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Show 48 SUHVIVOHS TELL OF DEADLY WDRKJFU-BOAT Some of Them Held Pris-' Pris-' oners for Several Days Aboard Submersible Which Sank Ships, GOOD DAY'S WORK DONE BY GERMANS Captain in Good Humor and Captives Treated Well; Wireless Kept All Posted Regarding War. NEW YORK, June 3. Forty -eight survivors sur-vivors of vessels sunk by German U-boabs, brought to port today by a coastwise steamship, were landed tonight. to-night. About half of them had been prisoners pris-oners for several days aboard the submarines. sub-marines. The survivors were from the steamship "Winnieconnie and the schooners Hattie Dunn and Edna. Twelve more survivors of the schooners Hauppauge and Isabel B. Wiley, who were making for shore in a motor yawl last night, are believed be-lieved to have landed somewhere farther down the coast. Captain Charles E. Holbrook, commander com-mander of the Hattie Dunn, said that his vessel had been sunk May 25 and he and his crew taken prisoners by the submarine. subma-rine. The vessel which brought in the forty-eight forty-eight survivors was an American steamship, steam-ship, which picked them up at 9 o'clock fhis morning, twenty-five miles from Barnegat, N. J. Eight Days on U-Boat. Captain Holbrook of the Hattie Dunn, whose home is at Tenants Harbor, Me., told the following story of how he and riis men had been kept prisoners for eight days on the submarine: "We were about fifteen miles south of Winter. Quarter lightship. I heard a shell ! pass near the vessel. Then came an-; an-; jtlier shell, which fell perhaps a quarter i of a mile away. i "I was not taking much notice, because be-cause I believed the vessel, which I saw about two miles away, was an American -submarine at target practice. A third - hell exploded close by us and I knew , rhat whoever it was. they wanted us to top. "The submarine, with her superstruc- ".ure and conning tower showing plainly tbove the water, came within 200 yards, s.nd I saw that she was flying the two -ode letters 'A. B.,' meaning 'Stop im- .nediately.' Dfficer Comes Aboard. . "From a staff fluttered a small flag ?f the imperial German navy. An offi-: offi-: :er and three men came over in a small loat. In perfect English, the officer told js to get into our boats and that we iad but ten minutes to get clear of our vessel. "They placed bombs along the Eides of :or vessel and blew her up immediately, n the meantime putting an armed Ger-nan Ger-nan sailor on board the small boat, in : vhich were seven men and myself. This lid not give me time to rescue my per-;onaJ per-;onaJ effects and nautical instruments ind so I lost them all. My men only raved what they stood in. ! "Perhaps "I would have been given more ime if the commander of the submarine :ad not seen the Hauppauge, under full ail. about four or five miles away. Like ; :s. the Hauppauge was light, and, I un- j erstand. bound from Portland to New-orr New-orr News. ! "They destroyed Captain Sweeney's fine 1 ew schooner, after ordering him and his j rew to take to their boats, and within a j alf-hour both crews were on board the I u'nmarine and both the small boats had een placed on the submarine's deck and iahed down. 'leased With His Work. "We were kept below for several hours ni.il the submarine picked up Captain rilmore and the Edna at 4 o'clock in the ; ; fternoon. Then. I guess, the commander j '".ought he had done a good day's work, i he was in excellent humor and told j s captains that we could go on deck , nd have a smoke. He did, not extend berty to the others that day, but later ley got their chance once in a while. "We submerged many times during the rst three days on board, axid, to a man kc myself, who is not used to it, it was n unpleasant experience. The pressure f .submerging' resulted in smashing our oats, which wo lashed to the subma- ne's deck, and in a few days they were indling wood and thrown away. "Of course, we had many experiences, nd I shall not forget Monday, May 27, . hen wc had our dinner, with the subma-n subma-n lying on the bottom of twenty-eight .tliomB of water. The commander told -i it took forty-five seconds to submerge ic boat, and there were times when I uld hear them using their wireless. ireless Kept Busy. "One night the sputtering was so loud awakened me. They were sending e-sfaes either to another Ship or to line whore station. Every night the op-ators op-ators listened to proas bulletins sent it from America. One of them toid me the battle drive now on in France. "They also Bald that a Whitehead tor-do tor-do factory had been blown up In Aus-ia Aus-ia last week. The engineer that ran the lesel engine told me that he had been i engineer on the passenger flte-imship orge WaHhington of the North German-oyi,t German-oyi,t line, which plied between New York '( y.-men before the war." captain C M. Gilmore of the schooner 1 na. bound with a cargo of oil fr."m liladclphia to Santiago, Cuba, said that h veHyl wan eighteen to twenty milea uthea;U of Winter Quarter lightship at I. in.. May T., when a shell exploded ,-Jfl her loo. "Thinking It was some American war-;p. war-;p. J did not pay rnu'-b attention, but nt down Ik-low and lit my pipe. A '.ond shell struck near-by a.nd I knew rne;i nt. me. Then for t he first time I ii'-'-d a bl Bubmarine, about two rnlles -'When a German lieutenant later t-A the l'ln;i, the lieutenant Kald: on't K't exr-ited, raptaln. Take your lie 'We'll he around here nn hour and hair.' rgot Ilis Umbrella. -.