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Torpedo ■ Aimed for Ill-Fated Ship Glances FromTransport Carrying Arthur Turner and Otherso£ Salt Lake’s membersof B battery, One HundredForty-eighth field artillery, notv in France, was on board the transport at which the torpedowhich pierced the heart of tHo Tus-'cinia was aimed. How tho missile scraped along- tho first vessel’s sideand then plunged Into the 111 fatedHiker transport was told his mother by Arthur Turner of 1710 Lake street His parents, Mr. and Mrs. MasonTurner, arc proud of thctr boy's pluck and grit, as shown In this Incident According to the latter, youngTurner was down on ono of the lower decks of tho transport when tho ship JvUnrated terribly and swung around Foil Its course* apparently. Ho rushed ,;iip on deck, to find other troopshurrying down to get on their life preservers. It was then lie learned that the torpedo had scraped the1.vessel's side and had struck themla.SOCKET’S DREAD MEANING-Instantly, ho Fays, a rocket flamed up from the sister transport, and the action the following minute made him sick, he says, of the sight of a rocket I always enjoyed seeing rockets fil^d on the Fourth of July celebrations,'1 he writes hla mother, “but It •was necessary for us to avoid tho vessel under that death signal and to speed on, saving our hundreds of fighting men. The U-boats had broken through tho ‘Interference* of our convoy of torpedo boats and ^destroyers and had given her tho ideath blow intended for our craft. JS-He adds that the vibration of the [torpedo scraping along the side of their own vessel was easily felt while ..the ship eluded death by a mere gmaneuver of an Instant's time, ff^'Now in France, he tells how the misery on the faces of the women ahd children makes a man determined to get to tho front trench and light the Germans responsible for this outrage. Little children, ho Wjs, watch the soldiers at their eals, the little French lads and basics having merely dry bread, wlno nd garlic, many an American seller adding from his own rations to at scant faro.if Byron and Klmcr Turner have olned the navy, while two younger ipns. Date, 15, and Kendall, S, are in The high school cadets and the Boy Gouts respectively here, Dale want-joln the naval reserve. The Is a bricklayer, and wanted to despise his 57 years, but had turned down on that account Mrs. Turner la an active Red worker, as Is her daughter, who is fn the Junior Red Cross.tATiVtIfc^YWrc an American family atneve service In this war business,*1 Lira Mrs, Turner proudly.trBtaer€IIII
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Salt Lake City Salt Lake Herald
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sun, Jun 09, 1918
Page 12
Full Page
Clipped by
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