, 1915-06-23
LUs1TAN1A roRpEDoED AND SUNK

The whole Of the civilised world was
filed with horror and Indignation last Friday
at the news of the Huns greatest crime.
The great Cunard liner Lusitania with 1906
souls on board was tOrpedoed shortly after
two O'Clock on Friday afternoon by a Ger
man submarine off the Old Head Of Kinsale,
near Queenstown. No warning was given.
The vessel sank in about seventeen minutes
and 1874 men, women and children were
rowned. All the victims were non -combn-
tauts and were chiefly British. About lis
Americans we're drowned and several citizens
OF neutral nations. The presumed death-roll
includes, among others, Mr.. A. Il. Wander
bilt, the American millionaire sportsman;
Mr.. Charles Frohman, the theatrical manag-
err Mr.. Ju3tus Miles Forman and Mr.. Ebert
Hubbard, authors of international reputa-
ton: and Mr.. CHARLES Klein, the playwright.
Sir Hugh Lime, the director Of the National
Gallery of Ireland, and Mr.. j.. Foster Stack
house, who was to III a British expe-
dition to the Antarctic i'll October. were also
lost. Among the survivors are MIR. D. A.
Thomas. the Welsh mining magnate, md bis
daughter, Lady Mackworth; Lady Allan, wife
of Sir Hugh Allan, of Montreal; aud Captain
Turner, who was in command of the ship.
The latter went down with the vessel and
was saved after being in the water for some
hours,
LUs1TANIA's LAST MOMENTS.
The SALOON passengers were at lunoh Wheu
the ship was struck. The explosion had the
sound of ga loud, voluminous boom" There
was no panic among the passengers; many
seemed to think that the ship would not
sink. The ship was struck by two torpedoes.
Neither the captain nor his officers saw the
submarine which fired them. The torpedo's
entered the forward stOkehold and the en-
gines were paralysed by tue breaking OF the
main steampipe. The vessel was stea'n'ng
at eighteen knots, and, rs it was Impossible
to reverse her engines, she made way for
about ten minutes. The boats, accordingly,
could not be lowered Immediately. In any
cnse tue siarboard boats were useless, rs
there was a heavy list. Altogether between
ten and a dozen boats and RATS got away.
The Lusitania sank seventeen minutes after
she was struck. There was no screaming ut
the last; only u long, wailing. mouruful,
despairing, beseeching cry. It is clear that
the minority of the passengers AMI crew went
down in the ship. Some, like the captain,
foated clear, and were picked up by the
rescue ships which reached the scene of the
disaster two or three hours later.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN VICTIMS.
Grim stores, some sad, some brave. were
told by the survivors when they reached
Queenstown. One b Us first remark on re-
covering consciousness in q rescue ship was,
SIS there Il funny paper on board =? p" Brave
women fook the oars from exhausted men.
Among the bodies found was that of q heroic
sailor with a little child strapped to his
shoulders Two children Who We're drowned
were found locked in each others arms.
Although the British rule, women and
children first" was fuely observed. many
gitls aud little ones are mourned among The
lost. AT Queenstown, whore the bodies that
were recovered were brought, the spectacle
was one that moved the onlookers 70 tears.
Tue dead lay in rows, the corpses of mothers
side by eide with those of their babies. At
tie inquest on som of the bodies the jury's
verdict was Que of "Wiful and Wholesale
Murder against the submarine officers aud
the German Emperor and Government.
UNITED STATES ACTION.
The news Of this dastNrdly outrage has
been received with loathing and execration