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mm IkKl 'Wi 9 . VOL. 10, NO 62, SE MORE THAN WHEN SI Two Torpedoes We i Submarine?N STEAMER WAS ONLY Was on Last Leg of He Struck by the Torpe able to G London, May 7.?The Cuuar er Lusitania, which sailed o New York last Saturday with than 2,Out) persons aboard, II the bottom of the ocean off the coast. She was sunk by a U< sumarlne, which sent two t< does crashing into her side whi passengers were at luncheon. How many of the Lusitania* sengers and crew were rescuec not be told, but the olHcial ments from the British Admc 1 up to midnight accounted ro [ more than five hundred or six I dred. I A ship's steward, who landec I others at Queenstown, gave it ^ opinion that iH)0 persons wen There were dead and woi | among those brought ashore; 1 since have died, But not a na j rescued or lost, or dead or it 1 has been listed oiticially. g The Lusitnnia was steaming I about 10 miles off Old Head K I on the last leg of her voys I Liverpool when about 2 o'clc 1 the afternoon a submarine sui j appeared and so far as all r L go, fired two torpedoes w J warning at the steamer. One i r her near the bows and the f in the engine room. I The powerful agents of d f tion tore through the vessel'i I causing terrific explosions. A I immediately great volumes of J poured through the openings ai [ Lusitania listed. Boats wmcn weru #ncauj i out on the davits were dropped board and were speedily filled passengers who had been appal the desperate attack. A wirele for help was sent out, and In * ately rescue boats of all kinds sent both from the neighl points along the coast and Q town. Within 15 minutes, as on< * vivor estimated, and certainly 1 half an hour, the Lusitania ha appeared. * , Where Great Britain's fastes chant vessel went down?Old Klnsale?is ai landmark that brought joy to many travelers always has 3tood as the^^p shoreJ that the perils of tne ^ across the Atlantic were at ai The line whose boast that never lost a passenger in the AI service lias lost the ship that d the lurking en$my off Nan Light the dav after war was <! ed and later startled the woi dying the Stars and Stripes. The Britlsn admiralty is dl aging the publication of sui and guesses regarding the dea I injured. Even before detail known the British press is i 1 editorially what will the I States say to this event and ho she hold Germany to the "strl countabillty" mentioned in pr ^ diplomatic corresdjfeidence. j The office of the Cunard Lin< ed shortly after 11 o'clock t? i and officers of the company there would be no further inf tion coming from the line unt (offices' opened tomorrow. Late messages received t< from the Pnnard Line offlot 3 Liverpool incidated that no di ni information would be forthc< tonight as the officers were i jf] all attention to the persons J Among the last messages re MI-WEEKLY. A THOUSAND LIVE [HMER LUSITANIA re Sent Crashing Into the Side ot More Than 600 of 2,000 > the Vessel Accounted For. TEN MILES OFF THE COAST ? Sto r Journey to Liverpool When does ?Ship Officers Are Un- , rive List of Rescued. sto el lin- were several stating that individuals se(' ut of were saved. In these messages were daj more the names of (leorge Kessler, a New ,.mi Les at York wine agent; Miss Jessie Taft eas Irish Smith, Braceville, Oltio; Mrs. II. B. jrmuu Lasseter, wife of Gen. H. B. Lasseter NaI irepe- and their son, P. Lasseter, of Lon- ovc le the don. Mrs. Lasseter and her son we were booked from Sydney, Australia. tj1 s pas- ? Y5 1 can- New York, May 7.?First Cabin ^ state- Lusitania passengers in addition to srialtv those already mentioned in dispatch- 8tu r not es included: pe( hun- Jullicn de Ayala, Cuban consul ,na genernl at Liverpool. <lis 1 with Leonidas Bistie, Atlanta; W. Brod- 'lU| as his erick-CIeote, San Antonio. Texas; evt 5 lost. 1,r- Padilla, consul general for 8Uf . , Mexico in Great Britain; Leo M. ,$a undeu Behwabacher, Baltimore, H. B. aiH j Bonneborn, Baltimore; Commander a,ie . J. Foster Stack house, London; D. A. ,n" ljured 1. . ,.v, I i Humus, v.iiiuiii, wmcsj i;nanos | I Frohman, New York; John W. Mc-1 along council, Memphis, Tenn.; C. Har- VNa insale WO(U| Kniglit, Baltimore; Miss Elaine |BtT ige to jj Knight, Baltimore; Sir Hugh I n'r ick