Tulsa Daily World (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 195, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 1915 Page: 1 of 10
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THOUSAND LIVES A
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TULSA OKLAHOMA SATURDAY M A
1 : I
T K N I' A il K S
PBICE FIVE CENTS
Feared 1000 Lives are Lost When Lusitanm
Goes Down as Undersea
Many NoSables on Board
The Giant British Liner;
Hit Oft Coast ot Ireland
Six'Hundred Survivors Are Landed at
Queenstown; Rivals Titanic
And Empress Disaster
er's Victim
Lusitania Torpedoed and Sunk Yesterday; She Was First
Ship to Fly American Flag
o
the
JEENSTOWN
landed here a
I iiisitania.
. Maj
aid
In- l".
BULLETINS.
3. A Bteward in thb first
lared !0() Uvea wew lust 1 tl
boat which
e sinking of
at
Landing Survivors.
NEW YORK May 7. The Cunard Steamship company
9:45 p. in. received the following message from Liverpool:
"Queenstown wires Stormcook landing about 160 passengers
nud crew. It reported by the admiralty thai trawlers Duck and
Indian Empire have ahum gOO Tug Plying Fish about 100 Three
torpedo boats 45 and four dead. We arc putting those landed up
ni HiHVrVnt hotels and boarding houses bul we cannot give a list
of the survivors before morning as passengers arc in such a state
thai their immediate wants must be our first consideration."
LONDON .May B.
Iween BOO and 600 a
mded many of tbem
have been landed
ived.
I'sil
GOO Are Saved.
1:05 a. ra.) The admiralty states thai
urvivora from the Lusitania have now been
hospital cases Several have died. Some
at Kinsale the numbe'r not yet having been
LONDON. May
ifficial news of the
mde public.
No Official News.
1 1 :20 pi in. - s l'p
icnirers and crew ot
blockai
Washington Trembles on
Receipt of News; Wilson
Wilt Demand Reparation
First Thought of Wilson Is for Safety
Of the Americans; no Official
Statement Last Night
VV
the
lie
bo
rat LU8ttiana was tne rirst sun
laptain Dow her commander took the posit I
i protect them under the Stars and Stripes
re J ugi
hi that
hy hoisting
in.ism in'li as
Amerh
a 1 1 n il
n I.. i i
it
Ami
i ni
ricant
Hie
e had
the light
Oklahomans Were Aboard Lusitania
to the present
the Lusitania
hour mi
las hceii
survivors
LONDON.
of t!
May 8
e Lusit
Eleven at Kinsale.
-(2 a. m.) The admiralty sta
mia landed at Kinsale number i
tes that
le vcn.
tin
THOUSANDS AWAIT SAILED DESPITE
NEWS OF DISASTER GERMAN WARNINGS
Scenes at Liverpool
tecenl of Titanti
Empress Wrec
Remin-
and
First
News
iiner
111!
tteacnei
Sinking
New
York at 1 o'clock.
STRAIN IS TERRIBLE RELATIVES ANXIOUS
Ivfnnv Women Crowi
nard Office Seckiu
o News of Theii: Men
1 Cu-1 Telephone ('nils From
Parts of ( 'ountry I elu
Cunard Office.
All
L
VERPOOc May T.8cenea rem
iniscent ot the Titanic ami the
Empress of Ireland disasters were to
be witnessed In Liverpool tonight
where a large otowd chiefly women
relatives of tire crew of the Lusitania
gathered outside the Cunard office
snxiously a wailing news of their men.
Little was available however but
the people reiuaineii calm although
the strata was terrible.
S. fjir as could be learned here to-
night the Lusitania hail no guna
(boa rd.
160 ni Qncfenstown.
QUEENSTOWN Ma) v The tug
Storm Cock has returned here bring-
ing about 150 survivors of the Lust-
tania principally pusscng- rs among
whom were manj women several of
the crew and one steward.
Describing the experience on the
Lusitania the lt Ward said:
"The passengers were si lunch w hen
s sutminun. came up unl lire! two
NT
TULSAN RESENTS I
MAURER CHARGES
Three Oklahoma
City Persons on
Ill-Fate Ship
J i i i F. Rothsteir
tic Theater Po
Pennsylvania
of Majes
rmerh a
Officer.
