The evening world. Newspaper, October 11, 1913, Page 1

Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishiag Worta). Youthful Looking Captain Of the Ill-Fated Volturno aml rhs EAT GIANTS IN FIFTH, MATTY’ PITGHING + Giants’ First Baseman Missed Chance to Cut Off Murphy's Tallyin | Third, Trying to Touch Out Baker. COMPLETE BOX SCORE GIANTS 00001 000 0- 1 PHILADELPHIA | 16 200 000 0- 3 GIANTS AB. R. H. PO. A. E. SH. BB. SO. SB. 1 letica enteral, The bank struck up|were filled, Anothe “Where the River non Flows," and | Was on hand to se fo this old Irish da continual | Méht. Eddie Plank and crawled from the Athietles nee in ty toss th cheer Danny Murp! hia so far vies wid be | ;CORNELL PLAYS CARLISLE ad nt the only ook it as énch angest the firet ovation sound like @ chuckle | peinsyivania affair Thanksyivin Arthur Fromme took the mound tO} Come Positions , Ditch to the Giants in practice ani | lire, t there was great enthusiasm as Larry Doyle poied a drive into the right field | bleachers. The crowd was coming in steadily | now, and after all it looked as If the | siuler stands would be sold out. When the rite |, Athletics begar their .tting practice sneiton. By Bozeman Bulger. Weathor-heaten, POLO GROUNDS, Oct. 11.—The first Giant uniform to appear| ster the City Halt cupote | the hand of man who was on the back of little Dick Hennessy, the mascot, and the waiting) stars ar increase, ‘clock, gave the ki, half mast whe throng, wif had increased to 30,000 by 1 o'clock, gave the kid a rous-| Mf mest wire waa placed when ing cheer. The little feilow, in true blue player style, doffed his cap, and! for tts dep rip on the fl ans of a field & that thi yext it, and it lovked as 4 n football this afternoon, | closed on St [“ Cirealation Books Open to Ail” | “ Circulation Books Open to All.” JUSTICE SEIZES FLAG AND PREVENTS CESSATION OF GAYNOR MOUR Weather-heaten Figure on City | Wi? stifious to Wonder. 0 0 100 0 1 0; o 0 1 7 1 0 0 0 0; Fo 2 8 0000 0! 00 20 0-0 0 0 0} 10 2 1 0 0 1 0 0} 00 2000 0 0 «0 0 13 10000 ‘0 00m 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 102 00 0 0 Oj 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; Totals.......... ve. 2 1 2 27 15 1 0 1 1 OF} Crandall batted for Mathewson in 9th, ATHLETICS AB. R. H. PO. A. E. SH. BB. SO. SB. | E. Murphy, rf 3°1,2 3 0 00 1 0 (0 y Oldring, If. 4203 00 0 0 0 0 Collins, 2b 3°90 1 2 3 021 00 0 Baker, 3b.. 3°90 20 20 21 0 0 «0 * Melnnis, 1b 200% 0 0 2 0 00 Strunk, cf. . 4 00 20 00 0 0 0 | Barry, ss. 400 2 70 0 000 Schang, c 401 10000 20 Plank, p....... wee 8 0 0 O 1 1 0 0 0 0 Totals.............. 30 3 «6 27 ~«213 4 1 2 0} SUMMARY.—Struck Out—By Mathewson, 1. Bases on Balls—Oit Mathewson, 1; off Plank, 1. Double Plays—Collins, Barry to McInnis; | Barry, Collins to McInnis, First Base by Error—New York, 1, Left on} Hall Cupola Causes Super- Bases—New York, 11; Philadelphia, 5. Umpires—Klem behind the plate, | Egan on bases, Connolly and Rigler on foul lines, tripes from it it was pla from the centre of the grounds motioned for the attendant in centre field | iyo sate Mayor was uj Jother Mags on the budding were to open the gate. : jot : In a minute the entire team of Ath-|with Wyckoff In the b the stands) 5 i det go. caugt between her tin a practised at th “Phat H ee UHaR th 5 of the band was com: iF ocla Gs time the bleat of th Mtoe (Continue least,” sald Custodian Just why the tune jnot superstitious, bur its strange between t @ compli the first contest between the two in| Every one about the City Hall ts tank he last of the New York | Many years, The hout the incident some rt Aetenders Ye ppear and the noise that | *owed tat inte as uncanny. Never tn ti ted his sipoll to the bench made | % the vuse of the © es Justice of the City It sree! will aflord in respect 10 tne yed the hand that woul And In the h NEW YORK er's Cook Chooses Setting When She r last night | She did] kfust and other servants in the » went to her room thin Year-stained Justice malds opened a! would 1 position of of mourning ast nbziit eral monte and toda history ¢ ' all has she jor ta BUREAU, q cceaeaeiinaeaen | Put woes , SATURDA ra | an Y, OCTOBER 11, 1913. 