Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saw water spurting into the compartment from the battery room duct. I jumped out of the bunk and ran to the door and tried to shut it, but couldn't on account of the pressure of the water rushing in. The water swept me back through the compartment to the control room. I tried to close the doors of the control room, but the pressure of the water was once more too great...
...this time I saw nobody else. There were 20 men in the officers' quarters (where the submarine was struck). I rushed to the ladder of the conning tower. There were two men ahead of me. Water was already splashing when I got to the top. I was washed overboard as soon as I got out. I was picked up by a lifeboat of the City of Rome, which . . . steamed away for Boston in forty-five minutes...
Through an opening in the radio room they saw the body of the operator huddled over his keys. Dead men hung on the valves as they died. Searchers found a body hanging on a pipe in a passageway, its position telling vividly of the man's last gasping struggle for life. The corpses, for the most part, were to be buried with honors at Arlington Cemetery. Six of the ill-fated crew still sleep unredeemed on the ocean...
Misaji Kawahara came and saw. Misaji had loved the poor horse well. Loosening the halter he tied its free end to a branch twelve feet from the ground, slipped the noose about his own neck, slid off the branch to tend his horse in another world...
...Slocum near New Rochelle, N. Y., and another occurred last week. Private James Stanley and others stripped off their regimentals and jumped into Long Island Sound from the Fort coal dock. Half way over to Glen Island, Stanley's stomach was griped. He floundered. Ashore some sharp-eyes saw him, telephoned the Quartermaster for a launch, seized a towel, waved at a hovering seaplane...