NEGRO FIREMAN IS
HERO IN RESCUING
WRECK SURVIVORS
Saves Life of Daughter of j
University President, With I
Babe in Her Arms
By Associated Press
An Atlantic Port, May 2.—Surviv-1
ors of the coastwise steamer City of;
Athens, which was sunk in -a col
lision with a French cruiser in a fOK |
off the Delaware coast yesterday j
morning with a loss of sixty-six per-1
sons, related here to-cay many tales;
of heroism on the part of the crews:
of the two vessels. All praised the I
efforts of the French sailors, espe-j
cially, who launched small boats i
within a few minutes after the accj-1
dent and aided by the cruiser's j
searchlights picked up many of the |
survivors from pieces of wreckage, j
The survivors agreed that the,
speedy sinking of the steamer —'
within five minutes after being ram-j
liied by the warship—was respon- j
nible, for the City of Athens' life
saving apparatus failed to work |
properly. There were 133 persons, j
including 2 4 United States marines |
on board the steamer which was
bound from New York to Savannah
with a $2,000,000 cargo of cement,!
l ope, foodstuffs and general mer- j
chandise on board.
Fireman Saves Four
Mrs. Florence Pickhard Harrison,
wife of a New York real estate agent,
whose father, Wincliell L>. Pickhard, I
is president of Mercer University,
Macon ,Ga„ told to-day how her life
that of her two-year-old baby and
two others, was saved through the
bravery of a negro fireman of the
City of Athens.
Awakened from her sleep. Mrs. i
Harrison barely had time to put a
coat over her night dress and hurry |
to the deck with her child. "1 saw
a lifeboat," she said, "but no one i
was paying any attention to it, except
a United States marine, who lifted |
the baby into the boat. I was about j
to climb in with his aid when the
steamer toppled and my grasp on the
gunwale slipped. I caught up the
baby as the ship sank under the
•swirling waters. When 1 came up
choking and almost unconscious)
from the water with the little one in j
my arms, we were directly under the j
bow of a lifeboat.
"A man whom I afterward learn- j
cd was James Wallace, of Savannah, I
lifteil the baby from my arms. When i
1 regained consciousness, found my
self in the lifeboat covered with a'
piece of canvas which 1 wrapped I
around the baby. My coat and night
gown were torn from the struggle to!
drag me in. After that Wallace res-]
cued one marine and a civilian. That i
brave negro deserves a hero's medal.,
In I.il'el>oat Two Hours
"We were in the lifebott for about i
two hours before we were picked up j
by the crew of the French cruiser. I j
cannot speak too highly of the gal
lantry and kindness of the French j
officers and men during our rescue.
, and the time spent on the cruiser." j
The French warship, with a hole i
stove in her bow, returned to an At- j
lantic port last night, bringing the |
survivors she had picked up in the ,
swirling waters.
Captain A. G. Forward, commander |
<>f the liner, was able to iive little I
information when he was interviewed j
at tile port where he landed. He was |
seriously injured and grief-stricken, i
He did report, however, that he was |
proceeding at half-speed, which is to i
say, about six knots, through the
y fug, sounding the usual fog signals, j
He Was about twenty miles off shore, j
The sea was not rough. Suddenly !
the dim form of the great cruiser
loomed up through the mist and the
crash followed.
\VlreleKNmnn l)le<l nt Key j
The Citv of Athens carried sixty- l
nine passengers and a crew of sixty- )
six. Of these, thirty-six passengers ;
iind thirty-two of the crew were
saved. Among the dead is F. J. j
Doherty, whose name must be added!
to the roll of wireless heroes who
have stuck to their keys sending the
S. O. S. until death.
Aboard the Athens, too, were
twenty-four young men who had
just enlisted in the United States
Marine Corps and were on their way
to Port Itoyal, S. C., the marines'
great training camp.
Seven of them died for their coun- |
try us truly as though they met their j
fate in France. Twenty French j
bluejackets who had been sent to
this country to fill up the crews of
French patrol vessels in the Atlantic j
were riding in the steerage. Many
of them also were lost.
Oiler Savon Four
Many heroic deeds were recounted
last night by the survivors. One of
the heroes of the sea tragedy was
Harry A. Kelley, of New York, an
oiler, who swam to an overturned
lifeboat and dragged up on the bot
tom of it four persons who were
struggling in the sea. He held them
there until they were taken off by a
boat from the French cruiser.
