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hawsar was stretched. The battleship
was so heavy with the water that had
entered her. though that the hawser
snapped when it was stiffened and then
1t was seen that some of the bulk
heads were giving way.
Late in the afternoon the hope OF
rescuing the vessel was abandoned, but
the Olympic. the cruiser Liverpool and
some submarines stood by to wait for
the end. This came at o'clock at
night. 1t was preceded by a terrific
explosion, caused. 1t is thought. by some
shells which were shaken loose.
Immediately afterward the Auda-
cious began to go down stern first, and
at O'Clock in the evening 1t finally
dropped out of sight.
The wound was near her stern, ana
this caused some passengers of the
Olympic to believe that a submarine
had torpcdoed her It Is generally be-
lieved however. that she struck a mine.
Admiralty Doors Locked.
Meantime the Admiralty Office in Lon
don kept its doors locked and turned
deaf ear to all requests and en-
treaties for official confirmation or de-
nal OF the disaster. There were those
who concluded that this attitude OF 81
lence was In itself confirmation of the
reports and there were those who took
heart from II and construed silence into
denial
According to Or. Beaumont's story
Capt. Haddock of the Olympic was
wained on october IS OF German
mine field near Tory Island. which
l. about ten miles from the Irish
coast That night, he said, the Olympic
put into Tough swiftly.
Or. beaumont was the first to leave
the olympic after she steamed into LouEn
Svilly He was ordered by the White
star Line to proceed To Liverpool at once
and relieve Or. Hopper on the Baltic
pr Hopper Joined the British reserves
The Baltic left Liverpool on November 4
and arrived here at O'Clock Friday
afternoon.
The Olympic passed in at Tough
swiftly tald Dr. Beaumont, ION the eve
ming OF October IS. That afternoon ,ve-
ming papers in London published that the
olympic had been blown up by a contact
mine of the Irish coast Then. after
the Olympic was reported safe. they pub
lshed that 1t was "A bamport Holt
steamship that had been blown up one
sto.y was as false as the other.
Would Have Seen Rescue.
This reported rescue OF the crew Of
the AudaClOus could not have happened
on October 81 without my knowledge.
II is % ssible but not probable that IL
might have happened after left the ship
on the morning of August 20 at Tough
Swilly. ] was the first man ashore. and
believe that Charles NJ. Schwab was
taken of a couple Of days later
The Olympic lay at Tough Swilly
Ave days. Then, to avoid the mine field
she steamed around the south coast of
Ireland to Belfast or course. this res
,grl,s hu.s t.st
Lough Swllly / don't know anything
about that. but that would have been
about November and not in october.
My wife heard the report that the
Olympic had been blown to pieces and |
received four frantic messages from her
There are many rumors like this current
In England"
The account OF the sinking OF the Au-
dacious and the rescue of her crew. as II
came to New York yesterday from the
correspondents who were not permitted
to cable the news, follows:
Before . o'clock in the morning OF
October 81 the Audacious either struck
a mine or was torpedoed off the north
coas, OF ireland. The dispatches state
that the full crew OF 500 men was saved
by the White Star liner Olympic but
that the vessel now lies at the bottom
of the Irish Sea twenty-five miles from
shore.
The first Dispatches. received on Fri
day. said that she had been towed
aground and would soon be raised and
put in commission again. Yesterdays
dispatches Indicate that the possibilities
OF her salvage are remote.
The Audacious was 500 feet over all
and her displacement was $4,000 tons.
Her engines with "A horse power of 81
600, gave her speed Of 92.4 knots.
She was put In commission two years
ago and ranked with the Ajax, Centu-
rion and King George v She was
Krupp armored, with II inch belt
amldships taperlng to inches at bow
and stern.
She carried ten 1875 inch guns, To-
Gated In pairs in the turrets. all on the
centre line; sixteen inch guns In case
ments In the superstructurc. twelve OF
which were forward and four aft She
had i've 81 inch torpedo tubes submerged
In the stern and broadsde.
Audacious Warned Olympic.
The Olympic. which sailed from New
York for Glasgow on October FL, was
skirting the north end OF Ireland and
when she was within ten miles OF ths
Audacious on October ~ the dread
nought warned her by wireless thai
she was in a mine zone and to pick hei
way carefully. The mines had beer
planted by the Germans of Tory Island
The great transatlantic liner was pick
ing her way slowly through the sea aftel
this warning when those OF her passen
gers who were on deck saw the fash o.
huge explosion where the Audaciou'
was located. Then the great war vessf
began to settle and the Olympic steamed
10 her aid. When she was close enoug'
small boats were put OF and in higl
sea the rescues were effected.
Enough volunteers from the Olympic
crew to man double the boats at hanr
responded to the cal. The Olympic
reached the Audacious shortly after
o'clock and the whole crew had beef
transshlpped by noon. The shell OF tn
dreadnought had been shattered near tn
stern, just below the water line, and tn
great ship was being hllcd by thousand
of gallons OF water each minute.
OF her three engines the one located
near the stern was wrecked by the ex
plosion. and some OF her boilers had ex
ploded. After the crew had been save'
Il was thought possible TO tow the war
ship twenty. five miles to the Irish coast
and cable was stretched to her. Tn
first strong tug on this snapped II. The
II was seen that the bulkht ads OF tn
Audacious were yielding and that =
would lie impossible to tow the ship o