10 May 1915
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1915
Page
1
Six hundred forty five Lusitania survivors are quartered in Queenstown hotels accommodations and hospitals as the tragedy unfolds. Survivors describe the disaster and the chaos following the ship’s sinking.
One hundred forty nine victims remain unaccounted in improvised morgues set up in old buildings as rescue teams assess the aftermath of the disaster. Authorities warn more deaths are expected among the badly hurt.
Queenstown reports a day of many deaths with no new survivors added to the tally. Hospitals see no new deaths while graves are dug for unknown service members. A public funeral will be held with military pomp, aided by trucks to transport coffins. Lifeboat inadequacy stories emerge as survivors note five of thirty four lifeboats were launched.
Reports from Queenstown detail the Lusitania disaster with 149 dead among 1,200 aboard and 645 survivors housed in local hotels and hospitals. Survivors recount torpedo impact, chaotic lifeboat launches, and heroic stokers who saved many before the liner disappeared.
Survivors recount the Lusitania disaster as crowds in Queenstown mourn. Officials estimate speed and timing vary while a fleet of lifeboats and medical staff rush to assist the dying. Notables such as Klbert Hubbard Justus Miles Forman and Alfred G Van derbilt are named among those lost.
Dr Daniel Moore of Yankton describes sights aboard the Lusitania as it zigzagged toward shore and was torpedoed or mined. He recalls a mysterious object, the ship listing, lifeboats and rescuers, a boy with a broken thigh, and improvised splints while survivors clung to a keg and raft.
New estimates revise the death toll from a submarine attack, with a German U boat believed to have maneuvered a vessel into position for torpedoing, raising casualty figures to about 1100. The revised figures reflect updated naval records and survivor accounts.
London dispatch reports deep anger at Germany over the Lusitania disaster while life in Britain proceeds as usual. Survivors recount delays in boat launch and officers’ assurances of afloat, with about 700 escaped and 45 later dead. The tragedy prompts a Lord Mersey inquiry but officials deny Lusitania’s naval auxiliary status.
London reports Thomas Slidell of New York recounts Alfred G. Vanderbilt on the Lusitania deck when torpedoed. Vanderbilt removed his life belt to wrap a young woman, then searched for another belt before the ship vanished. He later searched survivors for Herbert Stone but could not locate him.
Dr J Jastrow of the University of Berlin says in a Tees correspondence that the first six weeks of the U S federal reserve banks show a quiet, impressive financial effort that could grow into a rival of substantial significance to the English money market.
Franklin Gutterman, general superintendent of the American Smelting & Refining Co. Colorado department, died today at his New York home. Pneumonia is listed as the cause. A renowned mining engineer, he served in Colorado for more than thirty years.
Evacuees from Italian cities flood into neighboring regions as trains in Switzerland carry large streams of refugees. Crowded carriages and tense scenes mark the mass movement amid the ongoing conflict and shifting fronts.
A Betlingen dispatch to the Temps reports Austrians and Germans fleeing Italy toward the frontier. Trains toward the frontier are crowded with Teutonic passengers including merchants and officials. Special trains evacuated about 3,000 Germans from Rome Florence and Bologna. Lugano and the frontier region fill with refugees as telephone service along the frontier is suspended and many trains are blocked. All German and Austrian journalists have left Italy.
An Italian army of 600 000 men fully equipped and ready for the field has been concentrated at Verona a fortified Italian city at the base of the Tyrolese Alps Verona lies twenty five miles from the Austrian frontier in Hungary This report from Vig Paris May Geneva Gieneva May.
Copenhagen correspondent reports Italy yesterday called all infantry to the color and sent many trains loaded with troops toward the front, as hostilities intensify and mobilization accelerates.
London April reports spotlight Dr Louise Garrett Anderson who leads a staff of women physicians forming a 100 bed military hospital at Endell Street for the War Office. Though not a commissioned officer, she holds rank equivalent to a British army major in the medical corps. She is daughter of Dr Elizabeth Anderson, noted as Maghind’s first woman mayor.
American Consul Frost at Cork cables that all unlisted persons are missing and almost certainly dead. No news of Vanderblit, Stone, Shields, Myers, Klein, or Hubbard, and no information on their remains.
Yesterday reports from Belgium France Russia and the Carpathians show mixed results. Germany and Austria claim advances near Ypres and in Flanders while British forces and French dispatches report repulses and heavy losses on several fronts. Swiss and Geneva sources note Italian troop movements and 600000 Italians concentrated at Verona.
Paris reports say British forces pushed in Fromelles region and north of Arras with gains toward Loos and Carency. They seized trenches four to seven kilometers wide, held La Tarnette and part of Neuville Saint Vaust, capturing over 2,000 prisoners and six cannons.
London May reporting that Sir John French confirms continued enemy attacks east of Ypres repulsed with heavy losses. He notes the first army advancing between Bois Grenier and Festubert gaining ground toward Fromentin. Air raids targeted St Andre railway junction and multiple canal bridges.
The dispatch notes enemy offensives at Libau with booty seized, a German attack repulsed north of the Narew near Wach, and quieter conditions on the Nida. Western Galicia sees continued but less frequent assaults, a regiment captures four enemy machine guns during a counterattack, and the Carpathians report repulsed attacks toward Mezoldbores and the upper Lomnitz.
Berlin reports successful western theatre offensives capturing Frezenbure Verle renhoek and 800 English prisoners. French attacks near Lievin Lorette failed with heavy losses while Austro German forces push enemy toward Tarnow and Vistula as Meuse Moselle area sees little action.
Petrograd reports a military dispatch from May 7 detailing Soviet forces moving southwest of Mitanear and forcing the enemy to evacuate fortified positions. The statement notes successful progress by troops and the retreat of German defenses.
Vienna reports that Austrian and Teutonic forces crossed the Carpathians into Hungary and pushed enemy lines from the Vistula to the Uzsok pass. Violent battles unfold in Galicia as Russia suffers 8,500 captives and a bridge head at Zalessycok falls. pursuit continues across the Dniester.
The Roosevelts statement denounces the Lusitania sinking as piracy with murder and warns that the United States will hold Germany strictly accountable for any wrongs to its citizens. It vows timely action without delay and upholds U S self-respect in enforcing the policy.
Letters signed by 400 British soldiers praise a Young Men's Christian Association recreation hut named for Queen Mary, located behind the fighting line in France. The Y M C A operates several shelters for soldiers, funded by English youth and pet owners, with plans to ship twenty four billiard tables and to plant flowers around the huts.
Berlin and Meidelberg began programs to teach disabled veterans new livelihoods and Dresden has added another under a one armed manager who has built a successful saw mill business. Eighteen men are in training learning shorthand writing and various trades with a job placement organization assisting after graduation.
Heavy snow drives elk released by Deputy Game Warden Page Otero and moved toward the Hamilton mesa have drifted back. Game Warden Baca was notified by Ed Irwin and asked to redirect the elk toward the mesa top.
President Wilson studies official reports on the Lusitania sinking and planned actions. He aims to outline policy at a cabinet meeting after a Philadelphia trip to address naturalized citizens and consider neutral rights amid German hostilities.
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