Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-05-12
lusi1aDia Goes TO The Bottom
One Thousand LIVES Lost When Cunard
Liner Is ToTpsdoed Without Warning.

One Thousand LIVES Lost When Cunar
Liner Is ToIpsdoed without Warning.
London, May 7.-The Cunar'
liner Lusitania, which sailed on
of New York last Saturday will
more than 1000 persons aboard
lies at the bottom of the ocean of
the Irish c,ass. She was sunl
by a German submarine, which
Gent two torpedoes crashing iatt
her side while the passengers wer'
at luncheon.
How many of the Lusitania'l
passengers aad crew were rescaeo
cauLot be told, but the officla
statements from thu British Ad
mirality up to mid,:;ght accounted
for not more than five or six hun.
dred.
A ships steward who landed
with others at Queer siown, gave
it IS his opinion shat 900 persons
were lost.
There we're dead and wouL ded
among those brought ashore; some
since have died. Bat not name
of rescued or Lest, or dead or in
jured, has been listed officially.
The Lusitanla was steamlng
along about 10 miles off Old Head
Kinsale on the last leg of her voy.
age to Liverpool when about 2
O'Clock in the afternoon q subma.
rine suddenly appeared and so
far ss all reports go, fred two tor.
pedoes without warning at the
steamer. One struck her near the
bows and the other in the engine
room.
The powerful agents of destruc.
tion tore through the vessels side,
causing terrific explosions. Al
most Immediately great volumes g
of water poured through the open.
ings and the Lusitsnia listed
Boats which were already
swung out on the davits were
dropped overheard and " are speed.
lly filled with passengers who had
been appalled, by the desperate
attlck. A wireless call for help
was sent out, and Immediately
rescue boats cf all kinds were sent
both from the neighboring points
along the coast and Queenstown.
Within Is minutes, as one sur
vivor estimated, and certainly
within half an hour, the Lnsita.
MIA had disappeared.
Where Great Britain's fastest
merchant vessel went down, Old
Head Kinsale, is a landmark that
has brought to joy many travellers
as it always has stood as the sign
from shore that the perils of the
voyage across the Atlantic were at
an end.
The line whose boast that it has
never lost a passenger in the At
lantic service has lost the ship
that lodged the lurking enemy of
Nantucket Light the day after
war was declared and later star.
teled the wo1ld by flying the Stars
and Stripes.
The British Admiralty is dis
oouraging the publication Of sur.
misses and guesses regarding the
dead and injured. Even before
details are known the British
press Is asking editorially what
will the United States say to this
event and how will she hold Ger
many to the "ssriot accountabili-
ty" mentioned in previous diplo-
matte cOrrespondence.
The office of the Cunard Line
closed shortly after II o'clock
tonight and officers of the com.
pany state there would be no fur.
ther information coming from the
line until the offices opened to.
morrow.
Late messages received tonight
from the Cunard Line off i,es in
Liverpool indicated that no def
mite information would be forth.
coming tonight as the officers
were giving all attention to the
persons saved from the ship.
Among the last messages re-
ceived were several stating that
individuals we're saved. In these
messages we're the names of George
Kessler, New York wine agent;
Miss Jessie Taft Smith. Brace
vile, Ohio; Mrs H. B. Lassetsr,
wife of Gen. II. B. Lasseter and