The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-06-05
STORY OF SUBMARINES
TOLD BY SURVIVORS
Passengers from Steamer Carolina
Reach Shore Exhausted
HAD EXCITING MOMENTS
Battered About in Open
Boat After Submarine
Sank Steamer

Atlantic City, N. j., June 4.-Twcn-
tY-cight survivors Of the New York
land Porto Rico liner Carolina, which
was sunk by German submarine
Sunday evening, were recovered here
tonight after forty hours in the ba--
tered boat from which they landed
this afternoon.
The women were suffering from en-
haustion and all had suffered from
hunger and thirst, as they had only 4
little water and a few biscuits during
the time they were at sea. None w;<
in serious condition, however.
Mrs. =. j. Hamilton, wife Of Che:
Justice Hamilton, of the Porto Rico
supreme Court, and Miss Charlotte
Hamilton, her daughter were amor.
the saved.
Completely Exhausted
The boat, commanded by Chief F.
gineer McLaren, landed at the foot oi
South Carolina avenue. The exhausted
passengers were lifted bodily from
their seats and carried to an emerge
cy hospital on the sands
Women and girls among the su--
rivors were unable to stand. Some s.:
them were attircd in rough blue over
alls and jumpers borrowed from the
crew. The hair streaked across their
faces was plastcred down by the mix
turc Of salt and water used on their
foreheads in an effort to revive ther,
when they tainted
One woman about thirty years old
tainted as life guard lifted her ten.
derby from the yawl. Chief Surgeon
Bosscrt brought her stimulant. At
that moment the notes of "The Star
Spangled Banner" floated into the
tent, and the woman, half rising on
her cot, cried Historically, "Wc're
safe, safe, at last!" Then she sarI:
again into unconsciousncss
Mrs. G. II. Westbrook, of New Yorn.
who with a thirteen year-od girl w:<
among the rescued passengers, paid
high tribute to Lieut. McLarcn az!
the men Of his crew. Mrs. Seymour.
although scarcely able to sit up in be-,
insisted on telling of the heroic coz
duct of the crew
I'VE had just started for dinner.'
she said, "whcn shells screamed .
warning across the front of the sh;a.
| cannot describe how l felt whtH
the realization came upon us that ".
were beng attacked without warnine
by submarine.
All Sorts of Fears
IAN sorts of fears assdilcd me-. |
thought Of the women and children
Of France and Belgium, ard it was
maddcnng.
Then another shell came Shrapnel.
they said it was. 1t splintcrcd some
thing forward
our ship had no arms and the caD-
tam ordered the engines stopped
Something grated along the side. II
was large boat from the submarin.
me officer in command spoke very
good English. He told the captain. who
met hlm at the top of the ladder, he
would give us time to get off before
he sank the ship.
me captain watched while the
boats were being filled and lowerr.j
hcr" were more than 200 passengers.
ana more than hundred in the
crew. me women and children, of
course. went first. The crew acted
splendidly. >''''
"Ten boats were filled and 90
pulled away from the shin I sbnil
never see anything like it again. Yet
intensely dramatic as it was, if nli
seemed unreal. Every minutes we
thought the Germans were poinp -
shell US. ''S ~
we had gone away possibly fiftv
Yards, when there was q bjind;n1
iaSh. ! do not know whether thnT
'nc!icu, bombed or torpcdocd the Car.
'!'ha, but she went down
IN the night w" were scparo,,.i
rom the other boats. Lieut.. McLarnn
ana Chlef Purscr Mcrkt looked aftnr
IS wondcrfuIly. They took very little
u me 1ooh or water for themselves
w.