The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 19, 1918, Image 7
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CREWS CRAZED
BY SUFFERING
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U-Boat Victims Lick Boats for
Moisture and Seek Death
in Sea.
TELLSTM.ESOF PLUCKY DEEDS
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Htrolo Acts of Officers and Men Bs
longing to All Branches of 8e*
8ervicss, Naval and
Mercantile. ? - . ? ' y:'
London.? Much bad l^een written
about the hardships endured by (he
crews of vessels sunk by German sub
murines. Hero are some particulars
dealing with the plucky deeds per
formed by officer* and men belonging
to all branches of the sea services,
naval mul mercantile.
The first case is , that of a passenger
steamer which had been torpedoed on
a Monday, without warnlug, as usual,
i in the Atlantic, 320 miles from land.
The chief officer took charge of No.
2 lifeboat, which had on board 81 per
sons, Including two women and a baby
four mouths old.
Bad weather prevailed all that day
and throughout the night, increasing
; the plight of the miserable people. Pro
visions,- too, were Scarce, but what ex
isted was taken charge of by the chief
officer, who doled out half a dipper
(half-pint) of water to each person
night* and morning.
They had been barely twenty-four
hours In the boat When the horrors of
the situation were added to by mad
ness. On the Tuesday the cook lost
his reason, and 01*,. the Wednesday he
died. That night witnessed the insan
ity of the storekeeper, ? who had to be
laNhed down. On Thursday he i&o
died. On Friday an Jl. B. expired. >.
Water Begins to Get Low.
The wat^r was now beginning to
give out and the boat's company suf
fered from Intense thirst.
A fireman was found dead In the
bottom of the boat on Saturday morn
ing, and the third- class pantry hoy
died during the day.
On Sunday the cattleman tried to
jump overboard three times. and( -suc
ceeded at th? fourth attempt. The sur
vivors were In "too feeble a state to
save hlra, although they turned the
boat round and searched for him. The
water gave out on Sunday.
There were occasional showers of
rain, but everything was saturated
with salt, and the little water they got
was undrlnkable. They licked, the
woodwork, hoping to gather up the
ralpdropa :
Then they broke up the water heir,
nnd licked the iuslde, which they found
"SuTOrnted with moisture, nnd delicious.
At 3 p. ui. on Monday land was sighted,
but It was a long way off, and by the
time they drew near darkness and a
' heavy northerly swell made a landing
impossible. They lay to, and during
a squall their mast carried away at the
heel, but that did not matter much, for
it acted as a sea anchor.
At daylight on Tuesday they were
sighted by a couple of fishing boats,
which towed them into port. The baby
lived for some time after being landed.
The linen keeper died as he was being
lifted from the boat. Two of the crew
refused to leave t^e boat, having gone
urad. - A trimmer died from gangrene
two weeks later.
The chief officer remarked : "I would
like to testify to the excellent behavior
of the boat's cr^w throughout our pe
riod of eight days' hardship and ex
posure."
The second case deals with a Brit
ish oil ship which had been torpedoed
without warning, like torpedo struck
it between the twft foYward tanks, and
it was burning furiously. Its engines
were still running, because It had, been
imptssiblcr to reacji the engine room
After the explosion on acbount of the
heat Visible for miles, through the
darkness, it looked like some fiery pen
nant flung across the face of the nfght.
All the holds had caught and a con
tinuous stream of oil kept feeding the
fl re.
Crouched up in the peak, which was
the only part not yet alight* were about
thirty Chinese, all who remained of
the crew. Death by fire or by water
was only a matter of thpe; that seemed
to be a certainty. *
Sighted by Patfel *a&7
The U eutattnt | n comma nd of a j>a
trol vesMl iiw a ragged sheet of flame
and altered course forthwith. To ex
tinguish the flamed was impossible,
and ttie reseu? of the survivors in the
oiler's peak, but there was no more life
tlpa
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He ran his vesser close past the oil
er's stem and as she passed rafts life
boats and lifebuoys were pitched over
board by the Citew of the patrol ship.
The Chinese Were told to jump over
board. Tills wss repeated three times.
By that time all boats had been low
ered to pick up the men In the water.
There now remained nine men in the'
oiler's peak, but there was no more ilfe
savinjc apparatus on board the patrol
vessel. The lieutenant decided it was
necessary to place himself alongside
the ship end ta^e off the remainder of
the crew. A speed of eight kaots be
ing maintained, this wss done. They
remained alongside, locked to the
steamer's windward bow, for a period
sufflclenr for all nln^ men to lower
themselves on board this ship, which
sustained alight superficial damage to
guard ra^H and upper-deck fittings.
