SUBMARINISM.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 5

SUBMARINISM.

THE LEINSTER HORROR.

DETAILS OF THE DISASTER

NO HOPE OF FURTHER SUR.VIVORS

/Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, Oct. 11

The Leinster was struck in the.en-gine-room. There was :i terrible explosion, which killed a number, including seventy in a lifeboat hanging in the davits. A few boats were launched. Some were overturned. The rafts saved many. There is no hope of survivors as the tragedy occurred in daylight and fifty vessels,, including naval craft, were soon on the scene.

The vessel was torpedoed forward and heeled over. The crew began to lower lifeboats, and the second torpedo, three minutes later, struck the engine-room with a deafening explosion, blowing the funnels in the air and killing the captain.

One of the crew says the steambr seemed, to crumble to ashes and sank in fifteen minutes.

Six hundred and thirty passengers

and seventy crew were on board, including a number of women and children. Most were thrown headlong in the water. It was only possible to lower a few boats. These were overcrowded. One filled with water and overturned. A number of survivors were picked up clinging to the-overturned boat, others were on rafts cast from the decks. ' \ Five hundred are missing. i

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