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AUDACIOUS LEFT
BY COMPANIONS
Warships 1 with the Britsih Super
dreadnought Steam Away After
it is Wounded.
MEN ON OLYMPIC TELL STORY
Kffort to Tow Disabled Ship to
Shoal Water la VnoceMi(nl
and It la Sent to Bottom
by Cralser Liverpool.
NEW YORK, Nov. 16. Two men who
saw tho British superdreadaught Au
dacious ly'ng helpless in a heavy sea
some twenty-seven miles northwest of
JHigh Swlliy shortly after it had struck
a mine October 27 arrived here today on
the steamer New York from Liverpool.
They confirmed the story of the loss
of the warship that had previously
reached here and added numerous details.
One statement they made was that the
Audacious might have been floating: to
day hud it not been blown up by the
British cruiser Liverpool at 9 o'clock on
the day it was disabled through striking
tho mine.
The men who told the story were James
It. Ueames, leader of the orchestra on
the White Star lln-?r Olympic, which
rescued the crew of the Audacious and
made fruitless efforts to tow the battle
ship to shoal water., and Hugh Griffiths,
one of the orchestra's musicians.
AaKed to Trli Story
When it became known on board the
New York as It was coming into port
today that Beames and Griffiths had
been shifted to It from the Olympic, the
musicians were asked to tell their story
of tho disaster. Both declined to discuss
the event, declaring they had been put
on their promise by the admiralty to say
nothing.
Later when they saw the positive state
ments that had been nublishcd hero re
garding the disaster to the Audacious ' eo tor tuy twenty seconds afterwards
they admitted that the battleship had
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have ever seen. Through the binoculars i
the captain of the Audacious was seen
walking up and down tho dock calmly
with his hands behind his back.
Klve Men In Hunt.
"I saw one boat come along tho stern
of the Buper-drendnoueht. It had five
men In It. Just nr It came into position
for the designated men on the Audacious
to Jump into it a big wall of water pulled
It up and slammed it upsido down Into
tho sea. Instantly four men came to the
surface, and, clutching at tho beeker,
hauled themselves up on the keel. One
man was missing. He was the officer in
command. The men had not clung long
to the upturned lifeboat when another
boat canio bounding by and plckod them
up.
In splto of the faft that there were WO
officers and men on the Audacious and
that the rescue work was carried on under
great difficulty In a heavy sea and a
westerly gale, only two lives were lost.
One whs a petty officer, who wus
drowned out of a lifeboat, and the other a
gunner's mate, who was struck by a
fragment of steel when the Audacious
was blown up.
Benntlfol Pickup.
"It-was a fine piece of work, a beauti
ful Dick up. On the deck of the Auda- J
clous the officers directed the work of
sending off the crew. Men were pick-id I
for each post and told to Jump on or- '
ders. There were about 900 on tho Auda
cious, but only 2S0 were taken to tho
Olympic. About 400 were transferred to
other warships by the Olympic's fou-tecn
lifeboats. .
"Some of the small boats made three
trips between battleship and merchant
man. About 100 men were left on board
the Audacious to asl:t In the handling of
lines and cables,, while the Olympic made
its futile efforts to take the Audacious
in tow. Later these men were Mkon off
to the Liverpool In the Olympic's life
boats, when It was decided the Auda
cious should be blown up and dunk. '
Flaah Lights Ip Ship.
Tho lymplc dropped anchor off Lough
Swillv st 8 p. m. An hour later Beanies
and Griffiths,' who were below, said a
tremendous flash lighted up the entire
ship. They rushed to the deck and could
Wellesley College Girls in a Brisk Game of Hockey
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Olympic Gaines in
1916 May Be Held
In United States
This photo shows an exciting moment
in a hockey same ht the recent Welles
ley college field day. This kind of hockey
is played by girls almost exclusively, but less, taking considerably more wind than
it Is quito strenuous exercise, heverthe-1 golf or pltim hie.
been hit by a mine and bad gone down.
t.'pon reflection the men concluded they
were breaking no faith with the govern
ment Inasmuch as the facts had now
come to light and consented to tell what
they knew.
The story of Beames, who was helped
from time to time by Griffiths, was sub
stantially as follows:
Paaaena;era Uaeaay.
