Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-08-21 | Page 1 | Survivor Describes Sinking of Arabic

SURVIVOR DESCRIBES SINI Of ARABIC Wilson Liner Grodna Used as Decoy Opinion of Chicago Passenger r F j. j Chicago Aug 20 The Thc The following ca cablegram ca- ca I 1 was received tonight by the Chicago Herald from rom James F. F Rowley of or Chicago ono one of oC the tho survivors ors of the I Arabic Steamship Arabic torpedoed 25 5 nineteenth Absolutely Absolute no warning given cn Heard explosion and yell torpedo tor tor- JI do Put life belts on two children and one ono woman and assisted two men mend d Into lifeboats lIfeboat and pulled clear cloar of ot ship which sank ank stern s foremost assuming a Perpendicular the bow being feet In the tho air sinking In that position It capsized Three lifeboats lifeboat all 11 fairly well loaded load load- ed ell with occupants were afterward picked 1 up h by other lifeboats Captain I 1 stuck to tho ship and was waz 33 afterward Picked up in the thc wreckage Pa Passengers lost everything Two persons in night clothing Twenty vent or more mora Americans on board Not all saved We Ye rowed roel about among the tho wreckage rescuing seVeral eral meni men k i Saw women and babies bableR floating but bt I past all help In lifeboats five t i Rolier sol aol diers ier ti Wilson liner GJ Gi olna was doubtless us uSed id as aM d decoy CO It II having ha been disabled dis dis- hl- hl by was as slowly Io sinking fand and of ot course courso attracted the attention of ot everyone ver We Yc did not think that even ven a German Gorman submarine could be craz crazy enough to torpedo an empty vessel yes ves lIel sel loaded noncombatants Aft After r Touch much suffering wo we arrived nt at Quo Queens Queens- ns- ns I town i. i Nearly c all will vIll need to recuperate at ate before borc continuing ln their Journey Journe he loss los appears to be bo approximately Pix Ix Ix passengers ers and nine forty of or the tho crew i t l The engine room sustained the tho Greatest 10 loss s. s Those heroeS stuck and l stopped the ship lup thus enabling the pas en erl to go so Into the tho boats but lost OSt their lives in doing co ro o. o 1 Survivors Sun will ill be forwarded to their t various destinations by the White Star company 1 will return to London the tho result of the thc sailing of oC tho the American liner St. St J Louis anI and see Jea seethe What the pirates do to it 11 0 I