The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-20

pedo struck about ninety feet from the
stern. on the starboard side at abou:
right angles. A big stream OF water
spouted up to great height, carrying
a lot OF wreckage and splintering one
of the life boats The vessel began to
settle almost Immediately.
..The greatest order prevailed. Tns
boats had previously been swung OUT
because we knew a submarine was IN
the vicinity and fourteen OF them were
filled and lowered In no time Two OF
the boats capsized for some unac.
countable reason and had 1t not been
for this there would have been scarce
" any loss OF life
sI remained on the bridge until the
water was tapping at my feet ana
then dove on. When came mp, my
head struck some wreckage and was
slightly injured. / swan 70 nearDy
raft. but was unable to draw myself
up on it. Two women with DaDy
we're clinging to one side. helped
them 10 chamber on the raft and then
hung on until all OF US were rescued,
about twenty minutes later.
ThIrty-two Missing.
LONDON. Aug. 20-Two Ameri-
cans of the twenty-nine known TO
have been aboard the White Star liner
Arabic when she was torpedoed and
sunk of Fastnet yesterday morning.
were today unaccounted for IN any
OF the lists Of survivors and are be-
Iieved to have been lost. They are:
Mrs. Josephine Bruguiere. New York;
DR.. Edmund Woods, GAINESVILLE, WIS.
Thirty persons, OF other rationale
ties are reported missing and beIev-
ed to have been drowned. making
total death list of thtrty-twol Queens
town advices early today said re-
vised count had shown 391 survivors
landed there by salvage steamers
last night.
None Of the lists furnished by the
White Star line ohciAls here by
American Vice Counsel Thompson at
Queenstown or in news agency dis
patches from Queenstown carried the
names OF the two missing Americans.
One press dispatch at midnight had
both saved. but shortly afterward q
corrected list was sent to London,
again placing Mrs. Bruguiere and
Woods among the missing,
The American embassy here began
an immediate Investigation of the cir
cumstances surrounding the torpedo
ing OF the Arabic by German sub
marine. It is understood that a naval
attache was dispatched to Queens
town last night The vice consul at
Queenstown will obtain affidavits
from the American survivors landed
there.
All dispatches received here today
agreed that the Arabic was torpedoed
without warning. At the Offices Of
the White Star line It was stated that
all passengers with whom officials at
Queenstown had talked, corroborated
the statement Of Captain Finch that
the German U boat which sent the
Arabic to the bottom with one crash
ing blow was not even seen, though
several passengers reported seeing
the wake of the torpedo as It rushed
toward the liners side.
A statement from the White Star
line last night said that twenty-six
Americans were on the Arabic's pas
senger list Later advices from Liv-
erpool added the names Of three more
Americans who sailed on the Arabic,
but whose bookings were made too
late for their names to be printed on
the passenger lists. They were Fred
erick Martin. Winston Salem. n. c.;
John r. A. Day and Miss L. G. NJ.
Day All three were saved, according
to Queenstown advfces.
crcuching In Path.
LONDON. Aug. 20.--The Arabic
left Liverpool at three o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon. but in view OF the
possibility that she might bD marke4
for attack the news of her departure
was not made known until yesterday
word was flashed here, that she had
been struck.
The submarine that sank the Ara
bic apparently adopted the same tao
tics as the one that sent the Lusitan~a
to the bottom, off Kinsa1e on May Z,
with heavy toll of lives. It is be
lieved the q boat commander took
position alone the lane traversed by
Liverpool to New York boats and
waited for the Arabic to steam into !
sight 1t is not improbable thar ti,e
same submarine that sank the Lust
tania also torpedoed the Arabic. De-
spite German boasts of great fleets !
Of powerful submarines, it is believed
here that Won Tfrpitz actually has
been able to put but few Of the new |
high speed "unterseebootes" into SER
vice and that these are employed for |
the solo purpose OF. attacking big YES.
sells able to escape tfrom smaller sui
marines because of their speed At
least two of these big submarines are |
believed to have been sent TO Con- l
startinople to aid the Turks.