"Wo sighted land ut 10 a. m. on Tues
day, October Z7. The land was Tory Island.
An hour later we went below, when one
of the stewards came to our quarters
and said: 'You better get up on deck
and see those two lovely warships.' Tho
passengers soon got wind of. the presence
of warships and there was' much un
easiness among them.
"As soon as the steward told us about
the warships we ran up on deck. The
day was dark and cloudy and a fclltf
westerly breeze was blowing. Off our
starboard side we saw a big battleship
down at the stern and heavy seas breax
ing over It. It was flying the code flag
of the letter "N," which is a distress
signal.
"As we approached, the other warship,
which we learned later was the cruiser
Liverpool, came fiver to us and at high
bpeed crossed our bows. Hardly bad a
crossed ' when It turned and recrosaed,
and kept up this sort of movement for
half an hour. It seemed as If It were
trying deliberately to keep in the way
of the Olympic as a means of making it
stop.
Purpose of Pejformance.
"It was said pn board the latter, how
ever, that this performance was to clear
the way for the White Ktar ship, which
lit that time was the only agent In those
waters capable of towing the Audacious
to a shoal haven. Neither the Liverpool
itself nor the other small warships that
had steamed to the work of rescuing was
capable of saving the auperdreadnought.
"It was decided instantly that the Liv
erpool could better risk hitting a mine
than could the Olympic, which was later
to tow the Audacious, and for thls.rea
son the Liverpool made Its maneuver
ahead of the Olympic as a feeler for
mines.
"Hardly had the Liverpool cut across
our bows when the order was given to
man the starboard ilfeboats. More volun
teers answered than the boats could ac
commodate and when it came time for
action the Olympic's crew actually fought
to get Into the boats, o eager were they
to do something for the sailors on the
ili.ome.l Audajjiouj. When one of the
loata hit the water they found In It a
little bellboy, 11 years old. who carried
messages to and from the purser s office
Chaaves Plana.
"Although the starboard lifeboats were
manned. Captain Haddock suddenly
hanged his plana Instead of dropping
down on the portside of the pounding
warrior ha decided to put about and ap
proach on the starboard side. By so
doing he made a lee, which enabled the
fourteen lifeboats dropped from the port
tide to accomplish a task that never
i ould have been done If the original plan
had been carried out.
The seas were high and the men In the
Olympic lifeboats had a hard pull. It
took them twenty minutes to get over to
the Audacious, which lay about 000 yards
aay. We youtd sea the crew at quarters.
They were the calmest body of men I
burning fragments shooting upward from
the place where they had left the Auda
cious. . Then came a roar. It sounded,
they said, as If some mammoth boiler
were letting off steam. It stopped as ,
suddenly as It came. !
That was the end of the Audacious.
Everyone on board had been' aken eff
and the Liverpool had put the finishing
touches to the havoc that a mine had
begun In the forenoon of that day, the
musicians said.
As a reason for destroying the Auda
cious, It was said that the battleship was (
hopelessly damaged and that if not Mov n i
up It would become a menace to navi-ja- I
tlon. i
With Squadron. j
One of the new features of the loss of
the Audacious, according to statcm-mts
made on the New York, was that tho bat
tleship was steaming with a squadron
when hit by the mine, and that Immedi
ately Its companions jtt 4he tupordrcad
notight class steamed away In conform- '
Ity with the admiral's orders. I
The Impression was that It had been
torpedoed. It was said, and the other big
war craft sought to escape a similar fate
by getting out of the danger zone, as
quickly as possible. Only the Liverpool
was standing by when the Olympic came
along, but about the time the WhlteKtar
liner's lifeboats were in the water a half
dozen destroyers and trawlers camo out
from Lough Swlliy.
The maneuvers of the Olympic In mak- i
Ing fast to the Audacious and trying to
tow it to the shoals, were interestingly
dsecrlbed. The destroyer Fury came by
the Olympic's stern at high spee.l and
a heaving line was thrown to it. In this
fashion, a stouter line was carried out
and finally four big Manila hawsers and
two steel cables from the Olympic were
taken over and made fat to the Auda
cious. Slowly the Olympio got under
way and the lines drew taut. i
strata Too Great. j
Hardly had the merchantman began to
tow its heavy charge when the dread
nought's bow plunged down under a ter
rific sea. Just as the liner's own stern
was lifted up on a wave. The strain
was too great even for the steel hawser.
and all lines snapped as the Olympic
steamed on.