In j^ane, England; Mrs. Elbert Hub- *101 Idenly bard, East Aurora, N. Y. no1 eports yet lthout Pittsburg, May 7.?Among the Tl1 itriuk pag8engera on tbe Lusitauia were 10 ^n< ot'iel membc's of the Gwent Welsli Male * Chorus, returning to Europe afte^ a estru- tour of the United States. Four a side members of the chorus had booked dmost passages but at the last moment dewater (>i(ied not to sail. ^ ltd the Michael Ward, 10 years a street ou oar motorman, was on the Lusi9wung tania with his savings of $5,000, vei over- bound for Greenhall, Ballvsliannon. t hf I with County Donegal, Ireland, where he CSC led by had purchased a farm, a, call . ml imedi- Philadelphia, May 7.?S. M. Knox, l)U1 i were president of the New York Ship- , boring building Company, Camden; Willinm Rf)j ueens- Sterling Hodges, Paris representative tio of the Baldwin Locomotive Works; un e flur- Harry J. Keser, vice president of the ,j1< within Philadelphia Nati nal Bank and l)(>, d dis- wife, and Paul Cynpton .vice presi dent of the Surplus Leather L'omt mer- Pany? were among the 28 PhllalelHead phia Passengers on the Lusltania Co has ^ i as It Chicago, May 7.?Ten natives of from Persia, among them Stephen Oahn, a Fri -oyage naturalized citizen, were among the hai i end. Chicagonians on the Lusltania. Mon- nu It has tagu ?rant' who with his wife was a K,r tlantlc Pa88onKer. was not a naturalized citedged i?en' HiB wlfe wa9 a "ative of Vir- P?' tucket K,nia- The>' were going to England Pd leclar- to vl8'1 Grant's relatives. wa . > v. Id by Liverpool, May 7.?Scenes remiscour nlseent of the Titanic and the Kmrmises press of Ireland disasters were to d and be witnessed in Liverpool tonight. ast is are where a large crowd, chiefly women taking relatives of the crew of the Lusltania no' Jnited gathered outside the Cunard office on w will anxiously awaiting news of their wil ct ac- te* * ,iA, . . nht evlous Dime was avanaDle, however, but the people remained calm, although . the strain was terrible, 5 clos- _ . ,. . , . . jut . . . So far as could be learned here might me , . , tonight, the Lusitania had no guns .. stated . . - ths aboard. orma- /?ot 11 the London, May 8.?12:30 a. m.? A8 The American embassy and consulate jnigjit an(j tjj0 American newspaper ofllces ')al lfl in have been flooded with telephonic in- UP' efinite qulrlea from Americans as to the omtng fate ot passengers on the Lusitania. ,n8 giving The embassy decided to remain I saved opp,n aij n|ght so that any news that ,al< by ceived (Continued on Pisie Three.) hac LANCASTER, S. C., TUE8 S LOST ST/ GOES DOWN 1 Jap; of Vessel by Germam Persons Aboard Rl< As I?i ERSHAW SUFFERS u FROM WIND'S FORCE nKi< ? emb rm DoHtroys Practically Ever)- cour (liiim in Itn l'atli?John 11. firm linker Loses Heavily. nigl; tershaw Special to The State, Mat- ,>'t ' out 1 -One of the most destructive wind rp rnis that lias ever visited this tj,js lion passed through here yester- ; stag r afternoon about 2 o'clock. Its j ^ irse was almost due west to duel^a')' resi t and for a distance of about 20o i IX>vj ds wide it literally destroyed ! aVoi srythlng In its pathway. Trees I Eos re twisted from their roots and i nat< ! tops carried in some cases 50 or si<,< obj< yards; barns were blown down, {jer; jses unroofed, stock killed, food- whi ff and provender scattered. The com :uliarity of the cyclone was the " nner in which at almost regular in t tanccs it would dip down like a the ge scoop and pick up and destroy Jap irything in its path. The largest mai 1'erer from the storm was John R, lati: ker, one of the most progressive | tioi: i prosperous farmers in this sec-1 Jap n, who lost practically every < the ilding on his plantation with the two option of three or , four rooms insi t of his residence. This building Orn s partly wrecked by lightning1 pro iking a tree in the yard and run- ( avo ik in mi inu u ire, KiiocKiug a imp 1 ; 10 c le In the side of the house, and yet | rito t one of the family was shocked,land all were in the room at the time, occi e roof and sides of the dining room to t :1 kitchen were blown off and in < ling pinned underneath the debris ciU( j bodies of Hen Hakcr and Lewis to ( ker. Fortunately neither was; rjgj rt, Hen Haker crawling out at (ho: le. Lewis