Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1915, Page 1

NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TEN. VOL. XLIV-—-NO, 278. IBOATLOADS OF (C "SURVIVORS oN . €TTman WAY T0 SHORE Messages Reaching cunu'd Line Say Number of Craft Carrying Pas- sengers Into Kinsale from Ship. NO OFFICIAL WORD IS GIVEN No Official News Given Out Con- . cerning Passengers and Crew - of Lost Vessel. SHELL HITS WITHOUT WARNING BULLETIN. NEW YORK, May 7.—The Cunard y company tonight announced that at i 8:29 o'clock they received the fol- lowing message from Liverpool: “The admiralty has had a message from Queenstown saying between 500 and 600 landed at Queenstown,. in- cluding many bospitel cases, some of whom have died. Also number Y landed at Kinsale. CUNARD." BULLETIN, QUEENSTOWN, May 8.—Some dead and injured from the Lusitania are being brought ashore with sur- vivors. BULLETIN. \ DUBLIN, May 8.—A private tele- gram from Clonekilly says that sev- eral hundred passengers have landed there from the Lusitania. Three steamers loaded with survivors have gone to Queenstown. BULLETIN. LONDON, May 7.—Several rescu- ing steamers have been sighted laden with passengers from the Lusitania, makipg their way- toward Kinsale and Queenstown. N — THE UNITED STATES Sinking of Lusitania Probably Most Serious Incident Washington Has Faced lmn War, WASHINGTON, May 7.—President ‘Wileon was informied of the sinking of the Lusitania and White House ‘officials showed keen anxiety to learn whether any American liyes were lost. No comment was made. News of the torpedoing of the Lus- itania struck. ofticial Washington like a bomb. While disposed to awalt fall d before expressing opinions, all stration officlals realized that the incident was proba- ‘bly the most serious Washington has fhced since the beginning of the war, War Industrials -Break Because of Lusitania Sinking N — NEW, YORK, May 7.—On the stock ex- change Intense excitement followed. the news of the. disaster .to .the . Lusitania. There was & wild rush to selt and prices tell away within one hour' from 15 to 20 pots in war and five to ten points in the more stable issues. Bethiehem Steel, which had scored a new record, yieldsd all fts gain and [ "% dropped from 140-to 13 between' males. ‘Westinghouse broke 2 points. The selling continued for the balance of the measion. | Commission houses and brokers with extensive wire connections receiving sell- ing orders from as far off as San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles and New Orlean.s 188 Americans on Board the Lusitania |* NEW YORK, Mdy 7.—There were 188 Americari passengers in all aboard the Lusitaula, according to a compflation mwade today at the Cunard offices. The British numbered 956 and other natonall- ties made up the remainder of the 1,253 Dluenm aboard. Tra.ffic Through i BULLRETIN. LONDON, May 7.—~Up to the present hour no official naws of the » LONDON, May line has received ‘@’ message saying that a motor beat, towing two boats containing fifty passengers and two 3 tugs with passengers are passing Kin- i sale. A majority of the rescue boats ; are proceeding to Queenstown. £ A dispatch to the Exchange Tele- graph from Liverpool says: “The Cunard company states that the Lusitania - was sunk without ‘warning.” Towed in Kinsale. Several boat loads of survivors of the Lusitania are now being towed into Kinsale by & Greek steamer. Officers of the Cunard Steamship company tonight said that they “have great hopes that many lives were BaVe The Cuna rd company has defi- nitely ascertained that the lives of the passengers and the crew of the Lusitanis have been saved. iven No Warning. NEW YORK, May 7.—According to & London dispatch put out by the Dow- Jones ticker late today, the, Cunard Steamship company in London issued an official statement there tonight, declar- ing that the Lusitania had been torpedoed (Continued on Page Two, Column One.) The Weather For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity ~Ialr. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. Hour. i 1 ok Canal is Growing Sa m. Ta.m :: : WASHINGTON, May 7.