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Torpedo« Aimed for Ill-Fated Ship Glances FromTransport Carrying Arthur Turner and Others0NE of Salt Lake’s membersof B battery, One HundredForty-eighth field artillery, now |h France, was on board the transport at Avhich the torpedowhich pierced the heart of the Tus-cinla was aimed. How the missile fcraped along the first vessel's sldoand then plunged into the 111 fatedUlster transport was told his mother tiy Arthur Turner of 1710 Lake street His parents, Mr. and Mrs. MasonTurner, are proud of Ihelr boy's pluck and grit, as shown in this Incident According to the latter, youngTurner was down on one of the lower decks of tho transport when the ship [vibrated terribly and swung around Foff its couracj apparently. Ho rushed flip on deck, to find other troopshurrying down to get on their life preservers. It was then lie Jenrneii that the torpedo had scraped tho ^Vessel's si do and had struck the, mla.SOCKET’S DREAD MEANING-Instantly, ho says, 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 fifed on the Fourth of July celebrations, he writes his mother, but it jvas 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 fdeath blow Intended for our craft” l(£He adds that the vibration of the [torpedo scraping along the side of their own vessel was easily felt while p,the ship eluded death by a mere gmaneuver of an instant's time.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 #ays, watch the soldiers at their eals, the little French lads and Tastes having merely dry bread, wlno nd garlic,” many an American sailer adding from his own rations to .tat scant fare.i|i|Hyron and Kimer Turner have olned the navy, while two younger ipns. Date, 15, and Kendall, s, are in jjhe high school cadets and the Boy eouts respectively here, Dale want-joln the naval reserve. The is ® bricklayer, and wanted to despise his 57 years, but had turned down on that account Mrs. Turner is an active Red worker, as is her daughter, who is In the Junior Red Cross. t« IVere an American family at nc-yc service in this war business iys Mrs. Turner proudly.
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Salt Lake City Salt Lake Herald
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sun, Jun 09, 1918
Page 12
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Jordan I.
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