Lusitania Sinking Claims 115 American Deaths
The Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off Old Head of KinSALE. Death toll reports total 1,149 with 115 Americans among the dead and 764 survivors, 462 passengers and 302 crew. Bodies number 144 in Queenstown morgues with 287 identified. Survivors recount heroism and questions of crew calm and boat launch failures.
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Steamship
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Huil
Cunard
Ireland
Kinsale
New York
Cunard Line
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Elbert Hubbard
The
Philistine
East Aurora
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Fra Albertus
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Charles Frohman
Justus Forman
Charles Klein
Frohman
Herbert Stuart Stone
Associated Press
Vanderbilt
Thomas Slidell
Mr. Slidell
Mr. Vanderbilt
Hubbards
Dr. Foss
Montana
Survivors of Lusitania recount near drowning ordeal
George A. Kessler, among twenty nine Lusitania survivors in London, describes torpedo impact at 2 16 and the frantic moments as lifeboats flooded and the ship sank. He recalls seven stokers dead and six alive in a drenched boat while others vanished in the whirlpool. A teenage heroine Kathleen Kaye aided passengers, while R J Timmis and Moodie endured long swims with lifebelts shared before rescue.
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George A. Kessler
London
Kathleen Kaye
New York
R. J. Timmis
Gainesville
Tex
England
T. Moodie
Lusitania
Timmis
Moodie
Term Ends Brightly With Attendance Milestones
A very successful term of school work concluded Friday May 7 with perfect attendance in the group including Mike Renshaw Charles Sevain Aaron Booth Lula Muffley Mabel Booth Roy Gance Anna Griffith Hilda Booth Geo Stephanchick Joseph Hans Gladys Kritzer and J Blair Muffley. Commencement exercises at the Presbyterian church May 7 featured an address by Mr Jackson superintendent of Punxsutawney Schools.
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Lula Muffley
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Roy Gance
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Hilda Booth
Geo. Stephanchick
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J. Blair Muffley
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Punxéutawney
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Indiana
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New Florence
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Cambria Steel Company
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Mc Henry
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Iselin
Alfred Hopkins
William Milden
Pat Cole
Homer City
Penn-Mary Coal Company
Harry Davis
Hastings
Thomas Donahue
Windber
Caton Smith
James 4. Sloan
Harriet BE. Monks
Punxsutawney
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