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Show TEXEL SURVIVORS TELL EXPERIENCE Crew Relate Stiiring Tales of Encounter Sunday With German Submarine. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J . June 4 Tho thirty -six survivors of the steamship steam-ship Texel which was sunk Sunday afternoon sixty miles south of New York by two German submarines, prepared pre-pared today to leave here for New York. Arriving here yesterday in two leaky boats and almost exhausted from their pull for shore, the members of the ci'W told stirring tales. Captain EL K. Lowry of Brooklyn, a former Girard college boy in Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, told how the vessel representing a value of more than 12,000,000 was J torpedoed and sunk. "The first warning we had," said Captain Lowry, "was when a shrapnel burst over the bridge at 4:20 on Sun-I day afternoon. Two submarines next j d "en alongside our ship The captain, who spoke wood English, boarded our boat, demanded our papers and ordered order-ed us to leave the ship The guns of his I' -boat were kept trained on us " After the submarine commander had taken over the Texel, Captain Lowrv reported that the captor said: "I hate like to do this but we have been ordered to get Into action ac-tion or return home. Wo have beeu over hero for two months." "There was no attempt to get the men," Captain Lowry continued. "We manned two boats and everybody was M l d. When we were leaving ono submarine sub-marine nearly crashed into us. The captain shouted and waved us back to safety." Tho Texel sank at 5:15 p. m. |