Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-05-14

Ldluty Gedu.
The latest estimate of lives lost as
a result of the torpedoing of the Gun.
ard liner Lusitania by German sub.
marine off the irish coast is 1885. II
Is believed that almost all, if not all,
the survivors have been brought
ashore, and there is little hope of re-
covering any other passengers alive.
Among the well-known Americans
| whose bodies have not been recovered,
and whose consequently are believed
to have persisted, are Alfred Gwynne
! Vanderbilt, Charles Klein, the play.
wright; Justus Miles Forman and Ell.
bert Hubbard and his wife.
The body of Charles Frohman, Of
New York, the theatrical producer al
| ready has been recovered and brought
ashore at Queenstown. The hospitals
! of Queenstown are filed with the in.
| tured among the survivors and the
| morgues with the dead recovered from
! the sea.
Bodies OF Women and Children
Brought In.
OF the dead many are women. The
stories from Queenstown describe the
| bringing In of the bodies of a great
number of women, many of them still
unidentified. The Queenstown docks
| are the temporary resting places also
| of the bodies of several children. One
dead mother still is clasping in her
rigid arms the body Of her 3-month.
| old baby.
| When the Lusitania left New York
May l, she had on board 1901 souls,
1851 passengers and $50 crew. The
| passengers were made up of POI in tho
first cabin, 500 in the second and 361
/! in the steerage. The list Of survivors
! shows so far that about 80 irst-class
and IS second-class passengers were
saved. The first cabin passengers
were at lunch when the unheralded
German attack sent the liner to the
bottom. 1t is noticeable that com.
paratively few frst-class passengers
were saved.
Judging from the recitals of sur
vivors there was comparatively little
panic on board the Lusitania when she
went down Nor is there anything to
women and children in the work oil
rescue was violated. Many Of the
liners lifeboats were rendered useless
by the fact that she listed so sharply
that they could not be used.
/ Did Not Think She Could Sink.
i Many of the passengers did not be
lieve the Lusitania would sink al
quickly as she did. Consequently they
did not join in the rush for the life
boats, but evidently preferred to trus
in their belief that the water-tigh
COMMITMENTS of the vessel woult
keep her afioat until such time as hell
came out from the Irish shore lssi
than 10 miles away. 1t is related tina
some of the passengers even disdainet
10 put on life belts when these wer'
| handed to them.
Either two or three torpedoss strucl
the Lusitania. One report says tn
nrst projectile was followed by tw'
others striking in quick succession
Another report has 1t that two sub
marines took part In the onslaught
one attacking from the port. and IN
other from the starboard side.
The British Government made tn
following announcement:
THE statement appearing in som
, newspapers that the Lusitania wa
, ! armed IL wholly false"
Given No Warning.
, The Lusitania was steaming alon
about 10 miles OF Old Head Kinsale
on the last leg Of her voyage to Liver
pool, when, about ! o'clock in the q
fernoon- = AnhmaFins AuddAnl1 ~