"_How We Saw Our Ship Go Down--Torpedoed by a German Submarine_"
_Told by Passengers of the Ill-Fated "Lusitania"_
These tragic stories are like voices from the grave--the ocean
giving up its dead. They are told by those who were saved from
the tragedy ship on that fearful day, May 7, 1915 (at 2:08 P.M.
Greenwich time) when the _Lusitania_, fifteen miles off "Old Head of
Winsale" on the Irish coast, was torpedoed by a German submarine.
The _Lusitania_ sailed from New York at noon, May 1, 1915, carrying
1,959 persons--passengers and crew. It had been warned by official
notices from the German embassy that it would be attacked by German
submarines, which only aggravates the crime by making plain its
deliberate intention. The voyage was uneventful until the seventh,
when the ship, running at 17 knots, was nearing its destination. It
was shortly after luncheon, the sea was calm, when two torpedoes
struck the _Lusitania_. The scenes of terror which followed are
described by the survivors--a few of their stories, typical of their
fearful experiences, are told here. The ship sank in less than twenty
minutes, and 1,198 men, women, and children went down into an ocean
grave.