JAP SHIPS READY
FOR EMERGENCIES
OFFICERS GOOD MEN
OKLAHOMA CITY May 7 Mr.
and Mrs I. Lewis and daughter
Edith of Oklahoma City were mi board
the Lusitania when she sailed from
New York. Lewis a prominent cot-
ten buyer was' en route to Liverpool.
A wail iiitf 'hina s Re
Japanese Prapare
for War.
Qonstabulary Never
criminated in linlusi
Troubles He Say
Dis
rial
(Continued On Page Six.)
iiii-tev Repulsed.
WABHINOTON May 7 The Car-
rnnza agency lure annoiiuceil tonight
the receipt of dblpatch from Vera
1'1U7 dated yesterday stating thai Urn-
oral Pablo Gonsales had reported that
General Trevlne repulsed "with Im-
portant losst an attuck of Villa
troops upon Kbalio." The DMaMge
added that Trevlno then "drove the
enemy from their positions' and that
the Villa forces lost about three hun
dtt.i killed and many prisoners.
KV Y"I!K May 7. The first
inws of the torpedoing - and
Inking jf the Cunard liner Lusitania
came shortly after 1 p m today
Ihrough an announcement from the
loeal offlces of the Cunard line that
an unconfirmed rumor to that effect
hud been received from abroad. Ixss
than an hour later the company made
public additional messages confirming I
the report which In ihe meantime i
however had been verilied by news-
paper dispatches from London.
Conflicting reports cams in during
the iftemoon to the line and to news
aRenetes In rejjurd to the safety of
the paSW ng rs but up to the early
hours' of the evening no definite in-
formation as to their fate had been
received here.
The publication Of the news created
tremendous excitement In Wall street
and there followed a violent decline
in both the stock and cotton markets.
Under an avalanche of selling orders
which reached their greatest volume
during the la-st hour of trading stocks
fell from S to 30 points and cotton
$L' 5ft a hal The to-called war stocks
like Bethlehem Bteei were especially
affected.
1351 Passengers
The Lusitania with a total of l.tll
passengers aboard of whom ins were
American and with a crew of sio
sailed from here InM Sat unity In the
face of a warn inn published on thi
day of her departure by the Herman
embassy which stated thut travelers
(Continued On I'age Six.)
THK Pennsylvania state constab-
ulary has never discriminated
in industrial troubles" said 'Hen P
Rothstetn loeal theatrical man yes-
terday when asked for his views on
the testimony given before the United
.States commissioner on industrial- re-
lations at Washington Thursday by
Janus Maurer president of the
Pennsylvania state federation of labor.
Mr. Rothsl -in joined the Pennsylvania
Constabulary shortly after Its orLMii-
R. J
I la ines-
otton
u ere
tailed
i Iklnlionia otton Buyer
'" GAINESVILLE Tex.. May 7
" mi mis and I!. T. Moody of
iiie Tex. two of the largest'
buyers In Texas and Oklahoma
aboard the Lusitania whan she
from New Fork Saturday.
Other passenger included Elbert
Hubbard publisher of the Philistine;
D A Thomas the multi-millionaire
W' Isli eoal operator and his daugh-
ter Lady Mackworth the English suf-
fraget All the persons took occasion
to say that i hey saw nothing to worry
about In the advertisement.
HOPE FOR
PEACE
V8H1NUTON Mit 7. L'resideut Wilson had just finished
1 ii 1 1 -1 1 - 1 1 iiiul was alimit to leave tlic While House ft n- n drive
when he heard the news of the sinking of the'Lusitania. At the cab-
inet meeting less than an hour before the torpedoing of the Amer-
ican steamer (Jufflighl with the death of three Americana had been
diHciiHHed and h partj of uabiuel members had gathered for luncheon
ul u neurbv hotel where the news was taken to them All the secre-
taries immediately hurried back to their offices.
The president's firsl question of the secretary who broughl him
the tlispatcll Wlis whether UIIV lles had heel) os and llis relict' Wits
evident when ho was told the firsl dispatch indicated thai all had
been saved. He abandoned his ride to keep in close touch with the
state department which sunn after transmitted t huu Ambassador
Page's cablegram which was the firsl official information to reach
the government and kepi to his study for the remainder of
afternoon reading dispatuheB as the secretaries brought them in.
made no comment atul-White House officials said nunc would
forthcoming at all until alter all the facts were known
Washington Shocked.
