined the rails or stood on the after deck waving a farewell.
 A huge wave struck a crowd of about Is prpates in afterdeck and a dozen of them were swept into the sea to sure death, as it was impos- sible to save persons from waves running sixty to seventy feet high" Thirty minutes after the crash the British destroyer Mounsey herself l'damaged by the heavy seas, appeared out of the haze in answer to, the dis tress calls of the Otranto.
 When the destroyer unanswered to get alongside, Captain Davidson of the Otranto warned Lieut. Craven, commanding the destroyer, not to make the attempt.
 When it was seen that Craven would make the attempt anyway the men were ordered to remove their shoes and heavy clothing and try to save themselves as best they could.
 The destroyer stood off about a hundred feet and then gradually came nearer, against the great odds of high waves and the wind which threatened momentarily to carry her entirely away from the Otranto or dash her to pieces against the side of the wounded vessel.
 Struck Sunday Night. ...,
 The Otranto struck the rocks Sun day night south of Saligo Bay, lslay Island, an uninhabited section where the coast line in many places rises straight out of the water to the rocky peaks many feet above. As the des- troyer neared the side of the Otranto the men began to jump from thirty to forty feet from her decks. Soldiers Unlucky.
 The more experienced sailors of the crew of the steamer had better success than the soldiers, many of whom had never seen the sea until this trip.
 As the destroyer steered toward the side of the steamer many of the men leaped quickly and missed their reckoning and dropped between the boats.
 Crushed to Death.
 Some of these dropped in the wa ter, but others of them were caught and crushed to death between the boats and the lifeboats which had been lowered to act as buffers. The destroyers was badly battered.
 Captain Used Head.
 The captain of the destroyer each time it was brushed away from the side of the Otranto, again would push near enough for many more men to jump to the deck of his vessel.
 Rain of Men.
 He described as veritable rain the number of men landing on the destroyer.
 Many of those who reached the decks of the vessel suffered broken bones or were otherwise hu1S.
 To Instant Death.
 Those who missed the deck of the destroyer went to almost instant death.
 l A Scittish Port, Wednesday, Oct. g. |-The following Americans survivors ow the Otranto, all of them privates, have been landed here:
 1 Charles B. Smithson, David R. Rob- erts. Geus6 s. Taylor, Earle Carver, Steward Early, Noah Taylor, William Cooney, Robert F. Schaun, Thomas | A. Kelly, eBn Smith, Robert Brown, / Joseph s. Richards, William Richards, Emil Peterson, Joseph M. Tollock Sergeant Charles Macdonald, all from the Fort Screven Automatic re- placement draft; and John Wean, Cas- ual Company, Camp Merritt, N. J. l A.. British. Port, Oct. 1.-The first effort to- reach 'lslay Island after the disaster, failed as the storm con- tin1,es. ,,. Amy officers. however, finally got across while others proceeded down coast, arriving there yesterday.
 They found little left of the Ot- ranto which each succeeding wave was breaking up.
 Bodies weRe.. found all along the coast. some singly and others in two and threes. ',$ .i
 As the army men proceeded down the coast to the southernmost point of Islay and then'.up to- Port Char lotte they constantly found bodies that had been shipped around the southern end of the island by the strange action of the current.
 Of forty-eight privates and non commissioned officers. survivors of the Otranto.,- who. were admitted to hospitals here, twenty are suffering from shock and sprains. others from fractured leg, arms and ribs and a few from scalds and iacerations. Some of thcm have influenza.
 The Otranto's captain stood on the bridge until the last