The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-05-14
GIANT cuNARDER Is TORPEDOEC
OFF IRISH COAST BY GER
MAN SUBMARINE.
100 AMERICANS PERISH
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Ebert
Hubbard Among Those lost.
Boat Coos Under in IS
Minutes.

London.-The Cunard Liner Lusi-
tania was torpedoed by a German
submarine of the southeast coast of
Ireland, zeal the entrance to Saint
Georges channel, shortly after 2
O'Clock on the afternoon Of May Z.
She was struck without warning and
sank in is minutes, within ten miles
of land.
Revised lists show that a total Of
1,201 persons lost their lives in the dis
aster. This total is secured from the
latest official ship line list showing
1854 passengers and a ere Of Cos
were on board the steamer.
According to the best available fig
ures here a total OF 1870 Americans lost
their lives when the great liner went
down. Latest lists show that a total
of 6S out OF ISIS Americans on board
the steamer have been accounted for
as rescued. The balance are all miss
ing and are believed lost. Among the
identified dead three boieds are those
OF Observation-Disclosures Frohman. Mrs.
Amelia Mcdonald AM Patrick Gallon.
Officially given up as dead are Al
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.us NJ F0rmau. playwright; Ebert
Hubbard, writer, Mrs. Hubbard.
The Lusitania was steaming along
about ten miles off Old Head Kinsale,
on the last leg Of her voyage 10 Liv-
~ernool. when about . o'clock in the al.
ternoon a submarine suddenly appear
ed and, so far as all reports go, fired
the torpedoes without warning at the
steamer. She was struck neal the
bow and in the engine room.
The powerful agents OF destruction
tore through the vessels side, causing
terrific explosions. Almost immedi-
ately great volumes of water poured
through the openings and the Lusi-
tania listed.
Boats, which were already swung
out on the davits, were dropped over
board and speedily filled with passen-
gers who had been appalled, by the
desperate attack. A wireless call for
help was sent out. and Immediately
rescue boats Of all kinds were sent
out. both from the ~neighboring points
along the coast and Queenstown.
But within fifteen minutes, as one
survivor estimated. and certainly with.
in half an hour. the Lusitania had dis
appeared.
Where Great Britain's fastest mer-
chant vessel went down-Od Head
kinsale-is a land that has brought
JOY TO many travellers as II always
as the sign from shore that the
perils OF the voyage across the Allan.
&c were at an end. The line. whose
BOAST has been hat it has never lost
l passenger in the Atlantic service.
Aas now lost the ship that lodged the
lurking enemy off Nantucket light the
day after war was declared and later
the world by flying the Stars
and Stripes.
When the passengers realized that
the Lusitania was doomed they found
that most Of the boats on the port side
were so damned because of the great
list Of the vessel that they could not be
lowered, and the last seen Of them by
the more fortunate passengers who
had secured places in the ~starboard
boats. or who had jumped overheard
and had been picked up, they were
on the sloping decks awaiting
their fate, doubtless even then believ-
ing that with land so close they would
still be saved.
However, the torpedoes had torn
such gaping holes in the liner that she
did not remain afioat for more than 20
minutes and the calls for help which
the wireless sent out. although an
swered quickly. could not bring the
rescuing steamers in time
A difference of opinion exists as to
whether two or three torpedoes struck
the ship.
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