The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-21
Although Big Liner Went Down "
Eleven Minutes After Being Hit
by Torpedo, 4o3 Reported
Rescued

New York, Aug. 2O.--The White
Star officials announced at $3.50 this
morning that a revised list showed
twenty persons missing from the Ara
bic. or this number two are Ameri-
cans, Miss Josephine Brugulere and
Edmund Woods. They were men,
toned in previous reports as having
been saved. The line had announced
earlier in the evening that from fig
ures available there, six passengers
and twenty-six members of tn crew
of the steamship were lost.
London, Aug. 1.-THE big White
Star liner, steamer Arabic, formerly
a favorite ship of the Liverpool Bos-
ton service, but which on her present
trip was on the way to New York
was torpedoed and sunk by Ger.
man submarine at 9:15 o'clock Thurs
day morning southeast of Fastnet.
The steamer. according to a state
ment Of the White Star line was at
tackled without warning and went
down in ten minutes. or the 423
persons on board-lS1 passengers and
242 members of the crew-20 are
missing, according to the latest check
and are believed to have persisted.
Most OF those who have not been ac-
counted for belong to the crew. Only
six of the passengers were reported
missing on an earlier checking OF the
list.
There were 26 citizens of the Unit.
ed States on board, % being in the
second cabin and 4 in the steerage.
The Arabic carried no first class pas.
sengers, having lately been turned in
TO two class liner.
The survivors who left the steamer
in the ships boats and were pick
el up later by passing vessels, arriv-
ed in Queenstown tonight. They are
being accommodated by the White
Star line in hotels and boarding hous.
es in the little town. which so short
time ago cared for the survivors
and the dead of the Lusitania.
Ready for Emergency
Details of the sinking of the Ara
bic are lacking but that the loss of
life was not greater, doubtless was
due to the fact that the weather was
fine and that steamers plying the
German submarine war zone now
keep their boats swung out and 9TH
erwise are prepared for emergencies
The torpedo that sank the Arabic
struck her on the starboard side, lOC
feet from her stern.
The vessel had left Liverpool OF
Wednesday afternoon and taken q
southerly course, well off the Irisl
coast, doubtless with view of avoid
ing the submarines which frequen
the waters nearer the shore.
When some fifty miles weest o
where the Lusitania was sunk in Ma!
the German underwater boat rose L
the surface and launched a torpedo
The craftsmanship Of the Germans
as in the case of the Lusitania wa
deadly accurate and like the Lusi
tania the big liner quickly settle
down and shortly disappeared fror
view
Was Second Victim
Some of the survivors according I
reports received here say that the
had just witnessed the torpedoing {
British steamer, presumably tn
Dunsley and that this had cause
great alarm on board the Arabic.
their fright the passengers had rus
ed for life preseryers and had bare
adjusted them when the German su
marine turned its torpedo against II
vessels side.
Ten life boats and number
life RATS We're quickly got over [
side of the steamer and into these