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Show RM a nk an s Relieved jis t TU'HITE ST VK I INE STEAMSHIP ARABIC which was sunk yesterday off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine Below are two interior views of the vessel that on the right being a scene in the dining siloon and the one on the left a porton of the ' lounge ' c ARABIC IS ATTACKED WITHOUT The White Star Line Steamer Is Sent to the Bottom of the Ocean Near Irish Coast, but Loss of Life Is Believed to Be Comparatively Small. UTAH MAN ONE OF PASSENGERS Son of Wealthy Sheepman Sheep-man of Logan Manages to Reach Lifeboat and Is Taken to Queens-town, Queens-town, Clad Only in Bathrobe; Twenty Are Missing. NEW TOKK, Aug 20 The White Star offi lals announced at 2 30 o clojc this morning that a revised list showed twenty persons missing from the Arabic Of this number two are Americans. Albert Hnlme Neteker who is given in the list of survivors of the wrecked steamship Arabic is the son of Mr and Mrs Kyrum Nebeker of Logan, Utah. He has for the past two years been on a mission for the Mormon church ln Great Britain and was returning to his home. Dispatches from Queenstown contain con-tain an interview with Mr Neb-eker Neb-eker in which the captain of the Arabic and the crew of the vessel are praised for their work. Mr Nebeker when rescued wore only a bathrobe Hyrum Nebeker father of the rescued missionary is a wealthy sheepman and a director in the Cache Valley National hank He is a brother of Attorney Frank K Nebeker of rrf city and a cousin of United States Marshal Aouila Nebeker Spe a C&b . tiv Arrmngemen yr h lionSon Dm If Te ecT.pb aad In -ni onal Nwa Serried) LONDON Auk 19 The Wh te Star Liner Arabic bound from Liverpool for ew lork with 180 passengers 26 of whom were .mer can c tizens and a crew of 243 was torpedoed without warn ng by a German submarine off Fastnet light at 9 15 this morning and sank with n eleven minutes Three hundred and seventy five sur Ivors have been landed at Queens town and other ports It has not yet been detenu ned whether any American 1 ves were lost The torpedo struck the liner on the Btarboard s de about 100 feet from the stern It tore a great gap n the sh p s s de making the watertght compartments useless The scene of the torpedo ng was about forty u lies from Old Head of Kinsale grave of the Lus'tan a. The Wh te- Star 1 ne ssued a statement ton ght confirm ng the report of Capta n F nch of the Ara be n wl ch he asserts that the 1 ner was torpedoed without warning Deliberately Unfriendly S ch an act on the part of the GeT man submar ne commanders will be v ewed as del berately unfriendly as Pres dent 'W oodrow Wilson warned the fore gn office in h s note to Ger man after the s nk ng of the Lus tan a Tn ew of the fact that the vessel (Continued on Page Three ) LARGE VESSEL IS TORPEDOED fly SJIIfJE Twenty-six Americans on Board Liner Arabic. Sent to Bottom of Atlantic by Germans (Continued from Page One ) vaa n st I und ud that b) carried ne ther r 8 o an unit o T ondon reop tW th st pofactlo the nem of the k It wild ho 11 he ed oe a ble h re o a 1 r v t t won bo t eeu the I to i States and German o er r h m bn ivr ne a tacks that Berl n uli e del berate pro oca t on to the te 1 Htates ernment London Is Shocked Offi ittl Loudon ton ght finds t diffl cult to con e a n ot e for the at-tacJt at-tacJt Altho th rab o had been in the am a. wrying trade Bin e the bo Sm ot t) o w ir Bhe I ad unloaded at . erpuol her cargo uf war nun plies and was bound for New York ith a cargo oX norchan 1 se Reorta a e prevalent that the essel r n r c 1 a 1 1 ge om gum out of Amer oa se. t s hch nad b e sold by r nl sh oatorg aga st lei ery n ork The aruo ut of these se eu ties s not known but reports set t at from 50( 000 to se era! m litems There are also rej orts that the rab c arrled a eouugnuient of g Id but th s s not cred ted The b g 1 ner was a dav out from L erpool when el e e 1 er loom 81 e just off the 1 sh oaat making a fair speed through a aln sea Praoti call all her paste ers are reported to ha e been on tl w Je roomy decks which made the A at c a favorite n the tranaatlanti ser c Suddenh acco 1 to stories told by sun ors brought nto Queeustonn on varsh ps a terr f shock threw the ve sel far to port sp II ng passengers from the cha rs an 1 throw g those standing to the leek terrific