The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-14
l,200 DROWN WHEN
LUSITANIA SINKS
GIANT cUNARDER IS ToRPEooEo
OFF IRISH COAST BY GER
MAN SUBMARINE.
I2O AMERICANS PERISH
Alfred cwynne Vanderbilt and Ebert
Hubbard Among Those Lost
Boat Goes Under In 10
Minutes.

London.-The Cunard Liner Lusi-
tania was torpedoed by a German
submarine on the southeast coast Of
Ireland, near the entrance to Saint
Georges channel, shortly after 2
o'clock on the afternoon Of May Z.
she was struck without warning and
sank in Is minutes, within ten miles
OF land.
Revised lists show that a total Of
1.2O1 persons lost their lives in the dis
aster. This total is secured from the
latest official ship line list showing
1854 passengers and a crew Of Sos
were on board the steamer.
According to the best available fg-
ures here a total Of 100 Americans lost
their lives when the great liner went
down. Latest lists show that a total
Of 6s out of 18S Americans on board
the steamer have been accounted for
as rescued. The balance are all miss
ing and are believed lost Among the
identified dead three boieds are those
OF Americans-Ch Charles Frohman, Mrs.
Amelia Mcdonald and Patrick Gallon.
Officially given up as dead are: Al
fred Gwynne andVerbilt, multi-mrlion-
aire; Charles Klein, playwright; JUS
tus NJ. Forman, playwright; Ebert
Hubbard, writer; Mrs. Hubbard
The Lusitania was steaming along
about ten miles of Old Head Kinsale,
on the last leg of her voyage to Liv-
erpool, when about o'clock in the af-
ternoon a submarine suddenly appear
ed and, so far as all reports go, fired
the torpedoes without warning at the
steamer She was struck near the
bow and in the engine room.
The powerful agents Of destruction
tore through the vessels side, causing
terrific explosions. Almost immedi-
ately great volumes Of water poured
through the openings and the Lusi-
tania listed.
Boats, which we're already swung
cut on the davits. we're dropped over
board and speedily filled with passen-
gers who had been appalled, by the
desperate attack. A wireless call for
help was sent out, and Immediately
rescue boats Of all kinds were sent
out, both from the neighboring points
along the coast and Queenstown.
But within fifteen minutes, as one
survivor estimated. and certainly with
IN half an hour, the Lusitania had dis
appeared.
= Where Great Britain's fastest mer
chant vessel went down-Old Head
Kinsale-is a land that has brought
Joy to many travellers as it always
stood as the sign from shore that the
perils Of the voyage across the Allan
2io we're at an end The line, whose
boast has been that It has never lost
q passenger in the Atlantic service,
has now lost the ship that lodged the
lurking enemy OF Nantucket light the
day after war was declared and later
startled the world by flying the Stars
and Stripes.
When the passengers realized that
the Lusitania was doomed they found
that most Of the boats on the port side
were 80 TANNED because Of the great
list Of the vessel that they could not be
lowered. and the last seen Of them by
che more fortunate passengers who
had secured places In 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 then believ-
ang that with land so close they would
atill be saved.
However. the torpedoes had torn
such gaping holes in the liner that she
ala not remain afoat for more than 20
minutes, and the calls for help which
4hs wireless sent out. although an.
awered quickly, could not bring the
seseuing steamers in time to be Of any
service.
There Is much difference OF opinion
- 70 how many torpedoes struck the
ship and as to whether an explosion
81 her boilers followed. In fact. after
ahe frst torpedo hit the Lusitania for.
ward the crew we're busy getting to the
stations and the passengers who es-
eaped tn getting to the boats and pro
Vidiug themselves with lifeboats. In
chipping circles and among many sur
wivors the Impression prevails that
more Than one German submarine At.
sacked the Lusitaaia and that two OF
more torpedoes found their mark.