Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1915, Page 1

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WEATHER i somewhat cooler tonight; | te westerly winds. | | { ‘Temperature past twenty | High, 79 at 3 pm. yester | | i | four hours | ; low, 6% {| at 6 a.m. today | For full report see page 11 i . — Che Fvening Star. ——— | Last Week's Sworn Net Circulation— Dally Average, 71.992; Sunday, 53,120. = No. 19,946. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915—TWENTY-TWO PAGES. . ONE CENT. 5 1 AmericansReported Saved f 188 Aboard the Lusitania INDICATED BY LATEST ESTIMATE THAT 1,216 PERSONS PERISHED WHEN BIG LINER WENT DOWN Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Other Promi-)) Mie TAgeucers nent United States Citizens Are | sisvivSsaz Sani Among the Missing. | eee FISHERMEN MAY HAVE EFFECTED = = A FEW RESCUES NOT REPORTED | j=" Bodies of Scores of Victims, Killed By the Explosion or} | ota. =a Drowned, Have Been Taken to Queenstown. | 3 Russian Americans . Persians .. Greeks According to the best information available | iss ..-....- today, 43 of the 188 Americans aboard the liner | | "«='*" - Lusitania when she was torpedoed yesterday off the Irish coast are known to have been saved. Hope is held out that a dozen or more others may have escaped. Fie The American consu! at Queenstown, in a tele-' gram to the United States embassy at London, said that he had cabled to the State Department at Washington a list containing the names of 43) | Americans who have been saved. The message’ | added: | | Mikscomemeuer nero: “There may be another dozen Americans not} Ee Saino eee in touch with me. I also believe that one tender | | ’ lead of survivors landed at Clonakilly. braid pick ae tn tone “The survivors will proceed at noon or later | this afternoon. The total survivors at Queens-| | town number. 634. About 63 bodies remain) | ETHEL BARRYMORE narrates . 1 unidentified.” | FEATURES IN THE STAR TOMORROW @ new and fascinating serial, by ADELE LUEHRMANN. “MY. BEAD WILLCO CE OF BLAC by LOUISE COLLIE NX, a story of a great Uncle Sam is going to construct sm miles of RAILROAD IN ALASKA; but this undertaking is not his first venture in the building of railways. her experiences with young play- i wrights. Reports to the State Department said 51 were! | saved and a list of 47 names was given. | The names of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Elbert: Hubbard, Charles Frohman, Charles Klein, A. In the coming installment of INVASION OF shown how Boston attack fron the sea THE AMERICA” it is 8 open to ELLIS PARKER BU | d “WHEN JO. || THE eveKon éxc | i L. Hopkins, president of the Newport News Ship-) | 4 11 of stew of tue wos HAVING ANI PRINTING building Company, and other well known men, are on the list of missing. ! IS to answer foolish questions IS LIFE | WORTH LIVING AFTER SEVENTY?” the caption of a dowble-page spread which answers the question in the affirmative NEWTON, s ARY OF TH. URY, discovers “PUBLICITIS? a new disease at work in the body politic; the story is writ ten by ASHMUN BROWN SSISTA Known Survivors Number 703. The latest available information indicates that about two-thirds of the persons on board the Lusitania lost their lives. The number of passengers is given by the Cunard steamship rep- | resentatives in New York as 1,254, and of the crew as 665, a total of | 1,919. The number of survivors now accounted for is 703. This in-| dicates a death list of 1,216. 4 Hopes that the list of persons saved may be materially increased vere dashed by an announcement from the British admiralty that all BYRO. s “THE HARD JOB OF CROOK.” BEING A WHO PAINT THE | | “A DOGS $50,00 PLAYGROUND” IS IT WORRY THAT KILLS” by DR. EDWIN F. BOWERS but one of the rescue fleet which put out from Queenstown had re-) | “WHAT SUATE 1 DO WITH run ported and that there was little prospect of news of further survivors. ALBERT W. ATWOOD. ex sé, inquixi ing st i “THE SNAKE T SCARED Nevertheless, inquiries are being made all along the coast in the hope Te TDI GAN EOTE that other rescues may have been made by small craft which put in! | | MEASUHING THE i at isolated points. THIN THE WORLD” and : 3 “LE pT S YoU Of the 290 first-class passengers it is now believed only 76 were! OUGHT TO KNOW saved. No word has been received of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, | Charles Frohman and other prominent men who were aboard. | “AIDING JUVEN! ERS IN NEW YORK MORE THAN THIRTEEN HUNDRED MISSING. Hans wien CONGE LONDON, May 8.