Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-12

mediately took measures to keep my
vessel in the wind, an advantage which
was necessary at that time. / saw
the Eagle boat in the trough. ] took
pains to maneuvcr my vessel so we
would be in no danger
II swung off considerable distance,
and as I did so | saw the vessel keel
over. The souall and the rainstorm
around the Eagle boat until l was
able to get n lfcbOat off.
Everybody aboard the boat had
reached deck except those who were
caught in the hull. We took off every
body who would go. but the commander
and one of his officers remained behind.
while we were at the work of res
cuing. a tramp steamer passed, and l
| hailed the vessel. 1t was a Norwegian
| vessel.
Says Ship Did Not stop
THE ship did not answer my hail.
/ could not understand it, but we kept
right on with our work. While we
were there the Independence Hall came
up to the Eagle boat and put off one
boat. while several fishermen also went
out from New Castle.
| "T took the rescued men aboard and
landed them at League Island. The
Independence Hall anchored near the
spot and remained there, awaiting
other rescue craft that might come
along
The last man to escape from the en- L.
gine room of the ship. Daniel Men i
guse. an electrician. third class, from
Connecticut, told a graphic story of the
misfortunes of the ship and the rescue.
Just about the time the storm hit
u.s." he said. 1--WE were congratulating
ourselves our troubles were about over
because the water was like glass when
we passed Cape Hatteras, and we
were almost in port. 1t had been a
hard luck trip all through.
Wed been down in Key West lUI
ten month with the Submarine Division
No. 3, ana we sailed week ago yes
terday TO transfer our base to League
Island. We got To sea all right. and
were somewhere off the Georgia coast
when the watts got out of order. anC
we ran out Of water. We went thre,
days without anything to drink,
Then we put into Morehead, n. G..
J and the % was at the dock four day;
! getting repairs made to the bearings
which had been burned out. The crew
: was given liberty at this time in recog
] OIL luFlE anu tu'h SOOt
, work on the trip.
"Ever%thing was going smoothly a
3 20 o'clock Yesterday afternoon. l wa
; down in the engine room taking a read
, ing. Suddenly the vessel went over ol
its side. ] was thrown across IN
{ room and finally flung into feed waite
tank. I grabbed the feed pump an!
hauled myself out, getting badly burned
] Then ! climbed up and pulled mysel
4 up through a vcrtilator to the deck.
\ jumped out Of the horn of the ven
r tilator aud landed in the water jus
p before the boat turned over
Fishermen Braved Storm
There were men in the water every
where. 4 lot Of them. luckily, wer
good swimmers. Durno, one of tn
poor fellows who was carried away, ha
o been champion swimmer of the fleet 10
n three years But the wind was awful
n strong, and even the best of 'em couldn
a keep atloar very we'll. 1t was tiftee
minutes before anybody noticed us.
o Norwegian ship went by and wouldn
p stop AT all, although they must hay
2 seen ~
\ Then fishermen began coming ou
= and though they had pretty hard tin
n in the rough water themselves, sou
y Of them chased the fellows who wei
r being carried away out to sea. Lou
Thomson, one of the seamen, VIZ
q picked up by n boat from the light
house.
AT last the Thomas Clyde came NJ
:, and those men on board her did grei
- work. They stood by in fine shape, al
Il when We got on board the doctors tiX'
- us up and offered us all the dry clOthir
they could get, some OF them taking {
a theirs Commander Pierce stuck by h
. ship like good sailor.
~ ~ Operator Tells Story
"a L. II. Harrell, twenty three yea
Old radio operator on the Eagle 20, w
Is in the radio room on watch when Il
r craft capsized.
10 He was at the Philadelphia Nav
'e Yard today, where the members of Il
crew were taken and lodged at the sui
J. marine quarters.
% I'VE we're ridinp rather high"
70 said, "as our oil fuel supply was 10,
10 There had been squalls of rain al
wind as we came up the river, b
10 nothing alarming. The river was pc
. fectly calm. 1t was my trick in [
~ radio room, and l was sitting at Il
~ table when. without warning the sh
40 listed. | ran out on deck and saw tn
20 it was slowly turning over, rolling
&c starboard.
'' "As the Eagle % turned over
climbed up the sloping deck to the pc
side, over the side and finally TO I
n keel as the boat turned bottom upwal
all | sat on the keel until ! was rescue
he / saw many men swimming about in I
ad water.
ed II saw Commander Pierce only onC
he He swan by, going TO the rescue of
seaman--I think it was little Reilly
IN, but he could not get him."
wv The Owl will stand by tonight
N. play a powerful searchlight on the a