The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-05-13
LARGE PROPORTION OF CREW
SAVED BUT NO LACK OF DIS
CiPLINE WAS EVIDENCED.
14-YEAR OLD GIRL HEROINE
Stories of Heroic Work of Rescuere
Among the Passengers Of the ILL.,
fated Ocean Liner.


gers Of the Lusiatania seems to be
heavier than among any other class
on board. A large proportion Of those
saved are members Of the crew, but
this is not evidence of lack of discip-
line, as most of them were picked up
from the water. The captain Of
twaler who arrived in the harbor soon
after the accident with LAG survivors,
mostly women and children, when re-
preached for not staying longer on the
chance Of picking up more survivors,
said
There were many left in the water,
but they were dead and many were
SO mangled thought it better to bring
ashore my boat load of suffering wo-
men, as they could not have stood
much more"
These women presented pitiful
sight as they wandered aimlessly
about searching without hope for
loved ones who must have gone down
with the ship.
Relatives and friends Of passengers
who had gone in high spirits to
Liverpool to meet the incoming ship,
began to arrive here to search for the
missing, but the small roll of sur
vivors meant heartbreaking disap-
pointment for most Of them.
The brief time elapsing between the
torpedoing and sinking of the Lust.
tania was long enough to develop a
heroine in the person Of Mrs. Kath-
leen Kaye, IA years old, returning
from New York where she had been
visiting relatives. With smiling words
and reinsurance, she aided stewards
in filling boat with women and chill
dren.
, When all were in she climbed
aboard the lifeboat as coolly as an
able seaman. One sailor tainted at
his oar and the girl took his place
, None among the survivors bears as
little. sign Of her terrible experiences
, as Miss Kaye.
The dragging of the lfeboats was
explained by passengers and mem.
bers of the crew by the statement
, that the second torpedo severed sew
eral steam pipes from the engines.
, The Lusitania had been sent full
speed ahead when the first torpedo
was seen and it was impossible to
stop the headway by reversing the
engines when the necessity for lower
ing the boats was realized.
The most remarkable escape was
that Of r. J. Timms of Gainesville,
Texas, who was returning to England
for his yearly visit accompanied by
his chum r. Il. Noodle also of Gaines
, Vile. Both men gave their life-belts
to steerage women just as the Lusi-
, tania sank. Timmis who is a strong
swimmer, remained in the water,
Ginning to various objects, for nearly
, three hours. Then he was taken into
, a boat which he still had the strength
, to assist in rowing.
The boat began picking up from the
? water all those showing signs Of life
, and the first person rescued was the
half-unconscious steerage woman to
! whom Timmis had given his life-belt.
J Noodle sank when the ship went un.
der, and although he was a good
swimmer, he was not seen again.
, Noodle was all ready to jump when
I1mmis, who had previously given his
belt to woman, said:
There is a steerage woman hore
with six-months.old baby" Noodle
promptly stripped off his left-belt, but
: 1T seems both he and the woman
perished.
DR.. J. T. Houghton Of Troy N. Y,
: survivor, said there was no reason
to fear any danger after the first ex.
!. plosion, as it was believed the vessel
/. would be headed for Queenstown and
beached If necessary Just then, said
; Doctor Houghton, the liner again was
struck, evidently in more vital spot
:. 1or 1t began to settle rapidly.
: orders then came from the bridge
10 lower all boats. Women became
panic-stricken. People were rushed
into the boats, some OF which were
}, launched successfully, others not sc
T successfully.
q. ID. Lane, youthful but cool
headed second cabin passenger who
was returning to Wales from New
YORK, was in lifeboat which can
) sized. II was on the 'B' deck" he
said, when / saw the wake of the
n torpedo. rushed to get a life-be,
u but stopped to help get children or
the boat deck.
The second cabin was veritabl,
nursery. Many youngsters must hav,
drowned, but saw one boat get ava,
filled with women and children. WheI
the water reached the deck saw an
8 other life-boat with vacant seat
J, which took as no one else was |,
sight. The Lusitania keeled so sud
denly our boat was swamped but W,
= righted her again.
8 I'VE witnessed the most horrihl
scene of human futlity it is possibl
to imagine. When the Lusitania ha,
turned almost over she suddenl,
= plunged bow foremost into the water
leaving her stern high in the air.