-'o I picked up everthing I eouM of that belonged to me and when r over to the Kuhinarinc J found I'd h-ft new Ktlk umbrella . After they blow the ffhoori'T, the OermanH rowe(j hark tiie ii'iblnarine a no 1 found that, he-th'- few thinM they hud ph-V.ed up for -niM:k' tby had brought me my urn-c urn-c ri.i. 'I ii"y to')k only a few -a Hen ,f : oil, riK I'u-y bad h-. ,Jc Jlirhtn on JM. i.rrcM ln-, ' tVc' - ...j .i-.t in- had pl'-nt to i-ut nod x loi'l 'if, we irjii;ht. n' wh'-re we I I I pleased on the submarine a.nd into any room, except when we were submerging. At that time we had to stay in whatever compartment we found ourselves. "It seemed to me this submarine was at least 300 feet long. There were seventy-six men in the crew and there were two six-inch guns mountd, one forward and one aft. "Of course, we prisoners, although we were treated well, made a pretty big ship's company, and the commander said he was looking for a sailing vessel to put us on board, as he did not want to take us to Germany. "Although we were below Sunday morning morn-ing when the submarine overhauled the Winneconnie, we knew at once when she was sunk and twenty-six men sent adrift, that something would have to be done with us. They could not keep us all on board, for, after the steamer was sunk, we went into her boats, while Captain Sweeney and his crew set out in the launch belonging to the Isabel Wiley, which was sunk a few minutes before the Winneconnie." Sailed Into Trap. The "Winneconnie sailed into a Tine German Ger-man trap on Sunday morning, according to Henry Walsh of San J-Yancisco. the first officer. Walsh said that the steamer steam-er was on her way to Providence, R. L, with a cargo of 2S00 tons of coal, loaded at Norfolk, Va. "Third Mate Brewer called me up to the bridge about 10 o'clock Sunday morning," morn-ing," said Walsh. "He told me that he had heard shots somewhere ahead. "At that time we were about sixty miles east of Cape May, and looking ahead, I saw a three-masted schooner with all sails set, lying nearly becalmed. There was enough wind to fill -her sails and I thought it strange that she lay there doing nothing. "Then I saw what looked like a destroyer de-stroyer come out from behind her. When we got about two miles away, 1 could see it was a submarine and that the men on deck were not dressed in white as they would be at this Urn of the year on an American vessel. Saw German Flag. "Then I saw the German flag, and tiie submarine sent a solid shot across our bow. They lowered a small boat and a lieutenant came with some of the crew alongside, telling us to get into the boats and to row over and lay a long-side the submarine. "Just about the time we were leaving our boat, the men on wiiat proved to be the Isabel "Wiley were going over the sido Into their gasoline yawl. Of course wo obeyed and all went to the side of the submarine, and the German crew lirwt sank the Winneconnie and then tho Isabel Wiley with small bombs. The Winneconnlo went down In five minutes. They gave we officers time enough to save most of our tilings and so I brought along my typewriter. "When we bid good-bye to the submarine subma-rine captain at 4 o'clock Sunday morning, 1 the weather was fine and the sea smooth," said M. TI. Brewer of Booth Kay Harbor, Maine, third officer on the Winneconnie. In describing his experiences after he and his men left the submarine in small boats. "I must s;iy that the Gorman skipper treated us decently, for he sent a supply of water for the boats and also some cans of black bread. Tie said that the bread was baked in April and I did not cat It, becaupe we had plenty of our own from our whip. "The three boats of the Winneconnie and the gasoline launch of Uir Wiley got togother Sunday nit: tit, because I had a lfght in my boat, There were thirty men in my boat, which was the bluest. With the men at the oars, we struck a course for Absecon Inlet, on the Jersey coast. Ran Into Squall. "About 11 o'clock in the night we had a northwest thunder squall, which kicked up a nasty sea for half an hour. Had II. lasted another half hour, we all would have been drowned. Our boats were de-p with the weight of the men nnd thelr flunnage anl continually shipped wul.er during the squall. "At dayligh I , Captain Sweeney of the Hauppauge and Captain Thomns.sen of the Wiley said they would go on with the gasoline launch and make toward the JerHty nhore. Of course, they could rn;ike two rnile to our one r,nd we soon lost Bt;;ht of them, and I do not understand under-stand why they have not been heard from." , The steamer Winneconnie was a. vsHfjl of 1Xu3 toriH groan register (ln, WilH owriH by the. American Tra n;;-A f Ian t lc enrnpanv of New York. The hlp W;,H for merlv the. Ifoqland, under the aninh Hug. f ii M-tob'-r, la Ml. yea r, she. was r'-oiifd -tinned by the f'nilel State Hhipping hoard and chartered to the cornnilMiou for relief in H'lgiurri. She wan built In i:ii7 at Sunderland, Kiigland. The Haupnamre, launched at Wilmington, Wilming-ton, Del., In Ma rr h (if this yi-ar wjiJj owned by ft. liwrcrn o Smli h. The vet-wel vet-wel wflft '.'Ai't feci Ioijk ;IM,j of a bou i ono ton'i t;roj reyifUer, The Ivlna wan a t h rce -manl e( ncj,,jnn,.r f'-ct long a nd of tonti r j.'hu r r, owned hy I he. A. it, A ndcr -on Shipping company. Sin- w;u' huill In JViit Colnrn- hh. J-'.illr, Main:. |
