LANDED AT QUEENSTOWN.

Northern Advocate, 10 May 1915, Page 4

LANDED AT QUEENSTOWN.

The Admiralty announces that between f>oo and 000 survivors from iho Lusitania have been landed ;.t Queenstown.

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ENGINE ROOM PIERCEDj FORTY BABIES. STOCK EXCHANGE INDIGNATION". (Reed. 10.50 p.m.) LONDON. May 8. The Admiralty denies the statement that the Luskanki carried guns. A .Mansion House Fund has been opened. Violehit hostility was shown to the German members of the Stock Exchange. Several vere thrown out of the building. Many passengers were siupiiied by the fumes of the torpedoe.-; before the vessel made her final plunge. The Lusltania's stern rose high in the air for several minutes. Stoker Tonner, who also escaped from the Titanic, states that a torpedo went right through the engine-roo n. A few moments later the ship \v?.s. torpedoed on the port side, suggesting that two submarines were lying ;a wait. Mr Cowper, a Toronto journalist, caught a glimpse of a conning tower at one thousand yards distant aii:! then noticed the track of a torpedo. The Lusitania was struck forwardA loud explosion followed and portions of the splintered hull were seiu Hying into the air. A few seconds later another torp>edo struck her. The crew immediately g:u ;ss many passengers into the; boats as possf.bi-. j and everything was done in an or.ier- j ly way. j Some-of the boats could not bo launched, and had to be cut aws:\; aa the vessel was sinking. There were a large number oi" women in the seeond-eiass ami a.boti: forty babies. Mr D. A. Thomas states that Tbady Alacworth was picked up unconscious, after being in the water fo;r vV 3 hours, but she recovered.