Ten minutes after clearing the steamer
she waa burned to the water line. .
SLACKERS PREFER CRIME
TO FIGHT FOR COUNTRY
(\>hitnhurt, O.?- DwrtOf the past
six months there have I >een
more mVu tin* ages t*f
eighteen uiul thirty committed
to state peu'ul Institution* than
ever before, There have been
fewer men over thirty-one rom*
mltted than In (fceot yearn. It
has boon pointed out this sltua
Hon may be due to slackers com
mitting petty offenses In order
to escape military duty. There
are about Ave hundred more
young men confined than rec
ords of previous years show.
OIL IS BIG FACTOR
Asset That Makes America lm*
portant as War Power.
At Valuable to Ciun of Alllaa M
American Men, Money and
Munition#.
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Washington.? *If America's men,
money and munitions did not consil*
lute a vital asset In the cause of the
allies against Germany, America would
still be n friend |n need. If she could
not prwide ships or steel, she would
still constitute a pillar of strength.
The reason? Oil,
America produces more oil than all
the rest of the world. And ships, eiv
glides, autos, and many other war fac
tors are using pll as u motive force.
Oil Is needed aa a lubricant for all the
metals used In the prosecution of war.
Its uses are so varied nnd so yttai,
indeed, that oil constitutes another of
those .commodities without which Uhe
war could not he won.
In 101ft, for which figures ha^e been
completed nwl Issued by the Ameri
can Mining congress* the United States
produced nnd marketed 28J ,104,104
barrels of crude petroleum. This com
prised 65.72 per cent, or almost two
thirds, of. the entire World production.
Other countries follow : Russia, 16.03
per cent ; Mexico, 7.69 per cent ; butch
^Cast Indies, 2.90 per cent ; Roumanla,
2.81 per cent ; India, 1.92 per cent." 'And
less thnn 1 per cent each, G^ltda, Ja
pan and Formosa, Peru, Germany,
Trinidad, Argentina, Egypt, Canada
and Italy. ;
With thin lint in hand, it Is easy to
see why American oil Is bo important
a factor In the prosecution of the war.
Russian fields, If they are being work
ed at an, probably are being worked
for Germany's benefit. So are Rou
manian fields. t
Thus far, though prices have soared
Just as If there was a famine In oil,
the American fields, including the Mex
ican, have sufficed t<* keep all the aiitej
fairly well supplied. Studentfuof war
problems declare that America's oil
supply will be practically as valuable
In the last analysis as American men,
money and munitions? ?
SHIP VANSE LOST AT SEA
Few Vessels as Well Known to Ptr*
sons Other Than Seafaring
v Men.
New York. ? Somewhere In the At
lantic, tossed about like ft cork and
wlthoqtilghts or course, Is the staunch
ship Vanse, the pride of Capt. Jacob
O. Samuelson, who was forced to de
seFTSfef live 0A?? after s ternnc storm
snapped off her masts. .3 , "*w
Few snl ll i:;: vessels ,are as well
known as this erstwhile full-rigged
ship to persons other than seafaring
men. For years the Vanse was a pas
senger ship, carrying sometimes 1,000
coolies out of Calcutta. Her last car
go was oil, which she conveyed from
New York to Buenos Ayres. She Is of
1,001 tons register and was coming up
the coast in ballast, bound for Hamp
ton Roads, Va? when the storm bit
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HUN TELLS OF TANK TERROR
Qartara I In Tsfleblatt Rtcallji Hannibal
Elephants as ftlmlfe to Brltlah
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Berne, Switzerland. ? Describing the
battle of Cambral to German readers,
Lieutenant General von Ardenne, In
the Tageblatt says : "Those who fought
in the battle describe the Imposing lm^
presirton made by the ftrltlsh tanks
which preceded the attack on the wid
est ^ ttont. As they advanced In masses,
with very small Intervals between,
them, they reminded ono of Hannibal**
battle elephants or the sickle chariots
of Pharaoh. .The booming, rumbling
attack was accompanied or, rather,
supported from the air by a veritable
cloud of battle aircraft, while closely
pressed masses of Infantry and field
artillery followed, the Iron wSll, thres
cavalry divisions bringing np the rear.**'
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SAYS SON OWES FOR BOARD
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Atepfather Put* In Claim Against Be-'
tata far $0,200 far Meals and
. Lodging.