Haker was pinned down 8pe( some timbers and had to be cut jap t but besides a few bruises and an(i atches he is not hurt. One mule thoi s killed outright and another was oua y badly hurt. The other four bee it were in the stables at the time ami aped. Two or three barns on the a m of Lawrence Jones, about a naj le distant, were also blown down, the t no one was hurt. Large numbers to s the citizens of this town have hoe 1 Kar, ing out to the scenes of destruc- chl n all the afternoon and it is the n)ai iversal opinion of every one of an(j ?m that nothing like it has ever 0f :ie seen in this county before. ! The ! nat FRANK SKNTKNTKI) AGAIN. Rre ndeiuiicd to Die on Tuesday, i June 22. t(> ' itlnnla dn Maw TO T ot. \t |Pre ank was today resentenced to be; n aged on Tuesday, June 22, for the | irder of Mary Phagan, a factory j 1. Sentence was passed by Judge | pec n H. Hill of the Fulton county su- oJ) ior court. Mary Phagan was kill-i . . i rift April 26, 1913. Before sentence | f s pronounced, Frank make a state-1 lit to the court, reiterating his J bot] deration of innocence. ! ^ Frank had prepared his statement | (,bi advance, and when Judge Hill ^ ted him if he had anything to say pon y sen ten ee should not be pro- tjaj uneed upon him, the prisoner stood Jb(> )ct with his head thrown back and thout once referring to the writ , sur i text, declaimed it with the em- ocyQ HfsH asis and gesture of an attorney sha king a plea before the court. hcr When Frank had finished, the Ige recited briefly the legal judg- nc nts in the case and then ordered (,lia it the original sentence of the CftU irt be executed and set the day. tarj the Judge concluded, Mrs. Frank. 0 sat at a table with her husid's attorneys, bowed her head i an her arms on the table and sob- has 1 quietly. Frank remained stand- of ' ;, turned a moment to glance at j't r wife and immediately after was the ;en from the court room to his cell soal the sheriff and two deputies who ; 11 v' 1 accompanied hlrn from the Jail. ? ~ ? DAY, MAY 11. 1915. ITEMENT OF CHINA'S RA IDE OF THE QUESTION an Gives Reasons for Submit ng Demands at This Time. TOR IID SILENCE BROKEN. Tliis X Acrcptcd Draft Eliminates or uts Aside Some Demands Most Objectionable to China. Sevt Washington, May 3.?Silence "" u' lly maintained by tlie Japanese lla,naK assy here throughout the long ! sweepi se of negotiations over Japan's ! Pee I) ands on China was broken to- t,nvn ( it by tlie issuance of a statement >ared by tlie Tokio foreign otllce, , (<>un'^ iniug the Japanese government't i 80(1 'ol tniiu I'av 1 n,M' ?nuuillitUUg Ul'IIlcllUlS ill *" "*v" time and reviewing various I ;os of the negotiations. was ii ince tliis statement was written roof c an lias presented an ultimatum empi0 ilting in China's acceptance of a sed draft of the demands and the I s',n" "ting of a great crisis in tlie Far ' Kro P' t. As accepted the draft elimi-1 -pse i is or puts aside for future con- { MjSi ration some of the demands most .Ul(j j ictionable to China; and it is unwore 1 stood to contain no features eh American officials regard as ' travening American treaty riglits. a 80 a The imperial government have, nnia 1 he proposals lately presented to Nvas ^ Chinese government," says the A aneso statement, "made it their ^'anni 11 object to adjust matters reng to and to meet the new situa- \ 1 1 created by. the war between un an and Germany; to strengthen " friendly relations subsisting be-iwn,'v en Japan and China, and thus to ' were ire permanent peace in the lent. They, in formulating these posals, had taken special care to ' an,a| id tliose which might tie deemed ' nlr< *onttict with the principies of* tor- ' rial integrity, equal opportunity | ( In. the open door which Japan had ' " ision, time and again, to declare i ' r>' . 