—The traffic Wa m through the Panama canal during March MNa m was considerably greater than for any l{m preceding months. A total of 13 sea- 3 & m. going vessels passed, carrying 35,067 tons . $p. m of cargo. This is between one-third and b :D m two-fifths mor& vessels than had used . ! pe D the canal in eny preceding months, and 8 p. m. 186,100 more tons of cargo, exceeding rec- ords by over # per cent. The tolls during March were $06,313, making the total col- lected in the canal since Its opening 2,971,6. Chilean nitrates took first place in the | traffic, amounting to 1010255 tons, two-| thirds of which went to the United States. Sugar came second, coal third, lumber fourth and barley fifth in order. One American line of steamers has car ried 69,342 toos of cargo through the canal, two of its ships bhaving made six trips. Comparative Local Highost yesterday. Lowest yesterda: Precipitation ‘Temperature Normal Deficiency '!‘n 'l)lflch Totni m'. ficiency E. e h I i 13 - " l” oA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 8 1915- TWENTY PAGES. 2 \\ . viung LUSITANIA IS SUNK BY GERMAN TORPEDO—Sister of the fastest ship in the world goes down off Irish coast. German government had warned Americans not to sail on this trip, saying they would send it to the bottom. NEW PROBLEM FOR |List of Passengers on Lusitania as Furnished by the Cunard Company NEW, YORK, May 7.-The I(:t\of the first cabin passengers aboard the, Lusi- tana includes: Albert C. Bilicke and wife, geles, Cal. Lady Allen and matd, Montreal. Juuen bc Ayala, Cuban consul general {Srbaerick- Cloete, San Antonto, Tex. 1:. H. Brooks, New York. . A, Dingwall, ’c{“‘f‘ “h‘&&',;""‘ ‘un Valoe - arl Al M. and Mre Bibert' Hubbard, Hast 3 n'&c‘;wm.um 'i‘-'""..a‘-:.“"-,‘*.‘.“;.ms... AT N' ‘ork. sw_York. *a'."'unuu.u- Los An- nmomcxmmmnnu / Montreal. / r., Chicago. 4 Miss Braithwaite, Morristown, N. J. Miss Josephine Brandell, New_York, lun Brege and ;l:m New York. Brown, “Yorl Wlllhm B‘ Brown. Bu! llc. N- Y. Mrs. Burnside and maid, New York. ur,]mdB"l(m Br\lno uomm N. 3 ngton, Michael O Byie, New York. D. wah“m- Lonfl’lo_n ‘ Mrs, W. Chapman, Toronto.y J. H. Charles, Toronto. Miss Dorls Charies, Toronto. Rev, Cowley Clark, London, M. Cohen, New York. H. G. Colebrook, Toronto. Miss Dorothy Connor, New York. Mr. and Mrs. George R., Copping, To- llrl Williat Crichton, New York. Mrs. Willlam ¢rici New York Mr, and Mra. Paul Crompton, Stephen John and Alberta Compton Infant and nurse, al)fof Philadelphia. Robert W./Crook A B, Crm R. E. Mra. A, x-dloy Drake, Detrof James Dunsmuir, Toronto. hulF "rladlnnteln London. B'Awln W. Friend, Farmington, Cona. ¥red J. Gauntlett, New York. - Edward Gorer, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Montague T. Grant, Chi- cago. ix. and Mrs. Fred Hammond, Toronto. Fowles, New ‘“lir and Mrs. O, H. Hammond, New Cork. v C, C. Harnwick, New York. €. T. Hill, Londcn. Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Hodges and childeen, W, 8., r,, and Dean W, Fhila- delphia. Master Bobs Holt, Montre: Thomas Home, Toronto, A. L. Hopkins, New Yor! A Miss P. Hutchinson, Orange, N. J. C. T. Jeftrey, Chicago. Miss Jones, New York. Mr. and Mra. W. Keeble, Torouto, Fl’lflch K. Kellett, New York. Kempson, Toronto. In C. Hickson Kum.d¥J Miss ew ol Harry J. Kesser, !—nu. nl’; and Mrs, M. W, Ketchum, New H. C, Kimball, New York. New York. Chnlu Kelln. New York. C. Harwood ht, Baltimore. Miss Elaine K. hnight, baltimore, 8. M. Knox, Philudelphia. Senator Hugh Lane, England. Mrs. H. B. Lasselter, London. ¥. Lassetter, Londen. Charles K. | Frea A. McMartry, New York ¥. E. McLennan, New York. Mrs Harry D. Maccona, New York, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart 8. Mason, Boston. A, T. Mathews. Montreal Rn\ Basil W. Maturin, Oxford, Eng- (hon.e Maurice, Toronto M. B. Medbury, New York New York ew York. 7l g ' <y “'y| French Powder | T S § %.2 Factory Blown Up dge € o " w r, part cloudy % m nh.’l'l;!.t‘:&ydmuv : 773 /»:_\ ROME, May 7.—(Via Paris.)~Ten per- eblo, clear o ™ 7 |sons were killed last night in an ex- pid City, 8 & 0|plosion which blew up a powder factory Salt Lake (hn'r' dcu ;1’ a g at Fontana Lirl, The explésion uuu‘. [ k3 75 | panic in the village and troops inter- n : o | vened to restore order. A rigid inwesti- | A0 sation is being conducted by the auther- | | ittes. of prect H, Local tation. LA W 'orecaster. . Mitchell, Philadelphia odie, New York M. S Morell, Toronto. . G. Mosley, New York. Mrs. Munre, Liverpool, England. | | Herman A. Myers, New York. F. G. Naumann, New York. Gustav Adolph Nyblom, Canada. Dr D. J. Orr, Toronto. Orr.Lewis, and valet, Montreal Mra. A. B. Osborne, Hamiiton, Ont. Mrs. E. Padley, Liverpool, England. Frederico 4. Padilla, consul general for Mexico 1n Great Britain. J. H, P;l! Ntwn\ork_ an rs, . N. Pappadopoul Greace. 