South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-06
SAY NO WARNING GIVEN.

LONDON. Sept. 5-The Allan line
steamship Hesperian, bound from LiV-
erpooLtO Montreal, was torpedoed by
a German submarine off the south
coast OF Ireland at $40 o'clock sat
urday evening.
The following official statement was
issued by the Allan line at Liverpool
tonight:
''The Hesperian had on board $50
passengers and a crew of 800. OF the
passenger 80 were first class and III
second class. All the passengers were
taken off and landed at Queenstown.
Part OF the crew remained on board
the liner which is being towed to
Queenstown. II is unknown whether
the Hesperian was warned prior 10
the attack"
No Warning Given.
Passengers declare the submarine
gave no warning before firing the tor
pedO.
There were no American passengers
on board. Two OF the ships stewards
were Americans, however. They were
saved.
Cured 20 miles southwest of Fastnet
rock. But n torpedo was fired. IT
struck on the %starbOard side forward
tearing two great holes in the hull.
The engine room escaped damage,
however.
wireless calls for assistance we're
flashed broadcast as h ship began
to settle by the head. British patrol
boats responded quickly n the work
of transferring the passengers and
crew was commenced.
Twenty Are Injured.
Twenty persons were injured, some
by the tremendous explosion and 9TH
ers in the capsizing of a lifebOat when
they were precipitated into t he sea.
Can't. w. ]. Main and 90 of his crew
remained with the ship which is eX-
pected TO reach Queenstown early
Monday morning.
According TO stories told by sur
vivors no submarine was seen and
It was too dark to observe the wake
of a torpedo. HOweveE. all the pas
sengers and crew who have arrived at
Queenstown agree that the attack was
made by a German submarine. This
opinion is based On the force of the
shock and the great volume Of water
thrown into the air.
Among the passengers was Maj. III.
Barros of the 14th battalion Of Canadi-
ans who was returning TO Canada with
u officers and So men who had been
wounded at the ron
He said:
Water Shoots Up Fifty Feet.
when the torpedo struck and eX-
ploded an enormous column Of wa
ter about so feet high was shot into
the air. dropping back on the deck
with q terrific noise and flooding the
deck. Ny brother officers and / who
were sitting smoking on the upper
deck. were drenched. In the lowering
Of the lifeboats one Of them capsiZed
accidentally through the jsmming of
the falls"
Ronald Whiteway, who was travel
ing TO Quebec and Montreal, said:
"The sea was like glass and the
Hesperian was steaming steadily to
the westward when she was tOrpedoed.
The submarine was not sighted prOba-
bly, because of the darkness"
Fl. Morris, a passenger. highly prais-
ed the conduct Of the Canadian Off
GERS and men.
Corporal Abram of PPSncess Patri-
cia's regiment who was on board the
Hesperian returning to Canada with
his wife and baby girl. said:
Wife and Baby Overheard.
II put my family into a boat which
capsized. Ny wife and daughter drop
ped into the water. I mounted the
rail and dived into the sea. 1 managed
10 reach my wife and baby and kept
them ahoat until the latter was pick
ed up by a boat. Then / swan around
with my wife for half an hour. Final
" we were both picked up and
brought ashore. We found our little
girl at the Queens hotel. where she
had been taken by rescuers."
j. II, Brockington, another passen-