Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-14
GERMANS SINK
The LUS|TANIA
LINER, WITH 1888 PASSENGERS
ABOARD, WENT DOWN IN
THIRTY MINUTES.
115 AMERICANS LOST
VANDERBILT, FRoHMAN AND HUB
BARD AMONG 1893 REPORT
ED DEAD.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, May 1.-THE Ameri
can dead in the sinking of the liner
Lusitania by German torpedo boat
number 115. according to advices from
United States consuls in Great Bri-
tain. The total dead is more than
1,198. The names of seventy-three
American survivors were reported by
Consul Frost at Queenstown, with the
statement that there is virtually no
hope that more will be found alive.
London, May S.-The Cunard liner
Lusitania, which sailed out of New
York May 1, with 2,O67 persons aboard.
lies at the bottom of the ocean off the
Irish coast and it is feared that more
than 1000 have perished.
The ship was sunk by a German
submarine, which sent two torpedoes
crashing into her side, while the pas
sengers. seemingly confident that the
great vessel could elude the German
underwater craft, were having lunch.
con. Many Americans were lost.
Every effort to find Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt, Charles Frohman and Ell
ber Hubbard among the survivors at
Queenstown has failed. The British
admiralty late Friday night placed the
total number OF survivors at 65S. Few
first-class passengers were saved. 1t is
reported, because they believed the
tie effort to escape.
Four torpedoes were fired, accord
ing to survivors, but only two Of them
struck the liner.
The crew at once proceeded to ge!
the passengers into boats. Some OF
the boats could not be launched as the
vessel was sinking. There was large
number of women and children in the
second cabin. Forty of the children
were less than a year old.
There were dead and wounded
among those brought ashore, and
many have died in hospitals in Irish
coast ports. But not a name of res
cued or lost, of dead or injured has
yet been listed.
The Lusitania is the twenty-ninth
vessel to be sunk or damaged in the
first week of May in the German war
zone about the British isles. Under
the terms of the German decree OF
Feb. defining the war zone. the Lusi.
tania was in that zone when sunk.
The Lusitania was steaming along
about ten miles off Old Head Kinsale,
on the last leg of her voyage to Liver.
pool, when about 2 o'clock In the
afternoon submarine suddenly ap.
peared and fired two torpedoes, with.
out warning, at the steamer. One
struck her near the bows, and the
other in the engine room. The power.
full agents of destruction tore through
the vessels side, causing terrific ex-
plosions. Almost Immediately great
volumes of water poured through the
openings and the Lusitania listed
But within fifteen minutes, as one
survivor estimated and certainly with
in half an hour, the Lusitania disap.
peared. Where Great Britain's fast.
est merchant vessel went down-Old
Head Kinsale, is the landmark that
has brought joy to many travellers as
it always stood as the sign from shore
that the perils of the voyage across
the Atlantic were at an end.
OF the 1853 passengers aboard, 29O
were in the first cabin, 602 in the Sec
ond and 361 in the steerage.
The British admiralty is discourag-
ing the publication of surmises and
guesses regarding the dead and in
jured. 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 ac-
countability" mentioned in previous
diplomatic correspondence.
The Lusitania, with total of 1,251
passengers aboard. of whom 1888 were
Americans, and with a crew of SIG.
sailed from New York in the face of
a warning published on the day of her
departure by the German embassy,
which stated that travellers intending
to embark on the British ships did so
at the risk OF the ships being de-
stroyed in accordance with the Ger
man zone decree.
The warning, published in the form
of an advertisement. did not result in
the cancellation of a single passage,
nor did anonymous notes of warning.
said to have been received by some
passengers just before the big liner
left her pier. deter anyone from sail
ing.
Among the widely known passen-
gers on the Lusitania were Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt, Charles T. Bow
ring of New York, Alexander Camp
bell. general manager for John De-
war & Sons. London; Ebert Hubbard,
publisher of thes Philistine; d. A.
Thomas, the wealthy Welsh coal oper-
ator. and his daughter. Lady Mac
Worth, an English suffragette. and
the Rev. Basil W. Maturin, Oxford.