The liner's propellers were reversed
and it came to a stop, finally going
astern of the pounding dreadnought. It
got within heaving distance again of
the dreadnought's bow under the skil
ful! management of Captain i la Mock,
but the fast approaching darkness made
it impossible to continue the attempt to
save the big warship. It was thought
that some of the collision bulkheads of
the Audacious must have given way and
that more water wss finding its way
Into the hpld, for Its -ommander tignalled
to Captain Haddock that It could not be
saved and advised him to risk his ship
no further.
Boats Kent Adrift.
A heavier sea was now running, and as
the Olympio lifeboats came longside Cap
tain Haddock had his men hauled
aboard. He decided, however, that the
boats could not be laki-n up on the davits
and they were sent adrift, being picked
up later by trawlers and other small
craft.
None of the Olympic's 200 passengers
was allowed ashore for six days, and all,
It was stated, .were requested by ths
naval authorities to say r.othlng of what
they had seen, and all members of the
crew wero sworn to refrain from speak
ing of the loss of the battleship.
While marooned on board, tho Olympic's
passengers saw other dreadnoughts of the
squadron steaming in and out of lAugh
Swlliy, but not until mine sweepers had
gone, over an area of somo 2.400 square
miles surrounding the placo where the
Audacious wbb hit.
Telia of Shock.
Among the dreadnought's men taken
aboard by the Olympic was a petty offi
cer who wus In the steering engine room
when the vessel was hit. He told his
story to Beames and Griffiths and they
recalled part of it tonight. He said he
thought a six-Inch gun had been fired
and gave it littlo or no attention. Water
began to pour In, however, and as It did
he heard the cry, "Torpedoed on portside!
Close all water-tight doors!"
All hands were ordered on deck. The
discipline was perfect, according to the
petty officer's story. The. fire room force
drew the fires on the starboard side and
this, together with' the flood of cold water
rushing Into the fire room on the portside.
was assumed to be the reason why the ,
engines of the dradnought were uname to
drive it into shoal water.
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Rifle and Revolver
Club is Started by
Hundred Omahans
n in
RUTHEBFORD.
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HAWKEYES EXPECT YICTORY
Confident They Will Take Measure
of Cornhusker Eleven.
JUDGF M'HUGH READY
TO PRESENT NEBRASKA CASE
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A Greater Omaha Itiflo and Revolver
club was organized at a meeting held n
Colonel C, L, Mather's office Sunday,
with 100 members as a charter enrollment all the railroad companies entering Chi
WASHINGTON, Nov. Pi. (Special Tel
rgrum.lJudgo W. I). Mcllugh of Omaha
is In Wasliiugton as special counsel for
PARIS?. Nov. li. -The Olympio games In
m may be held In tho I'nlted States.
Huron l'U rro do Ooulirrtln, president ol
the International committee, says If nny.
circumstances, mnterinl or sentimental,
prevent their being held In Kurope In lDlfi
Tliay cannot bo postponed until 1930, ns
suggested, but that limy might be held
In America. Tho war. Baron ile t'ouhcrtin
thinks, will not hnve anything more than
a brief, temporary effect upon sport In
Franco. Individual records will suffer be
cause such stara as Jean Uouln, the great
runner, have, fallen at tlie front und
others, no doubt will follow. Tlie younger
clyament will not reach their highest, form
for three yearn or more, but eventually,
tho baron thinks, the war will' prove to
havo been an Incentive to physical train-In.:.
Mehegan Knocked
Out Jy Griffiths
SYDNEY. Australia. Nov. 16. (Via j
Ixinelon.l-Johnny Griffiths, the Amerl- i
can pugilist, knocked out Hnghle Mehe- j
Ran, the former light weight champion of I
Australia, Iti tho eighth round of their
fight hero today.
CREIGHTON TURNS DOWN
OFFER TO PLAY W1SNER
HARD FOUGHT BATTLE CERTAIN
VU-tor Over tmei by Lnrwer Xcorr
Than N'ebraaka linn l p ftlrea
llunka Conf Meure In the
Outcome.
