Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-14
PASSENGERS
LlySIT AnIA
Liner Sunk by Ger
man Submarine.
OVER 1000 ARE DEAD
!,:'e2t TO Bottom so Minutes
After She Was Struck
EAD to4 AMERICANS ABOARD
v1iIeIess Calls For Help Were
Answered by Queenstown.
OVER 1000 ARE DEAD.
E'AD to4 AMERICANS ABOARD
v'ireIess Calls For Help Were
Answered by Queenstown.

The impression is growing stronger
hourly in London that the loss OF HE
by the destruction of the Lusitanla OH
Kinsdale Head, Ireland, was enor'
nous.
The very latest bulletins enumerate
so few survivors that it is feared thaE
more than 1000 may have perlsheu'
and among them some American clti
zens.
It is impossible to give any list Oh
survivors, as neither the British. ad'
niralty nor the Cunard company mas
been able to get one.
Out of the 2104 passengers and
crew aboard the ship-1254 passen'
gers and $50 creW--there is delnlte
information concerning less than l0Ou
Of them, and even the unconhrmed
reports Of rescues at various ports add
very few more to the list.
The latest bulletin comes from
Queenstown by way of Liverpool
through the Curard company. 1t reads
as follows:
Queenstown reports that the Storm
Cock is landing about $50 passengers
and crew. 1t is reported by the admir-
atty that the trawlers Dock and In.
dian Empire have about 200; the tug
Flying Fish, 100; three torpedo boats
have IS living and four dead.
1--WE are putting these up at the
different hotels and boarding houses,
but we cannot give lists Of survivors,
as the passengers are in such state
that their immediate wants must be
cur first consideration"
The Lusitania sank in thirty min.
utes after the explosive was launched
at her, and the lifeboats had been
placed in the water when the giant
liner foundered and completely disap-
peared.
Earlier it was reported that the
Cunard officials had given out pub
lie statement that all on board had
been saved. Later the steamship Of
fees declared that they had learned
no news of the fate of passengers and
crew and were awaiting word from
Cork or Queenstown.
Consul Frost, the United States OF.
fetal stationed at Queenstown, in a
telegram to his government, stated
that the Lusitania had sunk, and
probably many had been rescued. This
dispatch was later supplemented by a
wire to the Cunard Office that between
500 and 600 survivors had been land
ed at Queenstown, and Of that num-
Der several had died.
The message also stated that there
were many hospital cases, which was
taken to mean that the Lusitania had
been torpedoed without warning.
Three hundred Of the rescued PAS
sengers have been landed at Clona-
kitty, southwest of Cork, Ireland, and
scores OF vessels arriving at the scene
of the Lusitanias destruction have
taken on board the survivors and are
putting into ports along the coast OF
Ireland with the survivors.
Cunard officials in an authorized
public statement declare that. the Lu'
sitania was sunk without al instants
warning. The vessel was seen to be
in difficulties off Kinsale Head. she
had worked her wireless and seat
three messages for aid to Queens.
town before she foundered and COM
pletely disappeared twenty minutes
after the steamship was sighted roll
ing in the trough Of the sea.
Admiral Coke, upon receipt of the
wireless, Immediately ordered every
available vessel from both Cork and
Queenstown to proceed at once TO the
scene of the disaster. Meanwhile 9TH
er vessels within wireless radius of
the doomed Cunarder veered and
made for the sinking vessel.
Several boatloads Of survivors. of
the Lusitania were being towed into
Kinsale by a Greek steamer.
Sight Fifty Others Saved.
A Cunard dispatch from Liverpool
transmitting a dispatch from Old
Head, read as follows:
Motor fishing beats towing two
boats, probable number of passengers
about fifty. Tug Stormcock is making
Kinsale. Some passengers are aboard.
Many rescue vessels are now appar-
emily making Queenstown"
The Cunard line gave out the fol-
lowing Liverpool dispatch:
GA Cork newspaper reports that 300
passengers have been landed at Clon-
akilty. Old Head wires: Cancel last
message to the effect that Stormcock
is taking passengers on boats from
motor fishing boat and proceeding to
Queenstown