The evening world. Newspaper, May 26, 1915, Page 1

INA NAL Che {“Circntatio lation Books Books Open to All.””\ to All. Ld 1» Sowers orobabty to-night and Thuredays coolers » FINAL | “Circulation Books Open to Al!” Conran, 1915, by 1 ‘The Prees Pabitshing Co. (The New York World). REPORTS OF CAPTAIN OF THE NEBRASKAN AND OF THE BRITISH ADMIRALTY THE CAPTAIN’S REPORT. BRITISH ADMIRALTY REPORT. apt. J. S. Green of the steamship Nebraskan sent to-day by wireless WASHINGTON, May 26—Consul Goneral Skinner, stationed at to Liverpool and by cable from that point the following message to the} London, notified the State Department at 10 o'clock to-day of the offices of the American-Hawalian Line in this city: Nebraskitadmaivalt in operts, Aine nen gtea hesraik . : r imiralty re s American steamer Nebraskan, “Struck by either mine or torpedo forty-eight miles Liverpool for Delaware Breakwater, torpedoed forty west of Fastnet. Am steaming under convoy to Liver- miles south by west Fastnet. Crew and boats standing pool. Water in lower hold. No one injured. GREEN.” TRPASSENERS TKEN OFF EVENING WoRLD m STEAMER HT BY FREIGHTER NEAR NANTUCKET SHOALS Ryndam and the Joseph J. Cuneo, With Which She Was in Collision, Make for New York Convoyed by Three Warships. The Holland-America liner Ryndam, with seventy-cight passengers and a million dollars’ worth of merchandise aboard, was rammed in a thick fog off Nantucket at 3.30 o'clock this morning by the Joseph J. Cuneo, bound to Baracoa, Cuba, from Boston. The fifth hold of the liner immed{ately filled with aleo rushed into the sixth hold and the engine room. The passengers and 178 of the Ryndam’s crew of 200 were immediately ordered into the boats Mejia “ by Capt. Van den Heuvel and transferred to the Cuneo with the mails, i Bow of the fruiter was crushed and she was leaking seriously Wireless calls reached the vessels of the United States battleship feet which have been in the war game off the New England Coast. The South CaroMna, Texas and Louisiana were soon alongside the injured ships Passengers of the Ryndam were |ransferred to the South Carolina IS IXED FOR WEEK BEGINNING JULY 12 “ EVENING WORLD RACE CHART BELMONT PARK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1915. Sixth Day of W heater Racing Assoot: mo Meeting, Weather Cloudy, Track Go mile, same, Winner, f olds and upmand Off 2.9%, ‘Time, 1.40 cacorwin Vi 8500, oe wen ‘driving Th It furto bag fain Tone os fruit freighter tery RAGE Vor a Ot at water Much water The “LOUISVILLE RESULTS. FLT geidinws 0008 N HOLE | JAWBONE, USES | uy Cuneo and the Uiree war venseln, At ® o'clock the captain reported that he had closed the engine room bullt- heads and pumped it clear of water, but that the leak inte the wiath hold was gaining on him A wirelen mennnue raid that the Ryndam war seventy-four milew eel of Ambrose Channel lghtehip #t | o'clock this afternoon, This would bring her in New York harbe Through | : Streich Al Block Win 1 Thrilling Drive 3 > INDEXED BELMONT Belmont Track IN ZONE OF SINKING OF LUSITANIA b | Margaret Everdeene, on Stand “g!leader, on trial for Inatigating the news will bring mourning to bun- 1915, 220 PAGES 5 PRIOE ONE CENT. GIRL TELLS JURY SHE GAVE SIGNAL FOR GANG MURDER NEBRASKAN SORELY INJURED: GREW TAKES 10 THE BOATS ame wasn | MRS, FISH IS DEAD ' AT COUNTRY HOME: ILLNESS SUDDEN Noted Society Leader Stricken While Planning for Enter- tainment at Garrison. Isuin Keeping Afloat Crew Returns and, Though Not Under Control, Captain Green Is Taking Her to Liverpool Under Her Own Steam, at Eight Knots an Hour. HELPED TRAP VICTIM.