1 baby 1 he powers. when Accordingly, these proposals in-|0|,rtll4. le, among others, those relating were the disposition of the German V..?relv tts in the province of Shantung. se relating to the recognition of a cial position and interests which an possesses in South Manchuria 1p-t in Eastern Inner Mongolia, se relating to the solution of vari- Total questions which for years have n pending between the Japanese Xev the Chinese governments." Steam >fter reciting the text of the origi- nounc five grops of Japanese proposals, cableg statement includes an argument ,,Uj mstain the Japanese claims. Ite-! vice t ding Shantung, it is alleged that includ na lacks power to prevent Get- crew, ly from recovering that province ! "Or becoming in the future a source jes re disturbance in the Far East, and 5 ;refore, it is asserted that it was , ies co ural that Japan, having with . at sacrifice driven Germany out 1 Thirty Shantung should take measures I crew.' dispose of her rights there and \ < vent a recrudescence of a German Londe uenec there. 771. 'ouching Manchuria and also explai tern Inner Mongolia, it is said. I Japan's relations there are es- .\rran tally cuose, geographically and tincally, commercla'ly and indus- i_ol lly, and following two successful dispat s, the predominant position of accort an mwrein lias ueen recognized rnents ti at home and abroad. victim 'he foreign oflice reproaches tlio t< na for alleged violation of an un- morni standing with Japan thot the sjon ,, ferences were strictly conflden- ttie af . and for having "made public head t Japanese propostals in various e(j a( ggerated forms and endeavored to ,\ s up ill feeling of the powers! hratec Inst. Japan and attempting to with t ke confidence placed In Japan by Memo allies." China also is charged when h making demands, such as the eral f onditlonal retrocession of Kia the ee u and Indemnity for tfie damage : sed China by the Japanese mill- : r onerations. ' suram Drought Ilrokcn. to IOC 'he long continued drought, which j sunk, prevailed over the greater part ,.arKO( he county for several weeks, was 1 ken last Friday by splendid rains. oent f allied steadily the greater part of for CI afternoon and into the night, was s king the ground thoroughly. And ha<j ^ vas not attended by wind and I and did not wash the land as 1 WGr0 pened in oilier counties. 1 rates. ^ ?* " ? ? m TTrnir ap m 11LKI ur 51 ATTACKED 1 NADO IN PEE DEE COST SEVEN LIVES umber Killed in Town of Man- ; iik and Marlboro Count v. ( rent Property Damage. >n persons were killed, at least ere injured and great property e was inflicted by a tornado ng through a section of the ee Friday afternoon. The )f Manning, parts of Marlboro , Elloree and the Pond Hollow j i of Darlington county suffer- ! st from the force of the storm. Manning Miss Clara Daggett nstantly killed by the falling f the store in which she was I yed as saleswoman. In the block Deasley Davis and a tie- j >rter lost their lives in the col- I of a store. 3 Inez Tart, 15 years of age, er younger brother, Carl Tart, j tilled on the plantation of jTk". | son in Marlboro county. Here n infant was killed. A negro s of the Marlboro county home illed. ?art of the business section of ng was completely demolished, st seven persons were injured, st of injured may be increased restigation. Marlboro the county home was ed, including sections for both people and negroes. (Eleven injured. jree suffered much property Se but no loss of life. Two lies and a large warehouse were to tlie ground, the Pont; Hollow section of igton county, near Hnrtsville, Dud Dickson was holding the nf >i no<?l? /"it l,. ... ..lignum, v lurence untidy, her house was blown down her ears. Woman and child blown JO yards and both soinjured. lit tenant houses were blown in scores and many families lemselves without h^mes.?Coil State, Saturday, May b. Number of Survivors Placed at by Latest List. v York, May 9.?The Cunard ship Company tonight aned the receipt of the following ;ram from Liverpool: > to midnight Queenstown ad uuu maimer or survivors 7fi4, ling 4t>2 passengers and 302 le hundred and forty-four bodcovered. of which 87 identified 7 unidentified. Identified bodtnprise f>5 passengers, 22 crew, imher of persons injured; r passengers and seventeen Sunday night dispatch from in said the survivors numbered The discrepancy probably 's ned by a duplication in names." gemcnts for Funeral of I.usitania Victims. idon, May 9.?A Central News ch from Queenstown says that ling to the present arrangefor the burial of Lusitania's is the coffins will be borne from >wn naii ai :? o'clock in the ng, but that the funeral procesiroper will leave at 3 o'clock in ternoon for the cemetery. The of