Show 41 ki I 1 LUSITANIA SUNK BY GERMAN S ERM aff SUBMARINE passenger vessel sent to bottom off coast of ireland land over one thousand lives being lost many americans among victims the cunard liner a brit ish owned passenger vessel was tor ter by a german submarine oft off the irish coast on friday may slay 7 and went down twenty minutes after being truck by two torpedoes 1100 1 lives being lost of thia this burn nurn number ber being A american citizens CRUM of the dead many being bomon and children when the Luel tanta left new york may I 1 ehe the had on board 1901 soul 1 1151 passengers and crea the passengers sers were made lp of in the first cabin in the tho second and in the steerage the list of 0 survivors shows so 0 o tar far that about 90 brat first class and ani 76 75 second clabea passengers were saved it is noticeable that campara lively few first clao passengers were ere saved either two or three struck the lusitania one report says the first projectile was fol followed loed by two 1 ot cottiers tiers striking in quick succession eucce eslon 4 another report baa has jl t that two sub ab lan rince took part in the onslaught oni laught one oslo attacking birom the port and the other fani 1 ani the starboard hide mide the Ln altania was nearing ig the he end et of her journey when a sud denly appe appeared pred and began firing tiring the first torpedo struck between the first and second funnels tho the Lual tanta hook shook end and settled down a bit two other torpedoes torpe doe quickly followed and moon finished the ship four or ave of the lifeboat lifeboats went dwon with her and the tremendous suction as the liner wi engulfed dragged many people down doan al alo ri alaby of the passengers did not boileve the lusitania would sink as ft bulkly as an she he did consequently they did not loll 1011 in the rueh rush tor for the lifeboats but evidently preferred to trust in their belief that the watertight corn com apartments part ments of the vessel would keep ber afloat until such timo time as help vanio ame out from the irish shore les less than ten miles away many prominent americans were on the boat and among those who went down with the ship v i charles icharles freh man ot of new aorl the be theatrical producer alfred gwynne vanderbilt charles klein tho the playwright justin II 11 and libert hubbard and hlo his wife the bjorlo from Queens queenstown town de scribe the bringing in of the bodies of 0 a groat great number of women many of them still unidentified the queens town docks are th t temporary resting placed also of th bodies of several children one dead u v other still is clasping in her rigid arma arms the body of her bar three months old baby all the evidence goca gots to shaw that the brat first class and many of the se seo seco co id c clasa passengers had such conf confluence iCene 0 in the ability of the gultana Lul tana be cause of hir watertight compartments to 0 o remain afloat after she received th the elret blow that they did not concern themselves about taking to the boats boat or oven even providing themselves wit with h lif life preservers when the passengers did reallie realize that the tha lusitania waa was doomed they found thai that mott most 1 I the boats boat on the art side iare ere bo a because of tin great use of the vessel that they catl not bo be lowered and the last been seen of them by the moat most fortunate k a geri who the had secured pla os on the starboard boats or who had jumped outboard oak board and had been picked up the ivere ined on the sloping decks awaiting their fate doubtless do even than believing that with land so close they would still be sa saved fed Ilo however wever the torpedoes bad torn such gaping holes in the liner that she he did not remain afloat for more inore than twenty minutes and tho the calu call for fur help which the wireless sent out although answered could not bring the rescuing steamer merk to the in time tu to bo be of any service marine superintendent dodd of the cunard line sald said that the Lual taula bank ia sixty fathoms of water and would never be raised tho the names of oto seventy venty three survia ore ors of the Amo americans rIcans the Lusi taula ban been boon reported to the state department at washington e on the Littan la it la is eald said amounted to uv the vessel arsa r luoc in round figure figures st 0 the worth of the corgo she he carried was reckoned at an art irish coast guard who witnessed lue ile inking sinking tt of the ship believes bel levoi she the ank sank within ht ills story ie is co by a farmer who was working near old head kinsale when he heard shots and looking frohman may have loit lost