Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-05-08
GREAT LOSS Of LIFE DUE
TO GERMANS FAILURE
TO GIVE ANY WARNING
Passengers Al Luncheon We're Startled By Terrific ExpIos
ion and Rush For Boats Survivors Suffer From
Exposure and Many Die After Reaching ShOre--OnIy
len Boats Could Be Launched Before Liner Sank

rived here caused even stout sailors on.
gagged in the work of rescue TO turn
AWAY for moment, tears yelling in
their eyes. There were women wet and
bedraggled, their faces lined with ter.
ror, clinging to men on the verge of OK.
haustion Many Of the men wore only
shirts and trousers. Nearly all day men
and women alike, had discarded their
shoes. Little children sobbing bitter.
~, clung to their parents unable to un.
derstand the meaning of it all. Two
little tots were helped ashore by an
elderly woman who had long been in
the water before picked up by fish
ing boat She collapsed as she stepped
upon the pier.
Boat Is swamped
81 entered boat No. II under
orders" said Charles c. Hardwick, of
New York, in telling his story. "The
boat overturned soon after striking the
water | then swan TO boat 10, which
had IS women, IS children and 20 men
aboard, Afterward this boat picked up
four other men and one woman and was
finally towed safely 10 shore y
Rescued sailors said Captain Turner
and his officers did everything possible
to Keep the passengers quiet and avert
panic, but that women ran hysteri.
cally from bout to boat and interfered
with the launching. Many of the ten
boats launched were nearly filled, how.
ever, when they struck the wnter.
More than 100 passengers put on life.
belts and lenped into tne water before
the LusltnniN disappeared baneath the
waves a great many Of thcsu were
picked up by the Lusitania' boats.
the sailcrs said.
Although reports were circulated that
Alfred G. Vanderbilt had been saved.
II search fuilcd to establish the slightest
tlaec Of him and his friends here have
hope
At q local hotel today Mrs Stanley l..
u. Lines found her husband lie wns
dead. Mrs Lines was picked up by n
fishing boat aud throughout the night
yninly searched for her husband. Weak
and exhausted, herself, she went from
hotel and hotel and called at hospitals
during her search. When she finally
located Lines it was only to claim his
body, He had perished from exposure
In one of the hospitals today is Fire.
man Young who served on one of the
British warahips which TOOK pnrt in the
battle off the Falkland islands. He was
rescued, but his spine was injured by
the explosion ON the Lusitnnia and he
Is not expected TO recover
Tries 10 Save Husband.
Mrs. NJ n, pOppadopoulo, of Athens.
Greece, faced death In the sea for more
Than an hour after the sinking of the
.uataniu before being picked up by one
lf the rescue boets. She Is an cxport
swimmer but was completely exhausted
when landed here. On the rescue tug
Mrs Pnppadopoulo was given a sailors
'wonlcr and trousers to replace her wet
clothing The plucky woman tried des.
lcrntely TO save her husband but he ia
probably lost
" was ordering coffee in the salon. -
Nrs. Pappndnpoulo suid, "when the
nip was almost broken In two by the
.ofco of the explosion donned a life.
lclt aud so did my husband. tried 10
lelp him after we got into the water.
lie was not n swimmer, however. and
fear he was lost. Only the thought of
ny babies in Athens buoyed me no un
u ! was finally picked up by fishing
boat -
Mrs Pappodopoulo viii live. attend.
ng physicians declare.