the procession will be forinthe Cunard offices, ipecial high mass will be cele1 at St .Coleman's Cathedral he Hishop of Cloyne officiating, rial services also will be held ever it is practicable. A genuneral service will be held at metery over the 139 coffins. Marine Insurance Rises. v York, May 10.?Marine in* re rates have advanced from 75 l points since the Lusitania was At a rate of 2 Vfc per cent on >s destined for London, 2 per or Liverpool and 1 % per cent lasgow prevailed today. It aid that the upward tendency een checked and that policies being freely offered at these ?? .. . . - ?? I?1,1*11 Igu ' y ====================== $1.50 A YKM?. rinii/1 A nmrn UDlllfllUHLi fflE LUSITANIA j 1 Cunard Officials Also of Opinion That Several Lay in Wait for Liner. . MANY DEEDS OF HEROISM | Naval Officers at Queenstown Sav \Vir?*l??e o-a? ? viucia tTf | Sent Vessel to Take .Middle Channel. Queenstown, May ?A smear oJ j flotsam 011 the face of a calm sea twenty-three miles from this port marks the crave of the Cunardcr L Dusitania. victim of a Clerman submarine. One hunderd and forty- 1:110 rf tiio 1.200 person who perished t'ith tho liner lie iii impioved markues in old buildings that line the Oueeitftown harbor. They either were picked up dead or suocubed at I' r landing. The 645 survivors of the disaster here are quartered in hotels, resiI dents and hospitals, some too badlyhurt to he moved. Two groups left Saturday afternoon and evening clad i in misfit clothing for Dublin by rail M and thence by boat to Holy Head. The injuries of some are soserious that addintional deaths are expected and nearly all are too dazed to under stan ' fully what his happened. I The survivors do not agree as to i whether the submarine fire-1 one or two torepdoos. A few say they saw mi: periscope and many attest to tracing tlie wake of loam as a projectile raced toward th.? vessel , The only points in which all concur is that the torpedo struck tho vessel a vital spot amidship. closing her to list almo t immediately to the starboard. In this careening fashion she ploughed forward some distance, smashing the lifeboats' devits as she did so and making the launening of boats well-nigh impossible until headway had ceased. FIKST BOAT LAUNCHED, i How f..r the Lusitania struggled forward after being struck and how long it was before she disappeared I beneath the waves are points on which few passengers agree, estimates of the time she remained atloat ranging from 8 to 20 minutes. The list to starboard so elevated lifeboats on the port side as to render them useless and it'is said only two on that side were launched. The tirst of those, according to the custom of the sea, was tilled with women and children. It struck the water unevenly, captsizing and (1 throwing its sixty occupants into the sea. The Lusitania even then was making considerable headway and t?.o 1 i ? ...v. vi. Him viuiiiruii were swept to death in spite of the attempts of two stokers to rescue them. These I heroic men. according to passengers, were drowned. After that several boats were launched successfully, but the steam: er's list grew more perilous, the decks slanting to such an angle that ; it was imperative for all to cling to the starboard rail. Many by this time had donned lifebelts and jumped. Several lifeboats broke adrift I unoccupied and the sea became a I froth of oars, chairs, debris and human bodies. j RESCUED BY STOKERS. Two stokers seeing a drifting boat dived overboard, recovered it and pulled in nearly forty persons, mostly women. The Lusitania's crew, meanwhile adhered to the letter to instructions and the discipline was rigid, although one or two subordi- ^ nate officers are said to have told a group of passengers who had climbed into a boat, that there was no im- 1 mediate danger and advised them to remain on deck a while longer. Whether this was due to the fact that the subordinate lost their heads, or to their conviction that the ship's bulkheads would save her, never will be determined. All day yesterday in hotel corridors, halls and reception rooms survivors sat listlessly, still too dazed to discuss what had occurred. They were dressed in a variety of garments. Some were crying, some (Continued on Page Eight.) , u m , an I'll %