The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-09

ing the night IN apartments over the
town bank, but was able TO be about
today IN uniform He displayed great
grief over the loss of his vessel, but
had expressed no opinion on the ac-
lion of the Germans.
Captains Terrible Experience
Captain Turner remained on the
Lusfeahia. s. bridge until the struc-
Jure was submerged and then climb
ed up a ladder. as would diver
from a tank When he reached the
surface he Erasoed an oar and then
a chair He chung 10 the chair Tor
nearly TWO hours and finally wnen'
the chair turned over he flung up
gold braided arm. This was seen by
boats and thus the commander was
saved. He was terribly broken
down when he landed Friday evening;
but after strong cup OF tea ana
a short rest he seemed to recover
and appeared 10 be nearly normal
today. None OF the survivors mas
any complaint to make regarding tne
action OF the crew. All agree L y
everything possible was done 1pndes
The first train. loaded with survtv-
ors left Queenstown this afternoon,
en- route TO London.
HOW the Lusitanfa was torpedoed
and went down and how some OF tne
survivors saved themselves was toio
graphicany here today.
w. G. e Meyers, of Stratford'
Ont. a lad OF I6 years, who was on
his way TO Join the British navy as
cadet said:
Il had just gone 10 the upper deck
after lunch to play a game OF auol.s
With two oher boys One OF theIn'
looking over the SIDE, saw white
streak in the water and shouted:
There's a TORPEDO coming straight at
MS We watched 1t until it struck US
With am Awful Explosion.
Then we rushed. to the boat deck just
as we got there huge quantity OF
wood spIinters and great masses OF
water aew all around US.
"a second torpedo struck US about
four minutes after the frst. went pc
low to get u lie belt and met "o-
man who was frenzied with fear.
tried TO calm her and helped her INTO
a boat. Then l saw a boat which
was nearly swamped. / got into L
and with other men baled ii out Then
a crowd of men cIainered into ii and
nearly swamped Il
I'VE got only 200 yards away
when the Lusitania sank. her DOW
first. Many persons sank with her
drawn down by the suction. TheiT
shrieks were appalling We
Had 10 Pull HARD
TO get away ano as II was We were al
most dragged down We saved all the
women and chiroren We coutd but
great many of them went down.
William Brown. of Alaska. another
said he decided not TO JOIN
.ne rush for the boats. Il came TO the
that life belt was the
thing for me-" ne said. so l went 10
NV cabin and secured one. With II on
/ slid down Z long rope into the wafer
subsequently got into boat.
H. Smetthurst. a steeraSe passeng-
er, was saved in the same way he
had put his wife into life boat ana
In spite of her urging he refused 10
her saying the
Women and Children
must go first. After the boat with ms
wife in it had pulled away the nus
band put on life belt, slipped INTO
the water and doated until he was
picked up.
clinton Bernard. of New York, one
of the first cabin survivors had this TO
say of his experiences:
..Althouh it was tremendous
shock TO everybody there was not as
much excitement as would be expected
in such catastrophe. II occurred SO
suddenly we had not much time 10
realize what was happening. When
saw the ship was sinking
Jumped Overheard
inst as / was. l had no life belt but
picked up bit of hoatsam
Finally 1 got to an upturned boat and
clung to that. Later with others who
had SWAN 10 thls boat we managed to
right 1t. Then we climbed in and
started to rescue as many people as
we could reach.
The German submarine made no
attempt to save ANYBODY. saw IT juss
for moment before il dove"
Marine Superintendent Dodd, OF the
Cunard line said today that the Lus-
itania sank in 90 fathoms OF water
and would
Never BE Raised
Mr.. Dodd came TO Queenstown this
afternoon TO arrange for special trains
for the survivors,
Mr. Dodd said he believed
roup OF submarines acting in concert
sank the liner as it probably would
have eva1ets one
Few bodies were brought in during
the day and the hope that other per
sons than those reported are alive has
been abandoned