Show SURVIVORS RELATE RELA TEl STORY OF GREAT DISASTER Some of Them Half Crazed From Shock of Experience QUEENSTOWN May Iu 8 lt 8 It was Vins hell There was no warnIng no o chance Mothers with babes babe In their arms armR were blown from the decks when the first t tor torpedo edo struck us said ft n. petty peth officer of or the Lusitania as he was carried exhausted from his majesty's g steam tu tug to tile hospital hero nero last Jast night With about ICO lv rA of oC lh the torpedoed he ho was brought to port U Uy tho the which picked up n as Inan many of ot tho the derelicts an as possible The Tho scene Beene about the dock told more forcibly than words the tho horror of ot the sinking of ot the bl big liner Sailors half clad from the tho chill chili of ot their long immersion women hysterical many more mOTe or less Jess seriously seriously seri serl- injured Half Halt crazed women cried for tor their children and struggled lcd with the hospital attendants as were taken a away Child Was Killed On a corner of the pier stood a lit littie little little lit lit- tle tie group of ot attempting to coax a woman oman to time the ambulance Sho She seemed not riot to hear them Her eyes s were ere glassy blass and she crooned a dirge as Li she rocked the baby haby In her arms armR armsto armsto to and fro The child was dead Injured b by the shock of ot the first ex explosion explosion ex- ex plo lon It succumbed to the exposure in the tho lifeboat There were man many of oC the tho crew among ilmon them who were hatless and bootless but hut the they all thanked Providence Providence Provi Provi- dt dence nce that their lives had been heen saved sa The library steward of ot the Lust Lust- dUring an Interview in which ho hc related the sad stor story of or tho the disaster ter tet said When wo we were ten ton mlle miles southwest southwest southwest south south- west of Kinsale and while the passengers passengers pas pas- els el's were at luncheon and in the best of ot spirits generally general most of them chatting merrily an awful ex explosion ex- ex rude rudely shocked them The They did not know what had hed happened and they quickly kh rushed from their seats scats They soon Boon learned however r. r that thata a n. German submarine had sent two torp torpedoes cloes Into them hem One of oC them h had entered th the stokehold and the theother theother theother other had burst Into the hull In the forward part of or the thc vessel 1 Water Rushes In Turner and all aU the of officers of- of tried triM to pad pacify the frightened passengers but their efforts failed The water rushed into the Cu Cu- and she sank within fifteen minutes There were five babies In their mothers' mothers arms which was a most pitiable sight to behold The Tho torpedoes struck the Lusitania Lusitania Lusi Lusi- tania on ort the starboard side to which she listed h heavily while the passengers passenger gers gera cried frantically to the officers to save s their lives Jives Tho The order was given to launch the boats boat but In lowering lowering- them inthe Inthe in inthe the excitement the ropes caught on some om and the fastenings f on oth others rs brok broke One boat fell ten Into the water vater bowdon bow down don and was sunk Many passengers were placed I safely in the boats In an orderly manner but others who vho had placed life Ute belts around their waists fell into the tho sea and amid subsequently wore were picked up by boats At one time lime I t saw upwards of passengers floating about In the water h luCId held Jd up by life preservers Ten of ot the boats boata that I saw were able ahle to save about GOO 00 persons alto alto- gether Tho approached several of ot the tho boats and picked off of ot them persons many of ot whom had been in ih tho the water for tor upwards of or six hours spent in anguish There was an awful loss Iou of ot life lItt but how man many are dead 1 am to S say say- l Saw the tho Periscope Ernest Cowper a newspaper man manat manof manof of at Toronto Ont Out who was coming across on business stated slated that a sharp harp lookout had lund bean beon kept for en enemy en- en emy elny craft when hen Ireland was n ap- ap preached I was waS chatting with a n friend about 2 o'clock said Mr lr Cowper and I J had Just got bot a glimpse of or the pen peri periscope about yards scope cope fo a submarine distant and had just remarked the circumstance when I noticed the track of ot a torpedo The Lusitania was struck forward forward Portions Por Por- and there thero was ft R loud explosion Ions of ot the splintered hull were sent flying Into th the air Shortly afterwards the tho steamer was struck k IJ by another torpedo and she began to list to starboard proceeded Tho The crew immediately to get tho the passengers ers into boats Everything E was done doria In an orderly mannerA manner Smith a uv A little tittle girl named Helen herand h her herand r rand to me to io save savo aged d 6 6 appealed ns and I put her in a boat I fear r her parents Tn were lost Some Somo of oC I 1 got into the tho last t boat the boats hoats could not muot bo be launched and had to be cut aWl away as the vessel essel was sinking number of ot There were a Jar large e women In the tho s second cond class and aud about fort forty children under 1 year jear ar Husband Drowned I OIl was WM talking with Mr Winters of ot the Cunard line wh when n the ship was of ot hit said Charles C C. crossed the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- New York who has hats lantic f sixty one times Winters got ot into boat No 17 which ox overturned and then swam to boat No 19 Most lost of the saloon passengers passenger were at tit luncheon on and ami the proportion saved Sl was as small Mrs 1 i M M. r. r It M. M who her way to Athens with Ith her was w on husband huband swam for a long distance toward shore before she sho was picked up She b believes lIe her husband was drowned Jullen Cuban consul general genral gen gen- eral ral 1301 at Liverpool although h one of ot othis his was badlY injured swam about for tor a long Ion time and came me ashore wearing only his underclothing ilI ing lIe Ho climbed Into three different boats but apparently tho the first two eve overturned Bertram Jt Jenkins of ot New ew York helped two women omen Into a n boat which overturned as It reached the water but later he lie saw MY one of oC tho tha women Miss randell an nn opera singer einger at nt Queenstown |