Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-09
Belief Prevailed That Water
tight Compartments Would
Keep Ship AfIoat Until All.
Could Be Taken Off,
HEARTRENDING SCENES
ENACTED AT QUEENSTOWN
Women Search Desperately for
Husbands in Hotels and
MorgueSi Rage Against Ger
many SurpaSSeS All Bounds,
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tBr MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiaEl
London. May D U2:15 "a. m)-Of
those who left New York a week ago
ON the Lusitania less than 700 sur
vived after that vessel was tor
pedoed and sunk by German sub
marines off Kinsale, Ireland, Friday
afternoon.
A full list of the survivors who in
clude very few first-elass passengers,
is not yet available, but probably
there are not many names to add TO
those which already have been made
public. All the evidence goes TO
show that the first-class and many of
the second-class passengers had such
confidence in the ability OF the Lusi-
tania. because of her watertight COM
partments, to remain afioat after she
received the first blow. that they did
not concern themselves about taking
TO the boats or even providing them
selves with life preservers.
When the passengers did realize
that the Lusitania was doomed, they
found that most OF the boats on the
port side were so jammed, because
of the great list Of the ship, that they
could not be lowered, and the last
seen of them by the more fortunate
passengers who had secured places
on the starboard boats, or who had
jumped overheard and had been
picked up, they were lined on the
sloping decks awaiting their fate,
doubtless even believing that with
land so lose they would still be saved.
Help Came Too Late.
However. the torpedoes had torn
such gaping holes in the liner that
she did not remain afioat for more
than twenty minutes and the calls
for help which the wireless sent out,
although answered quickly, could not
bring the rescuing steamers to the
spot in time to be of any service.
There is much difference of opin-
ion as to how many torpedoes struck
the ship and as TO whether an ex-
plosion of her boilers followed In
fact, after the first torpedo hit the
Lnsitania forward the crew were
busy getting to the stations and the
passengers who escaped in getting to
the boats and providing themselves
with life belts. In shipping circles
and among many of those saved the
impression prevails that more than
one German submarine attacked the
Lusitania and that two or more tor
pedoes found their mark.
This view is held at the Cunard
offices at Liverpool but the officers
of the ship will make no statement
until the inquest or an admiralty
inquiry brings out their evidence.
The scenes at Queenstown, where
the survivors were landed and where
there are many bodies of those who
were killed or died of exposure. were
heartrending. Many women separ-
ated from their husbands have been
searching the hotels hoping TO ind
them alive, or, failing in this, have
been looking for them in hastily mn
provised morgueS. Others We1e Oh
TO Cork, while still others left yes-
terday afternoon for London where
they will arrive Sunday morning.
Hope Turns to Despair.
At the London and Liverpool Of
fees of the Cunard company. large
crowds again assembled yesterday
hoping against hope that thosel
whom they had expected to meet on
Sunday at the latest might sui turn
up, but there was little consolation
for those who had not already heard
from their expected friends or reia-
tives.
Nothing that the Germans havel
done since the outbreak of the war
has so aroused the anger and deter
mination of the British people as thel
sinking of the Lusitania. This anger
is shared by the Americans in Lon
don who had relatives or frlendsl
aboard.
The members of the stock exchange
insisted on the withdrawal of all
members of German birth, although
naturalized. At many places through,
out the country these nationalizedl
Germans we're made to suffer for Ger
manv's actions. At one large SNIP
building plant at Walsend the work
men threatened to strike unless some
of those employees with German
names were discharged and the com.
pany, although badly in need OF
workmen. was compelled to grant
The demand.
German BARRIERS and other Ger
mans. whose presence in the country
has been tolerated since the war be-
gan, also found themselves Doyeoted:
But there have been no disorders OIL
any kind.