Racine, Wis. ? Claiming that Theo
dore Johnson, who died she months
ago, tearing an estate worth |70,000t
owes his mother for hoard snd rent for
the last qnsrter of a rectory, August
Wilson has fill*! a ffl.200 elslm against
the estate. Wilson declsre* Johnson
boarded st his mother's honse snd also
!w?d a trunk stored there for twenty
Are years. He figures that the board
and room were worth at least f& a
weak with aocrped interest ?
LKK COUNTY NBWS
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Umw df Interest Gathered ?r?n? IUnIi
ojivIHo Vindicator.
Mi. N owl on Woodhaiu, who has
Ixvn MiftVring with tho dreaded dU
oast*. tultoivulosis, for several mouths,
died at the home of hla father, Mr.
John Woodhaiu, at Ashland Ihm Sun
<juy ami his remains were interred in
savannah ooiuotery on the following
day. amid a largo orowd of sorrowing
relatives mid friends. Mr. Woodhtuu
>?poni a while at the tultorenlosis eamp
at Columbia, where he hoped to regain
his hoallh. No had never nuirrlod am?l
his oorroot ago Is n??t known hy the
writer, .last two or throo yearn ago
his brother, Coyi Wood ham preeeded
him to the grave with tho sauio dis
ease.
The oditor with his wife, daughter
and granddaughter hurely oseai>ed a
terrlhlo wreek a fmv days ago hy dl'lv
tnjf tnto tho edge of a dltoh at a sharp
oiirvo in t h?? road Just on this side of
MoehaulcsvHIo poml as they were re
turning from Sumter, to e*ou|>o holng
run into hy u Ford oar going about
HO milcK an hour. The dlaholloal
wrotoh never stopped to see If we
oouid got out of the dltoh and was
gone lmfore tho nnndier of the ear
eon Id ho rea il . There is a law against
fast driving e*p?*viall.v at eurves and
rural poHeeiuen ooutd do some good
work if they am on the alerl. <>nc
or two' heavy flues would stop .?nien
fast and reek less driving.
" Thonnia Porrln was brought homo
last Sunday from the hospital and Ls
now getting on u* well as eould ho
ex^MM'ted. Mrs.' l.o?sters is also o\
1hm'I<h1 home tlds week and Is improv
ing in hoe health.
;M r. Wallace McKcn%lo ami Miss
Krrol 1 1111 wow married on Waaler
Sunday ?t the parsonage at Mt. Elou,
hy. Itev. Karle I'Ycetmau. The gwoiu
U a very prosperous young farmer at
A*?hfflud, and tlu> bride la one of our
prettiest y<a)ttK ladles. ,\vho lias a host,
of friends here. < 'oiigrutuhitJoua and
host wishes for a happy marrie^l \\fcr,
Among . other marriages which have,
taken place within the last few weeks
near hefe were Mr, llarley Auiltvwn
to Miss Cornell Andrew#; Air. Vaiiw
Moore. to Miss <\>ra (hitling; Mr.
Claude Moore to Miss f/>retta An- J
drews, ail of Aahland. <*> |
Last Saturday Mrj*. J. C, tJardimr
was kllhMl la ai* automobile wreck noaik
Nmvl>erry. Mr. <*. T Walker of Klo*
renee lost a ldg in a wrcek near that'
place Mr. 11. H. King uud all of his
family wore imdljy hurt hy auto turn-,
lug over near llethnny All, of these
accidents, were caused,, we understand,
from 1 fast driving.
South Carolina.
South (Vuollnu is a state of' per
petual Irritation, situated between
Georgia wild / North Co roll nu, h iWl
somowliere between tin* revolution ami
the civil 'war. It Ik tho tighten l?t state
In the union, ainl Ik tho uusafest spot
lw?t,wecn the At bantu* Mini iln- Pacific
in which to dLscuss tho emancipation
proclamation or edit a newspaper with
a trenchant peh.
