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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1915
Page
8
Reports say German submarines forced the Lusitania toward danger, with a second torpedo causing rapid sinking. survivors recount early confidence in watertight compartments, delays launching boats, and unescorted voyage eight miles from land as two destroyers arrive too late. Captains Miller and Castle will investigate.
The Lusitania torpedoing near Queenstown destroys the Crompton family from Philadelphia among 149 dead and 645 survivors. Story details survivor accounts, rescue efforts, morgue scenes, and chaos as ships and crowds search for loved ones.
Boston's Charles E. Lauriat Jr with James Brooks and others helped boarding a collapsible lifeboat after the Lusitania sank. They gathered 52 aboard, rescued 30, and brought them to Queenstown aboard the Stormcock. The account details heroism, grief, and questions about missing passengers.
Toronto newspaperman Ernest Cowper recounts seeing a submarine about an hour and a quarter before the Lusitania was struck. He and James Rogers observed a wake and a conning tower as the vessel appeared to swerve and head them off, claiming a deliberate double torpedo strike.
Captain Turner told reporters in London that Germany has spread false claims that the Lusitania was sunk by an internal infernal machine. He said he saw the periscope, tracked the torpedo, and witnessed the explosion as the torpedo struck and the ship blew apart.
Elbert Hubbard who is among the Lusitania dead wrote a tribute to Stephen Crane in the Philistine of February 1897 upon Crane’s drowning report. Hubbard praised Crane’s courage and generosity, noting Crane faced death boldly and hoped to join him after death.
Dr Carl E B Foss of Montana who jumped into the sea as the Lusitania sank says he rescued women and children and revived many. He recalls the ship’s final plunge with boiler explosions and lingering boats still attached to the wreck. He claims the captain believed the vessel safe in fog and suspects one or more submarines attacked.
QUEENSTOWN May 9 Wesley Frost United States consul at Cork is obtaining affidavits concerning all the material facts of the torpedoing of the Cunard liner Lusitania from Miss Jessie Taft Smith of Braceville Ohio Dr Howard Fisher of New York and Robert Rankin of New York These survivors will cable to the State Department at Washington about 300 words each.
In Queenstown on May 9 Captain Turner walked the streets with bowed head. He wore civilian clothing loaned by a local banker who had hosted him earlier, later donning his stained uniform and passing through crowds few recognized him.
American Consul Frost in Cork reports that anyone not listed as survivor or identified dead is presumed missing and almost certainly dead. No news on survivors Vanderbilt Stone Shields Myers Klein Hubbard or their bodies.
The Lionnel Company plant in Needham, maker of patent leather varnish, was nearly destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Explosions of benzol and other explosives in the building threatened firefighters as several barrels blew out a portion of the front after the initial alarm.
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