<Li> Beatrice Witherbee, American socialite and wife of Alfred S. Witherbee, president of the Mexican Petroleum Solid Fuel Company </Li> <Li> Leonard McMurray, associated with the Gutta Percha Rubber Co . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Arthur Henry Adams, president of the United States Rubber Company </Li> <Li> Anna and Gwendolyn Allan, teenaged daughters of H. Montagu Allan </Li> <Li> Lindon Bates, Jr., New York engineer, economist and assemblyman </Li> <Li> Albert Bilicke, American building contractor and hotel proprietor </Li> <Li> Irish composer and conductor Thomas O'Brien Butler </Li> <Li> William Broderick Cloete, mining entrepreneur who was returning to London from Mexico . His body was not found </Li> <Li> Mary Cummings Brown, mother of American socialite Beatrice Witherbee </Li> <Li> Iris Burnside, daughter of Josephine Eaton Burnside </Li> <Li> Paul Crompton, director of Booth Steamship Company Ltd. and his wife Gladys, six young children, and their governess, Miss Dorothy Allen </Li> <Li> Marie Depage, Belgian nurse and wife of surgeon Antoine Depage </Li> <Li> James A. Dunsmuir, of Toronto, Canadian soldier, younger son of James Dunsmuir </Li> <Li> Justus Miles Forman, American writer </Li> <Li> Charles Frederick Fowles, A British art dealer living in New York </Li> <Li> Frances May Fowles, Charles Frederick Fowles' British wife </Li> <Li> Charles Frohman, American theatre impresario and one of four American "men of world wide prominence" named in the film The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) </Li> <Li> Amelia Herbert, actress </Li> <Li> Kathryn Hickson, the sister of Carrie Kennedy </Li> <Li> William Sterling Hodges, wife Sarah and two sons, William and Dean </Li> <Li> Albert L. Hopkins, president of Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company </Li> <Li> Elbert Hubbard, American philosopher, writer and Roycroft founder, and one of four American "men of world wide prominence" named in the film The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) </Li> <Li> Alice Moore Hubbard, author and woman's rights activist, wife of Elbert Hubbard </Li> <Li> Miss Phyllis Hutchinson, 24 - year - old debutante and niece of businessman Robert A. Franks of West Orange, New Jersey, financial agent for Andrew Carnegie </Li> <Li> Edouard Jourdan, French engineer, grandson of Texas tycoon Edward Campbell, and right - hand man of Jourdan Campbell </Li> <Li> Carrie Kennedy, New York fashion designer </Li> <Li> Charles Klein, playwright and one of four American "men of world wide prominence" named in film The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) </Li> <Li> Charles Knight, American pianist </Li> <Li> Elaine Knight, sister of Charles Knight </Li> <Li> Sir Hugh Lane, renowned Irish art collector and founder of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery in Dublin </Li> <Li> Rev. Dr. Basil W. Maturin, British theologian, author, and convert to Catholicism </Li> <Li> Greek millionaire Michael Pappadopoulo, 43, president of the Oriental Carpet Manufactures </Li> <Li> James Duncan Mitchell (1892--7 May 1915) </Li> </Ul> <Li> Arthur Henry Adams, president of the United States Rubber Company </Li>

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