—More than thirteen hundred persons lost} in the past few months more than NINETY THOUSAN. , their lives, the British admiralty estimates, when the Cunard line | 1s s 2 been SRG | poured into EUROPE’S DEATH steamship Lusitania was torpedoed yesterday afternoon off Old: | HOPPER. Head, Kingale, on the Irish coast. ' | The officially known survivors number only 658, while there were pice ad ‘ 2,160 souls aboard the great liner when she was attacked. A further telegram has just been received by the British officials SUNDAY STAR 4 (Continued on Second Page.) x SMALLEST, | writes of | by | FEW PERSONS SAVED ~ OUT OF FIRST CABIN LIST, COMPANY SAYS ‘Cunard Line Offices in New York Besieged by Relatives and Friends of Passengers. NEW j ment tos YORK, May 8—The Cunard line issued an announce ay saving that it had received a cablegram from Liverpool j which said the admiralty had announced that only a few first-cl. passengers had been saved, and that three boats were reported to be | bringing 100 bodies to Queenstown. s \ When the Cunard line offices opened early today the first bulletin {issued—the text of the announcement made by the press bureau at | Liverpool last night, stating that 658 survivors had been landed— | strengthened the belief that the loss of life would be great, especially |among the first-cabin passengers List of Survivors Announced. nounced a n that it was known that of the first cabin This bulleti quickly followed by | y ¢ el rata }@ list of surv received from Liver-| to lists do from their own ad- pool. As these A revision of [checked with the pa wee j Were given out. ‘The a aotat }the names of fifty-two first cabin pas- : jsengers. Among them were D. telling of of London, millio rs or saying Wh Were received ves of those aboard. Mr. Vanderbilt Still Missing. Capt. Isaac Emerson, father-in-law of | Alfrea G. Vanderbilt, made public a his daughter, ien de Ayala, Cu Liverpool, and te Although inquirers, who came to the offices were few in number, t jgrams by the hundred poured in ove 2 [sioteasecocts on srief cablegram received today from {ing ‘torrents du !the Vande: agent in London. The j telephone line: vere | s | choked with [of clerks was d | quirie ted the number of sur- and said Mr. Vanderbilt * Mrs. Vanderbilt is of the LONDON, May 8, is that England has got what she deserves.” Berlin Newspapers Hail Sinking Lusitania With Delight 11:18 a.m.—The Exchange Telegraph Com- pany has received today the following telegram from Copenhagen: “Berlin newspapers print the news of the sinking of the Lusitania in colossal type and hail the successful torpedoing of the ship as a new triumph for Germany’s naval! policy. The general impression LINER WAS NOT ARMED, —(SLAIM OF BRITISH LONDON, May 8, 1:51 p.m.—! l'The British government today; i 3 made the following ment: “The statement appearing in) | some newspapers that the Lusi-! announce- ; tania was armed is wholly false. | SSS | JUSTIFES GERMANS’ ACT | | Dr. Bernard Dernberg Declares Lusi- | tania Was Carrying Contra- band of War. Bernard Mal Sece from address th Club, | sinking of the contraband o} » the boat was \ xiven by the German em-| bassy at Washington, together with the of F y 18 from Berlin d tence of war Z0 from responsil an note % i e. e @ Ss, he said.| s terized the blowing up of the American tank liner} Gulflight, carrying a cargo of oi] from| aid. Dr. and, as justifiable, ee eee Made Gridiron Club Secretary. At the regular monthly meeting of} iron Club, held today, J. "hal France to the Gri Cun} am was elected secretary to fill the unexpired term of the late John S. Shriver. | As fast ts the w 2 e | list of c abi rived a cablegram of D. A. Thomas, led coal king was rescued, with his daugh |} 1 There © noticeable increase in| Mackworth, and his secretary | [the number of persons cali it the, byans. | office during the e: of ing & Co, Am them | . was in ca with his: t onths | ¢ ters in ailed on bled Crowd at Offices Increases. As the day wore on the Cunard line the ihe crowd at} / increased. At