Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-03
When Boat Leaves Wrecked Mau-o'-
War It Has About Sixty
Sailors Aboard.
OTHERS DIE OF EXPOSURE
Many of Vessels Graft Launched to
Pick Up Survivors Swamped.
VIOLENT STORM is RAGING
All Scnntily clad aud suffer Ter
ribIy In Twenty TIours' Anont-
Captain on Bridw~ at
Fatal Moment.

LONDON Jan. Another cutter from
the British battleship Formidable. which
was sunk in tho English channel yester-
day. has reached Lyme-Reci Dorset
shire. with fifty men, bringing the total
OF saved up TO 2M men.
Whom the cutter left the Formidable II
had sixty or more men aboard. but all
but fifty succumbed to exposure, having
been in an open boat FOR some twenty
hours in a violent storm.
sorne Beats swampsd.
Albert Edward Cooper, master-at-arms,
one OF the survivors landed at Lyme
Regis, said the explosion occurred be-
tween 30 and 2:So O'Clock in the morning
When he reached the deck the ship had
begun to settle on the starboard side.
Boats were launched and remained near
the ship TO pick up survivors, but some OF
the boats, which stood about twenty
yards were swamped by wreckage.
The men were scantily clad and suf-
fered from the cold during the twenty
hours occupied In reaching shore
Die I'm BOat.
Some died during the day and were
passed overheard on the arrival of the
cutter at Lyme Regis at II o'clock last
night six more were found dead in the
bottom Of the boat.
a policeman on duty heard cries for
help ana, going to the beach. found the
cutter with the men, none OF whom
could land without assistance. Some of
them were so exhausted that artificial
respiration had to be resorted to.
A terrific southeast gale was blowing
all the time. and, although the men took
turns at the oars. It was impossible for
them to keep warm.
Capsaan on Bridge.
BtkaNtAMs Jan. 2-Cvia London.) J.
Survivors of the British battleship
Formidable, which went down in the
English channel yesterday, after having
struck mine OF been torpedoed by G
German Submarine. have been brought
ashore here.
They relate that the warship was struck
abaft the magazine. Ths explosion was
terrific, but the magazine was not
reached. Had this also blown UP the ship
would have foundened without there be-
ing time to save anybody.
Hurry 60 DeCI<.
AS tho water rushed In, the men on the
Formidable hurried to the deck. They
lounN Nhal tuS vessel already mad q
heavy list to starboard. The small boats
were sent out. A cutter foundered in
setting away and the men in II were
drowned. launch and a pinnace sue
ceeded in getting away. Almost all the
oars were broken in trying to prevent
the small boats from being dashed to
pieces against the side of the ship by
the tremendous seas running.
Captain Loxley and his signal man were
still on the bridge when the battleship
keeled over and went to the notion.
Mine Probable Cause.
BERLIN, Jan. 2.-(by Wireless to Say
Vile. L. I.)-The news OF the sinking oi
the British battleship Formidable in the
English channel yesterday reached BerliI
too late to permit OF comment by tn,
German newspapers generally. Only tn,
Tegeblatt discusses the disaster sayinI
! briefly that while German submarin,
already have shown ability to reach tn,
channel II also h possible that a min,
was the cause OF the vessels destruction