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Show Survivors Of Ancona Reach New York Dr. Grell Will Go to Washington to Make Deposition For State Department Now York, Deo. 29. Dr. Cecllo U. Groll the Red Cross physician wlio was on tho steamship Ancona when It was torpedoed and sunk In tho Mediterranean arrived here today to-day on tho steamer Uechambcau on her way to Washington to mako a deposition for tho stato department regarding tho Ancona's sinking. Dr. Grell repeated her story of t'no incident ns previously told In cah!o dispatches, nml described in dctnll how sho ontored her stateroom state-room Just as a shell' from tho submarine sub-marine hurst through a portholo nnd killed a maid. Mrs. Groll declined to stato specifically that any of tho lifeboats had been sho'led, but she did say that a considerable number of tho survivors were wounded before be-fore being taken off tho Ancona. No warning was given to tho An-conn, An-conn, Dr. Groll added, tho presence of tho submarine first being known when u shot crashed Into tho forward part of tho ship. "Naturally thero was much confusion" con-fusion" Dr. Grell Bald, "but of tho action of the crow I do not desire to say nnythlng. FJfteon llfobonts wero launched, hut only eight got awny safoly. I had to Jump from tho dock of tho ship about twenty-flvo twenty-flvo feet to t'no boat In which I took refuge. "Fully fifty peoplo, most of them wounded by shelU from the submarine subma-rine or by flying debris were on the docks of tho Ancona when bIio went down." "It was cloven liours beforo tho eight boats wero picked up by a French mlno planter and taken Into tho nearest port," sho Bold. "Many of those In tho boat8 wero wounded and their sufferings wero Intense I nm grateful for my escapo but I would rather havo gone down with tho ship than to bo a factor In Involving Involv-ing my country In war." |