noon} filled with men a from them, thing offices were women, many of them erying, who waited for word of relatives and friends | aboard. Several hundred more, unable| to crowd into the offices, crowded the ¢ sidewalk. All very anxious. SANK SLOWLY BY HER BOWS, KEELED OVER AND VANISHED CORK. May 8—A coast guard who witnessed the sink- ing of the ship believes she sank within eight minutes. His story is confirmed by a Cork farmer who wa’ working near Old Head, Kinsale, when he heard shots, and, looking sea- ward, saw a steamer with her bows in the air. He said hardly ten minutes later she keeled over on her side and sank. A resident of Ardfield estimates the ship was five miles from shore when he heard the crash of the torpedo when it pierced her side. For a moment she seemed to move slowly straight ahead and then suddenly stopped, her bow sinking and the stern rising. Then she keeled over and disappeared from sight. Within a few minutes ten rescue boats had reached the spot where she went down. CRIPPLED LUSITANIA HALTED, At Mr. Partridie cab am read: Liverpool, inquiries. , FEAR FOR TWO OTHER LINERS. | ! The Rotterdam and New York Sailed Same Day as Lusitania. » fate of the Lusitania } ern for the safety liners which left > {of the inquiries were for passen- | the 1 ps arouerd York en the pers Many seechingly for same day as the Lusitania They are the Rotterdam of the Iot- land-American line, bound for Rotter dam, and the New York of the Americar line, bound for Liverpool. The route of the kotterdam is being kept secret, and nce e of Ir il today for England w tly before noon wn wires ail pa now at station wa ion for Holyh ete list an s re- It read: 1 | | | 1 | | her positio: of the ¢ rd line, j nort that there had been board the Lusitania. scheduled to dock Mersey. S| isun i cae een i Yhotn vessels passenger sts, Igiven them by the Gi ried unusually large ite the warning man ambassador, There was frequent mention duri day of the fact that the advertii ced by the German embassy | “CAPTAIN STOOD ON BRIDGE | LONDON, May 8.—Capt. Turner of the Lusitania stood at his post on the bridge until his ship went down and was rescued three hours afterward wearing a life belt, according to D. A. Thomas, the Cardiff, Wales, coal magnate. | AS HIS SHIP WENT DOWN | | —__--—__—_ REMAINS IN SECLUSION. { jin New kk papers the morning of the | i Lusit. sailing d reappeared in ———— | the uv apers today. This advertise-| German Ambassador Denies Himself ment public that Ger- & ange iaalicel naeone aubul to Callers in New York. Cee nentslent anal oanned eravaleral|| eet een ee ee ee eg nbassador to the United storff, German States, who reached this city last night, remained in seclusion today. At the hotel where he was staying it was said that he had gone to Washington. It is , .| understood that he left orders not io risk on ships flying the flags of the | [that thes. Would embark at the | multaneously with the of Averti be disturbed. At the entrance of tho before the safling and rr suite usually occupied by Count vou ate that the British Who Was Marie Dupont? A fascinating story of a new kind. A serial replete with mystery and romance. Begins to- morrow in The Sunday Magazine of THE SUNDAY STAR. Bernstorff a guard was stationed to- day. WRECK IN SHALLOW WATER. Belief That Valuables Aboard Lusi- tania May Be Recovered. Navy Department charts show that the waters off Kinsale, where the Lusitania is reported to have sunk, are com- paratively shallow, ranging from 120 to 200 feet in depth, at a distance of nine or ten miles from shore. admiralty. reed on the Lusitania’s need, rather than convoys, to enable to make port safely. When offi- were asked omment on the ack of a convoy, W. T. agent of the line, said: Irst things we did yes- © issue an order that no f the line should make any ents. We decided at once to ourselves siinply to giving out the cable messages we received. It would obviously be improper for us to do anything else. You will doubtless get some comment on this question from the other side. It should very likely be the subject of a statement] This, naval officers said, to in parliament.” © possible the recovery valuable At the offices of the line it was an- the ship. .

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