The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-05
SURVIVORS STRUCK UP
STAR SP4NGLED BANNER
As They Were Leaving the Steamer
Carolina, After Being Commanded
By German U-Boat 10 Get OF.

New York, June Don't use your
wireless and we won't shoot, is the new
est made In Germany''war slogan, under
which the emperor's submarine eomman'
ders are carrying their campaign OF
frightfulness into American Atlantic
waters, according to persons among 2b0
survivors of the steamship Carolina, who
were brought to this port aboard a coast
wise steamer early to-day. The Caro-
lima was destroyed BY Uboat gunfire
fifty miles of the Delaware eapes on
Sunday evening.
Stories told by passengers and the
crew of the sunken vessel indicated that
Edwin w. vogcl of New York City, the
ships lo-year- old chief wireless oper.
ator, played spectacular part in the
dramatic raiding of the Carolina When
the submarine messaged the "Use no
wireless-we don't shoot Vogel def.
nitely repeated his S. o. S, signals, which
he had already began flashing and was
on the verge Of answering queries from
Cape May and Brooklyn navy yard sta.
tions for the Carolina's position, when
Captain 7. r. d. Barbour, Vogel's com
mander, ordered him to quit his key and
see whether the Germans would keep
their pledge, passengers declared.
Captain Barbour said he decided to ac-
cept the proposition laid down by the
U.boat skipper because he knew dissent
would mean forfeiture of the lives Of
women and children aboard the wayside
vessel
Arrival of the $50 survivors here TO-
day, l55 OF whom were passengers and
81 members of the crew, leaves an APP
parent discrepancy of 20 persons to be
accounted for. This calculation by off.
cials of the New York and Porto Rico
Steamship company, owners of the Car
oina, is based on adviees that sixteen are
known to have been lost from life boat
which reached Lewes, Della, yesterday
with only nineteen of its original burden
of IS persons; and that 2S were landed
yesterday at Atlantic City.
The arrivals here to-day and at At.
lantic City and Lewes yesterday, to-
gether with the sixteen dead, account for
3l3 persons The officials of the Car
olina, who reached here to-day, said
the vessel carried 342 passengers and
crew.
After abandoning the ship, survivors
reaching here said some one in life
boat began whistling "The Star Span.
gled Banner" and.it was instantly taken |
up by those in other boats--the men |
Joining in the whistling and many Of |
the women singing the words of the ma
tional anthem.
Veteran mariners, who superintend- |
ed the ailotting of life boats to those
On the Carolina, declared that the cool
ness and expedition with which this task
was accomplished was remarkable. Few
women became hysterical. they declared,
md most OF these collected their wits
lnder the rebukes promptly accorded by
,ther women of stouter courage.
Those who reached here after escaping
he triple menace of German gunfire,
and starvation, were unable to
Understand why the commander of the
! boat chose to let 60 unmolested ten
iewly commissioned ieutenants from
he second United States army officers
raining camp at San Juan II was man
testify impossible for these men to es-
ape the notice of the Hun captain, it
vas said, but he evinced no more inter
st in them, seemingly, than in any 9th
rs aboard.
The officers, all of whom reached here
afely, are:
First Lieutenant J. p. O'Toole, Clinton,
lass; First Lieutenant +. d. Carpenter,
faplewood, n. j.: First Lieutenant r. j
lloyd, Syracuse. n. y. Second Lieuten-
mt G. Goldsmith, Pittsburg, Pa; Sec
nd Lieutenant Bernard o. Weitz, New
'ork City; Second Lieutenant NJ. Ortiz, !.
few York City; First Lieutenant G. !,
-adal, San Juan; First Lieutenant Wes- =
e r, Arthur, Boston; Second Lieuten- !
Mt William Reddnig, Meshanticut, r. l.; !,
rst Lieutenant William NJ. Sides, Phil :
delphia.
Captain Robert X. Wright and Pay /,
raster ID. c. Crowel of the United !
tates navy, also appeared on the deck a
{ the submarine marked vessel, without :
rawing comment from the Teuton I'M :
ersea men.
While varying in detail, the stories !
arrated by the refugees accorded in all
Important incidents regarding tbs .ub.
Iersible's sudden "nosing up" through :
ne ocean at the starboard side of the +
arolina announcement Of its presence /
' the firing of she'll over the bow of !,
Z quarry; the leisure with which the 7
boat set about to sink the vessel, and !,
lie lonely lS-hour vigil kept in the !,
orm tossed wind driven boats, which ],
lded in the rescue by the eoasting !,
hooner.