| Show SURVIVORS OF ARABIC LANDED AT QUEENSTOWN Many Suffering From Injuries to Heads or OJ Other Wounds and Effects of Being Forced to Take to Boats Scantily Clad SOME OF THOSE SAVED PICKED OUT OF WATER A. A Hulme of Utah Escaped With Only Bath Robe Praises Officers and Crew of Ship for Splendid Work CAPTAIN LAST TO LEAVE Q S ur E STO i A AUF Aig 20 The O-The The c landing landin here yesterday evening evening- of oC the survivors survivors of the ill-fated ill White Star line steamer Arabic was a pitiable piti piti- able ablo scene cene All of them were scantily Iy clothed and none of them had bad hat or head bead elin co coverings s of any kind A A. lar large c number of the survivors were suffering from injuries to their heads and other wounds or from shock and the effects of or being forced to take to open boats scantily at nt- nt tired Many of the women were In their berths when the liner was torpedoed and ran to the deck in their night clothing These Those were provided with blankets when the they were ere taken from boats and rafts b by the crews eres of the the- reSCUe ships A number of or those saved aYed were picked out of or the water and ar arrived arrived ar- ar rived here herc In their soaked sea-soaked clothing The people of gave o them every possible attention and provi provided ed fresh tresh outfits for man many of oC them CT h hA A A. A Hulme of ot Logan LOJan Utah who when he ho arrived here had on only onh I Ia said that worked a bathrobe the crew I splendidly under Captain Finch's direction tion In the short ten minutes which the they had to get th the passengers Into the boats and but for tor the tho fine discipline disc disc- pline linc maintained and the tho excellent work o of the rescuing tu tug officers at least a couple of ot hundred persons would have been lost The Tho submarine according to Mr 11 was wag seen before It launched the torpedo but there was not time enough to escape It Torpedo Seen II ly Captain Finch who is 18 suffering from injuries to his 1118 leg said last ni night ht that he dl did 1 not see the submarine but distinctly distinctly dis dis- observed the torpedo approachIng approach- approach Ing In the water It was then Impossible to escape It It the captain said We e had only eight minutes to get set the boats bonts awn away and save all an on board George L. L Ione 1 Money of Stratford Ont who with his daughter and arid brother were returning homo hom b by the Arabic said in an Interview that the passengers passeri- passeri gers In lar largo large e numbers wore enjoying the beautiful weather about decks after aHer breakfast Their attention had Just been attracted to the steamer I the boats of ot which were being launched The The censor hero evidently e has deleted the facts concerning the The Arabic Mr Ir Money added was making toward the when the tho streak of a n torpedo fired from a submarine submarine submarine sub sub- marine lying ling In the wake of or the DUn Duns Duna- ley ey was was was' seen making for the Arabic There wore were cries of or alarm and allhands allhands all nil hands made for life belts and the tho life ute boats bonts All Precautions Taken Fortunately continued Mr lr Money Ioner all precautions had been taken the life lIfo belts being in readiness on deck deckand deckand and the boats in position for launching The Tho torpedo struck tho the ship and thero there was a a. terrible explosion Tho The ship began beran to settle Immediately and sank sankIn In a n few rew minutes It was marvelous how so 80 man many boats boat wore were got ot afloat It spoke we well 1 for tor the discipline of the crew T I was an hour an and a halt half swimming A member of ot the crew of ot the Arabic said that when the torpedo struck a I portion of or the ship was torn awa away and he saw tho the bodies of coal trimmers und and of or five fI engineers whose hoge watch was below belo blown to lo pieces and Into I the sea Tho Tue assistant purser of oC the Arabic I Isaid said The torpedo hit lilt near the engine room and the boilers boiler of or the steamer exploded This accounts for the rapidity of or her sinking The Tue captain was vas the thu last man to leave lea the ship The boats bonts were rowed about for fOl fo four tour and a u half hours before the they were picked up Although the steamer was wa torpedoed In tho the forenoon It was 3 o'clock In Inthe inthe the tho afternoon before the last of the survivors ors were picked up by tho the Primrose Primrose Prim Prim- rose and Mongolian n. n |
