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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1915
Page
3
A cablegram from Charles E. Lauriat Jr. describing a seafaring incident outlines how he survived a ship collision near Queenstown. He details leaping, swimming, and boarding a collapsible lifeboat with 32 aboard, saving his baby’s pictures and passport as he assisted four injured passengers before reaching safety.
Advertises inclusion in the new telephone directory with optional extension phone service at 50 cents per month. Orders accepted at 119 Milk Street or 165 Tremont Street in Boston, or by calling the Commercial Department at Fort Hill 1200.
A cable from Cunard line offices lists identified dead from the Lusitania sinking. Included are Mrs. G. W. Stephens of Montreal and Frank G. Naumann of New York among others in the first group, with second class entries like Rev. James A. Beattie and Michael Foley among the named dead and several unclassified survivors.
Dr. Owen Kenan of Wilmington North Carolina on the Lusitania passenger list from New York was found seriously ill in a Queenstown hotel. He reported seeing Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt near a gateway door as the ship faced danger and Vanderbilt wore a heavy overcoat with a lifebelt buckled. Kenan did not see Vanderbilt reach the rail.
Mrs Margaret Pirie and her two children Arthur and Margaret of 660 Boston Street Lynn were reported lost after traveling from New York on the Cameronia and trans to the Lusitania en route to Glasgow Scotland to join the father who left Lynn three months ago to work in a Glasgow arms plant. Arthur and Margaret attended Burrill and Bruce schools respectively and a nearby resident, Arthur Colby, sought news. Messages have been sent to Mr Pirie in Glasgow and a sister in New Jersey is seeking information.
The Cunard Steamship Company announced in New York that additional injured survivors are confined to Queenstown hospitals while others have been discharged. The list of discharged includes Schwarze August V New York Barnes Allen Barbour Miss Bessie Touhy Margaret Light Herbert McFadden Hugh Galt Ont Sheppardson Arthur Los Angeles Faulds Andrew Duncan Robert Montreal Leipold Miss C F E Hock Frank Judson Fred S New York Storck W Dixon Mrs A New York Gordon George Leary James J New York Myers Joseph crew.
The Tufts College flag flew at half mast for Frank S. Pearson Tufts 83 and Elbert Hubbard both victims of the Lusitania disaster. Pearson was a leading electrical engineer whose work concentrated in Mexico. Hubbard, an author and philosopher, received Tufts A M for his outstanding writing.
Newton youth William McMillan Adams, 19, was saved after being hurled from a smashed lifeboat and rescued by a trawler crew. Cablegram from Queenstown reports the incident as he traveled with his father Arthur Henry Adams, United States Rubber Tire Co. European manager, on the Lusitania en route to London after visiting grandparents in Newton.
The article recounts the Lusitania disaster with survivor William McMillan Adams, his account of the lifeboat crush, and his father among the lost. It notes Adams was born in Paris, educated in French schools and at Eton, and had recently joined English territorials before sailing.
A Reuters dispatch from Athens reports Greece's profound indignation over the Lusitania torpedoing. Hestia cites the German crime as evidence of cruelty alleged against Russian troops in East Prussia, criticizing Germany for hypocrisy.
A sea of mourners gathered as 64 unidentified Lusitania victims were laid to rest in three massive graves in Queenstown. Coffins of known Americans were embalmed and moved to the Cunard offices as photographs were taken.
Lindon W. Bates Jr. is missing after the Lusi tania incident. Newton B. Knox, an American mining engineer, was arrested with him and accused of being a German submarine officer. They were released after US Consul Frost vouched for them. No body trace of L. W. Bates Jr. was found along the coast.
Buenos Aires May 10 La Nacion edits an energetic protest against the torpedoing of the Justicia without warning. It calls the act an outrage against neutral rights and stirs global conscience.
Speaker Channing H. Cox urged all parties to rally behind President Wilson during the crisis. He called for temperate speech and rejected passion over reason amid inflammatory Lusitania related bills. The address was greeted with applause.
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