Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 126, 10 May 1915 — Page 1

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Some of Noted Americans Aboard the Torpedoed Liner

Among the passengers on the Lusitania when she was sunk were men whose fame is world-wide. Below, reading from left to right, are Charles Klein, the playwright, Charles Frohman, the celebrated

producer, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, millionaire sportsman, and Elbert Hubbard, publicist and philosopher and staff contributor the Chicago Examiner's editorial pages.

NATION WANTS ACTION DRASTICALLY CHECKING FURTHER SEA HORRORS

WASHINGTON, May 10 President Wilson will not be stampeded into precipitate action on the Lusitania tragedy, it was stated by an official today. The President is keeping in close touch with all shades of popular feeling and is fully aware of the present state of public opinion regarding what action the government should take. The bulk of opinion in Washington inclines to the belief that President Wilson will address a note to Germany demanding that her submarine warfare on passenger ships be instantly discontinued. If Germany refuses, the next step will be the severance of diplomatic relations. If Germany then desires to declare war she can do so and the United States will be prepared to accept the situation.

"What does the country think?" is-

the question most eagerly asked in Washington today. Most officials believe that the nation demands the most drastic action possible short of war. There is no strong element in Washington today which believes the country wants war unless this contingency is inevitable. Telegrams and letters are pouring in upon the White House in ever increasing volume. It is stated that most of them are against war, although advising strong and drastic action. Course of Action. Should Germany refuse to abandon her present policy of submarine warfare the United States, it is believed in many circles, will take the following action: Hand Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, his passport and order Dr. Burnberg, publicity agent, out of the country. Tell the German government in tTie most direct way possible that the United States can not live in friendship with a nation that has revived the practices of piracy, and sever diplomatic relations. The next step will be up to Germany, according to this theory forecasting the president's action. It is expected that whatever action the President takes will not be long delayed for he is fully aware of the unfavorable effect on opinion of allowing the matter to drag on unless there is good reason for doing so.

RICHMOND FEARS WILSON'S DEATH

The report that President Wilson had been shot down at Washington was received in Richmond by telegraph companies as an unconfirmed rumor early today and it spread like wild fire, creating the greatest excitement. Newspaper offices were besieged with Inquiries concerning the report. Many people when Informed that the report had been started by "bear" operators on the cotton exchange in New York to beat down the quotations exclaimed "thank God he is safe," and then gave free vent to their opinion of certain unscrupulous market traders.

WeatherForecast

FOR INDIANA Fair and warmer tonight and Tuesday. Temperature. Noon :. 64 Yesterday. Maximum 54 Minimum 3S

For Richmond Fair tonight and Tuesday. Warmer. General Conditions Low barometric pressure over the northwest will cause reaction to warmer weather within the next 36 hours. Frost was general this morning in Wayne county and several other portions of Indiana.

RUMOR UPSETS GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO, May 10. A rumor that President Wilson had. been killed was circulated in market circles in Chicago and caused a wild scene on the Chicago board of trade. May wheat which had been selling at $1.52 to $1.55 dropped to as low as $1.49. Other grains made similar declines but reacted to slightly better prices when the rumor was found untrue.

WILSON HEARS RUMOR

WASHINGTON, May 10. President Wilson spent the entire morning In his study devoting his attention to the crisis forced on the United States by the Lusitania disaster. Rumors reached the white house that the president had been assassinated. The origin ii a mystery,

GERMAN AIR RAIDERS SHELL BRITISH TOWNS 1 2 MILES FROM LONDON

BY JOHN C. FOSTER International News Service Staff Correspondent. LONDON, May 10 While England was mourning today for the dead lost in the Lusitania disaster, Germany launched another aerial attack upon towns between London and the east coast. A fleet of aeroplanes and Zeppelins bombarded several towns and villages, setting fires with incendiary bombs. Scores of bombs were dropped upon South End, Shoeburyness, Pitsea and Romford. The last named town is only 12 miles east-northeast of London. A telephone message from Pitsea shortly after the aerial raid began said it was reported that one of the German aeroplanes had been brought down by rifle fire.

BERNSTORFF SORRY OVER LOSS OF LIFE IN MARINE DISASTER

WASHINGTON", May 10 Count von Bernstorff, German ambassador to the United States, called at the state department and expressed deep regret over the loss of American lives in the Lusitania disaster. The representative of the nation whose submarine attack sunk the Lusitania, conferred with Secretary Bryan for fifteen minutes. At the conclusion of the conference the state department issued this statement: "The German ambassador called at the state department and expressed his deep regret that the events of the war had led to the loss of so many American lives."

