Article from the Washington County News - 13th May 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania

1,200 PERISHED ON LUSITANIA

SURVIVORS TELL OF DISASTER

One Hundred and Forty-nine of 1200 Who Perished Lie In Improvised Morgue at Queenstown

London – Dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Liverpool says the official list of survivors says the official list of survivors of the Lusitania includes the names of 487 passengers and 274 crew.
Queenstown – A smear of flotsam on the face of a calm sea 23 miles from this port marks the grave of the Cunarder Lusitania, victim of a German submarine.
One hundred and forty-nine of the 1200 persons who perished with the liner lie in improvised morgues in old buildings that line the Queens-town harbour. They either were picked up dead or succumbed after landing.
The 645 survivors of the disaster here are quartered in hotels, residences and hospitals, some too badly hurt to be moved. Two groups left here clad in misfit clothing for Dublin by rail and thence by boat to Holy Head. The injuries of some are so serious that additional deaths are expected and nearly all are too dazed to understand fully what has happened.
The survivors do not agree as to whether the submarine fired one or two torpedoes. A few say they saw the periscope and many attest to tracing the wake of the foam as a projectile raced toward the vessel.
The only points in which all concur is that the torpedo struck the vessel a vital blow amidships, causing her to list almost immediately to the starboard. In this careening fashion she plowed forward some distance smashing the left boat’s davits as she did so and making the launching of boats well nigh impossible until headway had been ceasued. How far the Lusitania struggled forward after being struck and how long it was before she disappeared beneath the waves are points on which few passengers agree, estimates of the time she remained afloat ranging from 8 to 20 minutes. The list to starboard so elevated life boats on the port side as to render them useless and it is said only two on that side were launched.