The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-03
Of Those Saved But 50 Were
Passengers, Other "a Beng
Members of Crew
CREW GOT BETTER 0E
1T IN WILD SCRAMBLE
p. & >. Company Has Moth
ing to Say in Extenuation of!
Number Crew Saved COM
pared With Passengers

London, Jan. 2.--Rohert Ney MeN3elx,
the newly appointed American consx1 Is
al Alden. probably lost his life when
The =. and q. steamship Persia MA1
torpedoed and sunk In the eastern Med.
iterranean Thursday afternoons HI
was last seen struggling in the watef.
There is no mention of his name In (
any of the lists of survivors so far
received.
No warning was given the Persia
before the torpedo was launched, ace
cordiug to authoritative information 4
which IT is reliably understood, Robert
r. skinner, American consui-generxi
here, has in his possession.
Out of IA total of 400 passengers and
crew on the steamer only l55 were
saved. This number of survivors hau
arrived at Alexandria, Egypt. II isS
possible that few more may be added
The number of lives lost was. there's
fore, 241, or number very close IL
that, max ing the disaster of the PER-
STA second only to the Lasitania loss
among the list ofpassenger steamersA
!, sunk by German and Austrian snb~sk
ma fines. When the Italian steamship
Ancona, which ranks In the third place.
was sunk. 2a9 lives were lost.
Wild Disorder Indicated.
I or the 153 persons saved. only 10
were passengers, the other "a being
/ Of the crew, and SO of these being Las
cars, There were 2i1 passengers ~ 4
board aud 159 crew. IL appears from
the figures that the proportion Of this Z
crew saved was very much greater than
the proportion OF passengers l.4 ST L
So far the Peninsula and Oriental
/ Company has made no statement ~
eNtenuation of the very great number
of lew saved in comparison with tha
very small number of Passengers.
From the figures it is apparent thAx#
there must have been a scramble fQyN
1.-THE boats, and that in the general dir
Torcer- the crew got the best Of IT. -
There were eighty seven wome0
among the passengers. OF these only
seventeen are known to have bSeU
picked up In addition there were
thirty children. 1t is feared that III
lof the latter lost their lives.
Boston Man Saved.
Charles II. Grant of Boston, Inc
second American positively known to-
! have been on the Persia. was Sav&4s
His name came among the first list c8a
survivors. Z
There is some doubt as to whether
Dowd McNcely. a newspaper man, au4S
brother TO the American consul Ats
Alden was on board. II he was thAENs
IN very little hope that he was saxG6sM
His name appears in none of the hseNs
or SURVIVORS ss5sssA8
Tonight. Therefore, ii is practically
established that one American citixens
land he an official of the United EtAkem
was lost when the Persia Went down.
In addition there is the possibility thak
another American. making two IN an
was drowned.
Lord Charles Montagu, who waa
decorated with the star OF India sO05
New Years Day for his services In thu
q WAS IN
to assume the post of inspector 0f Mll
chanical transport vehicles. CNyQ0x &
Olive Bingham, son and heir Of B
Mersey. also a passenger, Is amcnt<
Survivors. @as H.
Four Ilfeboats Got Away. 80
Ii is affirmed today that only Ae~
/ lifeboats got away from the Payu34N
fact which seems to indicate b9ToM&&
1 doubt that the ship sank within 4 4es
! minutes after being struck H;
Among those who are known fE5
have embarked on the Persia hu42
whose names do not appear ar1Oiix the
saved. are Miss e. Thornton. pFivAf0s
secretary to Lord Montagu, and GlneH
e. E. Macdonald. who was nO1sl t0ss
Bombay TO be married to a high E0k~S
fetal in the public works depAf&t44Ak
there. saaS
Among those known to hAve 4A
saved are: Major G. NJ. ORenlyT 1l1ess
jor George, Mrs. Hutchinson. C4nf4E#
r. r. Bergman Cook. Captatn A1k1N &
LyelL Captain Knibbs. CaptatMx 1S&a
Nelson. Lieutenan.s T. G. SpinAtyS 1A4 Y
Gardner and Gerald Fisher. Mr&s Al
A. smith. Mrs S. Sharp. Mr. and 1kx5
+ fuss Smith. the Misses FladEAt1s =
Markwlch and Marjorie PenAK44k&}k I'll
James Dickie William Rathbones AlsH
fred Foy. George clifford. =. AAt19&s2
George Bowman Cecil PeEE. II ~ q
Johnson. Ernest Knight. Leeuar4 Me
George Bowman. CecilPegg. 81 IS
soper III. s. Scott, w. e. Smtt4 81
smith Win Smith and s.
lington. I'M %a84 SSz8
Mr.. Skinner has made repeA4A4 -
forts to obtain some dehnite neINN
garding the fate OF Gonsul z14S
from the American consui m
i dria. SO far. however, NJ
learned that Mr. McNeeIy
seen struggling in the water u
4 The British admiralty - N9H
British foreign Office. could
n any light on the fate ~ Mr. Ag4
/. David MeNeely ~ a.
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