Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-24
LUSITANIA SURVIVOR
WITH FUNERAL SHIP
SCORES CUNARD LINZ
New York, With Flau d
Half-mast, Arrives With
Bodies of Frohman and
Eight Other Victims of
Sea Disaster.

NEW YORK, May 4.-N,no MAJ
busitania disaster victims arrived =
today on board the American ,lnsr Nj.
YORK which, with her flag at hate,
came Into port through thick foo 49,,
A thrilling story of the cates,ronh.
told by Or. Carl Z. Foss n, t,o.,"
Montana, a survivor. who returned a., ,s1
New York. '" 'ne
The bodies were those of cb,r..
Frohman, Mr.. and Mrs. cbsrI,.
Piamondon. of Chicago; Mrs Fr..
King. of New York; Profsssor 80.
T. Broderlck, OF Harvard ftp,vas.,,on Hasason
Arthur r. Foley, of Trenton
isaac f. Trumbull, of Bridgeport Cors'..
MISS n. Ellis, of st. Thomas ontaa.'
and Miss McBrlght of New York, 10
CR1T1cIsBs LUsrTAN1A.s cApr,,,,
Doctor Foss, who went abroad "a =.
Red Cross work in France. sound,v 49,
demned the policy Of the r,uslt,ni,,.
captain, and declared that tho. cr.r
showed lack OF preparedness In ,,...
of disaster. III ume
saw one submarine an hour b.fo-.
the Lusitania was struck" declared NJ
tor Foss ut was then about I.sS 4, az.
afternoon. and 1 was standing AT tba All
looking at the Irish coast throurb ~,
glasses. The submarine was about rnils
away. keeping pace with us, and /
watched IL for some time, meanwbua
shouting to other persons on the dscS
that 1 saw German submarine For
the next five minutes all of us watched
IL and then 1t suddenly submerged itssif
Right here 1 want to condemn the polIov
OF the Cunard line that was saving fuel.
Even when the crew reported the pres.
ence OF the submarine, the officers did
not speed UP the ship.
Nothing happened for a while. so
went down to lunch. / had just started
TO eat when an explosion occurred.
think that as we went on deck most of us
reared that the ship was going to sink.
l know l did.
NO AID FOR PASSENGERS.
THE first thing 1 saw on the deck
was bunch of stewards opening a box
of life preservers and putting them on.
meanwhile not offering bit Of helm to
the passengers. 1 pushed among them
and got life preserver, which buckled
on myself.
by that time 1t was only a matter Of
seconds until the ship sank, so went to
the port side, which was the highest out
Of water, and jumped overheard. 1 struck
the water near the propellers and could
hear them churning the water
AS l started to swim away, l saw a
lifeboat, containing FIVE men, plunge
bow first from the davits One poor
fellow was cast against the side of the
ship and his legs were caught in the
propellers. He screamed horribly and the
roam was soon red with his blood.
swan in close and grabbed him by the
arm, pulling with might and main. He
was done for but did what 1 could for
him AS l swan away I could hear the
Ifeboat being crushed to bits by the pro-
peller blades. A hundred yards away
came upon a woman with a life pre-
server fastened on her body and a baby
N her arms. 1 towed them both to a
ifeboat containing about % persons and
helped them on board.
II saw that the boat was filled to ca
'acity and swan away from It, A water
ogged boat. filled with 30 hysterlcal men
md women, floated toward me. As
ooked, 1t was caught by a wave and
urned over. Not more than 10 of the oc-
'upants foated to the surface.
SAVES TWO WOMEN.
II came upon two women who family
legged me to help them. Both wore life
'reserveIs. found an oar and told them
o hold to 1t while kicked our way
oward shore
1--WE were chilled through and through
nd would not have been able to hold on
much longer, but just then we sighted
Ife raft and made for it. 1t was three
ours later when the steamer Indian EN-
ire picked us up"
RELATIVES MEET SHIP
Relatives and friends of the victims
whose bodies were on the New York were
AIKEN down the bay by Collector of the
'ort Dudley Field Malone on a revenue
utter. The most pathetic figure on the
utter was that of youthful Charles A
'amondon, Jr., of Chicago. He was ac-
by DR.. John Murphy,
amous surgeon, and had come on from
he West to receive the remains of his
arents and take them home for burial.
The bodies were encased in plain pins
oXes In a black draped cabin on the
fter-deck. United States flags lined the
mall room and outside small nag hung
t half mast,
Robert II. Burnside, manager OF the
lobe Theatre in London, who took
large of Charles Frohmans body on the
her side, accompanied 1t to New York.