Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-05

room and returned with the battery.
 The presence of eight torpedoes made the bow heavy and aided in pressing it further into the mud. Efforts to release the torpcdoes were without results.
 At about 8 o'clock, after the ship had been under water about six hours, Commander Cooke decided on trying to force hole through the side. With chief Gunner's Mate Fox, he searched in the tools and tried an electric drill. Then the commander learned that none of the electrical apparatus was of any use, whatever.
 Only one ratchet was aboard and this was used to drill small hole in the stern.
 Engineer Gives Account
 New York, Sept. 4.-Frederick w. Whitehead, chief machinist's mate of the submarine S-5, gave an account in his home in Brooklyn tonight of the experiences of his shipmates dur ing the hours they were trapped be- meath the sea. He got permission from the commanding officer to visit his wife, war bride, who is in deli cate health, and was transferred to the destroyer McDonough bound for New York, instead of going to Phila- delpha in the Riddle with the rest of the crew.
 After describing preliminaries to what he termed "the last dive called for in the test" he said:
 We hit the bottom and rested easi- ly. The captain and the men had a conference, then we started the air salvage system to working. This was 2,3OO pounds of compressed air pres sure and we tried to blow the water , out of the tank, but the added wa ter was too much and we could not rise. The torpedo room was com pletely flooded. We closed the water tank door from the torpedo room to the battery room, but still there was from two to three feet of water in each room. We were also unsuccess- full in trying to blow the water out of the torpedo room. After blowing all of the oil out of the fuel tank , we were still too heavy to rise. "The captain" he continued, then figured out that our boat was 231 feet long and the water ywas ,shut 1SC feet deep, and thaF' by'N ;sta aRHiltg. the boat -.on her nose .;the. stern would project througtf he Water. To do this we had sxo: :letss the water from Iother compai ifftnrdrYItIs ;fun into the , storage room, sMhere we knew it would forma s.dsadly}ehlorine gas, but there whs2ndthihg.. else to do. .l 2..r rsSsSHspt With Water II "We blew out this water, but as it rushed past and the stern began to rise, we were all swept along with it. Several of the men sustained in- juries. The salt water on the bat tery plates caused the formation of ,chlorine gas and the men began choking. We had only six gas masks between us. I had none.
 "The captain worked his way aft | and we communicated with him through a speaking tube. We finally
 had to quit our posts as we were | choking with the gas. With difficult ty we got into the next compartment but had to return to open a valve so we could get air. The lights then went out.
 | Finally we got into the tiller room and after five hours work, managed to drill small hole through the steel plates. We were then about 25 feet above the water. We put some old rags on the fuel oil pipe and | pushed it through one of these holes as signal to a steamer we saw pass | ing about five miles away. | But she evidently did not see us and passed us by.
 "An hour later the Alanthus came along and luckily for us she was off her route through being partially dis abled. She saw us and sent boat to help us. After getting cable around us two crews from the boat started to drill from the outside We kept on working from the inside, but the air was so foul we could work for only ten minutes at time and fall back exhausted. Finally hole was made large enough to put a hose through and air was pumped in to us.
 "We rigged up a funnel, and through this we received the first water we had had in twenty hours. After being down 35 hours a plate was cut through large enough for us \ to be carried out"
 Whitehead said all the officers and crew ate for the entire time they \ were submerged was canned tnmatoes