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blow amidships, causing her to list
almost Immediately to the STAR
board. In this careening fashion
she ploughed forward some distance
smashing the lifeboats' davits as she
did SO, and making the launching
of boats well nigh impossible until
headway had ceased.
List Prevented Launching Lifeboats
How far the Lusitania struggled
forward after being struck and how
long it was before she disappeared
beneath the waves likewise are
agree, estimates of the time she re-
mained afioat ranging from eight to
twenty minutes. At any rate, the
list to starboard SO elevated the
lifeboats on the port side as to rem
der them useless, and it is said only
two on that side were launched.
Women and Children Thrown In
Water.
The first of these was filled with
women and children. 1t struck the
water uneyenly, capsizing and
throwing its occupants into the sea.
The Lusitania even then was MAX
ing considerable headway and the
women and children were swept to
death in spite OF the attempts of two
stokers to rescue them. These
heroic men according to the passen-
gers, were drowned.
After that several boats were
launched successfully, but the steam
er's list grew more perilous. the
decks slanting to such an angle that
it was imperative for all to cling to
the starboard rail. Many by this
time had donned life belts and
jumped into the sea. Several life
boats broke adrift unoccupied and
the sea became froth of oars,
chairs, debris and human bodies.
stokers Recover Drifting Boat.
Two stokers, seeking a drifting
boat, diyed overheard, recovered it,
and pulled forty persons, mostly
women, into it. The Lusitania crew
meanwhile adhered to the letter to
the instruction, which had been CIV
en- them and the discipline was rigid.
All day yesterday in hotel corri-
dors, halls and reception rooms,
survivors sat listlessly, still too
dazed to discuss what had occurred.
They were dressed in a variety of
garments. Some were crying softly;
some were trying to force down beef
tea or other nourishment. In front
of The Cunard line office a crowd
surged, clamoring for news.
Farther down the street a small
crowd jammed the government tele-
graph Office, where three clerks and
three operators strove to keep
abreast of the ever-growing stream
of messages.
Bodies of Dead Placed in Morgues
In four morgues lay the dead, in
some cases, grouped side by side, lay
children like toys. The body of
Charles Frohman, his face placid,
lay face upward in large room in
an old building on the hillside
hundred yards from the waters
edge. Around him were ranged
fifty bodies of both sexes, over which
attendants were bending, sorting
and ticketing their belongings.
Those men best fitted to chron-
iele the last moments of the Lusi-
tania - Ebert Hubbard. Charles
Frohman, Justus Miles Forman, AL
fred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and others
apparently all went to their
graves with her.
Attacked by Battery of Submarines
The Lusitania's speed at the time
ed at from eight to twenty-eight
knots. When forced, the liner could
do twenty-five knots outstripping
even the fastest and latest subma-
rines. Hence, it is the belief of sur
vivors and Cunard line officials that
a battery of underwater craft, num-
ber perhaps four or five, lay in wait,
posted advantageously along the
route which it was surmised the
vessel would take. 1t was easy to
keep all but the periscopes sub
merged and then for the craft near
est her to let go torpedoes.
Washington, May s.-Appalled by
the tragic aspect of the Lustania
disaster with the loss of many
Americans, President Wilson and his
advisers are waiting for the facts
and the crystallization of public
opinion to aid them in laying the
course the United States will pursue
in the latest international compli-
cation, the gravest the president has
faced since the outbreak of the war.
The president, while seeking the
facts, hopes that the country will
assume an examining attitude and
reserve full judgment until all the
details are received. Secretary
Bryan has eabled to Ambassador
Gerard at Berlin to informally ash