PRISONER OF
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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
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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
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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 .
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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.
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"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
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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
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