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Show STEAMED ARABIC TWO AMERICANS LOSE LIVES WHEN BRITISH STEAMER IS SENT TO THE BOTTOM. Although Big Liner Went Down Within Eleven Minutes After Being Be-ing Struck by Torpedo, Eleven Boatloads Were Saved. London. The big White Star line steamer Arabic, formerly a favorite ship of the Liverpool-Boston service, but which on her present trip was on the way to New York, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine at 9:15 o'clock Thursday morning southeast south-east of Fastnet. The steamer, according to a statement state-ment of the White Star line, was attacked at-tacked without warning and went down in ten minutes. Of the 423 persons per-sons on board 181 passengers and 242 members of the crew 20 are missing, mis-sing, according to the latest check, and are believed to have perished. Most of those who have not been accounted ac-counted for belong to the crew. Only six of the passengers were reported missing on an earlier checking of the list. There were 26 citizens of the United Unit-ed States on board, 22 being in the second cabin and four in the steerage. steer-age. Two Americans were lost. The Arabic carried no first-class passengers, passen-gers, having lately been turned into a two-class liner. The survivors who left the steamer in the ship's boats and were picked up later by passing vessels were taken to Queenstown. They were accommodated accommo-dated 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 Lu-sitania. Lu-sitania. Details of the sinking of the Arabic are lacking, but that the loss of life was not greater, doubtless was due to the fact that the weather was fine and that steamers plying the German submarine sub-marine war zone now keep their boats swung out and otherwise are prepared for emergencies. The torpedo that sank the Arabic struck her on the starboard side, 100 feet from her stern. The vessel had left Liverpool Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon and taken a southerly south-erly 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 of where the Lusitania was sunk in May, the German underwater boat rose to the surface and launched a torpedo. The markmanship of the Germans, as in the case of the Lusitania, was deadly accurate, and like the Lusitania Lusita-nia the big liner quickly settled 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 Bteamer, presumably the Duns-ley, Duns-ley, and that this had caused great alarm on board the Arabic. In their fright the passengers had rushed for life preservers and had barely adjusted adjust-ed them when the German submarine turned its torpedo against the vessel side. Ten life boats and a number of life rafts wTere quickly got over the side of the steamer and into these a large number of the passengers and members mem-bers of the crew scrambled. Many of the passengers, however, fell into the water, but they got hold of the rafts and later were rescued. One woman who fell into the sea screamed pitifully piti-fully for help. Two sailors swam to her assistance and succeeded in lifting lift-ing her upon a raft. Among those who were rescued were Captain Will Finch, commander of the Arabic, all the deck officers, the chief engineer, the surgeon, the purser, the assistant purser, the chief steward, and the third class steward. Third Engineer Lugon is among the missing. |