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PRISONER OF TELLS TH1 Dr. George C. Bristol R? Cruelity by Teutonic on Unknown South Like a hot breath from a European, battlefield, alive with the foul reek, brutality and feverish anguish of real war. let into peaceful and comfort-.! able South Carolina, was the recital yesterday of Dr. George C. Bristol, i veterinary, of the Columbia Veteri-j nary Hospital, 1225 Hampton street, j of the story of his ten weeks in a: German prison camp on an island in j the southern Atlantic, of his rescue j from a torpedoed horse ship, and his 1 experiences of revolting German j Ariioltu r?v Rrictnl llflsi ill Co- I lumbia but a few days, but has been traveling the State in the practice of; his profession for some time. He is native of Arizona and has! been connected with the live stock l industry in Missouri for several years. | He is a graduate of Northwestern j 1 University, class of 1898, and did, post graduate work in veterinary surgery at Toronto University. He was! in charge of the live stock at the. St. Louis exposition, and bears credentials from David R. Francis, of St. Louis, president of the exposition, and at one time candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. \ Dr. Bristol had been engaged in buy-: ing and carrying horses to England j since the beginning of the war, and j was on his 15th trip when his ship was torpedoed, and he fell into the hands of the German crew of the submarine. Dr. Bristol weighs over 200 pounds now, and is sunburned and hard. With, his leggins and khaki attire,; shirt open at the neck on a thick chest, he is an arresting figure. His thumbs bear scars from a "thumbing U'lliVli ho was RWIlTTff 11D for A UVXV WXi ?? xaavu AAV ? v.w w .. ^ ?r almost four hours by his captors, and there is a wound on his foot, now almost healed, where he was shot by a German officer. Dr. Bristol told the story in the simple manner in which it is set out below, in a quiet, unexcited tone, in a way that carried conviction, stopping sometimes for a good laugh at an occasional remembrance. "A year ago last February," said Dr. Bristol, "I was buying horses for I shipment to Liverpool, England, as purchasing agent for a large live stock exporting concern. I had been j unusually lucky and had picked up a j fine lot, most of them being worth1 from $300 to $400 apiece, and had shipped them to a point in Northern j, Florida. From there we drove them j to the gulf coat at a place called Dead Man's Bay. The last part of the trip j was made through a thick Florida j swamp, where we had to move alongvery slowly, sometimes only three or : ^ four miles a day, and were without j good water a. good part of the time. | The result was that we lost 450 ' horses. This and sweating around in that jungle for four or five days put me in very bad spirits to start the trip. We loaded at Dead Man's Bay and sailed for Tampa, where \\e took i on feed. Our ship, the Nancy Howell, was a big broad beamed old whaler with* a long and stormy record in the Bering Sea. but she was stout and she was fast enough under ordinary circumstances to keep ahead of any submarine. We carried some of the! horses in barges which we towed be-, hind. "From Tampa we sailed to Key; West. There we began hanging t around the harbor office waiting for ! clearance papers. We were put off from day to day for no very satisfactory Reason. Our captain was a horn-; j ed old veteran who had been scour- j ing the Seven Seas on all kinds of . ' " * i? - - -i ci ?..ii _ c .... i snips since ne was i<?, as iiui ui su-i, perstition as a voodoo negro, and he,, kept croaking that we were in for a bad voyage. He said that holding! ( backtjiearance papers was a put up, Ipifand that they were waiting to tell i, iw^the submarines when we would start. He swore that all of the lighthouses , y along the coast were manned by Ger- ( mans, who kept signals out for sub- . marines. Horses Good Sailors. { "After a while I began to get un- . easy myself, and on February 2, a| thick night, we hauled up our an- j . chor and slipped out without clear-' ance papers. Heavy weather struck! us almost as soon as we started. We j ! struck out South and went a different j way than we had ever gone before. |, Some of my horses had died in Key! West and some more were sick, but! they go: all right when we got to sea.! and I lost no more of them. This was' the loth cargo 1 had carried over. j. "When we had been out four or, five days, one morning about 10;, o'clock a submarine was reported far; ^ away on our port bow. We saw;, nothing more of it and hoped that j, the lookout was wrong. About noon j. all of us on deck saw it again, unmis-j GERMANS RILLING TALE jcites Horrible Story of Captors in Camp and era Atlantic Island takably. We sighted it again at 2 o'clock, at 3 and at 