Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1915-05-13
Victims Of Sunken
| Liner, 1852.
VANDERBILT A VICTIM.
Body Of Charles Frohman Is
/ Recovered.
IORpEOOEO WITHOUT WARNING

The Cunard Steamship company an
nounced the receipt of a cablegram
from Liverpool, giving the number of
survivors of the sunken Lusitania as
764. The cablegram follows:
Queenstown advice total number of
survivors 764, including 1852 passen-
gers and 302 crew.
"One hundred and forty-four bodies
recovered, of which 81 identified and
81 unidentified. Identified bodies com.
prise 65 passengers and % crew.
Number of persons injured: Thir-
ty passengers and seventeen crew."
The latest estimate of the death list
Is 1852.
Hope for further rescues was aban-
doned when the last of the rescue
boats leaving Queenstown returned
bringing only forty-f1ve living persons.
Body of Frohman Recovered.
The United States consul at Queens
town can account for only fifty-one
Americans saved out of 1873 who were
aboard
The body of Charles Frohman, the
atrical manager and producer, was
recovered and landed at Queenstown,
rs was also the body of DR.. F. S. Pear
son of New York, noted scientist and
explorer
No trace has been found of Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt of New York. and
he is supposed to have been lost. He
was one of the wealthiest men in
America, his fortune being estimated
Mt between $7O,00O,000 and 100000
900. Among other Americans of whom
no trace has been found and who now
are given up as dead are:
Ebert Hubbard. editor of the Phil
istine, author of essays and publisher
at East Aurora, N. Y. He was accom-
panied by Mrs. Hubbard.
Charles Klein one of the best known
American playwrights.
Terrible Scenes When Ship Goes Down
The scene as the big liner went
down is described by the survivors as
heartrending. Battling for life, the
passengers called to relatives and
friends or babe each other good-by
The small boats which had been
sent away from the side of the liner
picked up a good many survivors who,
with life belts or clinging to wreck
age, were floating on the surface of
the water. But soon the boats all
were crowded.
These boats were in turn picked up
by rescuing steamers coming at full
speed from shore points, but in many
cases four and more hours elapsed
before the rescuers reached the scene,
In many cases the only work left
for the rescue workers to do was to
collect from the water the floating
bodies of the dead Several passen-
gers were taken aboard trawlers Sc
verely injured. only to die before they
could be transferred ashore.
Passengers Were at Luncheon.
A cabin steward of the Lusitania
gave the following account of the
sinking of the vessel:
"The passengers, large number of
whom were seriously injured by the
explosion of the torpedoes and by
splinters from the wreckage, were all
at luncheon The weather was beau
tifully clear and calm. We were going
at about sixteen knots and were sew
en- or eight miles south of Galley
Head when we were struck by one tor
pedo, and In a minute or two after.
ward by two more.
"The first explosion staggered us
and the others finished us, SCATTERING
the gigantic ship. The Lusitania disa.
peared in twenty minutes after the
first torpedo struck.
1--WE did not get moments notice
from the submarine 1t appeared sud
denly above the surface on our star
board bow and discharged torpedo
at us. The submarine disappeared as
suddenly as it came into view
eve saw the track the torpedo made
in the water and we got it fairly amid
ships. The Lusitania listed forward
and started to settle. Then the sub
merged submarine discharged two
more torpedoes, which also struck us
and our ship sank in twenty minutes
after the submarine dived it was
not seen again. 1t went off after az
complishing it's work and did not at
tempt to save men, women, or ehil
dren, but left them to drown when the
great ship sank like stone.
"The scene was frightful as the
ship went down. A great many per