The Leon Cambetta
• IiAST SCENES ON. BOARD. SOME PAINFUL INCIDENTS. Received May 2, 4:30 p.m. iteme, May 1., An officer of the Lo-sn Gambctta says itfus third crew were ...sleeping on tl'u. | decks, and the rest, except the officers,, I were in cabins, wli icij; -were barred out;w'de. Suddenly the-, ship was plunged, in darkness. Admiral Senes i-jut out of his cabi/,.jn. his night-shirt. TKt-r v was a seen*.of. indescribable anguish. The crew barred below, were desperately shouting to be. released. Thei,- comrades were fumbling, in the darkness,- not knowing where .to turn first. Soon. Hie. shouts became feeble murmurs. Then as the ship tilled there came tin- .silence of .dcajiji,. Explorers of the hull will find masses of corpses tightly linked in desperateattitudes, wJliea-tell of supreme death struggles.
■Seven officers seized AduiraL Sonets forcibly and lowered him into a launch. It capsr-ad, and all were drowned.
As tinj- last boat was making for the shore, long after the Ueon. Gamivtta had siu.K; it-passed a cadet, the last living object. -It was impossible, to fake Imn a iward the crowded-boat. The cadet gasped: "Never-mind; laojj. Carry a, fasts to motlue.-"-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 278, 3 May 1915, Page 5
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190The Leon Cambetta Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 278, 3 May 1915, Page 5
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