life now york charice FlOr hmar probably the most widely known theatrical in the world we wasa pai on lue the and it ie Is that be 04 veil well aft UY arst cabin paneen pa wengel gera went want down with the ship kroml prominent nent phils de I 1 ph ians loit lost s it khoi pr evident of the now fork rork corn com pany iud and william dt erline jodae jod xe paria paris ot the baldwin Loco Lec motle lie borks ork were wore pae pa on the Lu jueau eAU saw law a 11 steamer with her boss bo in the air he ile bald said hardly ten minutes later bho she keeled over and bank sank A re relent of ireland estl the hip ship as five ave miles from ehre when he heard the crash ot of tho the torpedo when it pierced her side for t f moment the ho seemed to move slowly straight ahead ahr turned a suddenly and then topped stopped her bow all inking aking and the tern stern rising g then she he heeled keeled over and disappeared from eight night with in a few minutes ten rescue boat boats bad had reached tho the spot t where she wont down WAS NO PANIC AHONG AMONG GREW passenger Pac cenger telle tells of scenes came on busl tania after torpedoes struck A sharp sharr too lookout out for was kept ablard the lust ania tania as she approached the irish coast according to arneal cowper a toronto newspaper man who was among the survivors landed hero he lie declared that after the ship was tor there as no panic among the crew but that they went about the work of getting passengers gera into the boats oats in a prompt and efficient man ner an we neared icare the crast of ireland said mr cowper we all joined in the lookout for a possible attack by a submarine wa war tb ut sole topic of con vers atlon I 1 ft chatting with a friend at tho the rail about 2 when suddenly I 1 caught a glimpse of the conning tower of a submarine about 1000 yards distant I 1 immediately called my friends attention to it immediately med lately we e both saw the track of a torpedo followed instantly by an explosion portions of splintered lull bull were beut flying into the air and then another struck the ship began to list to starboard the crew at onie once proceeded to get he the passengers into boats la in an order ly prompt and efficient manner miss helen smith appealed to me to save tier her I 1 placed her in a boat and saw tier her safely away I 1 got into one ot the last boats to leave some of the boata boats could not be launched aj as the vessel was sinking there was a large number of women and children in tho the econie second cabin forty of the children were less than a ear old ROOSEVELT CALLS IT PIRACY former president Preside tit denounces torpedo ing of the syracuse Sym cuse N T theodo theodoe e roose velt after learning details of f the eink sink ing of 0 the Lu lusitania altania late inte friday night majo made this statement menti thia this represents not merely piracy but piracy on a vaster of mur der than any fine over practiced this Is the warfare which destroyed louvain and dinant and hun bun deeds of men women omen and audren in belgium it la is warfare against innocent men aomen and children travel ing on the ocean and on our fellow country women who are among tho the sufferers it seems inconceivable that wo we can petrah from taking action in this mat tor ter for we owe it not pot only 0 1 human ity ty tilt to our own national belf aclaro re sped I 1 britons EXPECTING CONVERT B believe sinking of lusitania Lu ILana should cause americans to aid british london most alost ot of the nomine morning now papera print editorials editor lala concerning the mulcting cf the lusitania the times 1 says a it is not for groat great britain to ep vp upon the bourst to be adopted by tho united state government now that they are con fronted routed with a altu situation atlon which con corns that country ceoly 11 as it does great britain the rho member members of c mr wilsons Wl leone min batry an eiyu tho the times are the th sow diane of their national ainor and lh lives of ladr their own people upon thera therm mats a teavy beavy t eavy responsibility which we w hall not mek seek to but thi of the Lual taala munt 1 as hasten the tte day dar when avora ever civilized power will feet constrained tc join with ue us travelers undismayed myed new york the aal aol transylvania of the anchor line satley alle friday for Liver liverpool poW a few hour hours affet atei ncy of the inking slaking dmd iban received the steel men aboard pittsburgh burgh according to elcan team hip ship uenta agents here twenty persons from the pittsburgh district had booked twenge on the ill fated la in the number were eight first awn fee sec ond cabin and aid three third cabin pas pa |