Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-05
Passengers Are Cool

lantic City.
Passengers Are Cool
After abandoning the ship, survi-
Vors reaching here said some one in
a lifeboat began whistling "The Star
SpanSled Banner" and it was in
stantly taken up by those in other
boats-the men joining in the whist
ling and many of the women sing
ing the words of the national an
them
| veteran mariners who superintend-
ed the allotting of lifeboats to those
on the Carolina declared the cool
ness and expedition with which this
task was accomplished was remark
able. Few women became hysterical,
they declared, and most of these COL
lected their wits under the rebukes
promptly accorded by other women
OF stouter courage.
Those who reached here after es-
Gaping the triple menace of German
gunhre, drowning and starvation,
were unable to understand why the
commander of the U-boat chose to
let go unmolested ten newly-com-
missioned lieutenants from the sec
ond United States Army officers
training camp at San Juan. 1t was
mapifestly impossible for these men
to escape the notice of the Hun cap
tain, it was said, but he evinced no
more interest in them, seemingly,
than in any others aoard.
Eighteen Hours in Boats
While varying in detail, the
stories narrated by the refugees ac-
corded in all important incidents re-
garding the submersibles sudden
'nosing up" through the ocean at
the starboard side of the Carolina: /:
announcement of it's presence by the
firing of a shell over the bow of its
quarry; the leisure with which the
U-boat set about to sink the vessel,
and the lonely eighteen-hour vigil
kept in the orm-tossed wind-driven
boats, which ended in the rescue by
the coasting schooner.
| The Operators Story
This was what occurred as related
by Vogel-"Sparks" Vogel, the nick
name commonly given wireless oper-
ators-who stuck to his KEY sending
out appeals for help until ordered
into lifeboat by his captain.
II was awakened at 5.35 o'clock
sunday evening, as usual, for supper.
The other fellow assistant Operator
Werner) came running in while I
was dressing and yelled come up
here quick I rushed into the wire
less room and there was an S. o.
;. regarding the schooner Isabel B.
Wiley. clamped the receivers to my
ears and heard cit myself.
IS. o. S.-Isabel B. Wiley being
shelled by armed German subma-
rine-latitude 3S.07; longitude 1910
that's what the sounder said.
II told Captain Barour he better
make quick headway, for judging by
the strength of the signals the sub
must be right on top of us.
The Carolina Speeds Up
You're right Sparks the skin
per said, and he balls out to change
our positions and we began to zigzag
and speed up.
AT about o'clock I was down
for supper and had just ordered my
meal when I heard something smack
alongside. | had hunch what was
going on. but I went out on deck
without attracting, any more atten-
tion than possible. I hurried up to
to the wireless house and sent the
other operator up top to get our po-
sition. He returned shortly saying
some one else was figuring out where
we were and meanwhile I was set
ting up and forthwith shot out our
first S. q. s.
The Call For Help
IS. o. S.-Steamship Carolina be-
ing gunned by German submarine
sent out a couple times. Then I
set the instrument for receiving.
Within two minutes Cape May station
had picked us up and queried for
our location.
but just then our German visi-
tor (the submarine onerator) butted
in and saws. You don't use wireless
I'VE don't shoot Sounds German,
doesn't 1t?
"By the way. could tell from the
faintness of the vibrations that the