New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-07
SAYS SHIP WAS
NOT WARNED
Survivors Make Affdavits
and Captain Gives
, In Report.
AMERICAN MAIL LOST
Many Bags Of Securities for
New York Believed on
Stricken Liner.
lBy Cabs 10 rhs Tribunal

London, Sept. 6.-With all Of the
twenty-five missing passengers and
crew Of the Hesperian, torpedoed
Saturday evening, now given up as
lost, the total death list, as given
out tonight by the Allan Line.
stands at twenty-six. So far the
only death reported due directly TO
the attack is that of Miss Carbury,
of st. Johns, Newfoundland, whose
body is being held in the morgue at
Queenstown.
Captain Main, with thirty-eight Of
his crew, remained aboard the
stricken liner until she sank. In the
hope Of saving the vessel, or Of get
ting her TO port, they had refused
to leave when the passengers were
transferred, but the heavy seas were
too much for the damaged steamer
and she sank seventy-eight miles
southeast of Fastnet, not far from
the scene Of the attack.
Just before the liner took her
final plunge the captain and crew
were taken of and brought into
Queenstown by the steamship En-
press.
Captain Main declined to comment
on the disaster for publication; hence
the official statement as to whether
he believes his ship was victim of
a torpedo or a mine must come from
the Admiralty, although he is quoted
as having told an Allan Line official
to-day that the Hesperian was tor
pedoed.
Survivors Leave Queenstown.
Most OF the survivors, passengers
and crew, will leave Queenstown TO-
morrow by special train and boat for
Liverpool.
The flooding Of the forward COM
partments, which caused the Hes
perian to sink so much by the head
as to throw the propellers out Of the
water, made the task of towing the
liner to Queenstown impossible in
the rough sea.
The names Of the missing second
cabin passengers follow: Miss Bannis-
ter, Mrs. Fisher, Joseph Fowler, Mrs.
Hannah Fowler, Maria Jenkins and Miss
Murray.
Some sensation was caused here by
the news that American mail was lost.
The Hesperian was scheduled TO sail
with Canadian mail on Friday, but as
she put back until Saturday 3,547 sacks
of American mail also were placed
aboard.
This fact is serious because The Trib-
une learns that a considerable quantity
of American securities we're dispatched
on Friday on the understanding that
they were to be taken by the st. Louis.
As the Hesperian sank in deep water
there is no hope Of regaining anything
on board.
Consul Sends Report.
The American Consul at Queens
town, Wesley Frost. telegraphed to-
day to the American Embassy that the
Admiralty authorities had not been in
formed officially that the HesperiaD
had been torpedoed without warning.
but that they believed this was the
case. Persons so far seen stated that
no warning was given. Mr.. Frost add.
ed that he had taken aftidayits OF the
two American stewards on the Hes
perian, Barney Macmillan, of Grand
Rapids, Michigan. and man named
Dallas, of Buffalo.
Mr.. Frost's message also said that
forty-ive unorganized Canadian troops
were on board. most Of them invalided.
and that the Hesperian had a 4.7-inch
gun mounted astern.
The Consul has been unable TO learn
of more than two Americans who were
on the Hesperisn. both members OF
the crew and both reported to have
been saved.
A message later in he day from
Consul Frost TO the Embassy said the
total loss of life might leach twenty.
One first cabin passenger, six sec.
ond cabin passengers and six third
class passengers on the liner Hesperi'
an are unaccounted for. according TO
a statement made this afternoon by the
Allan Line agent in Queenstown.
Two Women Among Dead
The number of men in the crew was
given as 2S6, Of whom there have been
accounted for $50, not including those
who remained on the Hesperian until
she went down,
These figures, the agency said, are
approximately correct.
A "Chronicle" dispatch from Queens
town says that Miss Carberry, an
elderly passenger on the Hesperian,
died from shock after being rescued
and that another woman suceumbed q
short time after being taken aboard .
rescue ship.
Major Maitland Kersex Manager-in.
Chief Of the Ocean SsAtess Of the