BERLIN SENDS REGRETS UPON LOSS OF LIFE

BERLIN, May 10. The Imperial government today directed the ambassador at Washington to express its regret that many American lives were lost in the sinking of the Lusitania. However official Berlin believes Washington will not view the sinking of the ship as an act of war. The charge is made here that the British government is wholly responsible for the Lusitania and the loss of life.

$5,000 REWARD OUT FOR RECOVERY OF VANDERBILT'S BODY

QUEENSTOWN, May 10 Five thousand dollars reward was offered today for the recovery of the body of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, the multi-millionaire American, who gave his life to save that of a woman when the Lusitania was destroyed. Boats will be chartered to search the waters and the coast near where the Lusitania sank, and divers will be employed to try to reach the sunken liner. It is now believed that Mr. Vanderbilt was killed by the explosion that wrecked the Lusitania after the first torpedo that struck failed to sink her.

Early reports received here stated that a woman had been killed and many civilians injured at South End. which is 40 miles from London on the north side of the mouth of the Thames. The German air fleet was sighted from South End shortly before 3.: 00 o'clock this morning. The alarm was at once flashed along the coast, to London and to inland towns. Within a few seconds after the fleet was sighted from South End, it was passing over the city toward the west, dropping bombs. The first bomb which contained explosives fell upon South End at 2:40 a. m. Another a few seconds later wrecked a house in injured a British soldier. These two explosive bombs shattered the windows in hundreds of houses. After dropping the two explosive bombs, the German airmen began hurling incendiary missiles. Several fires immediately broke out. A large lumber yard and a boarding house were quickly destroyed by the flames. The firemen called upon to fight the blaze worked while the German airships were sti!! overhead. Special Constable Redhouse. one of the men on duty during the night said that he saw a Zeppelin airship hovering over the town for 15 minutes. In all about sixty bombs were dropped before the machines departed. The airships then flew over Pitsea and Romford. At Shoeburyness, which is opposite Sheerness, the Germans dropped several bombs. At Shoeburyness there is a gunnery school for artillery practice and for testing armor plate. After reaching Romford where there

are numerous iron foundries, the Germans turned back toward the east, abandoning any plan they might have ' had of bombarding London. Over j

Leigh they dropped bombs that fired eight buildings. Some fell near Queen Mary hospital but caused no damage there

RUMOR OF WILSON'S DEATH CAUSES PRICES TO DROP 8 POINTS

NEW YORK, May 10. Prices In the stock market dropped from 4 to 8 points in nearly all the leading issues shortly before noon today, while cotton dropped 30 points, following a persistent rumor that President Wilson had been assassinated, circulated by bear intsrests. Investigation showed there was absolutely no ground for the report. MARTIAL LAW RULES IN VICTORIA AFTER ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS

VICTORIA, B. C, May 10. Martial law was in effect in this city today following violence and anti-German rioting of the last two night. All citizens were ordered to remain in their houses tonight after dark, when it was feared their would be another outbreak against residents of German birth. Intense excitement prevailed in all parts of Victoria. Mayor Stewart requested that troops be sent from Vancouvver. Among the business places wrecked before soldiers and police dispersed the mob v.-ere the Phoenix brewery. New England hotel, Kilberger'r. store, Hammond Clothing house, Schater & Glass' tailor shop and the Dieger plumbing shop. Police and infantrymen were guarding the homes and business houses of other Germans today.

WITH MOURNFUL RITES PEOPLE OF QUEEtlSTOOT BURY LUSITAfJIA'S DEAD Deep Sorrow Pervades Irish City as Residents Trudge Behind Long Lines of Hearses, Carrying Dead Washed Ashore After Disaster All Day Long Funeral Processions Move To and From Cemetery Clergy Begins Chanting Death Services with First Gleams of Sunlight

GRAVE DIGGERS BURROW THREE BIG PITS

No Shrouds Cover Bodies of Liner's Ill-Fated Victims Who Sink to Graves in Garments Briny with Ocean Water Which Caused Death Clinched Fists of Adults Mutely Tell of Anguish and Agony as Death Tightened His Relentless Grip Babies Rest Peacefully.