The degree nd' concern which the administration would feel in
the incident officials slated would be measured by whether any
American lies were sacrificed in the German coup to sink the big
liiur.
As the latter dispatch came in. iudioatiug that efforts to lave
had been successful profound relief was apparent.
Kven though it had been feared that the liner might be attacked
to the presidenl and his official family the news -w as a shock and n
surprise. Ii raighl truthfully be said that it hurst upon official
Washington like a bomb At the firsl moment all officials realized
that the number and importance of the Americans aboard the Lusi-
tania might face Washington with the most serious situation since
the outbreak of the war. For h hours officials silently and
gravely scanned the news dispatches and eagerly awaited sonic of-
ficial advices from Ljondon of the American consulates scattered
alone; the region of the disaster withheld their comment merely ex-
pressing the hope thai no Americans had been lost. The tension of
the firsl few hours however-in all branches of the government was
unconcealed It probably has not been equalled since the Mexican
crisis reached its height just two years ago.
Deluged- With Inquiries.
department and executive offices were deluged with a
stat.
'I
eai
olony.
After dinner tin
ivening reading tin
Iv stream of inquiries mans of which came from the diplomats
president returned to 'liis study and spent tin
dispatches.
Despite I
mantis 11
sires
IT
Di
r Mikado
Medial ion.
De
Isatlon In 1905 and
of the organisation
19lli He took part
disturbances and Is
was B member
until October
in many iubot
thoroughly ae-
sni Vntonlu Man
NEW YOKK May 7. Among 'the
Lualtalnia'a flrst cabin passengers was
v. Drodertck Cloete of San Antonio
Tra.
AGAINST UNIONS
OF FEDERATION
quoin ted with the work of the stats
troops.
"Mr Maureg" he continued "lias
for years tough! the constabulary At
(Continued On Page Ten.)
MRS. CARMAN GOES
ON WITNESS STAND
MINEJOLA May 7 - Mrs. Florence
Conklln Carman testified in her own
defense today at her trial on the
charge f murder in oonnectlon itit
the shooting of Mrs Louise u Bailey
In the office of her husband. I)r. Bdwln
Carman In Efreeport June no last
Her testimony was ulmost identical
w.th that related by her at the Aral
trial last fall which resulted In a Hh-
egreement n' direct-examination
Mrs Carman denied 'everything to
whbh Colli Coleman her former
negro maid had testified. She ad-
mitted there wns a pistol in her room
at tho time of the shootliiK. A small
automatic pistol was placed In ivt-
denee Th bullet that killed Mrs
Bailey was of large calibre.
After her cros.s-ixaiiilnatioti Mrs.
Carman burst Into tears.
It WSS the belief f counsel for both
.sides that the ease would go to the
juiy tomorrow afternoon.
IVABHIKOTON May 7. Ileurinns
on Pennsylvania railroad labor con-
ditions practically were concluded to-
day by the United States commission
on industrial relations.
11 ; -v. Crolghton general euperln-
tondent of th system at Altoona teetl-
t tied regarding the strike of shopmen
at Altoona In 1911 asserting that the
company did. everything in Its power
to prevent the striae and later to pre-
vent it from spreading ii" frank 1)
nud the commission that Pennsylvania
officials were oppdeed to unions of
th ir employes who . affiliated with
the American federation of Labor or
Which might involve the company in
sympathetic strike
w. ii Pierce of the Brotherhood ot
Federated I tail road Kmplovcs who
conducted the Altoona strike created
a stir whlki recalled to the stand late
today by charging that members of
the Brotherhood t Bnglnemen and
Kirenien were iuid money by an of-
Hclal of the Pennsylvania after tin-
Stliki "t 1911. He said one of the
nu n confessed to reeeii(f money and
told him who paid It.
limitations of Wealth.
"Money Isn't everything "
"How now?"
"Here an Knglish millionaire has
pent thousands of pounds to assem-
ble about five thousand fleas."
"Well?"
"Vet the average yellow dog can
show almost as flni a collection."
TOKIO May 7. (9:48 a. in )
The rapnnesf await I'liioa's r-'-'
ply to the Japanese ultimatum. The
government n is stated ics been
(deeply desirous of avoiding a rupture
vuh China whbh u was admitted
would prove embarrassing.
