Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1918 — NEUTRAL SAILORS EAT SEAWEED [ARTICLE]

NEUTRAL SAILORS EAT SEAWEED

Victims of Hun Submarine Drift Eleven Days. Crew of Norwegian Vessel Picked Up in Midocean in Pitiful Condition. An Atlantic Port,—The Norwegian steamer Augvald, 2,098 tons, bound from a French port for Baltimore, has fallen a victim to a German submarine. A transatlantic liner brought the news of the sinking of the Augvald in midocean and also landed 11 members of the crew of 27 men. Three of the crew were drowned and the remaining 13 are unaccounted for. The rescued men were picked up by the liner after having drifted helplessly for 11 days, subsisting most of that time on seaweed and. rainwater wrung from their clothing or caught in their caps. - According to the crew the steamer

was stopped by shell fire, the crew ordered Into two boats and the ship was sunk with bombs. Captain Egge of the Augvald left the ship with 12 men in his boat and it became separated from the * other lifeboat containing 14 of the crew. For two days the latter boat drifted about and was then upset in a stonp. Three of the men were swept away and the others managed to right the boat and bale it out They lost all their food and fresh water and even their oars were gone. Driftlag helplessly, the men begai to suffer for want of food and water. Seaweed was eagerly snatched up and chewed and every device they could think of was resorted to to catch rainwater. There was a succession of rainstorms and the men Were almost continually drenched. Day after day went by and finally the rescue ship came over the horizon and the exhausted and starving men were soon safely on the deck of the liner.