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Show SURVIVORS TELL i First Torpedo Severely Damages Dam-ages the Transylvania Captain Cap-tain Tries to Beach Ship. ALL BOATS LOWERED Great Bulk of Casualties Due to Explosion of Torpedoes Destroyers. LONDON, May 25, 2:40 a. m. Survivors Sur-vivors of tho torpedoed transport Transylvania, who are now in England, Eng-land, say that the vessel was struck by the first torpedo at 10 o'clock in the morning. The ship was greatly damaged, but the engines were uninjured unin-jured and the captain tried to reach shore, several miles distant, in the hope of beaching the vessel. A quarter quar-ter of an hour later a second torpedo hit the engine room and the ship was brought to a standstill and began to settle. The first torpedo is believed to have killed a large number of men, while the second caused the denth of most of thopc in the engine room and stokehold, stoke-hold, wrecked the machinery, put out the electric lights and tore away a large part of the side of the vessel. It also struck a loaded boat, blowing it to pieces. Boats Rapidly Lowered All the boats were rapidly lowered, the nurses aboard embarking first. The soldiers, who were lined up on deck, shouted jocular farewells ana sang "Tlpperary" and other soldier songa. Destroyers raced to the res cue and worked energetically until crowded to capacity with survivors, many of whom were Injured. Accounts of the rescue work differ. Some say all who survived tho explosion explo-sion were saved and anothor account ! claims that owing to tho lumpy sea land tho dangerous position of the ! steamer a party of about 150 soldiers i could not be rescued. All accounts in-I in-I dicate that the great bulk of tho casualties cas-ualties was due to tho explosion of the torpedoes and that none of tho nurses were lost. The ship sank fifty minutes min-utes after the second torpedo struck hor. |