The evening world. Newspaper, October 11, 1913, Page 2

a ea eeerey a “S O S” CALL BRINGS 10 BIG FIRE DRILL ON BOARD THE BURNED VOLTURNO; CAPTAIN INCH AND HIS OFFICERS The Photograph of Capt. Tach is what is called in photography © “freak.” ee Sree ne ath ops sae 7 EVENI Hs from New York to London; the Devonian of the Leyland line, bound from Boston to Liverpool, and the Kroonland of the Red Star line, which left Bremen on Oct. 4 bound for New York and carried a full Mist of cabin and steerage passengers. RESCUE SHIPS ALSO IN PERIL. As night fell the ten vensels, all alight, were within reaching distance of the Volturno, bur they might as well have been at the points where they | sense first picked up .he wireless call foi all the good they were able to do. In the terrific wind ard sea It required skilful searmauship to Keep the half-score ponderous vessels out of each other's way. Never before have thousands of persons watched a great vessel burning exch of our boats by which we can in mid-ocean, with her passengers and crew aboard and helpless, No more| tte’ @ line ever any vessel at a rea- t 1 onible dtstan he waid, "It is a dramatic sight could be imagined. There were the vessels that had been| (cry simple matter where the distance called from the far reaches of the sea by the clatter and crash of the wire-| is not than 200 If it go oud, each ship with her bow ed toward the blaz . Beyond that of course we have an at- evs, each ship with her bow pointed toward the blazing hulk that* rolled] 0M! WAL of cours Wwe have an at and pitched and belched fire and smoke such a short distance away, At every available point of vantage on the ten vessels tense watchers clustered, heediess of the biting wind and the spume and spray that whipped their faces, watching and waiting. coal trimmers, oilers, firemen and engineers to gaze spellbound upon a spec: | tacle such as it has been given few men to see. | While ‘the ships themselves were idle, with engines moving just enough to give steerage way, the commanders and thelr subordinates were keenly | alive and alert, Despite the danger from the pounding seas each vessel! put over lifeboats. It was apparent from the experience of the boat from the Carmania that only by some fortuitous chance could any of th craft get close enough to the Volturno to take off a soul from the blistering decks. But that chance was sought time and time and again, with the blaze from the Volturno lighting up the sea and guilding the daring seafarers in their work, By common consent but one vessel, the Carmanta, used her searchlights. This was to avold the possibility of the dazzling rays from so many vessels flashing in the eyes of the men on the bridges. All through Thursday night the Volturno burned. No one on the ien vessels clustered about her slept. They saw the fire gradually eating its way aft; they saw the men of the Volturno fighting and falling back before the fames. RESCUERS AT LAST REACH BURNING SHIP. With the rising of the sun the force of the wind abated. The waves abated their violence and at 9 o'clock in the morning it was possible for Ufeboats to get under the stern of the Volturno, where all those who had not escaped in two lifeboats were huddled. The work of taking off the terrified passongers und the exhausted officers and members of the crew proceeded with dispatch and at last the Vo!turno was left without a living soul aboard, a smouldering, smoking hulk heaving on the Wreckage-strewn sea, When the Carmania reached the vicinity of the Volturno, at noon, sho found the forward end of the distressed vessel burning fiercely, Tho! flaming ship was at the same time rolling heavily, while her propellers were | fouled with boats’ tackle used in lowering her six lifeboats. LOADED LIFEBOATS SMASHED, It was learned by the captain of the Carmania that two only out of the six lifeboats had succevded in getting safely away from the Volturno. Tho other four, crowded from stem to stern with passengers and members of the crew, had been smashed against the side of the vessel and all their oc- children, in horror-stricken Out of the bowels of the vessels piled | unable to help. Most of the passengers got into the Volturno’s lifeboats, but a hundred of them had gathered at the after end of the burning vessel, ALL ALERT TO LAUNCH LIFEBOATS. jat the same time continued in vain to fight the fire at her forward end. SIMPLE HAND-GUNS | WOULD HAVE CARRIED LINES TO VOLTURN When the attention of Capt. Garden, In charge of the district off Cape Hat- teras for the relief of vessels in distress, was called to the failure of a number of 1s to put a line aboard the Volturno, he expiained that they must have lacked the equipment in use In the American| waters “We have a very simple hand