Mrs. Charles B. Levy, of Bridge- I
port, Conn., and her 5-year-old !
daughter; Mrs. Bonzelner, of Mobile, I
and Mrs. Norman Harrison, of New j
York, with her baby, were brought !
ashore from the cruiser late last |
night and taken to a nearby hospital. |
All of them leaped overboard in their I
nightclothing and all were suffering!
from exposure. They were supplied I
with clothing by the Red Cross. I
The loss on the ship and cargo !
was estimated by the Ocean Steam- I
ship Company to exceed $2,000,000.
The major part of the cargo was
made up of cement, rope, foodstuffs,
general merchandise and parts for
machine guns.
S. O. S. Call In Vnin
Captain Forward, who was one of
those saved, was painfully injured
and was grief-stricken at the loss |
of his ship. He said he was pro- i
ceding at half-speed about twenty
miles off shore, sounding the usual
fog signals, when the dim bulk of
the cruiser loomed up through the
mist and the crash followed. Fortu
nately, the sea was calm or many
more lives might have been lost.
Captain Forward refused to make a
statement concerning the length of
time his vessel remained afloat after
the collision. Members of the crew
declared, hoWever. that the City of
Athens sank within four minutes. A(
ureat hole was torn In her side be
low the waterline near the bow and
she was carried down by her own
'# momentum as the water rushed in.
All the passengers and many of the
••row were in their berths when the
bow of the warship plunged into the
side of the 2,300-ton coastwise ves
sel. Fir> broke out almost 'tr.medi
ately afterward in hold No. 1, but it I
bad so bearing on the fate of the
ship, for the flames were quickly
• luenched by the rush of water which
poured in.
So quickly did the doomed vessel
sink, there was no time to get thej I
boats away and many of those who
perished were trapped In their
berths.
Those of the passengers and crew
who were able to reach the deck, all I
THURSDAY EVENING, HAWUSBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 2, 1918.
of them thinly clad and many with
out life preservers, plunged into the
sea.
The cruiser launcned lifeboats im
mediately after the crash and turned
its searchlights upon the waters in
which men and women were strug
gling for their lives. Sixty-eight
persons were picked up and brought
STORE OPENS 8:30 A. M.—CLOSES 5:30 P. M. 1
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back to this port by the warship,
which was not seriously damaged.
CITY'S lIA I,AN CIO $410,004
The report of the City Treasurer for
April shows that $270,380.75 bad been
paid in last month for 1918 city tax;
receipts from all sources, $324,173; ex
penditures. $78,989, and balance on
hand, $410,004.
THIRD WARD 1018 TAX
RIS PORTS ARE COMPLETE :
County tax reports for 1918 for the
Third Ward of the city have been
completed in the ofllee of the County
Commissioners. The total valuation
of all assessable real estate in the
ward by the county is $8,028,540, and
the total taxes from county, state and
other sources which will be paid to
the County THreasurer will be $68.-
300, as compared with $49,408 for
1917. Part of the increase is due to
the advance in the tax rate from four
to five mills.
FORMER JUDGE SIK 1.1. VISITS
Ex-Judge James \V. Shull, of Perry
county, was in the city yesterday,
calling at the Courthoufse to see
Judges Kunkel, McCarrell, Henry nnd
• Johnson, who are presiding at the
r special Criminal Court sessions.
r CONSPIRATOR OIV WAV TO PRISON
By Associated Press
Sun FrnnclHco. May 2. Lieutenant
Wilhelm Von Brincken, formerly mili
f tary attache of the German Consulate
. in San Kranclsco, who pleaded guilty
R in the German-Hindu conspiracy plot
1 to overthrow British rule in India, is
on his way to the Federal prison at
McNeil Island, Washington, to begin
serving a sentence of two years.
Under the Federal law Von Brincken
may shorten his sentence by 144 days
less if he observes prfson rules.
ANNA IIKI.D CRITIC A 1,1, Y 11.1.
New York, May 2.—Physicians at-
. tending Miss Anna Held soon will
i decide whether a blood transfusion
will be necessary to nave her life,
j The actress is in a critical condition
In hei suite at u hotel. She is suf
' fering from anaemia, which ur
geons describe as "of a secondary na
ture." Her weight has fallen from
- 115 to eighty-four pounds.
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