Coach Miller of Crelghinn yesterday re
eelved a challenge from Wlsner, Nib., forj
a foot ball game, to bo pUyed here next;
Saturday, a Crelghton has no game for
that date. Miller refused the offer because
Crelghton does not wish to take nny
chances of further crippling Its men be
fore the big Thanksgiving game with
Bouth Dakota. Following this brief respite
the hardest grind of the year will bgln
In preparation for tho Coyotes.
Officers were elected for the, ensuing ye e
and arrangements planned for prospect, a
activities j
Colonel C L. Mather mas elected pre
dent; A. K. Peterson, vice president; K1
gar Ray Allen, secretary; K. Fay Hodgcrn
treasurer, and C. L. Burmester, execull t
officer.
Arrangements are under way to obtai
oko seeking to have the Interstate Com-iii-ive
commission "unscramble" certain
ivarge charges which It has permitted to
br- alifcorberi by shippers to the detriment
n" said railroads.
Incidentally J'.idge Mcllugh stated that
! has tllrd a petition and brief with the
federal reserve hoard in behalf of a vast
majority of tho bankers of Nebraska and
a suitable rifle range In Omaha. Ther I vtyoming protesting again neing piarecj
will be annual individual and team comp" ' '" thr tenth regional bank 1 strict, known
tltion and the club will affiliate with f ' the Kansas city district, which he as
National Rifle association and the 'i,,m", bf' rvarbti In dun course,
shoots will be held under tho supervlsh n ' Tnr" bnli are protesting against be
of that association. r",t ,nt" ,h' Kn"" y reserve dls.
Rin ,-ioh. in the national of i 1 1, n lnrt wnon course of trade is with
are being organized under the act of col
gress approved In April, 1914, the obji t
IOWA CITV, lu., Nov. 1tt.-(Speolal.)-Tlmt
Iowa will win from' Nebraska Is ex
pressed with added confidence hero by
Iowa dopesters following the walloping
administered to Ames Baturday, when
tho llawltcycw aiialn claimed th; slate
title by a score of 21 to . The team re
turned homo last evening, to lie met by
the entire student body and n wild cele
bration. That the Nebraska-Iowa game will be
tho best-plsynd and hardest fought gane
of thi year on Iowa field Is not to be
doubted. The. Hawkeyes have been beaten ;
by Chicago and Minnesota, but It was by
a one-touchdown margin each time, and
they should be able io put up a good
light against tlie giants from the west
What induces tho added confidence heie
Is the fait that lows-Ames score was i
better one than the Nebraska-Amos
score. Iowa, while not the best In 11a
conference, is capable of giving tho bcit
a warm argument and a good compai
Ison of the Nebraska eleven with those i (
Chicago, Minnesota, Wisconsin and 111-,
nols should ho possible. ;
Roth teams will go lulu the game undtr
the handicap of having hard fought
games on the Saturday preceding with
rivals of long standing. Nebraska tin fe
Kansas, a team which, w hile possibly n t
as strong on paper, always fight .bit
terly against tho Cornhuskers. Iowa had
practicully the same thng to contend with
In handling the Ames aggies. The Ames
team, It must bo admitted, showed they
were prepared for a bruising battle. ;
The Hawkeyes havo an old acorn to even
with Nebraska. Last year they lost tt
game at Lincoln which thuy expected to
win, and this year, with the odds about
evtn they hope to reverse tho process.
The Iowa schedule has not been the most
favorable to ili veloplng a team, as two
hard games, with Chicago, .Minnesota
came early In tho nram'ti, while, a two
weeks' rest and when the cany North
western gumn allowed the men to become
Indifferent Immediately after that.
Iowa authorities are mnklng big prepa-i
rations for tins game and already inc.
stadium has been sold to rapacity.
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advance ore $2. Applicants for enrollme
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Allen, 602 Woodmen of the World builoa
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CHICAGO, Nov. 16. fiustave We'sh,
quarterback of the Carlisle foot ball
team, who was knocked unconscious In
the game hue last Saturday with Noire
Dame, was declared to bo out of danger
today. His rhceklionn was crushed In.
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