The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-08-20
STEAMSHIP ARABIC
VICTIM Of SUBMARINE
Was En- Route to New York
From LiverpOOl-AbOut Is
Americans We're Aboard.
SUNK WITHOUT WARMING.
Most of the Boats Were Launched
and Most of the Passengers
Were Saved.

were saved.
London, Aug 19.-The big White
Star liner Arabic from Live rpool for
New York was torpedoed anI sunk
by a German submarine at 9:15
o'clock Thursday morning southeast
of Fastnet.
The steamer, says White Star
Line statement, was attacked with
out warning and went down in 10
minutes. or the 423 persons on
board 1S1 passengers and 242 MEM
bers OF the crew. 80 are believed to
have perished. Most of those who
have not been accounted for belong
to the crew. Only six passengers are
reported missing.
Whether any of these not account
ed for are Americans has not yet
been determined. but there were only
26 citizens OF the United States on
board. 22 in the second cabin and
four in the steerage
The vessel had no first class pas
sengers. having been turned into a
two-class liner.
The survivors who left the steamer
in the ships boats and were picked
up later by passing vessels arrived in
Queenstown tonight and are being
cared for in hotels and boarding
houses in the little town which so re-
Gently cared for the survivors and
the dead Of the Lusitania.
Details of the sinking are lacking
but that the loss of life was not
greater doubtless was due to the fact
that the weather was fine and that
steamers plying the German subma-
rine war zone now keep their boats
swung out and otherwise are pre-
pared for emergencies.
The torpedo that sunk the Arabic
struck her on the starboard side 100
feet from her stern. The vessel had
left Liverpool Wednesday afternoon
and taken a southerly course, we'll off
the Irish coast. doubtless with a view
of avoiding the submarines which
frequent the waters nearer the shore.
When some so miles west of where
the Lusitatnia was sunk in May the
German underwater boat rose to the
surface and launched torpedo. The
craftsmanship of the Germans, as in
the case of the Lusitania, was deadly
accurate and like the Lusitania. the
big liner quickly settled and shortly
disappeared from view. Some of the
survivors. according TO reports re
ceived here. say they had just wit
messed the torpedoing of a British
steamer, presumably the Dunsley ana
that this had caused great alarm. In
their fright the passengers had rush
ed for life-preservers and had barely
adjusted them when the German sub
marine turned it's torpedo against
the vessels side
Ten life boats and n number OF life
RATS were quickly got over the side
of the steamer and into these a large
number of the passengers and mem
bers of the crew scrambled. Many Of
the passengers. however. fell into the
water but got hold Of RATS and later
were rescued.
One Of the passengers was Kenneth
Douglas. well-known English actor
Mr.. Douglas was on the Lusitauia
when she was sent to the bottom. His
good luck followed him again TO-DAY
for he is among the survivors.
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Star Line received word at $3.50
o'clock this afternoon from it's Liver
pool Office that the liner Arabic had
been sunk by German submarine
at 9:15 O'Clock this morning off the
south coast of ireland Press dis
patches from London had told of the
sinking an hour before
Almost at the same moment that
the cables were telling of the sink
ing, the line received message from
London announcing that the vessel
had sailed from Liverpool yesterday
afternoon. This was followed in a
few minutes by another message
stating that the steamer had aboard
1870 cabin passengers and 45 in the
steerage. For nearly an hour. this
On Daga I,,ut,.