Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-06
Nineteen Survivors Of Steamship
Carolina, Sunk by Submarine,
Reach an Atlantic Port
OCCUPANTS OF MOTOR
BOAT THROWN INTO SEA
Frantically Bale Water With Hands
to Keep Craft Afoat---Sixteen
Are Lost

Are Lost
Nineteen survivors, passengers and
members of the crew Of the steam
ship Carolina, sunk by a German sub
marine near New York, brought to
shore a narrowing tale Of the sea, the
news of the loss of sixteen of their
number and a remarkable rescue Of a
girl while they drifted helplesly by on
the ocean during a severe thunder
storm Sunday night.
! Ten boats left the Carolina before
it was sunk by the German subma,
rine U-37, all passed through the same
storm and the survivors said they had
felt sure all were lost. They expressed
great 10Y when informed that most
of the Cardinals company had been
saved.
| CAROLINA WAS WARNED
According to the survivors, the
Carolina was warned late Sunday aft
ernoon by wireless to look out for
submarines. The steamer was eau
toned not to show lights. At O'Clock
Sunday night submarine appeared
above the surface close to the Caro-
lima. It was about $50 feet long,
iIoY q
as the U-37.
The submarine signaled something
which the captain could not make out,
said one of the survivors,, and then
the U-bOat raised the German flag.
All were ordered to heave to, and the
captain, fearing that the submarine
would shell the steamer if he did not
obey the order, signaled the engineer
to reverse the engines and stop.
/ ORDERS BOATS LOWERED
! A Grman officer with an armed
guard went alongside and gave orders
to the captain to lower all boats, and
leave the ship in twenty minutes. The
sea was smooth and there appeared
to be few elements of danger. The
German officers appeared to show COR
sideratioE 20 the passengers as they
hurried to leave the steamer.
Ten boats were lowered and every
body got in. There was little or no
confusion. All the time, the subma-
rine lay close as possible, members Of
it's crew standing on its deck, watch
ing or busying themselves about the
boat.
A passenger says: When the last
boat was clear Of the ship the Ger
mans left the Carolina and in few
minutes the submarine shelled her
seven times. Then she burst into
flames. Whether the Germans set her
on fire or whether the Smelling had
: caused fire to break out, I do not
know. We drifted, no one knew
where. The sun began to set as the
Carolina slowly went down. Then it
got dark. Fear overcame many Of US,
bat we hoped for the best. The sea
still was smooth and there was no dan
ger apparently. We strained our eyes
to see a light, but there was none. All
the boats kept as close together as
possible, everybody that was able tax
ing a turn at the oars.
BOATS BECOME SEPARATED
The storm came; quicker than we
expected it, The wind blew a gale
and kicked up a nasty sea. The boats
pitched and soon became separated
and we, who were in a motor launch,
seemed to be alone in the storm.
R0Ugher and rougher became the wa
ter and the boat rolled and pitched
Finally she capslzed and all Of the
thirty-five in her were thrown into the
sea. She was righted and capsized
again while we chung to her. This oc-
Cured several times. The storm
passed and the sea began to calm. IT.
was pitch dark.
Finally we kept the launch righted,
! but she was full Of water. We chung
to her and bailed out the water with
our hands. Some could not stand thu
strain. became exhausted, lot go Their
hold and sank. 1t was terrible We
bailed out enough water to let one
of US in Then he bailed furiously and
enough water was cooped out to per-
nit second to get into the launch
We kept on bailing until the launch
was able to bear the weight Of a third
and a fourth
SIXTEEN LOST IN STORM
We kept this up all night until final.
ly all those who still chung to the side
Of the motorboat were able to get in
When the last was helped over the
side we found that there were but
nineteen Of US. Sixteen had gone