Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-07
HUN MINES FOUND;
ONLY ID PASSENGERS
ON CAROLINA LOST
Submarine Captain Offered
Not to Shoot If Operator
Would Not Use Wireless.
Passengers Sang Anthem

WASHINGTON, June 5.-Mine sweep
ers have picked up number of mines
off the Atlantic coast, the navy depart
ment announced today. The mines were
of German manufacture and undoubted-
ly were strewn, navy Tcials said. by
the raiding submarines.
NEW YORK, June 5.--Au but ten Of
the 21S passengers aboard the New York
and Porto Rico liner Carolina, sunk by a
submarine, have been accounted for, Of
ficers of the line announced this fore
noon.
Bringing stories of Prussian piracy at
Americas very gates, the weather-beaten
steamer Eva B. Douglas slipped through
the fog into New York harbor today with
survivors of the liner Carolina, sub
marined off Cape May.
There were 156 passengers and
the crew aboard, including Captain
Barbour and ten army officers from
the military training camp at San Juan,
Porto Rico
The schooner came in lowed by a
tug, and with the United States patrol
boat "507" alongside to guard it against
German raiders which might have at
tackled even the rescue ship.
Hoarse sirens rumbled a greeting TO
the schooner as it passed the submarine
net at the Narows and proceeded slowly
up the bay. Men and women who had
had the courage to sing THE Star Span
gled Banner as the U-boat shelled the
Carolina lined the rail of the Douglas
as it neared it's Brooklyn dock, where
automobiles were ready, driven by vol
unteers of the Womans Motor corps.
Survivors Near Collapse
INN aHi 10 q
charge of the survivors and hurried
them to hospitals and hotels. Some of
the weaker ones were near collapse
from the effects of their experiences
Sunday night when a thundershower
came up and drenched the figures hud-
ding in the life boats. 1t was in this
storm that one boat overturned, and
only nineteen of it's thirty-fve occu-
pants survived The rest were swept
away and persisted. Those landed her
today were found in their open boats
drifting off Barnegat after night at
the mercy of the sea.
OIL Of the Cardinals complement IS
now believed accounted for except the
sixteen lost in the storm and sixteen
more who have not eyt been checked up.
Many of the survivors were without
clothing and some were unable to talk
of the submarine attack without symp-
toms of Mysteries. The military men
aboard gave the clearest accounts. Be-
cause of the crowded condition of the
schooner scores were obliged to sleep or.
deck. Worn and exhausted though they
were, a little group managed to raise a
feeble cheer when they saw the water
front buildings looming vaguely through
the early mist.
lieutenant Describes Attack
ut was about o'clock when we
heard the first shot," said Lieutenant
J. P. O'Toole, u. S. A. AT first we
thought it was an American patrol boat,
but it soon convinced US otherwise. A
shot went over the bow, another screech-
ed over the ship, another hit in the
wake and a fourth fell short. Then it
came closer, aid we could see it for
what it was--a big German submarine,
with the crew in yellow slickers stand
ing on deck and two of them waving
German flags"
Estimates of the size of the German
crew varied from Is to 40. 1t was gen.
orally agreed that the U-boat was about
$50 feet long and that she carried what
appeared to be two six-inch guns, one
fore and one aft.
The boats were launched without acct
dent while the pirate circled around and
around the doomed liner the Germans
standing idly watching the men and
women putting off in frail craft, 80
miles from shore. Then the submarine
gun crew, in leisurely fashion, planted
six shells in the Carolina, below the
water line.
And it was while this was going on
while some of the Prussians were work
ing the gun, and others grinning at the
castaways, and Haunting their German
flags, that somebody started to whistle
The Star Spangled Banner"
Others took it up, women's voices
Joined in; and, punctUated by the re-
ports of the German guns, Americas ma
tional anthem rang out over the lonely
waters. The Prussians stared. They
couldn't understand anything like that
Life Boats Tied Together
Eight lift boats were tied together IN
a little flotilla and started away to-
ward where the Jersey coast lay, over
tn ehorizon. The Carolina listed, her
boilers burst, and she rolled over on
her side. An hour later the 5000 ton
liner sank-the first big American vic
tim of Germans submarine frighttulness
on this side of the Atlantic.
Robert E. Lebi6er of Philadelphia.
ouartermaster, described what happened
as night came on, and the thunder clouds
gathered AS the sea rose, it was nee
essary to cut the hawsers so the life
boats drifted apart. Sea anchors were
rugged to keep them from capsizing.
Rain came down in torrents and women
began weeping in high, hysterical notes.
| twas hard work to keep the boats from
being swamped. When morning came,
the storm subsidized and it was seen that
the little fleet had been scattered for
miles. Some time later the schooner
Douglas came in sight.
Captain Lauro, of the Douglas, said
he had heard gunfire Sunday night off
the Delaware capes, so kept a sharp
lookout and in the morning he spotted
the life boats. They were gathered in,
and after putting into Barnegat to send
a message, he proceeded up the coast
to Scotland light, escorted by the "5O7".
Near the light, a sea-going tug took the
schooner in tow.
omcers Not Molested
Those who reached here after escap-
ing the triple menace of German gun1re,
drowning and starvation were unable to
understand why the commander of the
C-boat chose to let go unmolested ten
newly-commissioned lieutenants from
the second United States army officers
training camp at San Juan. 1t was
manifestly impossible for these men to
escape the notice Of the Hun captain, IL
was said, but he evinced no more inter-
est in them, seemingly, than In any
others aboard.
Because the boats in which the
Cardinals survivors quit the ship be-
came widely separated and were being