YOUNG MINER'S STORY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13774, 11 May 1915, Page 5

YOUNG MINER'S STORY.

A WELL-EQUIPPED FOREIGNER

LINER'S COURSE FREQUENTLY

CHANGED

SURVIVORS BROUGHT UP TO 761

(Received May 10, 9.40 p.m.)

London, May 10,

Harrison, a young miner, who was returning to enlist, twice gave up his lifebelt to a young woman with a child. He narrates that he saw a foreigner with five lifebelts. Another man seized one, and the foreigner cried like a child.

Harrison, when thrown into the sea, swam to an upturned boat which was supporting 48 others. Men, women, and children were floating head downwards all around. Many had life belts.

The forty-nine clung to the boat for two hours.

Passengers state that during the latter part of the voyage the Lusitania's course was frequently changed.

A member of the crew told a passenger that the vessel had dodged three sxibmarines.

The Cunard Company state that the survivors total 487 passengers and 274 of the crew.