| Show SUBMARINE TWO AMERICANS LOSE LIVES WHEN BRITISH STEAMER IS 13 SENT TO THE BOTTOM although big liner went down within eleven minutes after de be ing struck by torpedo eleven boatloads were saved london the big white star line steamer arabic fori formerly neTlY a favorite ship ot of the tha liverpool hoston service but which on her present trip was on the way to now new york was torpedoed and sunk by a german submarine aub marine at 9 15 thursday morning southeast of fastnet the steamer according to a statement of the white star line was attacked without warning and went down in ten minutes ot of the persons on board passengers and members ot of the crew 20 are arc missing according to the latest check and are aie believed to have perished most of those who have not been accounted for belong to the crew only six ot of the passengers were reported missing on an earlier eailler checking of the list there thera were 26 citizens of the united states on board 22 being in the second cabin and four in the steerage two americans were lost the arabic carried no first lass class passengers having lately been turned into a two class liner the survivors who left the steamer in the ships boats and were picked up later by passing vessels were taken to queenstown Queens town they were accommodated by the white star line in hotels and boarding houses in the little town which so short a time ago cared for the survivors and the dead of the lusitania si details odthe of the sinking of the arabic are lacking but that the loss of ufa life I 1 was no not t greater doubtless was due to the fact that the weather was fine and that steamers plying the german submarine war zone now keep their boats swung out and otherwise are prepared for emergencies the vessel had left liverpool wednesday afternoon and taken a southerly course well off the irish coast doubtless with a view of avoiding the submarines which frequent the waters nearer the shore when some fifty miles west ot of where the lusitania was sunk in may alay the german underwater boat rose to the surface and launched a torpedo the mark marksmanship manship ot of the germans as in the case of the lusitania was deadly accurate and like the lualta nia the big liner quickly settled bottled down and shortly disappeared from view some of the survivors according to reports received here say that they had just witnessed the torpedoing of a british steamer presumably tho the duns ley and that this had caused great alarm on board the arabic in their right fright tho the passengers had rushed for life pre preservers gervers and had barely adjusted them when the german submarine turned its torpedo against tho the vessels side ten life boats and a number of life rafts were quickly got over the side of the steamer and into these a large number of the passengers and members of the crew scrambled many of the passengers however fell into the water but they got hold of the rafts and later were rescued rel rescued cued one woman who rell acu into the tha sea screamed pitifully tor for help two sailors swam to her assistance and succeeded in lifting her upon a raft among those who ware were rescued were captain will finch commander of the arabic all the deck officers the chief engineer the surgeon the curser the assistant purser the chief steward and the third class steward third engineer lugon la Is among the missing |