South CaroHuu Is about as big. as
the front yard of u Texas cuttle kltu?,
It contains square miles Is shu]>
ed like a five-cent cut of pie and It*
population Includes republicans, Ohf
nese and Indians not ta red.- The pop^
iila Hon Is almost equally divided be
tween whites <and noffroes but turn
white Carolinian when be gnashes his
teeth and draws In his breath with a,
hfw. hissing sound can make t>ne hun-j
d red colored residents'" go afvay lii
search of rest ami a. change of climate
without waiting for the next train. |
South Carolina was settled about
two hundred and fifty years ago, but
lias rcinulned unsettled ever since. It
has always been' noted for Its nervous
disposition and Its willingness to rise
up and smite the universe on aLl occa
sions. The British, were having an
easy tlitfc in" the revolution when they
struck South Carolina, but General
Marlon soon made them look 'like a
republican who has criticised General
-Luc- .in. l-harli'-Mtou. . .TJu* xltilu holped .
? win the revolution, but threatened to
tn k<* Its doll thing* mid go home in
Jackson's administration, and in 1861
it oponedt the civil war by seceding
with 11 prodigious explosion, Later it
contributed ? Tillman to the United
States Senate and has listened to the
uproariouH rornltx wi t"b pride ever
sinci . South Carolina was severely
shaken hy an earthquake hi 1880, but
did" uot iwcede' fft ttidt time.
South 1 Carolina raises cotton, rice
mid mv^?'t iwtiitoes, and (supplies tur
lnrntlhe aJKl rwin to the * world at
large. It. begins at the. Atlantic ocean
in a modcftt way about six feet l>elow
high \yater, and for many miles inland
is sq, moist 1 that the fahners kwv life
I Ih'Ux hauiidy oil their wuk<?|m. It Ua?
many Uiiv old town*. mil of i u ? 1 1 1 1' and
chlVHtrow* eltUens, but tin* imputation
inders out In t li?' wcsli'i'ii mountain*,
where the people eat Cltt.V Instead of
!<?<> rri'uni umi lobster, and empty the
hook worm* out of their Sunday shoe*
i?.\ pounding t lu? sole* wltW a stlek.
There iin- three religion* in the Htnto
? Protestant, rathoHe, nmt States
Ulyht*.
t'haiiestoa, a beautiful petrified city
ou-'ilw seHeoast, 1* t tin nn*tr?pollst \*f
South (\irollua. The Uo|h* <*f the state
is in its ptihlle nohoolw,\1>ut Hie cotton
tntllw, wlilvti ttiv spread-iim all over K
tike a heavy rush, are driving hun
dreds <?f teaoliers out of employment.
! Hy George KU'h, Author trf ''At Good
(Hit Kiwush".
At The Majestic Theatre Monday.
Monday tlu? MjiJexth*5 will offer the
first opportunity to m?e "Intolerance"
the iu*W (Irlttit li NiMvtttCle. .
Asldv -from 4ts tluve Jove stories,
itH thrills, . romaneo and advent ures,
"Intolerance" i?arti<Hilarly Interest*
feiuiniuty through it.s wealth of dis
tinctive costumes, Fashion's trend to
Hahyloulun styles this season requires
little comment, the part "Intolerance"
phiyod In' popularlnlnK tho fcxtuctlvc
raiment of this ancient worM city de
serves more thou passing mention.
To the interested no hotter oeppoi'
tunlty trvfir ottered to glluip.se the al
luring ereatlons that gmced the fair
oiuvh of ltelshaxvrtir'* Insurious eourt
than a performance of this piay. For
hero are shown .thousands of faacinat
biK garments, t'ashione<l regardless of
exj>en>*?, bearing the indescribable vw
rlety of embroidery that eliaracterl/.ed
the Kiirh of a period famous as the
most prodigal one In Uhltory. ...
I People with real trouidew never ad
vertlso them.
DR. J. W. SHARP
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist
1 make a specialty of Surgery and
Dental Surgery,
? Office Phone 16?
CAMDEN1,' S. C3.
A "Leaky Shoe
<, on a'
_ "Leaky" Day
What can be more annoying?
And it *s dangerous, loo. \
But, oh! So easily remedied.
Jufit step into my shop and have
them made water-tight, and go on
your way rejoicing.
C. C. WHITAKER
WHEN YOU
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THE BEST
HIGH GRADE GROCERY
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"Hard , Wfear" naturally suggests itself when you
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think of Hardware.
"Hard Wear" is what you expect to give any article
bought at a hardware store.
And that's just what we guarantee from every ar
ticle1 bought of us.
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Our e<Jge tools are made of the finest tempered steel..
Wooden articles are of the staongest and most suitable
timber, harness of the finest leather ?
In short, we sell you hardware that we guarantee
,to stand hard Vtfear. ,r ? f,
^Anything from a tack to a" tractor.
PEARCE-YOUNG COMPANY