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Show w "W" v "r v -a- -w "r -r r v . . . . . . i 1 RADIO FLASHES THRILLING TALE OF SpML Amateur Wireless Operator Catches Call for Help From Vessel SUBMERGED VESSEL DRAWN TO SURFACE' Members of Crew Escape to Safety From Hole Cut in Stern PH1LADDELPHIA, Sept. 3 Radio , messages flashed from the army I transport General Goethals to the; Philadelphia navy yard via Cape Mayj told of the rescue today of the offl-) offl-) cers and crow of the submarine S-51 after they had spent nearly two daysi locked In the disabled Vessel beneath1 ; tho Atlantic ocean G6 miles south of! j Cape Honlopen. It was after 3 o'clock this morning when Lieutenant I'om-I I'om-I mander '. M. Cooke, who exercised ; his prerogative of being the last man to leave his vessel, was taken aboard . the steamer Alanthus. . Nino hours had elapsed since the I plight of the undersea boat had been mad i public through a wlrele-s ca!l! picked up by an amateur operator In, i I'armlngton. Conn. S w ED HV BUOY. It was n small buo , a development of the world war, together w ith the I vigilant ev e of a lookout on the bridge of the transport General Goethals that gave the thirty men on the submerged submarine S-0 their chance for life. This small buoy, with a bell and j bussei device that can bo Operated when the boat Is submerged, is part ' of the equipment of later type submarines. sub-marines. It was cist loose Whan the S-.'i went down. The lookout on the i General Goethals saw It. being at- traded by lu bell, us well as the fact (that It was not noted on the chart.' TELEPHONE in CREW, j A small boat, with an officer in . command, was lowered from tho' transport to Investigate, when the l buoy was reached the buzzer device j could be heard. The officer cut In-; to the connection and quickly there , camo this m MSB Stl "The submarine S-5 has been sub-! merged for thirl). five hours. Air Is' running short. Machinery is dam-1 ag d Send for help." Tills plea was sent broadcast by tho wireless of the General Goethals., Among those who responded was the steamer Alanthus which with the: , army transport stood by the sub-' merged vessel and managed to attach ! grappling hooks to its stern. Holding Hold-ing the submarine In a vertical posi- , tion a hole was bored through her! plateg and air pumped through tO the' I suffering crew who had almost giv -en up all hope of rescue. CALL POlt RE LP in the meantime the can for help bad been pit ked up the navy wireless wire-less stations and b command of Sec-' r larv Uaidel.s destroyers w. ie rushed I to the rescue from 1'hUadelphlu, New-port New-port News and ,ew York. before all these vessels had had linn to reach the scene, however, word was Hashed that all the crew' had been taken aboard the steamer Alanthus 111. Alanthus proceeded to tow ih- submarine io the Delaware breakwater. kITING DETAILS WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. Informed i by wireless that all members of tho submarine s submerged off Cape' Hehlopen, baa been ri cued, nuvj de-partmeni de-partmeni officials today awalted'fur-j ther details of the reuciie and a re-1 ! port as lo the cause of the subniar-' in. 's disability. Mesid.-s Lieutenant Commander I Charles M. Cooke, Jr. whose home is i In Arkansas, other officers reported on August 1 with t he S-5 were l.leu- lenani J G Gresham. home addnas not given; Rr.sign j. Bailey Long-' I staff, of Nebraska, and Gunner Hubert I Molt, of Indiana. ll lIKHN OM E8SJ I. A message sent by the transport! i General Goethals to the commandant 1 of the fourth naval district at Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, and relayed to the navy de-! partment todH.v. described the acci- , dent as due to ihe submarine being! "partlailv Hooded while making a crash dive ' Tho crew list of the S-fi includes tho follow ing; IVrvv Pox Buffalo Center 1m Firemen, Adam E. Dooley, Alameda. Alame-da. Cal., and William J. Panter, Cleve-' Cleve-' land, Idaho. Maohinists's mate, John C. Smith. Vancouver, Wash. Mess attendant Roberto Iganes, Pontevdra Capis, P, I. Water t. rider. Grove R. Conkjln, Los Angeles. |