Milford chronicle., 1915-05-14
115 Americans We're Lost
and IS Saved.
The U-39 FIRED TORPEDOES
Funeral For Many Victims Held
in Queenstown.

Hope of finding further survivors oi
the Cunard line steamship Lusitania
which was torpedoed by a German
submarine on Friday afternoon on the
south coast of Ireland, has been prac
tically given up.
The death list, as given out by the
Cunard offices, stands at 1853, of whom
lis were Americans. The Cunard
lines official report says:
Total number of survivors, 764, in
cluding 462 passengers and 3O2 Of the
crew.
"One hundred and fOrty-four bodies
recovered, of whom eighty-seven are
identified, and fifty-seven unidenti
fed. Identified bodies include sixty
five passengers and twenty-five crew
Number of persons injured: Thirty
passengers, seventeen crew"
Of the survivors, seventy-three are
reported to be from the United
States.
The Central News has received a
dispatch from its correspondent al
Genoa, who says that a telegram re
ceived there from Munich declares the
German submarine U-39 was RESPONSE
BILE for the sinking of the Lusitania.
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston
Spencer Churchill declared in the
house of commons that Captain Turn.
er, of the Lusitania, had acknowledged
receipt of messages from the admir-
atty, giving him warning and direc
tions for the course he was to take.
No Protection For Liners.
He said a board of trade inquiry
will be held, to determine the circum
stances attending the loss of the Lu
sitania, and added:
"In the meantime I must make II
plain that in no circumstances will II
be possible to make public the naval
dispositions for patrolling our coast
Our resources do not enable us td
provide destroyer escorts for mail and
passenger ships"
Captain Turner, at the coroner's in
quest at Kinsale, Ireland, said he had
carried out the admiralty instructions
to "the best of his ability"
Although there were only 1873 pas |
sengers from the United States so fRi
as is known, asa Of the passengers
gave their addresses from that couR
try when they obtained reservations
OF this number 273 were drowned, in
cluding eight infants less than yeai
old. One hundred and eighty-one per
sons who gave American addresses
were saved, including six children.
United States Consul Frost, at Cork
sent the following cablegram to the
state department in Washington:
"Please assume that persons not
listed as either survivors Of identified
dead are missing and almost certainly
dead. No news Of Vanderbilt, Stone
Myers, Klein, Hubbard, For
man, nor of their bodies"
The body of Charles Frohman, that
has been recovered, was taken charge
Of by the American consul.
Alfred Gwynne anderbilt, according
10 survivors, gave up his life that q
woman might have chance to live.
Although be could not swim, he gave
\ lifebelt which he wore to q young
woman whom he did not know.
Hubbards In ststsroom.
Ebert Hubbard and Mrs. Hubbard
according to a survivor, were in theii
,tateroom when the torpedo struck
he giant liner.
A general funeral service was held
n Queenstown for the dead which
lave been. brought ashore. The bodies
we're borne from the town at nine
,'clock in the morning. A special high
mass Of requiem was celebrated al
st. ColeUan's Cathedral, with the j
bishop of Cloyne officiating.
The demand for United States flags
vas so great that the supply gave !
,ut. Most Of the collins containing
american victims OF the disaster were
raped with the United States colors
III the cofins, including those bear
hg the American banner, bore the
Union Jack.
It is possible that more bodies may
10 recovered. A wireless from the
teamship St. Paul said many bodies
Tere passed twenty miles west Of Kin
ale. This is about ten miles from
yhere the Lusitania was sunk.
Criticism of both the British ad
niralty and of the Cunard line has
zen uttered by the survivors. It ia ]
sserted that the British admiralty 6
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