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Show 00 NEGRO MULETEERS IN BOAT STRUCK BY GERMAN SHELLS Cardiff, Wales, July 1, 3 07 p. m. Joseph Carter, a colored muleteer of Norfolk, Va , one of those rescued, said that his friends, King, Oakes, Speed, Small and Foreman Seddeu, all were drowned. Carter said" The submarine chased the ship for two hours and fired about 100 shells, twenty-five of them striking the ship. I was in the boat with thirty-eight others when it fell into the water. II was swimming nearly an hour before! I wns picked up. Twenty-eight men were rescued from the water. Four members of the crew died in the boat. A part of the head of one of them had been blown away. Another had lost both legs. Ono man had 'been blown to pieces by a shell. I owe my life to Muleteer Johnson, who knocked me down Just in time to avoid being hit by a shell. Captain Cap-tain Trlckcy was tho last man to leave the Bhlp. |