The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-05
"DON'T USE WIRELESS
AND WE WON'T SHOOT"
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matte raiding of the Carolina. When
the submarine messaged the you no
wireless---we don't Shoot" Vogel de-
family repeated his S. o. S. signals
which he had already begun flashing,
and was on the verge of answering
questions from Cape May and Brook
Ign navy yard stations for the Caro-
linas position when Capt. T. R. D.
Barbour, VogePs commander, ordered
him to quit his key and see whether
the Germans would keep their pledge.
Capt. Barbour said he decided to
accept the proposition laid down by
the submarine skipper because he be-
lieved dissent would have meant for
fixture of the lives of the women and
children aboard the way1aid steamer.
Arrival of the $50 survivors here
today, 156 of whom were passengers
and 81 members of the crew, leaves an
apparent discrepancy of 20 persons to
be accounted for. This calculation by
officials of the New York & Porto
Rico Steamship Co, owners of the
Carolina, is based on advices that 16
are known to have been lost from a
lifelboat which reached Lewes, Del,
yesterday, with only 10 of it's original
burden of So persons; and that %
were landed yesterday in Atlantic
City.
The arrivals here today and in At
| 1antic City and Lewes yesterday, to-
| gether with the 16 dead, account for
313 persons. The officials of the Car
olina who reached here today, said
the vessel carried 342 persons, passen-
gers and crew.
These figures were arrived at by
checking up the names of the passen-
gers who arrived here today on g
schooner and those who reached
Lewes, Del, and Atlantic City, n. J.
yesterday, with a list of passengers
furnished by Capt. Barbour, com
mander of the vessel. The names Of
the missing, it was said, would be
given out later.
Names of the crew are also being
! checked up.
After abandoning ship, survivor:
reaching here, said some one in a life
boat began whistlipg the Star Span
gled Banner and it is instantly take1
up by these in other boats-the mel
joining in the whistling and many O.
the women singing the words of thu
national anthem.
Veteran mariners who superintend
ed the al1otting of lifeboats to thos
on the Carolina declared the coolnes
and expedition with which this tasl
was accomplished was remarkable
Few women became hysterical, the.
declared, and most of these collected
their wits under the rebukes prompt,
accorded by other women of stoute
courage.
Those who reached here after es
Gaping the triple menace of German
gunfire, drowning and starvation wer
unable to understand why the com
mander of the U-boat chose to let g
unmolested 10 newly commissioned
lieutenants from the second United
States Army Officers Training CAM
in San Juan, P R. 1t was manifest,
impossible for these men to escape tn,
notice of the Hun captain it was said
but he evinced no more interest il
them, seemingly than in any other
aboard.
The officers, all of whom reached
here safely, are: First Lieut.. j. P
O'Toole, Clinton, Mass; First Lieut. F
D. Carpenter, Maplewood, N. J.; FRS
Lieut.. R. J. Boyd, Syracuse, N. Y.
Second Lieut.. Bernard o. Weitz New
York: Second Lieut.. NJ. Ortiz, New
York; First Lieut.: G. Nadal, San Juan
P. H.; First Lieut.. Leslie W Arthur
Boston; Second Lieut.. William Red
ding, Meshanticut, R. l.; First Lieut.
William Sides, Philadelphia.
Capt. Robert K. Wright and Pay
master D. c. Crowell of the Unitet
States Navy also appeared on deck o
the submarine-marked vessel withou
drawing comment from the Teutons
While varying in detail, the storie
narrated by the refugees accorded i
all important incidents regarding tn
submarines sudden "nosing up
& through the ocean at the starboar
side of the Carolina; announcement Q
! it's presence by the firing of she
over the bow of the steamer; tn
4 leisure with which the U-boat Sc
3 about sinking the vessel; and tn
lonely Is hour vigil kept in the stor1
s tossed, wind driven boats which END
4 ed in the rescue by the coastin
z schooner.
s. i This was what occurred as relate
E by VOWEL Sparks vogel, the nick
s name commonly given wireless opel
ators---who stuck to his key sendin
d out appeals. for help until ordered int
E4a lifahoat by his captain