7h the woman had teen dead for some | nt | uid of | her | He had slashed > is moving [nto ati ther temporary quarters in what once | | was the Thatrict of Columbia Maecutive a t funda yet having ed for ite matnte- of its own to ime since assisting Carmanin .. La Touraine captain, the chief, raphers by the Narragansett, the bake: by the Czar, thi Nimeteen of th 840) “ Circulation Books Open to All.” 12 PAGES 8 PRICE ONE CENT LINER VOLTURNO BURNS; — ~ “SOS” SAVES 521 LIVES, 136 OTHERS PERISH AT SEA +: Ship Sends Wireless Distress Signal, Which Is Re- sponded To by Ten Steamships First of Which to Reach Her Is the Carmania, That Makes Thrilling Efforts to Save Those Aboard. Burning Steamship’s Lifeboats Filled With Pas- sengers Dashed to Pieces Against Her Side and All the Occupants are Drowned—Tragedy Almost at Point Where Ill-Fated Titanic Went Down. — wireless signal of distress was flashed at noon. The Volturno caught fire Thursday morning and the first and Friday, with the loss of 136 lives. Ov her help and sped to her aid, all arriving within .a few! of Halifax. hours. But for the high wind and tremendous waves all on the Volturno would have been saved, the vessel's side. When the Volturno sent out her first “5 OS” signal shewas | almost at the exact spot where the Titanic went down. Eight ocean liners a tank steamer and a tramp hovered | near the Volturno all Thursday night unable to render assistance. ———----- = | In an effort to reach the hundreds huddled astern on the| OMAN'S BODY HANGS | FROM HOOK IN GLOSET 'Capt. Inch, who is only thirty-four years old, the commander but was unable to connect with a line. of the Volturno, was the last to leave the vessel. There were no Americans aboard the Volturno as pas- sengers. across. FISHGUARD, England, Oct. 11.—Ng more thrilling story of the sea has ever been told than that of the destruction of the liner Volturno of the Uranium line by fire in mid-Atlantic last Thursday, Thursday night} ‘apt. Barr’s Report On Wreck of Volturno LIVERPOOL, Oct. 11.—Capt. Barr's official report of the disaster \to the offices of the Cunard Line here was timed on board the Ca mania at 6.30 this morning, It says: “The Voltnrno was abandoned on account of fire on Friday, Oct, 10, in latitude 4545 north, longitude $1.28 west, All the sure vivors were taken off, “The following Is the list of those saved on hoard the ten iteamers: seee UL] Devonian . ++ 40] Kroonlan 80 | Grosser Karfuerst 19] Seydiits . Minneapolis . Rappahannock . vise BO] TOMA .cescccceaeeeee aes a] “An Incomplete list of those saved is on board the Carmunia, 1 will forward it from Queenstown, ved from the purser of the Volturno om board that vessel when she sailed were 24 cabin passengers, '540 steerage passengers and 93 crew, * making a» total of 657, “The crew of the Volturno was saved by the Kroonland, the second, third and fifth engineers aud two telea- nd @ steerage steward 4 the surgeon hy the Grosser Kurfuerst. have pot beem received by me.” eee i eat OMe: ONS a nese ee gage =e “ — ee 105 flashed the news of the fire through the ether for hun treds of x every side, all aboard the Volturno would have perished the aid summoned by wireless ; 8 So rough that liteboats could not be utilized, One boat from the Cunard liner Carmania, the tirs j the Volturno, bobbed and tossed in the boiling | ‘the crew struggled vainly to get within reach of the burning ‘The disaster occurred almost in exact mid-ocean near a| ¥4Y to avoid destruction, point where vessels that left European ports and New York on Oct. 4th were meeting in their passage finally compel ud to progressed forward. | pool, was Barr t Bremen to New York, Following these two, all at full steam, all centring on the source of the black line of smoke that was whipped for miles across the foami waves by the gale came La Touraine of the French line, which left New York Oct. 4 for Havre; the Minneapolis of the Atlantic Transport line, which left New York Oct. 4, bound for London; the Rappahannock, which left London on Oct 4 for St. John’s, New Brunswick; the Czar of the Russian-American tine, which left New York on Oct. 4 for Rotterdam and Libau; the Narragansett, a tank enn seme t i complement of 24 cabin Jang 540 steerage passengers and 93 in the crew, 657 in all, $21 were Ten steamships heard the Volturno’s “SO 8,” or call for] saved. ‘The Volturno was bond from Rotterdam to New York by way | Ten big steamships, eight of them transtantic ¢ A. {sands of passengers, clustered about the burning ship to} loss of life occurred in four of the Volturno’s lifeboats | hours until she was abandoned, fighting a territic launched Thursday afternoon and smashed against} seas in the work of rescue. All those saved but one were {lifeboats of the ten vessels standing by but six of the Volturno’s lifeboat the iron sides of the vessel and destroyed liners carrying thous yile and mountainous 48 there had been time to laugh » ind four of these were dashed against ie The Cunard liner Carmania Picked up one of the Volturno’s steer ge Passengers from the waves. CARMANIA ORDERED TO QUFENSTOWN. The Cunard line has ordered Ca and the Carmania is expected to arrive there to-morrow night It was a fight between the elements and modern iny. Volturno, Capt. Barr of the Carmania brought. his | the elements won a partial victory. But tor the Marconi wir gigantic ship to within 100 feet of the burning vessel, plain Barr to call at Queenstown arrived the wind was so t ship to reach Phe olticer in command of the lifevoat was put back to his own vessel, | FIRST WIRELESS CALL SENT OUT. The fire started on the Volturno Thursday morning f At noon, when the vessel was in latitude 48,25, longtitude 34.23, almost the spot where the Titantic went to the bot. tom, Capt. Francis Inch, who was promoted to a capt jmand of the Volturno nine months ago, ordered his to send out the S O'S signal of distress The Carmania, which sailed from New York on Oct. 4 for Liver. seventy-eight miles away, At the first wireless signal Capt. headed his vessel toward the ship in distress, jt the forecastle were routed out and ‘aincy and com- wireless operator The firemen asleep { sent to the boiler rooms, | Every possible pound of steam was forced on the Carmania. Free j quent Messages urging haste were received from the Volturno, Within fifteen minutes the big Cunarder had been pumped up from normal speed to twenty knots an hour, | CARMANIA FIRST TO REACH BURNING SHIP, Shortly after 3 o'clock in the afternoon the lookout on the C. |saw a black smudge on the horizon, It was the smoke from the b /Volturno, The wind was blowing a gale and the waves were breaking ap over the decks of the Carmania as Capt. Barr headed her direct for the gy ‘Moke. He slowed up, circling the Volturno at 4 o'clock. Then appeared, climbing up out of the horizon, the Grosser Kure 36 tuerst, North German Lloyd, which sailed from Bremen on Oct. 4 for ——!New York, and the Seydlitz, a lumbering German tramp, which had been turned aside by the wireless distress call trom her lazy course from pean, oll laden, bound