A HEART-BREAKING SCENE
“The scene was now terrible. Particularly do I remember a young child with a life-belt around her calling, ‘Mamma!’ She was not saved. I had seen her on the liner, and her sister was on the collapsible boat, but I could not reach her. I saw a cold-storage box or cupboard. I swam towards it and clung to it. This supported me for a long time. At last I saw a boat coming towards me and shouted. I was heard and taken in. From this I was transferred to what I think was a trawler, which also picked up three or four others. Eventually I was placed upon a ferry boat known as the Flying Fish, in which, with others, I was taken to Queenstown.
“It was quite possible that some people went down while in their cabins, because after lunch it was the custom with some to go for a rest. A friend of mine on the liner has told me he saw Alfred G. Vanderbilt on deck with a life-belt and observed him give it to a lady. It seemed to me the seriousness of the situation scarcely was realized when the boat was torpedoed. It was all so sudden and so unexpected, and the recollection of it all is terrible.”
CHAPTER V
THE PLOT AGAINST THE RESCUE SHIPS
[GERMAN SUBMARINES PREVENTED RESCUE OF LUSITANIA PASSENGERS] — [STORY OF ETONIAN’S CAPTAIN] — [DODGED TWO SUBMARINES] — [NARRAGANSETT DRIVEN OFF] — [TORPEDO FIRED AT NARRAGANSETT].