Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-05-09
GRAPHIC STORY
ON LUS|IAN|A
FROM LONDON
ENGLISH DISPATCHES TELL
OF SINKING OF THE GREAT
CUNARDER ON FRIDAY.
PASSENGERS WERE BRAVE
Women and Children Came First
According to Time Honored
Rule.
FOR BIGGER NAVY

request for an expression Of public
opinion on the sinking Of the Lus-
tania we're introduced in the Cali
fornia senate and assembly and
referred to a committee conveying
a message that the people Of Cali
fornia will endorse whatever &C.
ZION, no matter how severe, that
immediate steps be recommended
to increase the strength of the
navy for adequate protection and
honor Of ths nation and the lives,
Of its citizens"
London, May S.-F'iftcen hundred
persons lost their lives, the British ad.
miralty estimates, when the Cunard
line steamship, Lusitania, was torpe-
doed yesterday afternoon off Old Head
kinsale on the Irish coast. The known
survivors number only 65S, while there
we're 2,16o souls aboard the great lin.
er when she was attacked. or those
who were saved sos were landed at
Queenstown and elecen at kinsale,
aboard a steamer. All but one of the
rescue fleet Of torpedo boats, tugs and
trawlers, which went out from Queens
town have reported. There is a slen-
der hope that fishing boats may have
rescued few more.
Dead Brought Ashore.
In addition to the living brought
ashore, the bodies of As who died of
injuries or were drowned, have been
landed at Queenstown. Five more are
at Kinsale and it has been reported
that an armed traWler, accompanied
by two fishing boas, has picked up 100
others
The work of compiling lists of those
saved is progressing slowly because of
the indesrribable confusion at Queens
town, but apparently few first cabin
passengers are among the Survivors.
The tni;cd States consul at that port
can account for only 81 Americans
saved out of 1856 who were aboard. His
roll does not include the names of AL
fred GWynne vanderbilt, Charles FrOh-
man, Elbert Hubbard Justus Miles
Forman, the author, or Charles Klein,
the playwright. OF the Americans
aboard 100 were in the first cabin; G5
in the second and II in the steerage.
The heavy loss Of life among the
first cabin passengers is believed to
have been due to the calmness and
self possession they displayed in face
of danger Most Of them were at lun-
cheon when the steamer received her
death blow and declined to join the
rush for the boats and life belts. They
believed the Cunarder would remain
ahoat until assistance could arrive.
Women Were First.
A considerable proportion of those
at Queenstown are members Of the
crew. including Captain Turner, with
the first and second officers. All the
other officers are believed to have per-
ished.
There is no evidence, however, that
the time-honored rule of the sea, "wo-
men and child first, was violated At
least one of the survivors. Toronto
newspaper man, gives evidence that
there was no panic among the crew
and that the. sailors acted promptly in
getting the passengers into the ships
boats.
Apparently every precaution had
been taken against a surprise attack
by submarine. Lookouts were on
the ert constantly as the giant
steamship speeded toward the Irish
coast Difficulty was experienced in
the boats because of the
heavy list of the Lusitania almost i'm
after she, was storpedoed.
Several of the frail craft evidently
capsized as they were launched. or
soon afterwards.
Life Belts Used.
Many of the passengers owed their
rescue to life belts. which kept them
afloat until they were picked up by
boats. Among this number was Lady
Mackworth, daughter of David A.
Thomas, the Welsh Goal King" and
Julian De Ayala, Cuban consul general
at Liverpool.
Investigation has failed to reveal
that the steamer was given warning
of the proposed attack by the submar-
inc which appears to have been lurk-
ing off the Irish coast bent upon de-
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