The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-05-14
LUsTAN|A SINKS;
1900 LIVES Lost
GERMAN SUBMARINES SEND TOR
PEDoEs INTO LEvlATHIAN
NEAR IRISH COAST.
MANY AMERICANS GO DOWN
After Death Blow Boat Lists Quickly
and in Eighteen Minutes Plunges
TO Bottom-Prominent U. S.
Citizens Drown.

London.-The Cunard Liner Lusi-
tania was torpedoed by a German
submarine OF the southeast coast OF
Ireland, near the entrance to Saint
Georges channel. shortly after 2
She was struck without warning and
sank in Is minutes, within ten miles
of land.
Revised lists show that q total of
1,201 persons lost their lives in the dis
aster. This total is secured from the
latest official ship line list showing
1854 passengers and a of Cos
were on board the steamer.
According to the best available fig
ures here a total of 120 Americans lost
their lives when the great liner went
down. Latest lists show that a total
of So out of 1873 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-Charles Frohman, Mrs.
Amelia Mcdonald and Patrick Gallon.
Officially given up as dead are: Al
fred Gwynne andVerbilt, multi-million-
aire; Charles Klein, playwright; JUS
tus M. 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 2 o'clock in the at
| 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 fmmedi
ately great volumes Of water poured
through the openings and the Lusi
tania listed.
Boats, which were already swung
out on the davits, were dropped over
board and speedily filed with passen
gers who had been appalled, by thu
desperate attack. A wireless call 70.
help was SEM out, and immediatel.
rescue boats Of all kinds were sen
out, both from the neighboring point
along the coast and Queenstown.
But within fifteen minutes, as on
in half an hour, the Lusitania had dis
appeared.
Where Great Britain's fastest mel
chant vessel went down-Old Hea
Kinsale-is a land that has brough
joy to many travellers as it Away
stood as the sign from shore that tn
perils of the voyage acros the Altar
tic were at an end. The line, who's
boast has been that it has never los
a passenger in the Atlantic service
has now lost the ship that lodged tn
lurking enemy of Nantucket light tn
day after wal was declared and late
startled the world by flying the Star
and Stripes.
When the passengers realized tha
the Lusitania was doomed they foun
that most of the boats on the port sid
were so damned because of the gres
list of the vessel that they could not b
lowered, and the last seen of them b
the more fortunate passengers VIII
had secured places in the starboar
boats, or who had jumped overboar
and had been picked up, they we1
lined on the sloping decks awaitin
their fate. doubtless even then belle
ing that with land so close they woul
still be saved.
However, the ~torpedoes had tor
such gaping holes in the liner that ST
did not remain afloat for more than
minutes, and the calls for help whie
the wireless sen out, although a
| swered quickly, could not bring tt
rescuing steamers in time
, A difference of opinion exists as
!, whether two or three torpedoes strut
5 the ship.
BERLIN VIEWS DlSkSTE