Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-05-14
Many AMERICAN
PASSENGERS ARE
AMONG THE DEAD
ONLY 81 OF 1ss ON BOARD THE
LUslTANiA ARE RESCUED
Is REPORT.
DEATHS ESTIMATED At 1876
Total Number Of Fatalities Now BE.
lleved TO Exceed Twelve Hun
dred-lndicated Two.thirds Of
Persons On Big Liner
Perlshed.

Queenstown, May 1o.-The body Of
Charles Frohman, the theatrical man.
ager, Of New York, has been recov-
cred and brought to Queenstown,
where II 10 now being embalmed.
London, May 1o.-The British
steamer Don has been torpedoed and
sunk of Northumberland.
Washington, May 1o.-If the Lusi-
tanIa had been disarmed before ito
destruction, Germany was not ad-
vissd Of Il, but It was previously ad-
vised that the liner had been armed,
the German embassy announced here.
It was added that the embassy also
knew the ship was taking arms and
ammunition 70 England on its last
trip.
Queensland, ireland, May 1o.-The
direct charge that many Of the pas
senoers Of the LusitanIa were per
suaded to 90 out Of the iIfeboats and
return to the liner by stewards who
ran to the vessels side crying that Il
was all right and would not sink, was
made by r. J. Tlmmis, GAINESVILLE,
Texas, cotton buyer.
London, May 1o.-confident that
the cunarder Lusitania, one Of the
greatest Atlantic liners, could not be
sunk outright by German torpedoes,
seasoned travellers calmly waited on
deck while the steamship slipped be.
meath the waves off Old Head, kins.
ale, ireland, carrying to their death
approximately 1915 persons Of total
list Of 1884 passengers and 665 mem.
bers of the crew and officers. Few
from the first cabin were saved, for it
was these who had most confidence
In the ability Of the liner to stay
afloat and who were the last to seek
safety In the iifeboate or to don life.
belts.
On account Of the heavy list after
the vessel was struck, only the life
boats on one side could be launched,
and these were quickly filled.
London, May 10.-The Cunard liner
Lusitania, which sailed out of New
York week ago with more than
1000 souls aboard, lies at the bottom
Of the ocean of the Irish coast. She
was sunk by German submarine
which sent two torpedoes crashing in
to her side, while the passengers were
having luncheon.
How many of the Lusitania's pass
engers and crew we're rescued can
not be told at present, but the Of
fetal statements from the British ad-
miralty accounted for not more than
400 or 600.
Dead and Wounded Landed.
There were dead and wounded
among those brought ashore; some
since have died. But not a name of
rescued or lost, Of dead or injured
has yet been listed.
The Lusitania was steaming along
about ten miles of Old Head Kiusale,
on the last leg Of her voyage to Liver
pool when about o'clock in the after
noon a submarine suddenly appeared
and so far as all reports go, fired
two torpedoes without warning at the
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bows, and the other in the engine
room. The powerful agents of de-
struction tore through the vessels
side, causing terrific explosions. Al
most Immediately volumes Of water
poured through the openings and the
ship listed.
Passengers Are Appalled,.
Boats which were already swung
out on the davits, were dropped over.
board and were speedily filled with
passengers who had been appalled, by
the desperate attack.
The line, whose boast it has been
that it has never lost passenger in
the Atlantic service, has now lost the
ship that lodged the lurking enemy
on Nantucket Light the day after war
was declared, and later startled the
world by flying the Stars and Stripes.
The British admiralty is discourse.
Ing the publication Of surmises and
guesses regarding the dead and in.
1ured. Even before the crude details
are known, the British press is ask.
ing editorially what the United States
will say to this event and how she will
hold Germany to the strict accounta.
bility" mentioned in previous diplo-
matte correspondence.