4 g e, 2ol fant and. g BV T Misses w dnd Susan W, "' Buff: flm.w York. tg’l. ont. . verpool, Charles A. x’lunmndoa. Henry Pollard, New York. Miss o and mald, Farming- New York. few York. N" York, New York. ‘ardiff, 1;Wl]fl re, Toronto, W. Rumble, 'l'cnmlo" s ~ :‘? Ryaonn’raronto 5 ng Q. Ryerson, 1 hol-r’. B.lt.llr!Yc.n":‘smm ax W, sehw-m r‘«.w "Fark: Bofl Mhl"fll b.!.h Secom l&o 5 . Vietor E. ‘Shie Cinetn- rv R, T, fllldtl]l‘ e gy Yook, v Tl H. B fionnahorn‘ Baltim mm“" 9 anmmunder J. Fostey Btm‘khoulo. Lon- o . w. st ., | ephens, infant, nurse and maid, Dllnblll flllwl\rt Montreal. Robert 8. Stone, New York. Martin -Van Straten, Inldon and Mrs. rge Tuber: 4J. Timis, "B, 0. Total, on, . Austr 'wenlow, New York‘". . Vanderbelt and valet, New A Wake fl' ld N ¢ 3 akef'el ow k. . D, Walker, New York, = . Wallace Watson. Mont: ]Hrl Catherine B. Willey, T. H, Willlams, New York. llYl.mlnn New York, rea L-kamru(. Witherby, New York M A ‘L. “Witherby, N l‘!hmp Wl!hlhm n, Arthur Wood, hew York. o'l‘lr uxa Mrs. J. M. Young, Hamiiton, Philllp Young, Montreal ASKS EGYPT TO BAR THE EXPQBT OF COTTON LONDON, May 7.—Great Britain has requested the government of Egypt to prohibit the export of cotton . all ports other than French, Russtan, Spanish and Portuguese. Finances of Omaha’s Public Service Corporations Meaty compilation of their stock and bond exhibits that will repay study by our readers and preservation for future reference. Today's Bee See Editorial Page. WANTED-—Salesman having the ambition to work hard for six hours daily: ability ko work at high pressure and to mell one of the best || and_ cleanest propositions on the market. Permanent position for the right man. For further information abous see the Want Ad of Bee today. That Doom Awaited Unheeded; Cunarder Lusitania Sinks Under Submarine Attack Pride of Great Steamship 'has been sunk 6ff Old Head, Kinsale by a torpedo. Assistance has been sent., | SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. ] Line Sent to Bottom; Many Passengers Reported Dead LONDON, May 7.—The. Lusitania LIVERPOOL, May 7.—The Echo has been informed that a message to the Curnard line reads as follows: “‘The Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk at, 2:33 o’clock thie afternoon off Kinsale. ‘“There is no word of its passengers or crew, who number over 1,900, QUEENSTOWN, May gteamer Lusitania at 3:25 p. m. said that before sinking its life 7.~News received here from thoe boats were over its sides. Many passengers are reported dead or injured. NEW YORK, May 7.—The Cunard hour, thess aplendid steamships marked liner Lusitania, one of the fastest|tho greatest advance th#t has taken | place in stemship construction. ships afloat, was torpedoed and sunk | "y, 4o, omarkanie then the sise and this afternoon off the coast of Ire-|speed of these ships are their passenger | land, ten miles south of Kinsale. aecommodations. . Apart from the pala- It had aboard ‘1,263 passengérs|tial character, the most striking featurs when it sailed from this port last Sat- Is spuciousness, the great sise of the ships and their height between decks enabling urday, May 1, and carried in addition | . ;rovislon of generous allowanse of to its own large passenger st 168 |space per passenger far exceeding that u-mm transferred to it from omwpther vesgels. This is ap- Anchor Liner Cameyonia. parent mot only in the publip rooma and ntran but in the private The news of ite sinking was an-| o tehct gk ! pr::nuu. ete. The nounced by the local office of the|aesign, decoratfons and furnishing of Cunard line and was based on cable | the paesenger accommodations wore en- advices received from the home office |trusted to rocognized experts, who achleved results at onco testeful, artis- of the company in Liverpool. Three tic.and tuxurious. Tn short, these ships dispatches, recelved In the Order|merit the title of “flonting palaces.” named, were made public by the line p r:u ln.:l Passensers v"‘ e H 0 definite news as to the fate o a4 ong MBONETR > passengers has been received by the ‘We recelved from the Lands Md|e orq ying hero early this afternoon. wireless station news of repeated distress %6 Cunard line whnounced that ft calls mado by the Luditania wsking tor ol maks public 4s fast 48 ecelred assistance at once. Blg