3:30. It began trailing us and followed us steadily until dark. We used the wireless station and called for help repeatedly, but no answer came back. We were gaining on the submarine, and thought perhaps we could keep ahead for a day or two and get help when one of our boilers went dead. Then the Germans began overhauling us. "At about G: 30 when I was up talking to the wireless operator the foreman came up and told me that a negro had just let a horse fall over-1 board. The negro had managed to smuggle some whiskey on board and had given us continuous trouble. As anxious as I was about the submarine, this last act exhausted my patience. I went down the steps, picking up a belaying pin on the way. The negro : was leaning over the rail and I called him and went over to where he was. I drew back my arm and might have let him have it the best I had with the belaying pin. At that instant I felt the ship tremble, then I could feel a jar and hear a muffled report. Something hit my head with a thud and I became unconscious. Burning Boat Goes Down. "When I came to myself I was in the water hanging to a stateroom door. I wasn't quite certain where I was for a long time. After a while I saw on the other end of the door a man's leg; later this disappeared. ,1 was afraid to move for fear I would lose my hold on the door and it would float away. Later I saw the leg, with a piece of blue overall hanging on it, floating away. I suppose I must have been hit by the door as it fell. The blow broke some bones in my temple which are still j loose. It must have been then about 10 or 11 o'clock. Over on the West I could see the ship burning and hear the horses groaning. I could see one barge; I later learned that there some others butT could not see them. I heard the boat go down just about daylight. Nobody seemed to be near me, and I could see nobody. The water was getting very cold by this time. 1 thought I was the only one that had been saved. The sea was not rough and there was a little moonlight. All sorts of things wandered through my head as I lay slowly lapping up and down with the water. Then my temple would hurt, and I would lapse &to unconsciousness again. "I was just getting out of one of the stupors when I heard some one singing. It was daylight now. The tune was 'Over the Bounding Ocean Wave.' Then I saw, sitting on a beam, stuck upright-in a floating part of the boat, a big cowpuncher, named Jim Watson, one of our men, a careless good natured citizen, who told us that his wife had just died, and that he had lost all his money in a big game in Tucson. He said he wanted to ship with us and recoup his fortunes a little. He was astraddle the beam, and in a high good humor. He laughed at me sticking j on- the door, and kept on singing. I We stayed there and talked, and supposed that we were the only ones saved. Drifting With Current. "We were drifting all the time, and soon after daylight struck a current, which moved along at a considerable rate, and which was very warm. After two hours we floated into a big 3ddy and there we found the rest of the people. Some of them were in boats and some were clinging to wreckage. One hundred and eleven in all were saved. At least 400 people were on the boat when she was struck. I can't say how many were lost because some may have been picked up by other boats. "After a while we sighted a big submarine, bigger than any I had ever seen, which came over to where we were floating and picked us up. it had no name or number that I could see. We were put in a fairly large room, and the submarine started at once. It began diving but there were so many of us in the one room, that it had to come up frequently to prevent our suffocating. All of us were sick and faint. We were on the submarine four or five days. Then we were transferred to a German j man-of-war, and carried South, our captain thought. "On February las near as we could calculate, we were transferred to a lighter. We were then carried to an island where the prison camp _ where we were to be put was j located. The Germans said it was 14 miles to the island. I don't-know ivhere the island was: it may have (Continued on page 4, columnl.) G Don't Poisoi With that Calo It is almost a crime to dose children with calomel?that nauseating, poisonous mineral that some folks still think is the one thing that will relieve constipation, headache and other bilious conditions. I wouldn't give calomel to a dog unless I wanted to kill it. When you need liver or stomach medicine, use a safe, guaranteed vegetable preparation like Martin's Liver Medicine. It tastes good. It acts nnwprfnllv nn the liver and bowels without pain or griping. And it often saves one from a spell of sickness. One of the best known men in Haddock, Ga., is C. H. Keller. 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