explosion toll more i la til than urds what had hap penel to tie rabc , Pangers Order! j Af er the (Irs n mn an excitement thr wi no pan c Passenger b)ow hast I nade t uay to deck buck! ng on be ts. 8 wa Is worked rapidly asals nff passengers o don he cork pre e a and the r earn en of he crew who a been put th ouah Ifelxat dr Is da 1 ai and smoo 1 manned the boat a. he e were comparat y few passe n I fc s on boa rtl and under the direction; of Capta n F1 h and the ship s on ers the were haalllj put nto the boats, 1 whl 1 were cu free and launched as fast as passengera couk. be crowded In o them T e sea was calm and he men at t e oars pulled away rapidly from the fast s ng el earner fcJeven boats In ail . are repor M to hi e been launched fc.x tement -gripped a few and jsome of these eaped In n the aea. according to he stories of su ors The few cms ua ties among pasensere were suffered from this cause la bell r red The An ble sank w thin eleven m nutee, four lees than 1 took the I ua tan la to go down, although representat ons were made In Berl n th the reason fo the Lai si an la sv speed sinking was that a second ex plosion, due to the ammunition on board, had caused the great ship to sink before aU he passengers could be taken off and that the heavy loss of life In that disaster was due to the nature of the, essel s cargo Give Credit to Finch Survl ors glre great cred t to Captain Finch, one of the most trusted and capa ble commanders In the U hi e Star fleet that the loss of life was not mush great er It was In large part due to his personal efforts tbey say that the work of getting away the lifeboats was con due ed so expeditiously Dispatches from i Queenstown tonight state that a large number of the passengers and crew of the Arabic were Injured by the torpedo s ter rifle explosion Their stories throw much new light on the sinking of the Arabic Just a few minutes before the lner re celved Its fatal blow the British steamer Dunsley off a ooroparatlvel short dls tance from toe Arabic, had been to pedoed The explosion on the Dunsley had caused the passengers and crew of the Arab! to swarm to the ra I Sudden 1 hey real zed the cause for Captain Finch flashed his engine room for full I speed ahead and the great Hner began j a mad dash on a g sate course Officers passed along the deck assur ring men and women that tie liner could outrun her undersea enemy and that there was no reason for alarm Hardly bad the words been uttered when the ex plos on came Passengers at the rail were thrown to the deck and those In the chairs who were amused at the I exel ement of their fel ow oyagers were hurled about and piled on the s oping boards some being painfully bru sed Woman Is Rescued Then for a moment trere was pan c but s was quick v qu eted The boat and a number of 1 fe rafts were quickly pit o er the side and the passengers i scrambled Into them A few fell nto the I water while a few more Jumped f om j the listing vessel One woman who fe 1 In o the sea shriek ng wl d was res cued and towed to a aft by two sa lo s : Several warah ps sent out by the ad i mlralty rescued the occupants of the gma 1 boats sorre of whom were suf fering from the wounds ecelved on board and from exposure ani hurried with them to Queens own and other por s aong the coas The majority we e anded at Queens own but owlnj? to the fact that a numbe were put ashore a o he poln s It haa been dlff cult to comp e a omp ete s o surv vors A number of amb an es and other con eyances we e wal n a the dock at Q eeftn own when he rec e ships be gan op in and the Injured surv vors Ttere hast v paced upon s retchers and aV- n n harfte b the Red Cross N n s and doc o b qu ckly q leted he hvB e a and the es were takn to ho a -vhere ac ommoda ions had been preps d for them A number of theatrical people of no we e on the Arabic Tap a n Fine and a 1 the deck off p b of the Arab c we rescued The ch ef "rnrlnee t p s d to pur e and Asa ant nurse a e a epor ed safe Th d Tnglnee LuKon s m 6F ng Po o g a omp e e st of the Ame ans who ve e pas engers on he A a T s nme er Mr ftnrt M F ed B eefB M nd Mrs C M and M n Ca mon Man"M eaoio t,OB Anvpes Thomas Eno e M Hou han W am Hughe T e he Re M M A p e C ophe T n ne T pnpo d Moo e H re Nebekpr Tohn No a John O son M ss Shr mn on F F Wood Mr and M s "V J Ran da riaude Rood James F Row p Frede ck Mart n |