Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-19

Notion, Aug. 1s.-lt was reported
NO. NO. ,szpoon that the White Star
Exprdo, aas been sunk. Passen-
NJ. NJ. s,eFew are reported safe.
! seArabic sailed yesterday from
Nsbool for New York.
rhelWhite star liner Arabic was to
/hayk sailed from Liverpool yesterday
IT, New York. At the office in New
/York is was said at o'clock this at
ternoon that no word was received Of
her departure.
,"The Arabic is reported to have gone
down of Fastnet, a small island four
miles southwest Of Cape Clear. Ire
land. rhe passengers and crew are
reported 70 have been saved.
Efforte 20 Dynamite Fails.
The Arabic:s tonnage is 15.so1 gross
and 1oe52 net. She is 500 feet long.
IS feet beam and Al feet in depth. She
was built in Belfast in 1908 by Har-
land 4 Woln. On her last trip the
4 Arabic arrived In Liverpool on Aug. 8
from New York.
Following the RECEIPT of message
announcing her safe arrival the bur-
eau Of combustibles Of New York City
I allowed the fact to be known that two
sticks os dynamite as.:::::. had been found on
board on July "a. the night before she
sailed from New York.
Once before since the war began the
Arabic had close call. A cable mes
sage from London on March az said
the steamer had been pursued by a
German submarine in the Irish sea on
the voyage which ended on that day.
Near lusitania Graveyard.
The Arabic has been sent to the bot
tom of F,astnet, on the south coast Of
Ireland, not far from the point at
which the Lusitania was sunk by
German submarine.
Such reports as were available In
London early this evening indicated
that large number of the 40 persons
on board may have been lost. The
first reports were that all OF the pas
sensers and crew were saved by an
other steamer. Subsequently. however,
it was reported that the Arabic had
Co., invN Vpo q tyrfD
the question whether it would have
heen uossible to rescue all on board in
that brief time.
A message to the White Star COM
pany left this question open. 1t said
fifteen or sixteen boat loads were
making for Queenstown, and from this
the company inferred that the greater
part Of the passengers and crew were
safe.
Loss Of Life Feared.
The White Star line. after announc-
ing that there were 410 persons on
board the Arabic. later gave out the
Z corrected statement giving the total
number az 423. There were 152 second
cabin nassengers 4S in the steerage
and 243 in nythe crew.
a nrees association state It Is feared
a large number of passengers are lost.
: A message to the association says:
"Eleyen boats got away and 1t Is
feared many passengers were lost"
The Arabic was sent to the bot
tom by torpedo from q German sub
nnarine The torpedo struck the boat
at s:16 this morning.
HOPES Most Wsrs Saved.
- A message received by the White
star line this afternoon says 1t is
honed many or most Of the passengers
on the Arabic and the crew were
saved. The message follows:
.The Arabic was sunk this morn
ing. Fifteen or sixteen boats are max
ing for Queenstown.
The White Star company announced
that the Arabic had no first class pas
senRers There were 240 men in the
crew, making total Of 433 persons on
board. She sailed from Liverpool at
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Second Boat Torpedosd.
The British steamer Magnolia re-
ports by wireless that the ship Dun-
sleQk also was torpedoed but at the
time the message was sent was still
afioat and was picking UP survivors.
According to this account a peri
scope was seen as the boat went, in
from St. Georges channel and 1t soon
became obvious that hostile s,,hma-
! fine was in pursuit. The Dunsley put
on full speed and outdistanced the SUBJ
marine.
Fissssn Best loads Picked Up.
F1fteen boat loads OF the ATabic's