HOW CONGRESSMEN VIEW SEA HORROR

NEW YORK, May 10. Members of the house and senate foreign relations committee have sent the following views of the Lusitania's catastrophe to the International News Service: BALTIMORE, Md. If the president should need the assistance of congress or the opinion of the congressmen he will no doubt call us together." Charles Linthicum. House Committee. NEW YORK "In my judgment the situation does not call for the assembling of congress." James O'Gorman, U. S. Senator. BUFFALO "When a thorough inquiry has been made and the facts fully set forth, action will be taken to guard the rights and interests of the United States and to uphold our standards of civilization. In the meantime our eyes should be opened to the awful consequences of hasty and ill advised action." Charles Bennet Smith, house committee. WASHINGTON "Matters at present should be left in the hands of the president." McCumber, United States Senator. MONTROSE Pa. "A grave responsibility now rests upon the president to meet this serious international situation, for our own citizens were among the slain. In this responsibility he will have the full measure of house support We must come to a clear understanding with Germany and this without delay, for we cannot accept the Filaba, Gulflight and Lusitania cases as within the settled policy of martime warfare." W. D. Ainey, Foreign Affairs. CANTON, O. "President Wilson is better able to learn the facts than any one else. When they are known I have every confidence that his wisdom, courage and poise will mark out a course in keeping with our best tradi-. tions, which will meet the approval of all true Americans." Atlee Pomerine, committeeman. BOWLING GREEN, Mo. Champ Clark, speaker of the house, said it was his opinion that no special session of congress would be called. VALDOSTA. Ga. "I can not say more at this time than to express my unbounded confidence in the wisdom, and patriotism of President Wilson in handling this delicate and difficult situation." J. R. Walker.

BY LESTER C. HARRISON International News Service Staff Correspondent. QUEENSTOWN, May 10 Amidst scenes of mourning as deep as though the dead were all sons of Ireland many of the victims of the German submarine which sank the great liner Lusitania, were today borne to the old cemetery of Queenstown and buried with unusual honors. The imposing tribute of the army and navy was no more touching than the tears of the townsfolk who, with bared heads, trudged by the side of the string of hearses and gave as much comfort as they could to the mourners. Some of the coffins bore flowers ; most of them did not. . War had brought suffering to

. Queenstown long before the disaster at the city's gates, but the sinking: of

the big liner struck into tne very midst of this peaceful city, one of war's most frightful blows. In this city of dead with its half masted flags and its universal air of tragedy, the shock bore a deeper sting because the dead were not soldiers and Bailors of the fighting line, but peaceful men and women and even little children. React Same Scenes. Not since the great disaster of many years ago when a hurricane swept the port sinking a French frigate, with the loss of many lives has Queenstown presented such a funeral appearance. At that time the corpses of hundreds of victims were carried to the old cemetery four miles out from the city and buried with the simplicity that always marks the interment of human sacrafices in disasters. The scenes today were identicaL The yellow eartl gleamed in the morning sunshine when the first consignment of the dead arrived and the .chaplains began to chant the death service over the bodies of these soldiers of peace. Under the shadow of the timestained monument erected to the memory of those French dead, mourners gathered for their last tribute to the memory of the present day victims of Germany, the ancient enemy of France. Train Lasted All Day. It had been intended to have each body carried in a separate vehicle, but as there were only eight hearses in the city and the number of other vehicles and horses was limited, owing to the demands of war it had to be abandoned. In consequence the bodies had to be borne in relays and the funeral services lasted all day. Another difficulty was experienced in getting enough coffins and demands were made upon other cities. Finally; the required number were secured, al-i though some of them were make-shift affairs. Detachments of troops and squads of stamen together with cordons of mounted militia police, escorted the hearses to the cemetery. Clergymen of all creeds united in common service for the dead. On account of the hot weather and the condition of some of the bodies they could not be embalmed, but hall to be sealed up in air tight coffins as quickly as possible. Many relatives, speeding here for a last glimpse of! their loved ones will be denied that' privilege. Dig Sixty Graves. Members of the Connaught Rangers had been detailed for grave digging service. They excavated three huge pits, each twenty by thirty-six feet, accommodating sixty coffins. In addition dozens of grave diggers dug scores of individual graves. i A movement has already been start- j ed to erect a memorial shaft above that graves. ) Pathetic scenes marked the day ini the improvised morgue and mortuary) chapels, from which the dead were re-. moved. None of the bodies was en-; cased in shrouds, all of them wearing ' the clothing which they wore when picked up out of the sea. It was a ghastly sifht. Among the corpses were the bodies of four babies, all dressed in white and in their bare feet. The little hands oT these tiny'victims were relaxed in contrast with. ! the clinched fists of 'most of the maIContinued On Page SYrl --v

L. M.FRANK MUST HANG

ATLANTA, Ga.. May 10. Leo M. Frank, convicted of the murder of

j Mary Phagan at the National Pencil ; factory two years ago, was todav sen

tenced to be hanged June 22, by JudgeHill in the criminal court. If there is any further action In this case it must come from Governor Slaton, who is now being flooded with petitions to commute the sentence to life imprisonment.

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