IN PERILOUS PLIGHT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2651, 23 December 1915, Page 2

IN PERILOUS PLIGHT

' « I MARQUETTE'S SURVIVOR'S STORY. I :; Cdrporal 'W. It ,S. Allan, of the No. 1 B Stationary Hospital, writing to his § father, Jlr. William Allan, of Wolling- | ton, recounts his terrible experiences on the Marquette when she was torpedoed. Corpnn.! Allan was below in the lore-part of the ship when the explosion ocnurwd. Everyone was calm j when the dissstc happened, he wroto. I Ho himself fouiv! a lifebelt and put it on, but as iie made for tlio companion I way he found the lower half of the ! ladder <ione, and he could not reach tho top half. Is 'seemed that he would be Idrowne'd 1 like a rat in a. trap, but as the water rose in the s>hip ho" was floated up to the ronii'Mits ot tlv> ladder, and so inside for the- deck. A raft was liberated, and Corpora!. Allan got on to it. He left th? raft when it -became full I and struck out f,-,r'a lifeboat then-over-full. With a mate he hunt; on to a hatch for iiorne time, and after long | hours jn. tb* water reached an nptiirnI eel boat w : tl:' ten men some nurses | upon it. icsscls passed them hut B did not appear {,0 see them, They floatH eii about from '9- a.m. until <1130 p.m., 3 when a French man-o'-war took them off S arid treated all with the greatest kind* | lioss. . ■