A GREAT CRASH.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13773, 10 May 1915, Page 5

A GREAT CRASH.

LINER SHAKEN FROM STEM TO

STERN,

COURAGE OF THE PASSENGERS

NO PANIC,

PORT BOATS NOT USABLE

LITTLE HOPE OF MORE

SURVIVORS

(Received May 9, 5.20 p.m.) London, May 8. Survivors stated that there was a great crash, and in the hustling, wives and children wore separated in the first confusion. There was no panic, and all quickly recovered their self-posses-sion. I The liner shivered from stem to stem. There was no chance of making for the shoro, as she settled immediate. I ly. The list was so great that the passengers feared the vessel would capsize. It was impossible to launch the port boats. Tho women and children were placed in tho boats first. The women who were saved visited j the Queen stown quays early this morn- ; ing to learn if their husbands and chil,dren had been saved. ; Forty-nine more survivors were laJ&ded at Queenstown from a drifter.' i The Admiralty announce that there is "little hope of there being more survivors. i The Bishop of London cabled to the "New York Trbune": "The sinking of ( the Lusitania is a colossal crime, stain-

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ing the reputation of its perpetrators for ever." Signor Marconi interrupted a German wireless message from the "New York World" to Herr Ballin, reading as follows: —"Believe a message from you in justification of the destruction of the Lusitania would be welcomed by millions of Gorman-Americans. Your reply would be of incalculable benefit to Germany in this crisis."