The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1915-05-12


m. )=Thirteen hundred and forty
six person, one hundred and thirty
seven of whom are Americans lost
their lives yesterday when the Lusi-
tania was sunk by a German subma-
rine off the coast of Ireland. Alfred
G. Vanderbilt, Elbert Hubbard, Chas,
T'roman, Justus Miles Forman and
Charles Kline are among the mis-
sing.
The Lusitania was sunk by two
torpedoes fired without warning
from a German submarine. The
missel exploded close to the engine
room, sending showers of wood,
steel over all parts of the ship. Kill
ling and manning passengers. Fumes
filed the liner causing suffoeation,
and scores overcome we're carried To
the life boats or were left lifeless on
the decks.
A German submarine fleet is still
lowering off the Irish coast ready
to attack other passenger ships. The
British public is olamoring for
vengeance and the whole country =
thrown into a high state of tension.
A political crisis faces England
and a fall of the cabinet is imminent.
The United States has sent in
structions to Ambassadors at Lon
don to make thorough inyestiga-
tions. William Joel Stone, chair
man Of the senate committee on
foreign affairs, declares that the in
cident is not dramatically so i'm
portant as the loss of the Gullflight.
He advises the American people TO
"sit tight and not rock the boat
Queenstown, May s, 4:2S a. NJ
Survivors of the Lusitania who have
arrived here estimate that only about
ESQ of those abroad the steamer
were saved and only a small portion
of those rescued were saloon pas,
sengers.
There were dead and wounded
among those brought ashore; some
since have died. But not name of
rescued or lost. or dead or injured,
has yet been listed
Ten Miles Of Shore When Torpedoed
The Lusitania was steaming along
about ten miles off Old Head Kin
sale, on the last leg of her voyage
70 Liverpool, when. about o'clock
in the afternoon, a submarine sud
denly appeared, and, so far as all
reports go. fired two torpedoes with
out warning at the steamer. One
struck her near the bows and the
other in the engine room. The
powerful agents of destruction tore
through the vessels side, causing
terrific explosions. Almost immedi
ately great volumes of water poured
through the openings and the Lusi-
tania listed
Wireless Call Summons Aid
Boats, which were already swung
out on the dayits, we're dropped
overheard and were speedily filled
with passengers who had been ap
paled by the. desperate attack. a
wireless call for help was sent out
and Immediately rescue boats of all
kinds were sent out, both from the
neighboring points along the coast
and Queenstown.
But within 15 minutes, as one
survivor estimated, and certainly
with half an hour, the Lusitania had
disappeared.
Where Great Britian's fastest
merchant vessel went down-Old
Head Kinsale--is a landmark that
mas brought joy to many travellers,
as IL always stood as the sign from
shore that the perils of the voyage
across the Atlantic were at an end.
The line, whose boast has been that
1t has never lost a passenger in the
Atlantic service, has now lost the
ship that lodged the lurking enemy
off Nantucket light the day after the
war was declared and later startled
the world by flying the stars and
stripes.
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