gun on wrry a thousand feot under ordinary cireumstan easily carry two NG WORLD, SATURDAY, OOTOBE! APTA) INCE “TALLY and in a storm will hirds of that distance, fear on the Capt. Barr in the meanwhile kept ht municating with all the vessels within the radius of his instruments, At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the G came in sight, Kroonland, raine and the Czar, The gale moderated slightly toward night, and each of the succoring ships, as soon as it was possible for her | ered them to the sea, | STOOD BY ALL NIGHT. The waves, howeter, were so high that, although the smail craft made} | some progre is .u the direction of the Volturno, it was impossible for them | | to get alongside and they returned to their ships, in most cases doing this with the greatest dificuily owing to the overwheiming seas and the dark- ness of the .ight. The Carmania kept her searchlight: \ing their rays acr. ss the foaming seas in the quert for po.sible struggling sv immers or |.feboats from the Volturn At about 9 o'clock in the cvefiing, w est, flames burs and coal bu kers, * losion whica vent into the ¢ The spectacle of a great Vessel b unable to help, owing to the mountati hope of picking up some of those who At 9.20 at night the wi and dynamos out ef action, cupants thrown into the sea and drowned, In spite of the terrific gale raging when she arrived near the Vol-|near the Carmania, and then a man, who proved to be @ steerage passenger turno, the captain of the Carmania had one of his lifeboats lowered to|of the Volturno, wearing & lifebelt, was located by means of the search- tossed about by the sea, sailors of the Carmania had been lowered into the ribly rough and it was only by extraordinary efforts that the small craft| water with @ lifeline, which he placed around the walst of the exhausted proceed to the Volturno to help in the This was effected with much difficulty, for, even on the lee side of the Carmania, the sea was ter rescue was prevented from being smashed or capsized us she left the side of the ship. The Carmania’s lifeboat, in charge of First Officer Gardiner, made a gallant but futile attempt to get alongelde. After two hours’ battle with the waves, during which the lifeboat lost all but three of her oars, the rest belng broken or torn from the hands of the crew, Firt Ofer Gardiner returned to the Carmania, which he sue- of his boat's vrew Capt. Barr of the Carmania then manoeuvred his big vessel very close to the Volturno and finally got the Carmania’s bows within a hundred feet of the Volturne’s stern, It was found imposible, however, to cast @ line on board the Volturno, ‘er to get anybody on board the burning ship. Bt was a terrifying sight for the passengers and crew of the Carmania ‘te! on 99 close: o them hundreds of passepgers, including women snd Abeba s ¥ light a short distance away, cnly after one of the floating man, Other cries were heard, {no further bodies or swimming people About midpight a ray of hope came, for It was seen that the flames and these two were joined later in the afternoon by the the Devonian, the Rappahannock, the Minneapolis, La Tou- through amidships of the Voltur As the jire lighted up the ir burning wreck five hundred souls on board her and surrounded by a fleet of huse Mghted hulls, crowded with thousands of spectators, all anxtous but ‘All that could be done by the would-be helpers was to throw over- board from their vessels dozens of lighted life-buoys and stand by in the less operator on board the Volturno had to turn over the connection of his instrument to the reserve batteries, as the fire had reached the boilers and the engine-room and had put the pumps decks ot the Volturno, and yet be News From In contrast to the usual thronging of frightened relatives and friends to the | offices of the steamship line one of whose ships met with disaster, not a single such inquiry was made at the office of Uranium ine, In Lower Broad- way, to-day The news did not reack those In the city who were most closely affected by it The great steerage business of the line is in bringing immigrants from Poland. Much of the literature of the tine is printed in Hebrew, There are no Jewish newspaper printed on the east side to- day because {t 1s Yom Kippur. The orthodox remained at home and in the synagogues absorbed in thelr devotions, whose crew s wireless apparatus at work com- rosser Kurfuerst and the Seydlits to do so, put out boats and low- fot until after | to-day will the ws of the burning of the Voiturno gain circulation among those to whom it # of the most interest. Agent E. ©, Thomas gave out a re- vised est of the destinations of the pas of the Volturno just be- unanswered. going throughout the night, throw- Jewish Holiday Kept | Halifax. R11, 