| She and Freda Horner Were Cause of Gang Feud That Ended Fatally. fH # 4 British Admiralty Positive Torpedo, Not a Mine, Did the Mischief, as the Ship Was Fifty Miles Distant From the Irish Coast and Far From Mine Fields. LONDON, May 26.—The American cargo ship Nebraskan, owned by the American-Hawajian Line, bound for the United States in ballast and flying the American flag, was torpedoed, in all likelihood, about fifty | miles west of Fastnet on the southwest coast of Ireland yesterday evening. | Her captain, J. S. Green of San Francisco, in wireless reports states that Mr. and Mrs, Fish have been stay- ia bt Glen COM for several wasks, | he may have struck a floating mine, but naval authorities question the ‘Their estate at Garrison, acrows ee | ecbetlly of a ship encountering a mine fifty miles from land and re- river from Weat Point, in a great of several thousand | {mote from any mine fields, Calmly, with some show of satis- faction, Margaret Everdeene, a pretty young woman, to-day told the jury in the case of Owney Madden, gang Mra, Stuyvesant Fish is dead. The 7: | murder of Patsy Doyle, a rival leader, how #he gave the signal which led to Two dreds of friends who inew and ad- mired her as one of the most hos- pitable and kindly social leaders in America, Her illness was sudden, #0 unlooked for, that she was stricken while planning to give « large garden | party and luncheon within a few days | at Glen Cliff, her aplendid eatate at) Garrison on the Hudson Doyle's asssssination men, | | Reuler and MoArdle, are in Sing Sing, serving Jife sentences for the actual murder Margaret bverdeene and Freda Hor “Willie the ner had deserted follower of Doyle, and Doyle him-| ‘The Horner girt| » Owney Madden's awoethourt, She! told Madden stories of the way ashe sod been treated by her former fa- ft, respectively ahow place acres, and the re is one of the | |vorite, Doyle, which prompted Mad The Nebraskan was not sunk, i don to: uk pt 2 one "anls was{ finest tn all ¢ y side, Mrs. unk, and is now on her way to Liverpool (he condition of afaire between shel te pure “ein sane or Queenstown, down at the head, and according to signals displayed jing with @ large yon Ju i} rival gangsters in the latter part of} November On the day of the murder, fed the Everdeane girl 1 got @ note from Beside Al gnaigaienr ot »| when she passed Old Kinsale Head, where the Lusitania went down, at uf what seemed to cae 11 o'clock (his morning, not under control, Several v landing rduy afternoon, soon after . prger Dr. Bichard’ Giles waa! DY 4S a convoy. It is the intention of her commander to make Liverpool called from Cold Mpring, Bhe did B9t | if possible toa- November Willie the He maid if ft didn't go back Oa ~~ } \ rally, and she died at 10 o'clock last in Bion ba rer gpa bd oe night, Mer husband was with her ‘The explosion which shattered the bull of the Nebraskan was belew ry-third str 1 want down to Bieakh Mildren arrived soon after Her) the water line and forward. As soon as the vessel was struck all hasés jQwney Maddenw he artere at N | 7 “red J Thirty-third wtreet 4 Fenth * 1% yas born in New York! were ordered to abandon the ship, Officers and crew took to therboats about waty years ago member of