The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-25
TORPEDOES liner
ARABIC GOES DOWN CLOSE BY
LUSITANIA'S GRAVE
NO AMERICANS DROWNED

Way to New York, Thirty-Two Per
sons Being Drowned - Strucl
Without Warning After Seeing An
other Ship Destroyed.
The best information available il
London Friday indicated that a score
or more persons lost their lives in tht
skiing of the White Star liner Arabl'
by a German submarine Thursda!
morning off the South of Ireland. i
had not been determined defnitel!
whether any Americans were amons
the dead. DR.. Edmond F. Wood o.
GAINESVILLE, Wis, and Mrs. Josephine
L. Brugiere, an American, who hae
lived in Europe for number O.
years were missing.
The White Star announced Friday
morning that all except exight pas
sengers had been landed at Queens
town. Four were said to be Ameri
cans. According to information ca
bled to Washington by Lewis c
Thompson, American consul a
Queenstown, however, DR.. Wood anc
Mrs. Brugiere are the only missing
Americans. The other two-James
Houlihan, of Philadelphia, and Thos
Elmore Of New York-were reported
by Mr.. Thompson to have been saved
In all about four hundred Of the
four hundred and twenty-three per
sons on board the Arabic had been
accounted for. The fate of the Others
still was in doubt, but as the hours
heightened since the Arabic met with
swift destruction, hopes that the
others may have been saved faded
The announcement that only eight OF
the passengers were supposed to be
lost bore out earlier reports that the
great majority Of the missing were
members Of the crew.
Captain William Finch gave testi-
mony to the heroism Of his engineers
and fremen, several Of whom re-
NAMED at their posts to the last and
probably sacrificed their lives. 9th
er survivors said the torpedo killed
outright several men in the boiler
rooms. It struck on the starboard
side about one hundred feed from
the stern, near the boiler rooms
The torpedoing Of the Arabic has
stirred England from end to end, al
though on account of the compare
lively small loss Of life, public feel
ing does not show signs of running
as high as in the days following the
sinking Of the, Lusitania.
That such large proportion of the
passengers and crew should have
been saved in short time is regard
ed as better fortune than might have
been expected. Apparently it was
due to the coolness and courage OF
ths officers and crew, from Captain
Finch who remained at his post until
lust before the Arabic took her final
plunge down to the firemen, who fac
ed death, to perform their duty.
Fine weather and calm sea also
contributed to the outcome. In
Queenstown everything p :ssiDle was
done to assist the survivors, many
of whom were without clothes or
money. AS in, the case OF the Lusl-
tania disaster, the citizens OF Queens
town went to the assistance OF the
sufferers. A number Of the survivors
were suffering from minor injuries,
but so far as is known none is IN
serious condition.
With the main facts II the disaster
established, the English public turn,
ed its attention to the possible effect
upon relations between the Unlteo
States and Germany. Definite word
whether American lives had been lost
was awaited with more eagerness
than any other detail of the Arablc's
story yet to be told.
The White Star liner Arabic was
torpedoed and sunk on her way TO
New York by a German submarine
at 9.15 o'clock Thursday morning
southeast Of Fastnet.
The steamer, according to the
White Star line, was attacked with
out warning and went down in ten
minutes. Of the 423 persons on
board-IS1 passengers and 242
members Of the crew-32 are miss
ing and are believed to have perish
ed. Most of those not accounted Tor
belong to the crew. Only six passen-
gers are reported missing.
Whether any of those not account
ed for are Americans has not yet
been determined, but there were only
26 citizens of the United States on
board, % being in second cabin and
four in the steerage. New York
reports that g careful checking
OF the various lists of survivors
Of the Arabic as given out in Lon
don, Washington and New York
showed that all passengers listed by
the White Star line as Americans on
board the vessel had been saved. II
is possible that some Americans
boarded the liner as she was about
OF sail and were carried in the list
given out by the White Star line as
of other nationalities- The Arabic
carried no first class passengers, haV'
ing lately been turned into a two
class liner.
Survivors left tho steamer in the
ships boats and were picked up Dy
passing vessels They arrived II
Queenstown Thursday night and are
being cared for by the White Stal
line in hotels ard boarding houses II
the littlc town which a short time
ago cared for the Lusitania survivor:
and dead.
Details of the sinking Of the Ara
bic are lacking, but that the loss o.
life was not greater doubtless We:
due to the fact that the weather wa:
fine and that steamers plying the
German submarine w2r zone nov
keep their boats swung out.
The torpedo that sank the Arabic
struck her on the statboard side 1O(
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