1913. a ens him im duplicate, speaking to himeeif. SCAR TAIN WNGHAGN HIPS TO AID THE VOLTURNO BNOsORE CENTER) AND Hi) CEXOOSSis RG InWR t REAM Ie Friends Here and three infants bound for New York, and two hundred and ten adults, forty- one children and ten infants bound for A report from the Carmania has it that the total of cabin passen- gers was twenty-four, “As nearly as I can determine,” sald Mr. 1 8, “the Volturno burned nearly o nthe spot where the Titanic sank. It was near the same place that our liner the Uranium caught fire, |with the steamship trust. | day | road's marine department on j Wrecked Ship Was in Many Mishap. The Volturno became an independent immigrant and passenger transatlantic packet in 148 when the New York and Continental line, then doing only @ freight business, went into competition From that the history of the Volturno has been full of trouble. The ship, with a groms tonnage of 8,681 had twinscrews and accommodations for 00 in the ge and twenty-four first cabin passengers. In shipping cir- cles the fact that the line, which added the former Italian steamship Came panello and the Uranium to Its servics, put the funnel mark of the Rall s smoke ‘ow white bands— rise to the story that the steamship Ine was promoted by the Erie as 4 feeder for Ite Immigrant transontinen-) tal business. Erie officials made light denials of the story The line has been tn severe rate bat- | tles with the shipping trust and the company has sent representatives to Washington more than once to complain of strangling tactics by the combine. The steamship Urantum of the same Ine caught fire in mid-Atlantic between stacks—four na though the flames were kept under con- trol until she reached New York General Passenger Agent Paul C. Fourmain said that Capt. Inch had been in the employ of the line since it was established. He was chief officer on one or another of the ships for six years |The ringing of the telephone even went | and was promoted ts be cuptain of the sundown} Volturno nine montha ago. He is thirty- four years old and has followed the sea for twenty years. Since he has boon captain @ fire started on the Volturno on an eastbount trip, but was extin- gulshed without serious damage. The Volturno was built in 1906 by Fairchild & Co. in England, ‘The Board of Trade certificate gave her tonnase 0. fore noon. He sail she carried in the ‘ A gross tonnage of 3,85) hen the urkness was at {ts black-| cabin elghteen adults and three chil- in tet on nage ot ie from her engine room | ret bound for Now York and one pas- 2 Hy senger in the eal'> for Hallfax, In the officers were ky this was followed by an! diccrage there were two hundred and The Uranium inore dock’ he! like @ flight of rockets, | forty two adults, thirty-three children !at Pier 38, Atlantic docks, Brooklyn. eing consumed by fire, with over| — = ) = —— 'SCUE SHIPS and Mra, C, F. Dimond, David Duke, TW OOF ihe a aiee nay Miss Ethel B. Duke, T, B, Foxg, Mrs. nous seas, beggared description. f a \J. D, Hogan, Misa Hogan, Mr. and Mrs, WITH 195 SURVIVORS.) a. ©. Marsnan, 3. D. Morgan, J. 2. Schermerhorn, Arthur Spurgeon, Mrs. had been cast into the sea, is the first of the rescue ships due in this port, She would {fh ordinary course arrive Monday, but it is assumed be delayed a day by the disaster, She The Kroontand of the Red Star line | at the Red Star offices that she will | LC jah, RS, Watt, Philip B. | Whitehead and A. L. Wilson of New York; Henry Burdon, Mr, and Mrs, E. J. Creighton of Brooklyn, Misa J. W, Day of Oyster Bay, Miss A, M, Evans of New Rochelle, F, G, Smith and Mrs Kt, Greene of Greenwich, Conn,; and haa ninety survivors aboard | ae, 7 aR? oP 7 . ‘he Grosser Kurfuerst of the North MAN FLOATING IN WATER SAVED BY CARMANIA, tan Lise, Wik Wa. BuvIVies A fev’ minutes later cries for help were neard rising from the water| duc here Tuesday. Her captain, M. Dietrich, has not yet communicated with the offices here. The Rappaha ck Was due at St. He was rescued, but | Jonn, B, Oct. 16. The three are the vniy eastbound boats of those which 8 are due at their destinations as follows: but these gradually died away and] Carmania, at Liverpool Oct. 13; ‘en were seen. To at Havre, Oct, 12; Minneap- olis, at London, O: dam, Oct. were not making much headway aft of the engine-room or the after] te on ‘Got Ii; Devonian, at Livers bulkhead of the Volturno. pool, Oct. MH; Seydlita (freighter, dese By daybreak tho Volturno was st ” |eargo huddled in masses on her poop, ceeded in making without loss of life or broken limbs among the members |and a flotilla of boats gathered round the stern of the Volturno, Of the stecrage passengers bound for Halifax 210 were adults, 41 children and 10 infants. Only one cabin passenger was booked for Halifax, Of the steerage passengers bound for New York 242 were adults, 33 chil- dren and 8 infants, The total number of young children and babies aboard was 87, “FATHER JOHN'S MEDICINE CURED Wosera hate!” Mite tat hasan ds Losi The sea had moderated considerably | aney World “Wants” ill floating, with her great human| tination uncertain, ——— ss NEW YORKERS WHO SAW RESCUES FROM BURNING VOLTURNO. Among the passengers on the Cun- arder Carmania who galled for Liver- pool from New York, Oct. 4, were the following from New York and Brooklyn a who witnessed the taking of pass- ers from the burning Volturny: “DL Me, Beaton, Wiliam Dempeter, at. ‘ork Monday Wonders, hered about the Volturno, The others | |. 