the 1 Khe naa hesihe rho and pulled away, expecting that the verse! would go to the bottom im @ and was Marion Graven Authon, She] few minutes, for the explosion had beea terrific Willie and Watey| wee married on Jun 1, 1676, t then call him up Whes it became apparent that the Nebraskan's bulkheads were holée cabinet me ing the crew went abowrd again, An examination showed that ouly the Hecrotary of Miu President Grant From the bee ving of her social lower boldy had admitted water © o'clock to-night, should Ld ENTRIES. |" career Mire, Vie war noted for ber Nhe Nevrasken ie an ol) burning steamer and her tuel « alaken her speed of thirteen knot» | His Death Warrant Signed b | hw Vl oriminelity, her genuromity und the wel eupply was to A feet of fuse was shar red to? wn Cinadie ' I eines eae a 1, BACK TALK, BH LMONT PARK vey and iors uf her ¢ ue) tact Capt Greew a 4 head wer wround and started for the Magiiss o out toward Wire udges of Appeals Court | yy OE gem y ey a iantyla Cedak Bio ab totind wry ye *'! Channel, sending out 4 O ® wireless signals. Jt wee not long before ax ye en e-ide . . ; ¥ . | altace wan wf hand Capt Green retueed » tow and while the vessel te my baal bs Mie : seoring vadly he will prolmbly be able lo handle ber under her own steam " * Aoi SF wo watt aye to enter 4 harbor ‘ : “ r vanced Guernetowe thie aflervoun on her way to Liverpool, pre Say. | ceding wader ber own steam of 6 bacte ao hour t : at Giew Uist, t prowl eyed te wuntinued the Nebresken will reach Liverpesh f ~ “ de o fue ‘ row whe P I i enee Gael wan sand walt sis The rovotde show that the Nebresken Lae made turer Voyages to thie y Muthel “ i | side winee tinea of the war, he touk © cargo of colton Wy Bremen, § wee i Te ” * * eonerel carne to Landon, aad another generel carte Wo Laverpoul. The » p ; bracken left Laverpoul lor the Delaware Capes two days age : the A ’ WAKHINGTON, May 14 Coneul Generel Shdawer, sietioned ot Lane : y don, notified the Mate lepertueut 0 w'clow t 4 ; ' ; ‘ ” veruneut ot ik of the Ne o0 oes , 7 ’ rs 4 ie the following coblegraw ‘ ‘ ‘ ° . ~ er uioe “Admirelty reports Amerivan vleamer Seurasban, Liverpool , * v ™ te , jor Velaware Dreah water, torpedoed torty miles south by weet r ou ; “ ‘a r Vavturt, (10m aed bowle vlanding by, Wenther tine, Bu direct a] ‘ ee 6 ° 2 soporte.” . - . nt Come on Ce Leilani deaeter, Ue news thet snother Ameriaap PA t A ° / . hf im CEES eon bad Ween endewnered arvueed more thew ordinary attention, wut all ! Pike ye . A * ee syorrd to bear details betute making eomment, Ae Ornenien - «ee f ‘ INDICT UNDERWOOD OF ERIE P 4 nanan ane 0 surprise t0 Atte Cae Mare Herewue tol hoe Ore : ’ suey eourted Udore Y w' choc let wight. AN feign vey AIMANT, Me ss " hg ’ ‘ e * lever 1007 bare bad (helt nemee ent wationaiities Merehell of New Vorb ‘ , ’ ° 1 “ 4 ore + 00 (helt Wiles ond have Bown levee fogs Veale named Buyer intend ' : i . ee “ ye sta 2 “4 e worn # ond © aloe be the Cwtlight hour te the Bettie oy, ve aa - , sierter owas Wo Mitte Hire wie Vy teva ‘ ' . Jue 01) newnne (rom (he Nebraskan was received at the Lané’p euceendes vy Marth tiie + te -s “e ’ ’ ot ff Mateiell be Mauer, pe 4090, show, O81, brine! t ont Tow ih | ONed isles a+ 8 Me “6 “ eipanissiigy beep ebioven, Moos, teow, be colgids, bays Dine us Wh the Wee — besese, Osi lu o bengiiel base We-day,” ty Helene eablge o Skikiaitlll, Sun eupeenae anid phe = , J ‘ J _ eee.