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If . :, ' -! l1 -1 W ; . Zi Csrlzzi r. . ...j I ' -C '- 1 I , ) THE QUALITY SEO? : lH' , . . ., ,11, M y: I ,; - - DAYTONA, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915. ' ' " ' PRICE F1V2 C:.T3 ram Imt en ml:PAiAffliEE2AaiB innnnnARfrj) i. mm ie TIP UJ t!AY t, t:45 M OVER FIFTEEN HUNDRED MEN, )C:::lcssn are still unaccounted for today and ID THAT THir PERISHED WHEN THE LUSITANIA WAS .-."3 tUNK OFF KINSDALE HEAD, IRELAND, YESTER- cz rrr.roNs are known to have landed, it is : ctatsd that there were 2,160 people aboard the 1 IT SANK, AND OF THIS NUMBER 188 WERE AMERI i.Y 44 OF TH ISE ARE REPORTED ALIVE. IT IS FEARED TILT, FROHMAN, HUBBARD, KLEIN AND MANY OTHER : tONS PEfJSHED. :AL LOSS OCCASIONED BY THE SINKING OF THE 1 13 ESTIM.TED AT FROM EIGHT MILLION TO NINE THE PASSENGERS LOST EVERYTHING. O STEAMS 4 1 P COMPANY'S OFFICES IN NEW YORK . .'--I CZSIEQCD BY FRANTIQ RELATIVES AND FRIENDS .:.r.3 THE LUSITANIA, PLEADING FOR INFORMATION VAr.D JONIIS DECLARED THE LOSS OF LIFE AMONG rAMINGERS WAS VERY HEAVY. MOST OF THE ..3 WERE JT LUNCH WHEN THE BLOW WAS DELIV- , :::s officers assured the passengers that IX WOULD HOT SINK, AND THIS CAUSED MANY TO GO TltS VESSELl SOME OF THESE, HOWEVER, WERE LATER .:.2'J THE SE MANY DID NOT REALIZE THE DANGER Z IU UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE. APPARENTLY WITHOUT :,"2 A JARRING EXPLOSION WHICH SHOOK THE LUSI 1 CTEM TO STERN. IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARD FOL--YIRE 8HOC4. AND THE SHIP KEELED SHARPLY. AN Z'A CAME ANII THE DOOMED VESSEL WAS FILLED WITH Z.XAGE. THEN FIRE BROKE OUT. SOME OF THE PAS- 3 A NUMBIR OF THE CREW WERE KILLED BY THE Berlin, May 8. The news of the sink ing of the Lusitania, printed today, caused a great sensation. The general tenor of the comment here is thaf a severe lesson has been administered to England. son HER BOTTOM WAS TORN OUT BY AN INTERNAL EXPLOSION AND SHE SANK ALMOST IMMEDIATELY IN 60 FATHOMS OF WATER. THERE IS NO VISIBLE TRACE NOW OF THE SHIP ABOVE THE WATER WHERE SHE WENT DOWN, 15 MILES SOUTH OF OLD HEAD KINSALE. NEW YORK, MAY 8. AT 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON CUNARD OFFI CIALS ANNOUNCED THAT THE LUSITANIA DEAD NUMBER 1,364, AC CORDING TO THE LATEST LISTS RECEIVED. SHE HAD ON BOARD WHEN STRUCK 2,067 PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE CREW OF 816. NEW YORK , MAY 8. CUNARD OFFICERS ANNOUNCED AT 4:00 O'CLOCK (EASTERN TIME) THIS AFTERNOON THAT THEY NOW HAVE THE NAMES OF 250 PEOPLE SAVED FROM THE LUSITANIA. AMONG THESE WERE 52 OFFICERS AND 19 MEMBERS OF THE CREW SEND .RILL TO DISASTER THAT SAK! DEATHS OF All WASHINGTON, MAY 8. AMBASSADOR GERARD AT BERLIN AND AMBASSADOR PAGE AT LONDON HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO TRANS MIT FULL REPORTS OF THE GERMAN AND ENGLISH VERSIONS OF THE LUSITANIA DISASTER. THE REPORTS OF THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES CONFLICT. THE ESTIMATED NUMBER RANGES FROM 60 TO 144. ALFRED VANDERBILT, DANIEL FROHMAN, ELBERT HUBBARD, MRS. ELBERT HUBBARD, AND KLEIN HAVE BEEN GIVEN UP FOR DEAD BY THEIR FRIENDS, THE ENGLISH ADMIRALTY TODAY DECLARED THAT THE LUSI TANIA WAS NOT ARMED, AND THEREFORE WAS NOT TECHNICALLY A WARSHIP. TWO ARMIES ON WAY TO CONSTANTINOPLE ATHENS, MAY 8. ALL TURKISH FORTS ON THE ASIATIC SIDE OF THE DARDANELLES TO NAGARA HAVE BEEN SILENCED. THE ALLIES ARE MAKING A GENERAL ATTACK BY LAND AND SEA. A RUSSIAN ARMY HAS LANDED ON THE BLACK SEA COAST AND IS NOW ADVANCING ON CONSTANTINOPLE. " MAY! -ALFRED VANDERBILT IS REPORTED DROWNED. TLT.riSR REMAINED ON THE BRIDGE OF THE LUSITANIA ;Cr.7N WITH'HER, BUT WAS LATER PICKED UP BY A LIFE 7.3 THOMAS, A MILLIONAIRE COAL OPERATOR, AND HIS -'htr wpp siufd. mo GERMANS WERE ABOARD 1 THE LAST FEW MOMENTS THE SHIP WAS AFLOAT PANOEMON UM REIGNED ABOARD. PASSENGERS DON .rmiRVERS ND LEAPED OVERBOARD. AN OVERLOADED ? TURNED OVtR AND THREW ALL THE OCCUPANTS INTO 5 " -.