Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-18
NOTES OF LOSS
OF LUSITANIA


DR.. Daniel Moore of Yankton, South
Dakota, who was passenger on the
Inflated Lusitania, is quite positive
that more than one submarine had
hand in the sinking of the big liner.
The doctor says:
Looking through glasses | could
see on the port side, between us and
land, what appeared to be black OBJ
long object, with four dome-like pro
jections. 1t seemed about two miles
away. This object came along swift
ly at times, slowing down, disappear
ing and reappearing.
Unless the first submarine seen
was speedy enough to run rings
around the Lusitania, the torpedo
must have come from second sub
marine, which had been lying hidden
to starboard. We heard no second ex-
plosion .:.
Plunged Head First.
Julian de Avala, consul-general for
Cuba at Liverpool, said he was i'll in
his berth when the Lusitania was tor
pedoed. :-l.:
Capt Turner thought he could bring
the crippled vessel into Queenstown,
but she rapidly commenced to sink
by the head, he said. -. Fl =
Her stern went up so high" said
De Ayala, that we could see all Of her
propellers. and she went down with a
headlong plunge, volumes of steam
kissing from her tunnels"
Falling Tunnels Kill Many. ..
Survivors state that one of the most
appalling sights of the sinking of the
Lusitania was the falling of the big
tunnels, which came down with ter
rible crash as the ship went down, and
in falling killed many people. q
Two or three survivors say they
were sucked into the mouths of the
sinking tunnels with several others,
and all we're nearly choked with Gin
ders and SCOT Then they we're eject
ed violently. apparently by an explo-
sion, and we're blackened from head
to foot.
One woman who was thus shot out
of funnel dropped into boat.
Mothefless Youngsters Saved.
Capt David Murphy of the trawler
Storlncock was first on the scene with
rescue boat. His story was as fol-
lows:
First of all I gathered in lifeboat
SO persons, most of them women and
children, and before / completed my
load / had 20 blessed youngsters
aboard the old Stormcock Several
OF them were without their mothers;
but all were taken in charge before
we reached harbor by kindly women
who forgot their own sorrows in min
istering to others. -.
"0ne old lady of Is years had been
in the water two hours, but was as
spry as any one"
Saw Torpedo Coming. IT,.
G. ID. Lane, who was on his way to
Wales from New York, says:
Il was on the B deck when l saw
the wake of the torpedo. | hardly
realized what 1t meant when the big
ship seemed to stagger and almost i'm
mediately listed to starboard.
rushed to get lifeboat, but stopped
to help to get children on the boat
deck. #. IT,. ~. H. -. ~ IT.
We witnessed the most horrible
scene it is possible to imagine. When
the ship had turned almost over she
suddenly plunged, bow foremost, into
the water, leaving her stern high in
the air. People on the after deck were
fighting with wild desperation to re-
tain footing on the almost perpendic.
ular deck while they fell over the
slippery stern like crippled flies.
THE cries and shrieks could be
heard above the hiss of escaping
steam, and the crash of bursting boil
ers. Then the water mercifully closed
over them and the big liner disappear
ed, leaving scarcely a ripple behind
her" ......-
II has been learned that some of the
sailors of the German ships now in
Boston harbor predict<1 the torpedo
ing OF the Lusitania, and these same
men sound the alarm that within the
next month there will be desperate
attempt made to destroy the city of
London by fire.