The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, May 11, 1915, Image 1
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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.
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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
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$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
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