Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-05-13
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, EIbert
Hubbard and Chas. FrOh-
man Among Missing
SUBMARINE SUNK LUSITAR|A
TREMENDOUS HOLES TORN IN
SIDE OF THE GREAT LINER
BY GERMAN SUB.
MARINE.
Over One Hundred and Twenty-Five
Americans Lost Their Lives When
German Submarine Sinks English
Ship.

Queenstown. - Twenty-three miles
from this port, as the crow flies, an
irregular smear of flotsam on a calm
sea marks the grave of the Cunarder
Lusitania, first Transatlantic liner
sunk by a German submarine. One
hundred and forty-nine of 1920 souls
who perished with her lie in impro.
vised morgues in old buildings border
ing Queenstown harbor. They either
were picked up dead or succumbed
after landing. The 645 survivors here
are quartered in hotels, residences
and hospitals, some too badly hurt to
be moved. Two groups left town clad
in misfit clothing, bound for Dublin by
rail and thence by boat to Holy Head.
The injuries of many are so serious
that additional deaths are expected,
and nearly all are too dazed to under.
stand fully what has happened "The
only problem now is to identify the
nameless dead" Thus Superintend-
ent Dodd, of the Cunard Co., dashed
any lingering hope that there might
be further survivors of the Lusitania.
So far as can be ascertained, about
TOO persons escaped when the Lusi-
tania took her fatal plunge after
being struck by German torpedoes,
hut OF these As have since died of ex-
: Roeurs es1 from 4fjn Eiss-- The death
roll, as estimated here, totals we'll up
to 1900.
The survivors do not agree as to
whether the submarine fired one or
two torpedoes. A few say they saw
a periscope, though many attest to
tracing the wake of foam as a pro-
jectile came toward the vessel The
only points in which all concur is that
the torpedo struck the vessel vital
blow amidships, causing her to list al
most Immediately to the starboard. In
this careening fashion she plowed for
ward some distance, smashing the life
boats davits as she did so and max
ing the launching of boats we'll night
impossible until headway had ceased.
How far the Lusitania struggled for
ward after being struck and how long
1t was before she disappeared beneath
the waves likewise are points upon
which few passengers agree, estimates
of the time she remained afloat rang.
ing from to 20 minutes.
List Prevents Launching OF Boats.
At any rate, the list to starboard so
elevated the lifeboats on the port side
as soon to render them useless, and
1t is said only two on that side were
= launched.
The first of these, according to the
custom of the sea, was filled with
women and children, 1t struck the
water unevenly, capsizing and throw
ing its 60 occupants into the sea. The
Lusitanla even then was making con
siderable headway, and the womeI
and little children were swept to deatl
in spite Of the attempts of two sto
kers to rescue them. These heroit
men, according to the passengers
were drowned.
After that several boats wer,
launched successfully, but the steam
er's list grew more perious, the deck
slanting to such an angle that It wal
imperative for all to cling to the star
board rail. Many by this time hat
donned life belts and jumped for II
Several lifeboats broke adrift unoccu
tho hnnnna a frnIh N
oars, chairs, debris and bodies
Saved by Two stokers.
Two stokers, seeing a drifting life
boat, dived overheard. recovered
and pulled in nearly 40 persons, most
ly women.
The Lusitanias crew meanwhile at
hered to the letter to the instruction
which had been given them, and tn
discipline was rigid, although one o
two subordinate officers are said I
have told group of passengers VIII
had climber into boat that there wa
no immediate danger, and advise
them to remain on deck whil
longer.
Whether this was due to the fac
that these subordinates lost the
heads, or to their conviction that tn
ships bulkheads would save her, ne
er will be determined, but that sue
an incident occurred is attested b
Ernest Townley, resident OF Surb
ton, England, who was returning frol
O hncinaos trim IN Ampripn
y Telegraph Offices Are Crowded.
Further down the street crow
crammed the small government tel
graph Office, where three clerks al
three operators strove desperately
keep abreast OF the eyer.growI
stream OF messages.
In four morgues lay the dead, woI
g some cases side by side wi
u,'Ounad like tOyg Tho hn,