Mr. MARTIN MANNION,
Second Cabin Passenger
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credit: New York Times,
Sunday, 18 May 1915.
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Martin Mannion, while listed in the newspapers from Troy, New York,
United States, is stated in Hoehling/Hoehling to be from St. Louis,
Missouri. Described as “a curly-haired lad with a
lame foot,” he was playing poker when the torpedo hit. All of his
card buddies ran off in seconds. Seeing that other tables were
empty, he walked "uphill" to the bartender (Wallace Wood?) and
proposed, "Let's die game anyway."
"You go to hell!" the incredulous barkeeper shouted.
The barkeeper then leapt over the counter and ran out of the smoking
room. Mannion shrugged at the outburst and opened for himself a
bottle of ale.
After the Lusitania sank,
Mannion was pulled out of the water and into a boat with Duncan Hanes. Mannion had no
recollection as to how he got there.
Mannion was on the Sunday, May 9, list of missing and probable dead;
however, a picture of him in the pictoral the next weekend, where he is
posing for photographers in Queenstown, show that
this was obviously not the case.
Contributors:
Bob Florence
Judith Tavares
Hildo Thiel
References:
Hickey, Des and Gus Smith. Seven Days to Disaster.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981.
Hoehling, A. A. and Mary Hoehling. The Last Voyage of the Lusitania.
Madison Books,
1956.
Saskatoon Star Phoenix,
May 1915.
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