Pending the receipt of china's re-
pl. howe if military and nasal pre-
parations are being pushed vigorously
rive transports laden with troops
have sailed from Hiroshima In the di-
rection of China and numerous wai
ships have lefl for secret destinations
Waseda university h-.m deprived
Professor Ariga Japanese adviser to
Presidenl Vuan .sin Kal ot Jii pro-
fessorship 4nd he has disappeared
i 'i eviously he had been denounced aj
a Chinese spy and the police were
protecting him'
ir. Sun Vat Sen the' first provi-
sional1 president of China has been
seen frequ mtly In Toklo r ntly "Tie-
GERMANS PLANNED DISASTER SHAKES
TO SINK STEAMER! ALL WALL STREET
In Sink
Jiaiser
Have
in of Lusitania
s Efforts of ays
Been 'rovvned.
WARNED AMERICANS
Am
to
Lai
ymous
I' s. (
nga
Letter
it izens
Sent
Who .
CO
;is-;oi-
W
Val.oh.iiua llo. lu d. !ae.s that ir'wur
between Japan and China develops rhe feeling wa widespread if
the revolutionists In China who sub-I tmcrlrsn Ues had been lost
W.lll lloetor .NUll Ille likely to se7..
the opportunity to strike against V11411 1
Slu Kai.
Some Chinese are leaving Japan
while preparation! at.- being made by
man) or most- in Korea to depart
from tha' country.
8HINOTON May n Toii. lin
ing of the Hrltish liner LUSi-
tanla with scon s of Americana on
.card shock id offloial Washington to-
day as had no other Incident since
the otttbreuk of the Buropean war.
any
American iiv hu been lost me
Pnlted States in view of Its strong
naming to 'i-rmanv. would be con-
fronted with the" necessity of taking
teM t" safeauard the lives of us cit-
Trunslate 1 Itiinat uni.
PKfCINQ May I (t:0I a ui. )
The attaches of the foreign office were
lit work all night ttanslating Japan's
Ultimatum and drafting the terms of
China's Compliance with the demands
which will oe submitted to Yuan Shi
Kal and the stat council tins morn-
ing at 10 o'clock.
Tin- reply win ue delivered to M.
tilokl the Japanese minister this
evening or Sunday morning
The note will accept the demand!
Without qualification.
The go eminent expects no serious
revolutionary outbreak from the peo-
ple. The military leaders have as-
sured Vcau Shi Kal that their support
Would continue.
itena on tne nign tvmm.
The sinking of the Lusitania marks
the olimas .f a series of Incidents
since the innouncement of the Ger-
man war zone decree concerning
which the American government has
been Silent It Is now predated that
SVen though it develops that no Ainer-'
ban lives weroMost on the Lusitania
general representation will be made
by the. I'nlt-d States covering all the
cases involved the death of Leon C
Thrasher an American cltlten. hen
the British steamer Kalaha was sunk
tlie dropping of bombs on the Amer-
ican steamer dishing "nd the attack
on the itaamer Oulflght which was
wrecked with a loss of Hue. American
lives
Tho report that the Lusitania was
feiieral Collapse Followed
Receipl of Lusitania
foing I town. 1
STOCKS
FALL OFF
tnternationaJ Hankers Say
Must Acute Stage Lias
Been Reached.
N1
(Contfhued n page t.'.)
KV VultK M.iv 7. Wall street
shook from center to elreiim.
ference this aftersoon when confir-
mation of the sinking of the Lusitania
was received. A general collapse fol-
lowed the n. ws with surh excitement
as has not been witnessed situ e tha
war began
The news created a painful impres-
sion in" an circles. InternaUonal
bankers refrained from expressing
any .opinion as to the effect of tor-
pi doing of the MritUb liner upon tha
duration of the war. Th.' relief was
expressed however that the situa-
tion bad reached a most acute phase
so far as it might affect Washington's
attitude.
Lat.-r reports that no lives had '
been lost afforded relief since it was
lUppoaed to minimize the possibility
or complications between this govern-
ment and Germany.
Steel Decttnea
Bethlehem steel which had at-
tained a new his'i record of 169 was
the first StOCi to feel the effect ot
the nave of selling making an ex-
treme decline of '.'9 points to iso.
u eatinghouee Electric another war
specialty mean while broke l points
Amalgamated Copper 12 points ami
(Continued On I'ago Six.)
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