13; Caar, at Rotter- | M; Narragansett (freighter), | Mr. and Mrs Thomas K, Laidlaw of Bernardsville, N. J. with three ehild- ren, | The officers of the Carmania are: J | C. Barr, Captain, 1 J. Johnstone, N. RK, chief officer; F, Drumm chief engineer; Dr, A, W, Mackenaie, surgeon; J. Humphreys, purser; C. | Mcbaren, chief steward, ROOSEVELT GREETED ON STOP AT BARBADOS Colonel and His Party on Way to Mexico in Fine Shape—He Makes an Address, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Oct, 1.— An enthusiastic welcome was given Col, Theodore Roosevelt when he arrived here yesterday on his way to South America, All the members of the party were well, In & short address the Colonel pald a glowing tribute to the work of the Har- badian laborers en Camel. ‘The report of the steamship inspectors| of this port shows that the Volturno) was Inspected last December here under the reciprocal treaty arrangement by which the United States accepts the re- ements of the British Board of} Trade, The Volturno's British certifie | 8 cate was Issued Dec. of last year] and was good until Deg, 7 of this year, Under the certificate she carried four teen lifeboats with a capacity of 600;| of two collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 108; one Berthon folding boat with @ capacity of fifty-four; one second qual- ity Mfeb one workboat with a capac teen and six rafts with & Mi. The certificate required accommodations for 1,04, n can inspectors nd the 9 of the number of life pre) British regtla- | Ine to PUIShage WIFE FOUND SHOT DEAD WITH FARM HAND AFTER HUSBAND IS MURDERED Bodies of Two Victims in Triple oat with a capacity of thirt ty of seve pacity of lifeboat ip short servers required by the tions and caused the Tragedy Lay in Vermont Woods, Other on Road, BRATTLEBORO, ¥ rehors to-day found the Mrs. Walter Nichols and Ervi a ley, a farm hand, in the woods on the st Guilford. Both varently by the woman's. hus hols, sexton of the , was discovered in the near his home yesterday, He killed by a Dlow on the head is twWenty-seven years ¢ nis wife twenty ey alo and hi spring when Wrisley was tmployed by them, THe was twenty- nine years old and had been married and divorced. According to the mother of Nichols, Wrisley formed an attach= ment for his employer's wife. The lat- ter was formerly Katherine Moore, ‘daughter of Luther Moore of Mechanice- burs, Ve. gun. hand Baptist highwa Inspectors Found Lack Of Extinguishers on Lin Volturno Newfoundland and the British Isles last summer, but made port without loss of life, Tho Volturno was in deadly peri: from ice floes in May, 1909, when al Was frozen in for twenty-four hours and carried far out of her course, all the time in danger of being crushed. In 1911 fhe Dutch manager of the ling Rudolf B, Tinsley, was banished trom Holland because the Volturno arrived in Holland with 800 Russian immigreate who had been turned away from the United States as undesirable and who were not allowed to land on Germag territory when they returned. The ship was quarantined on acesant of an outbreak of smalipox in the steerage in March, 1912, The Uranium of the same tine was !n an accident on Chedabucto Heed, twelve miles from Hallfax, entering’ that port, Jan, 12 of this year, and 633 Passengers were saved with the utmost difficulty. The accident was blamed on the neglect of the precaution of tak’ng a coast pilot aboard, The one bright spot in the Voltune’s history 1s the rescue af the crew of Owens ty-elght of the French fishing schooner Champagne in a high gale in Marek, 14, for which she was commended @y the French Government, them here before allowing the ahtp ¢d sail, Discomfort Alter Meals Peeliny te ne cescetion, a and belch to ony ai aro ad Heart. Cho tne. Thre! or Weim before. t Pain in the Side, of Heat, will ald in freeing named. disonle box, AL Fixtache, and Distress after Rating, jal Pill, Small Dose, Senall Poise Genuine muh. Signature oVeo, SULLY. nm at New York Qty, JAMES SULLIV peloved hi Mary 8. 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