Ust Positlon | ., gypatcnes on the sinking of the ten miles south ofs Kinsale. Bubsequently | yyyitanta, including those relating to the recelved telegram from Queenstown that|e.iq of the passengers. all available craft in the harbor bas| mp, stock market was stumned by the been dispatched to assist.” news. A torrent of selling orders poured The second message to the local offiee [ in from every section of the country. A read: period of intense excitement followed. “QUEENSTOWN, 480 -p. m—~About| Prices in war specialy broke fifteon to twenty boats of all sorts belonging to|thirty points within ad hour. Stable is- our line arq in vicinity whers Lusitania |sues dropped five to ten points. sank., About fifteen other boats are| Late today the Cunard line officlals re- making for spot to render assistance.’ |ceived a dispatch from Queenstown, stat- The third jgablegram was dated Liver-|ing that a large steamer and many small pool and re vessels and boats were in the vicinity “Following received by admiraity: renderina assistance, “'GALLEY HI 43 p. m.~—SBeveral Mapy Boats to Rescue. S boats, apparently survivors, southeast| The dispatch follows: nine miles. Greek steamer proceeding to| ‘“Large steamer just arrived in vicin- assistance." ity. Apparently rendering aasistance. Tugs, patrols, ete., now on the spot tak ing boats in tow. with two Lusitanla boats bearing prob- otly for Kinsaje This information came from Old Head via Queensto The news struck official Washington like & bomb, Administration offizlals, it was sald, realized that the incldent was Dispatches recelved here fromr London, Liverpool and Queenstown confirmed the news. One of the messages sald It was believed that all the big liner's passen- gers had been saved. ‘When the Lusitania safled if had aboard 1310 passengers. Some nervousness had been feaused because of the publication in morning papers of Saturday of an Motor fishing boats | | Vanderbilt was one of the passenge: | received such a message. | the messago without comment. advertisement warning intending travel- ers that a state of war existed between Great Britain and its allies, that the zone of war includea the waters adjacent to the British lsles; that in accordance with notice given by the German government, veasels flying the flag of Great Britain are liable to destruction in those walers and that travelers safling in the war zone on ships of Great Britain or its al- lies do so at thelr own risk. The adver- hemonl was signed “Imperial German embass; This warning apparently did not cause many cancellations, for the ship safled with a full passenger list. Just before the steamer’'s departure a number of the passengers pcetved telegrams at the pler signed by names unknown to them |and presumed to be fictitious, advising them not to sall as the liner was to be tor- pedoed by submarines. Alfred Gywnne who He destroyed Charles P. Sumner, general agent of !the Cunard line said, when the Lusitanis j salled, that the trip was not attended by {any risk whatever, as the liner had o | speed of twenty-five and a half knots and was provided with unusual watertight bulkheads. In commenting on the report of the tor- pedojug of the Lusitania today, marine men pointed out that in their opinlon, the Lusitania could not be sunk by a single torpedo, Large Fast Ship. The Lusitania and its sister ship, the Mauretania, holding wll speed records, were marvels of marine engineqring and | {have excited the wonder of the mari- | |time worla. Seven hundred and ninety feet In length, they are so gracefully the most serious faced by the govern- ment since the beginning of the war. President Wilson was informed of the sinking of the liner and White House | officlals, while refraining from comment- | ing, were keenly anxious to learn if any | American lives had been lost Passenwers Belleved Safe. LONDON, May 7.