Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-15
RUMORED SINKING
OF AUDAClOUS IS
NOW CONFIRMED
Report that British Dreadnought
Lost in Irish Sea is Cor
roborated.
VESSEL AT BOTTOM OF OCEAN
After Career of Less Than Two
Years Mighty Man O. War
Beneath Waters.
DETAILS OF LOSS ARE GIVEN
Third Largest Vessel in the Brit
ish Navy is Sunk by Torpedo
or Mine.
ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE WARSHIP
Cable is Given it, but Snaps as it
Tightens.
CREW SAVED BY THE OLYMPIC
Eight Hundred Men Taken Off by
Lifeboats of the Mig Passenger
ship, which Answered Call
Sent out by Wireless.
Third Largest Vessel in the Brit
ish Navy is Sunk by Torpedo
or Mine.
TO SAVE THE wARsHIP
Cable is Given it, but Snaps as it
Tightens,
REV SAVED BY THE OLYMPIC
Eight Hundred Men Taken OFF by
Lifeboats of The Mig Passenger
ship, which Answered Call
Sent out by Wireless.

NEW YORK. Nov. 14.-Rumors of
disaster to the British super dread
nought Audacious, which have per-
sisted ever since the White Star liner
Olympic, diverted from it's course, ar
rived at Lough Swilly October 20,
are confirmed in mail advices re-
ceived today by the Associated Press
from a point in Ireland.
After career of less than two years
the Audacious, third in tonnage and ar
mament of his majesty's warsh!ps, les
at the bottom of the ocean off the north
coast of ireland. 1t was hit by a torpedo
or disabled by a mine october p. With
the possible exception of one or two men
the whole crew of SEQ officers and men
was rescued by small boats from the
olympic.
The rescue was made in a rough sea
through brilliant and daring seamanship
on the part of the White Star crew
The battlesh'p's cry for assistance was
caught by the wireless operator OF the
Olympic, which was only about ten miles
distant. The steamer rushed forward at
full speed Volunteers were called Tor
and double the number necessary to man
the lifeboats responded. The crippled
battleship was reached III a rev minutes
after o'clock, and before noon all out
100 of its men had been transferred
BY that time the battleship hal de-
cided list at the stern where, just below
the waterline, It had received its wound.
Two of it's engines were unharmcd, but
the one aft wes put out of commission
Attempt to Save ship.
After taking off all the officers and
crew who would leave the ship, Captain
Haddock OF the Olympic, turned his at
tention to an attempt to save the war
ship. cable was given IT, but It
snapped as 1t tighteued Meantime tho
bulkheads began to give way and it was
soon apparent that it would be impossible
to tow the ship or keep it afloat The
cruiser Liverpool and several other war
ships had come up and stood by. Late
in the afternoon 1t was decided to aban-
don the Audacious, and the officers and
men who had remained on board wero
taken off and the Audacious plunged
stern first, and in a moment had disap-
Deared.
The explosion is supposed to have been
caused by shells set loose by the listing
of the battleship \ bit of armor plate
torn from lllt blllhlUS SnlD S-IhNh tnt
deck of the Liverpool, cutting the legs
from under a gunner, who died in a
short time
Man on Liverpool Killed.
The AuGacious met its fate twenty-five
miles off the Irish coast, which the
Olympic was skirting. The Olympic
sailed from New Yor., for Glasgow on
October p. II had been warned that
there were German mines off Tory island,
and fear of these mines was the official
explanation when it unexpectedly put
into Lough Swilly. The Olynpic's pas
sengers saw the mighty warrior sink.
Tnen their ship turned its PROV towarl
Lough Swily. Small craft cleared The
route to make sure it was free frou
mines. From October p to November ?
the Olympic lay at Lough SwI y. Charles
NJ. Schwub was the only passenger whJ
left the Olympic before it docSed at Bel
fast ON November ,.
Even officers Of the White Star linz
were not permitted to board the Olympic
at Lough Swilly, and all supplies were
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