-.ICAN COIISUL AT QUEENSTOWN STATES THAT THE OF SURVIVORS IS 634, AND HE BELIEVES THAT VERY 3 ESCAPEC. WASHINGTON, MAY 8. THE ADMINISTRATION WILL NOT. TAKE PRECIPITATE ACTION IN THE CASE OF THE LUSITANIA, BUT WILL AWAIT ALL POSSIBLE INFORMATION BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO FORMULATE ITS POLICY ON THIS PARTICULAR MATTER. SENATOR STONE SAID THI MORNING: . "THE SINKING OF THE CUNARD LINER, LUSITANIA ,IS INDEED SAD, BUT HOW IT CAN POS SIBLY AFFECT OUR PRESENT EUROPEAN POLICY I AM UNABLE TO SEE. GERMANY HAS A RIGHT TO SINK BRITISH VESSELS, AND (Continued on Page Four.) WHO WILL RULE CONSTANTINOPLE? HAY t, 2:01 P. M THE BRITISH ADMIRALTY HAS ABAN 2 THAT AliY OF 1,457 MISSING PERSONS WHO WERE 2 LUSITANIA ARE ALIVE. THE KNOWN SURVIVORS NOW r?RIY,THE MILLIONAIRE automobile manufacturer. -ID FROM THE SEA. AFTER HE HAD BEEN IN THE WATER UAY MX NOON TODAY A CUNARD OFFICIAL STATED TAB AS ASCERTAINABLE ONLY 79 OUT OF 291 FIRST -r:ciRS W IRE saved, most of those RESCUED when UVrNT DOAN WERE SECOND AND THIRDCLASS PASSEN- OF UiV .-PARLIAMENT IS PREPARING TO INQUIRE 1 AESJIRA TV WHV IT DID NOT FURNISH BETTER SAFE n THE LUl ITANIA. THE ADMIRALTY IS BEING SEVERELY -TON. Mi Y 8. THE STATE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED ZZK THII AFTERNOON THAT 140 AMERICANS ARfc d- ttAVE PEMSHED WHEN THE LUSITANIA SANK. UAY "THE BODY OF DANIEL FROHMAN WAS RECOV yi tea v -a o --f jr uwi ft U --' n -nSjJ -'M. kiv &.COAST GUARDS WITNESSED THE DE Vu. eoriki THE SHORE. THEY DECLARE rUAU;ED THE LINER'S BOILERS TO EXPLODE BAPTIST CHURCH SERVICES TOMORROW A. M. AND NIGHT At the Baptist church on Sunday the pastor, Holmes S. Rightmire, will occupy the pulpit both morning and evening notwithstanding the an nouncement earlier in the week that Mrs. Rightmire would breach the Mothers' day sermon in the morning. The topic of the morning sermon will be, "Indebted to Motherhood for What?" All are requested to wear a white flower in honor of mothers. The topic of the evening sermon will be. "A Twentieth Century FooL" The evening service will be given to evangelism, and all who are inquiring the way of life are invited to be present. The live Bible school meets at 9:43 in the morning. The Junior society has its good-story hour at 3:00 in the afternoon with Mrs. Riehtmire in charge. The devotional period of the B. Y. P. U. is held at 6:43, and all young people of the city are Invited to enjoy this interesting hour. The pastor will preach the usual illus trated st-rmon to the boys and girls at the morning service. Miss Estelle Pearee arrived Thurs day of this week from Evanston. I1L. for a visit of about three weeks with Mr. and Mrs. John F. Stewart and daughter, Miss Marian Stewart, at their winter home, 56 Fairview ave nue. Miss Pearce will return to Evanston in company with Mr. Stew art and family. .. v.- :rw,nihl for much of the ill feeling existing between the nations of For BtnrtMiSt""hv fcTam "contention, would arise as to the be.t manner of government whkh would Europe. Even after capture 2,'' ru!ers most vitally concerned in it. final disposition are (top work for harmony among 'Tv England; Mohammed V Turkey; Kaiser Wilhelm, Germany; ar Nicholas, row. left to right) King George rdlnand, Bulgaria; King Victor Emanuel, Italy; Emperor Francis Joseph, Russia; (bottom rowtJnM Gne.pveIK FerdlMnd. Roumanla; (right cen Austria; King Teter, Ser.(Wt cen i Constantinople (Stamboul) and its surroundings. DON'T FAIL TO USE PLENTY OF MOTH BALLS When closing the house for the Summer. 10c a pound. Hanldns Drug Co, THREE STORES