The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-21
Steamship Officers Kept Busy
Denying Reports While Seek
ing Arabic Case Facts
DECLARE ARABIC NOT
| Conveyed BY BRITISH
Stories Blamed on Wall Street
Interests to Manipulate Mar
ket. Had Bowie. Lapland and
Nicorsian Attacked

| New York, Aug. 20.-The Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine Offices in this
lefty were flooded with rumors of ali
kinds this afternoon. At various times
liz was reported that the Red Star
liner Lapland. with 3I6 passengers
aboard; the White Star freigh.er
Bowie, with a large cargo of contra
band, and the Leyland liner Moor
sian, engaged In the British troop
transport service. had been attacked
by German submarines in the war
zone.
While the local officials of the line
were trying to straighten out the list
of Arabic survivors and lost. they
were kept busy denying the persistent
reports of this or that liners des,rlc-
ton. Most OF the blame for the
spread OF the rumors was charged to
Wall Street interests. who were tiy-
ing to manipulate the stock market
by sending out unconfirmed reports.
! If 1t was an attempt to scatter excite.
ment and fear, IL certainly enjoyed
success as far as the stea mship people
were concerned.
| Late in the afternoon the line gave
| out a list of passengers and survivors
/ of the Arabic, corrected by cable adj
vices received In answer to queries
from this side. Not a word beyond
| the list corrections reached the local
offices about the four Americans who.
according TO the lines own figures ana
lists. were 'unaccounted for" The
latest list includes Mrs. Josephine L.
Bruguiere. James Houiihan. DIR. Ed
mund r. Woods. in the cabin, and
Thomas Elmore, in the steerage, i'm the
~unaccounted for" Houishan. how
ever. was reported saved In dispatches
ito the State Department.
/ Twenty-Five Urncconnted For.
1 The Arabics list. m given out here.
admitted twenty-five passengers
among the unaccounted for Seven
teen OF these travelled in the cabin and
seight In third class. Thomas Elmore.
| one of the four Americans reported
lost. was In the third-ciass cabin. The
total number Of passengers on board
! numbered 1871 There were six other
names, however, cabied as survivors
! who were not cabied as passengers"
| and inquiries were sent by cable about
these. as well as the others reported
t"unaccounted for"
A cablegram received early In the
afternoon requested the local Office
/ to delete from the list of cabin SIR
! vivors the names OF w. ]. Randall,
Mrs, Edwin Charles Negus and Mrs.
Mary Eaton. and the names of Mrs.
/ Florence Darcy. George Lyons and
| John Dighton from the third cabin
list, This message also added to the
survivors the names Of Miss Evelyn
| Eaton and Ellen Meiia, and stated
that Edwin Charles Negus was In a
| hospital in Queenstown. The name of
Elizabeth Wilioughby was corrected
! to read Elijah Willoughby in the third
class survivors.
Bowie Safe In Liverpool.
Reports Of the sinking of the Bowie,
which left New York on August for
Manchester. reached the White star
| Offices early In the afternoon. and were
/ denied. So persistent were they, how
ever. that ii was said the White Star
Line Offices here had received the news
| in a cabiegram and had kept 1t quiet.
The rumor was not dispelied alto
i gether until tonight. when the line
was advised that the freighter had ar
| rived safely at Liverpool and had pro-
ceeded to Manchester.
Next came the report from Wall
Continued on Second fage.)