The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-05-08
UNITED Press)

AA'cA Pools way 0, D .oV y. m.-1ne
Cunarder, Lusitania, which was tor
pedoed by German submarine yes
terday afternoon as she was steaming
along, about ten miles off Old Head
Kinsale, on the last leg of her voyage
to this place, carried 1,346 passengers
to death when she sank, says the la
test London dispatch.
The liner had 2,16O on board, in
Guiding passengers and crew, and of
these but 703 were saved. Many
died as they were being rushed to
safety and even after they had been
placed in hospitals. The town hall
at Queenstown has been converted
into morgue, a long line of collins
having been placed there, the bodies
awaiting Identification. The names
are announced as soon as identified.
Two Torpedoes Fired.
A submarine suddenly appeared, as
far as reports go, and fired two tor
pedoes, without warning, at the
steamer. One struck her near the
bows, and the other in the engine
room. The powerful agents of de-
struction tore through the vessels
side, causing terrific explosions. AL
most instantly great volumes of wa
ter poured through the openings and
the ship listed.
: Boats, already swung on the davits,
dropped overheard, and speedily fill
ed with passengers who had been ap-
palled by the desperate attack. A
wireless call for help was sent out,
numerous small boats and one steam
er responding. But from all accounts
the Lusitania hesitated less than 20
minutes before taking the, fatal
plunge, carrying with her many Of
the human cargo, "Details Of the
catastrophe are trickling in as sur
vivors, stunned by their experience,
arrive at various points nearest the
point of calamity In the first cabin
were LOG American citizens; in the
second cabin 65, and in the third
class II.
Carried 1873 Americans.
The Lusitania carried 1873 Ameri-
cans and it is believed that nearly
all of them were lost.
Passengers Were Warned.
When the Cunard liner sailed from
her landing at New York at 1926
last Saturday afternoon it was only
after twenty or more messages had
been delivered to prominent passen
gers, signed by names unknown to
any of the reciepents, warning them
not to trust themselves to the big
boat, since she was certainly doomed
to be torpedoed. This was coupled
together with an announcement pub
lished ove;' the signature of the I'm.
perial German Embassy at Washing
ton, admoni sling travellers not to en-
bark on British vessels. No one left
the ship. -.---. .~
Among the prominent passengers
of the Lusitania, and who are be-
lieved to have lost their lives, their
friends having given up all hope of
their having been saved, were Alfred
G.. Vanderbilt, Charles Klein, the
playwright, Ebert Hubbard and
Charles Frohman.
Throng on Cunarder.
The Lusitania carried, besides the
Cameronia's passengers, an excep-
tionally large crowd for this season,
consisting of 800 in the first cabin,
$50 second and $50 steerage. This is
close to a record second cabin list,
and is probably due to the lowering
of the rates to within reach of many
former steerage travellers.
The Lusitania, moreover, was but
one of a fleet of liners which put to
sea Saturday with 5000 persons in
the aggregate, unperturbed by the
attempt to brighten away their pas
sengers.
The Holland-American liner Rotter-
dam left for Rotterdam, the Ameri-
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