~The Cunard line steamer Lusitania, from New York May 1 for Ldverpool, with this afternoon at a point about ten miles off Old Head, Kinsale, Irelahd, and later went down It is belleved that its passengers are safe. No details of how they may have been rescued, however, are at hand. One message recelved here says: ‘Tt is not kpown how many of the Lusitania's pas- Sengers were sgved.” Relief was immediately sent out from Queenstown. If it floated a reasonable length of time before going down, it s possible that some of the rescuing ships Kot to its side. It ls believed that the Lusitania's watertight tend to keep it afloat. Two hundred of the passengers on board the Cunarder were transferred to it from the steamer Cameronia before it left New York. The presence of German submarines in the transatlantic lanes of travel has been indicated by the sinking during the last few days of other British vessels off the Irish coast. It was the Lusitania which, last Feb- ruary, made use of the American flag to protect it from possible attack on the part df.the German under-sea boats. The | eport received here says the liner was elght miles off the Irish coast when Jt proportioned that their vast bulk is not | apparent unless some other vessel is near for comparison. The turbine engines are #0 smooth in action that the vibration so frequently noticed tn other ships is prac- tically eliminated. With & sustained sea -ll)w.d of more than twenty-six knots an went down. / T 4 Warned of Presevce of Subseas. The presence of German submarines off the southern coast of Ireland and along the Mme of travel the Lusitania would (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) 1253 passengers on | board, was torpedoed at about 2 o'glock | bulkheads would | FIGHT FOR HILL NUMBER SIXTY YET UNDECIDED Blttle for Possession of Desolated Region Around Ypres is Now Approaching the Final Stages. EASTERN REPORTS CONFLICTING Russia Refuses to Concede that De- feat in Big Battle in Galicia is Serious. GERMANS STILL USING GASES The Day’s War News OFFICIAL, ANN Inflicted on the Frenc) fsh troops which landed on Gallti- poll peninsula. Reports reaching London from the Dardanelles, while contal mnew detalls of the Tarkish fortifications is pro- coeding successfully. GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN reports of ndvices, however, while conceding a measure of success to the Teu= tonle allies, say these clalms ave mreatly -n:n;nu The Russinn war office n battie near HOPES THAT l'I'AL\' would settle peacefully her differences with Austrin ave fading as ateadily as they were revived a tew days ago, LONDON, May 7.—The battle to decide the mastery of Hill No. 60 and the desolated country around Ypres has not yet reached its final stages, nor have the Russians shown signs of accepting the German claim that & crushing defeat has been inflicted upon them in western Gallela. That the Russians have been ' pushed back many miles, tirst across the Dunajec and now across fl loka river, which roughly parallels the Dunajec fifteén miles to the eastward, all the disaptches from German and Austrian sources insist, but the English newspapers still re- fuse to concede a great victory to the Austro-Germans, although they ad- mit that a great tentative success has boeen achieved. There is great faith in England In the recuperative powers of Russian arms, and the disposition for the moment seems to be to suspend judgment on ths ques- tlon of whether the Russfans it driven from Dukia pass will be forced to aban- don their advance against Hungary and indeed their positions in Western Gulicla. At any rate, the argument is being niade by British observers that the Rus slans should have no trouble in holding their lne on the River San in Esstern Galicla, especially as their flank, would now be covered by Przemysl. Germans Continue to Use Gases, . The tishtng in Flanders finds the Ger- mans still making use of asphyxiating ases, and there is a noticeable current running through the British press which insists that the allies should adopt coun= ter measures at once. It is belng re- cited that when one power departs from the rules and precedents of warfare it is manifestly unfair for the others to remain’ tound by them. Still no formal‘announce« ment thet Great Britain will make ube of such methods has been forthcoming. COMMANDER OF FAMOUS . LIGHT BRIGADE IS DEAD LONDON, May 7.—Lieutenant General Willlam Henry Beaumont De Horsey, - who commanded the famous Light Brigade in its charge at klgva, died last night at the age of 5 years. Heo % a vietory In | entered the army In 154, became a major géneral In 18R and retired in 1888 He was decorated for gallantry in the | Crimean war. Remember To Send Your WANT AD To The OMAHA BEE Early SATURDAY For Our { BIG SUNDAY PAPER It You Cannot Bring It to the Office, Telephone It to Us, BEE WANT ADS Get the Big Results Telephone Tyler 1000. THE OMAHA BEE Everybody Heads Bee- Want Ads ' N