New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1928, Page 5

e T A 4 e e g A e NN eyt NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928 'NEW BRITAIN'S OLDEST DEPT. STORE” NEGRO FIREMAN 15 ALS0 WRECK HERO SATURDAY $1.00 Hudnut Face Powder SATURDAY $1.00 Armand « when he opened the choke he no- Survivors Laud Strength and Valor of Gerald Burton Norfolk, Va., Nov. 16 (® — Ex- hausted from hours of exposure at mea, eight survivors of the sunken steamship Vestris were safely ashore here today, regaining strength by much needed rest.” | Ot the group, five were women, | one of whom had lost her husband and a child. Two others lost their husbands. The fourth, who lost a | child, learned that her husband had | come safely through the great | tragedy of the seas. The eight were | brought into Hampton Roads yes- terday by the battleship Wyoming. | Mrs. Norman K. Batten of Brook- lyn, N. Y., was acclaimed as one of the heroines of the disaster. Her husband, with other men in a crowded lifeboat that repeatedly capsized, had exhausted (hemlehea in bailing and righting the craft. | ‘When the boat capsized the last time Mrs. Batten kept her husband | afloat as long as life remained. At| length she was forced to relinquish her hold before help arrived. | Mrs. Elvira Fernandez Rua of | New Bedford, Mass., lost both hus- | band and child. Mrs. Mary Ulrich | of New York lost a child but learn- | ed that her husband was safe. Mrs. Dolores Barriero Doril of Brooklyn has been informed that her husband | was picked up alive at sea. Mme. | Teruko Inouye mourned the death | of her husband, who was on his| way to Buenos Aires to assume his post as Japanese consul there. Negro Halled as Hero Among the three men, all ne- | groes, was one who was hailed as a hero. He was Gerald Burton, a | stalwart fireman. “It it hadn't been for Gerald vm; wouldn’t be here” was the com- | ment of Mrs. Batten just before she lapsed Into sleep at the naval hos- pital last night. Burton was a first class fireman on the Vestris. When the water crept down in the boiler room Mon- day he remained under decks and kept up steam in an upper boller to give power to the generators operat- ing the radio—the last hope of the doomed vessel. He remained there when the ship was standing almost on her beam ends, but was forced finally to leave. | When the lifeboat capsized, Bur- | ton was one of the men who helped | to right it and assist the women to | reembark. The capsizing and right- | ing continued six times and at last the 50 or 60 survivors had become a mere handful. Burton found him- | selt struggling alongside Mrs. Bat- | ten and Mrs. Ulrich. “Stay with me and T wom't let | you drown,” they quoted the negro | as saying. ) Another of the negroes, Joscph fs0xil, was hoisted by a rope from a plece of wreckage where he was found in an unconscious condition. ! Violation of Sca Law i A story of violation of the first stern law of the sea—women and children first—was brought to the Wyoming officers by the women survivors along with a theory from the stokers that the Vestris possibly | was unfit for sea before she left port in New York. ! Mrs. Batten told the officers that she was placed in lifeboat No. § with about €0 other persons. An- other boat containing only a few members of the crew was seen nearby and the No. 8 boat drew alongside to transfer some of its | passengers. Mrs, Batten was quoted | as saying that one woman got into the other boat but that when she trled to follow she was pushed back by an oar and the boat then shoved away. It was only a few minutes afterward that her lifeboat cap- sized. The stokers told the officers that | they though a sea valve leading te the ash hopper had cracked and that this had probably happened | before the vessel left port. | The Wyoming picked up Mrs. Rua, Mrs. Doril and Mrs. Inouye, | clinging to an improvised raft of | life belts and what appeared to be | a door, HEARSE CATCHES FIRE | Portland, Me., Nov. 16 (P—A | hearse, owned by ¥. E. Crossman of IAsbon IFalls, carrying a body from North Woodstock, N. H., to Lisbon Falls, was damaged by fire on St. John street early yesterday morning. D. E. Taylor, the driver, | pulled the casket from the flaming | body of the hearse and then pulled | in an alarm. 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