The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-05-15
ESTABLISHED 1870

London, May s. 1:3O a. m.-The
.curard liner Lusitania. which sailed
o,t Of New York last Saturday with
more than 1000 persons aboard, lies
at the bottom of the ocean off the
Irish coast.
Che was sunk by a German SUBJ
marine which sent two torpedoes
crashing into her side, while the pas
sengers, seemingly confident that the
GREAT vessel could elude the German
underwater craft, were havin g
luncheon.
Liner Sinks in Is Minutes
The Lusitania sank within Is min
utes of the explosions of the two tor
pedoes which struck her.
Survivors say that before sinking
the great liner listed SO far to port
that it was impossible to launch more
than few of the life boats.
The submarine which sank the
Lusitania gave no warning. There
was no time to escape. The pas
sengers were at lunch, the coast of
Ireland in sight. when the first tor
.pedo struck the liner forward of the
engine room on the starboard side.
A second later another torpedo ex-
ploded in the engine room.
In all, there were 2,067 souls aboard
the liner when she left New York
last Saturday. OF these. 1851 were
passengers and of the passengers lS4
we're American citizens.
Among the Americans were AL
fred G.. Vanderbilt. Ebert Hubbard,
Charles Frohman and many other
we'll known people.
Torpedoes Hit Liner
One Of the Lusitania's stewards,
who was of a party of survivors,
said:
THE passengers were at lunch
when submarine came up and fired
two torpedoes. which struck the
Lusitania on the starboard side, one
forward and the other in the engine
room. They caused terrific ex-
plosions.
CAPTAIN Turner Immediately or
dered the boats out. The ship be-
gan to list badly Immediately.
''Ten boats were put into the water
and between 400 and 500 passengers
entered them"
Sunk Ten Miles From Shore
The Lusitania was steaming along
about ten miles off Old Head Kin
sale, on the last leg of her voyage to
Liverpool. when about two o'clock
in the afternoon a submarine sud-
denly appeared, and, so far as all re-
ports go, fired two torpedoes with
out warning at the steamer. One
struck her near the bows, and the
other in the engine room. The
powerful agents of destruction tore
through the vessels side, causing
terrific explosions. Almost immedi-
ately great volumes of water poured
through the opening and the Lusi-
tania listed.
Boats. which were already swung
out on the davits. were dropped over
board and were speedily filled with
passengers who had been appalled, by
the desperate attack. A wireless
call for help was sent out and i'm
mediately rescue boats of all kinds
were sent out both from the neigh
boring points along the coast and
Queenstown.
But within Is minutes, as one sur
vivor estimated. and certainly within
half an hour. the Lusitania had disap-
peared.
Later Statement by British Admiralty
London. May 8.-This statement
was given out by the admiralty to-
day.
The best available information sets
forth that the Lusitania had on
board 1851 passengers and crew of
SIG. This gives total of 2067 souls
on board the liner when she was tor
pedoed.
An admiralty statement this morn
ing placed the number of survivors
at 658.
Later report from Ireland said
45 more had been brought in, making
703 known survivors and death LIST