The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-05-14
1900 DROWN WHEN
LUS|TAN|A SINKS
GIANT cuNARDER is ToRPEDoEo
OFF IRISH COAST BY GER
MAN SUBMARINE.
100 AMERICANS PERISH
Alfred owynns Vanderbilt Ebert
Hubbard Among Those lost
Boat Goes Under In is
Minutes.

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
o'clock on the afternoon of May 7.
She was struck without warning and
sank in Is minutes, within ten miles
of land.
Revised lists show that total OF
1901 persons lost their lives in the dis
aster. This total is secured from the
latest official ship line list showing
1854 passengers and crew Of 666
were on board the steamer.
According to the best available fig
ures here total of 120 Americans lost
their lives when the great liner went
down. Latest lists show that total
of 68 out of 1888 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.
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about ten miles off Old Head Kinsale
on the last leg of her voyage to Liv
erpool, when about o'clock In the af
ternoon a submarine suddenly appear
ed and, SO far as all reports go, fred
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 immedi
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 Allied with passen
gers who had been appalled, by the
desperate attack. A wireless call fol-
help was sent out. and Immediately
rescue boats Of all kinds were sent
out, both from the neighboring points
along the coast and Queenstown.
But within fifteen minutes, as one
survivor estimated, and certainly with
in half an hour, the Lusitania had dis
appeared.
Where Great Britain's fastest mer
chant vessel went down-Oh Head
Kinsale--is land that has brought
Joy to many travellers as II always
stood as the sign from shore that the
perils of the voyage across the Allan
tie were at an end. The line, whose
coast has been that II has never lost
passenger in the Atlantic service
aas now lost the ship that lodged the
lurking enemy of Nantucket light the
day after war was declared and later
startled the world by flying the Stars
and Stripes.
When the passengers realized that
the Lusitania was doomed they found
that most of the boats on the port side
were so jammed because Of the great
list OF the vessel that they could not be
lowered. and the last seen of them by
the more fortunate passengers who
had secured places in the starboard
boats, or who had jumped overheard
and had been picked up, they were
lined on the sloping decks awaiting
their fate, doubtless even then believ
ing that with land so close they would
still be saved.
However. the torpedoes had torn
such gaping holes in the liner that she
did not remain afoat for more than 20
minutes. and the calls for help which
the wireless sent out, although an.
swered quickly. could not bring the
rescuing steamers in time
A difference of opinion exists as to
whether two or three torpedoes struck
the ship.