The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-07
Crippled Liner Fails
to Reach Shore.
SAY VESSEL WAS NOT
WARNED BY GERMANS
Passengers Declare Submarine
Did Its Work Rapidly.

London Sept THE Allan line
steamer Hesperian sank within few
miles OF Queenstown after Captain
Main and a volunteer rescue crew of
twenty-five had made a brave fight to
bring the crippled ship into port. Dur
ing the night the Hesperian settled
gradually BY the head Dayl!aht
showed the decks awash and the liner
about TO take the final plunge
The captain and crew were taken
of by rescue boats and landed later
in Queenstown by the steamer EN-
press
The sinking of the iesperian in
deep water probably viii prevent an
Investigation to determine whether
the disaster resulted from the subma
rine's torpedo or from a mine Pas
sengers and crew assert positively
that the vessel was struck by a tor
pedo, but thus Ear no statement has
been obtained from any one who saw
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The American embassy is receiving
reports from Wesley Frost, American
consul at Queenstown. on the ques-
tion whether warning was given to
the liner Persons SO far seen by Mr.
Frost state that no warning was given
Many Not Accounted For.
The list OF identified survivors still
leaves a considerable number of per.
sons unaecounted for The Allan line
is confident the final checking up
will show no loss of life, except for
the death of one or two persons after
reaching Queenstown.
A Chronicle dispatch from Queens
town says that Miss Carberry, an eld
erly passenger on the Hesperian. died
from shock after being rescued and
that another woman succumbed a
short time after being taken aboard
/ the rescue ship.
! Mr.. Frost telegraphed to the Amer
lean embassy that the admiralty au-
thorties had not been informed Off
cially that the Hesperian had been
! torpedoed without warning, but that
! they believed this was the case.
None of the officers of the Hesperian
except an assistant purser had yet ar
rived in Queenstown. This man and
various passengers interviewed by Mr..
Frost asreed on the statement that
no warning was given.
Mr.. Frost's message also said that
! forty-tive unorganized Canadian
troops were on board. most of them
invalided. and that the Hesperian had
a Al inch gun mounted astern.
Two Americans Aboard Saved.
The consul had been unable to learn
of more than two Americans who
were on the Hesperian, both members
of the crew. and both reported to have
been saved.
Some passengers say they heard
the lookout shout Submarine on star
board quarter" All agreed the He's
perian was struck on the starboard
side between the foremast and the
bridge.
Lifeboats were launched In the
darkness, but without panic. The
fourth and fifth boats were lowered
uneyenly and overturned, the occu-
pants being thrown into the water.
Some of them were injured
At the London office of the Allan
line it is stated that all passengers
reached Queenstown safely Some of
the rescued, however, say they
heard cries for help from persons In
the water
A woman in one of the lifeboats
stopped small leak by removing
stocking and stuffing 1t into the hole.
Three Sisters of Mercy were among
the last to depart from the Hesperian.
One of the passengers asserted that
sixty persons were crowded into a
lifeboat having capacity of forty.