The evening world. Newspaper, October 15, 1913, Page 2

r THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1913." PARENTS THREW BABIES INTO SEA WHEN BOATS ARRIVED me if Saved a seaman who had wer from the Ve The Vi lt Abl St G Ki fi Jor the men commanding the boat—I]and the man who List hs bebe a bal *; lon't’ know his name-yelied ‘Throw | tion lat which totalled 1,600 marks, for of thie Volturno say Carmania never foweted a froat! ouurno aze as eamer Grosser Kurfurst thems overboard the benef of the wurvivors, described Helow decka the stokers and firemen the en who held the engines e ° } ‘The next instant the officers on the | the incidents of the reciving of the Vol- deiven from their porte, had a trying time, One stoker to each of A he d A Mi Aft F St t d: Volturno charged forward and com-|turno's “8 0 S$" call and the race o| dees ingens dering ne bhatt apd roached Her on Mornin er Fire Started 2:7 yates meses eircom wine 0s a the chat saat Mba nnd botpidiindac hid tats A IRA JASN hohe Jump. They cowed lower. One of the| “% Will never forget the sensa' About 130 in the afternoon there wag an explosion and the flames ‘ (Photograph by Jack Jarrett, an actor, who was a passenger on the Kurfarst.) officers drew a pistol and fred it In the | whieh came to me on the deck of tie broke out afresh, Capt. Inch, almost blinded by flames and amoke, thea " = as Saecee one of the immigrants, | Ship whem the call for help came pie bend Sil Shh dave ith Word tat # he did the officers pushed him over | through the sir. 2 was standing near aR A 8 AMA TD SAUCE Tai etait Liss | MI Rd ia the fall and he tumbled. Into the sew. {the wireless eabla when the operator man voats—the boata which were jeft iene moment he appeared he was| burst out with a yellow message slip Pn s ose tagged into the lifeboat. im his hand and ren with it to the PICKED i mee SANK. ; "A searchlight from the Carmanin| beidge, When he caine tack he called As the rescuing ships put in an appearance, one after the other, the played on the scene and @ cheer went|to me, ‘There's a ship afixe ahead of women prayed the harder and the wen also kaeit in prayer, At 7 up. as and we are going to help her ont!’ o'clock at night Capt. Inch asked Second Mate Lioyd if he would take ee be time until thirty-two men} “Just then I heard the bell single in i 8 ponatiile ad been dumped overboard there was| the engine room nad I felt the Grosser out a boat and phow to the rescuing ships that it was possible for | continual atrugale to get the men to| Kurturst leap forward us if thrust by 4 mall boat’to live in the boiling waters. Lloyd and four men under |Jamp. They cut all sorta of grotesque| some bik hand. lack smoke bexa took the task. They fowed two miles to the Grosser Kurforrst and were and pathetic figures as they knelt and | pouring out of the funnels, and the why picked up just ae the boot sank underneath them beapihe tht Citloere who forced them that stip buried her nose in the bie 4 A “ und to the darkness below! waves was something to remember. The Then Capt. Spangenderg of the Groxeer Kurfuerst and lis eatlant to permit them to re ofMlcers lowered three of their bowte and fourht with the sea for bouts SY GUNG Wels | GEte Gone at re ncn lows thought that they we . dered in cold blood, |S eine MUP “While it tak but a few momenta to recite what happened during tne long hours of that eventful nignt, it] Finally we could sec the smoke ahead seemed a century. Every man brought) and soon we were close enough to eatell |to the Grosser Kurtuerat had to be! the flash of the fire tened, and Iiter-| PROFESSOR COMMENDS BRA ally hurled into the sca.” £ . RY OF GERMAN SAILORS, ‘But what of the women?’ asked.| Prof, Adolf Schmidt of Halle Univer- “T don't know. ‘Those officers on the! sity, Germany, who arrived on the Volturno, Weathers. OF tb Wen Whe Wend Grosser Kurfurst to deliver a series of save thelr own lives, never Inid Anece | Medical lectures tn American Univer- | when the word that we were bound on A mission of rescue passed around. “We all lined the rails, straining our eyes for the first smudge of smoke. ‘That night they rescued thirty-four enough to Jump into the sea. One of the boats was away from the steamer for six hore and was given up for she got back to the| Grosser Kurfuerst early in the morning Then came the Narragansett with her of! to pour on the troubled w tors. The sea subsided under the leavening influence of the oll, and to help, the wind died down in the morning Then women were lowered into the lifeboats of the Grosser Kurfuerst and of the other rescuing ves- sels The men Jumped Into the se Those who refused to Jump were forced to leap over the rafl by the captain, his officers and crew. But for of the passengers who were brave lost w hed. n the wome: sities, paid a great tribute to the bray- this action many more would have perished. He Gee. oe Hameed up at paced weriy| atv, of the ten Who manned the to Four of the Volturno’s crew were caught in the forecastle when tho about—many with {boats that tried for hours ins howlhe infants wrapped int Old fashioned éhawib<when gale to get alongside the burning vensel “Our only regret was that not a! 4 braid ‘ 3) prof. Schmidt. ‘ihe weather was too Woman or a baby wae sent to us. We! neavy for them and they were forced were all prepared for them, too. A , i ; jt |te return. We cruised around as clone eh ae (rorked all day Preparing! as we could to the Volturno, but things clothing for the infants.’ looked pretty hopeless. Then about 4 “CARMANIA DIDN'T SEND OUT A! octock there was an explosion on the BOAT. Volturno that lighted up the sky and Mies Upton was not sparing in her| #*& and then a series of rockets left eriticilam of the Carmania, She made| the burning ship and hurtled skyward. the rather startling statement that this! “IM the meantime two bouts were low- boat had the only searchlight in the en- ered from the Grosser Kurfuerat, It was tire fleet, howev: risky busin but the man sailors ‘I am ourprieed,” said Miss Upton, seemed determined to do something ev “that the newspapers are giving so| With the odds agi tt 1. Second much credit to the officers and the crew Ufficer Hi. Von Carl ire took charge of of the Carmania. Has it occurred to! the first boat and he w soon lost to any one that although this ship was the | wight between the big waves, He got very frat to arrive on the acene it did! close to the Volturn and men began to not send out a boat or pick up a single | Jump fro: the burnin hip into the survivor? All that done by the | water about tp ne lifeboat, They, Carmania was to lay to within a safe were drawn boat with boa, distance of the burning boat.” ooks, Suid Miss Clara Craigen; ‘I "it Was fire broke out.on Thursday morning and were burned to death. One of the pagsengers—none of the survivors could tell his name—an American, when the second fire broke out, seized his wife and throw her into the sea. The he swept his sister off the deck and sent r to join his wife. With a ery ofa maniac, he plunged after them, All three were drowned. None of them the decks There is @ belief that the chief officer of the Volturno escaped. His | was the first lifeboat to be launched, and it was turned over in sight of | those on board. It was righted again end carried away by the wind and currents, Three other boats which followed in the early hours of the fire were smashed against the sides of the vessel and all hands drown These boats were filled with the excited men passengers whom the crew were obliged to fight off. They got away with the boats dexpite the crew and paid for their temerity with their lives, Second Officer Lloyd Tells of Fighting Fire of DOGOQOOSS ODIDWOOIOOESHLGOWOWOOOOOOHOWOSOOOS. LOMHOMLOOOHOLIHSHHOHHOGANIHSHOSSIOTOOSOOIOHHGOHO ND never rert. ~ y a thrilling sight to ~ koing on that he could not « the the Volturno's fighl|noon, and then we saw the blaze Therestheir being atruck by our screws, which | might celebrate properly the holy days story ad were so high that when the Volturno|%&W £0 woe-begonc, bedraggied a lot of | see the (ros: feooat returning with against the fire in her hold and the|too much headway and that we were| “me a time when we were all weak! were out of water, because the Volturno|of Rosh-ha-Shonah and Yom Kippur. | was in the trough of the sea we could| men as the thirty-two that were holated . forte of Capt. Inch to save hin pus-lonly wasting time. Anyhow the ateam| With hunger. Two of us had to use force} was tilted forward. The seas threat-} “When we rushed up from below we] see nothing but the glare of the fire;|0Ver our side Thureday night. They (Contin sencers, an related by Edward Lioyd,|had gtven out and we couldn't pump]? &¢t the captain away from the deck | ened to drive the boats into those lash-|left the scrolls,” said Sats, ‘Rubin|then she would lift high up and we{ Were black as coal from the smoke that second officer of the abandoned vessel, | water, Then Capt. Inch began to send|'? drink a cup of coffee and eat a little. [ing propellers at any moment. I hung|Rimer, from my village, was witn me,|could catch the white of the .faces|enveloped them for hours, Many of most dramatic. Lipyd, a blue-eyed | memsages to the ahipa: “For God's xake| "“! Was off watch and asleep in my | over the etern warning the boats of this/and we tried to get back to get the |pressed againat the rail aft. Wel their shoes were half burned through Co! t be ts Wels n, narrated harrowing facts in come and take the passengers off; |°#bin when IT was waked by the explo- | dan scrolls, but we couldn't, Then we|hove to about a quarter of a mile away| the soles, and in many instances the ffee as a breakfast beverage on which started the fire and shook the ship. I was on deck in an Instant, but not in time to see just what had a matter of fact manner. “1 was asleep below and wan awak- ened about 7 o'clock Thursday morning never mind the crew.’ begged the sallors to get them for us RESCUE BOATS ORIVEN BACK B We got down on our knees and prayed to them, and they laughed. We offered the favorite of thousands. If |you would enjoy the full flavor from the burning ship, and the captain] bottoms of trousers that bagged were nent the first boat out at 7 o'clock in} burned, to the evening. “Of course, it's an easy matter F t vy an explosion that shook ithe ship| Woh agAe explodsd or how much of the forward them ail the money we had in the| “The men could make no headway| criticise the crowe. ot ships for not | At ite best, just try and aitost rolled me from my bunk! | “Some of the shins made attompte tol part of the ship was destroyed. 1 am Wworld—three rubles—and they laughed. | against the tremendous sea and had to} making trips to the burning boat soourr | he said. “I got Into my clothes and | Fet boats over to us and we maw them (quite certain that eighty or ninety We did not get the scrolls.” come back. The same result with the|than they did. But, as a matter’ ct| e went.on deck, Flames were shooting up ba Pe bartacd Two boats from the Gro#-|atocrage passengers. who had gone We had nothing to eat. ‘The sailors |#econ@ bout. Then at 11 o'clock ‘that| fact, @ glance at the sen wae enoux! t t out of tne forward hold a distance of (°° Kurfurst wot close enough for Us} forwart to eat were caught on the other wouldn't help us. T wouldn't get | Might the captain tried @ third time to] to take the heart out of even the) Capt. Inch was busy |*° Tecoknize the sailors and then they | aide of the explosion and fire and were tifty to wixty feet. Cli ¥| would be driven back. ‘Then we bogen At 11 o'clock at night Second OMmcer |#"¥thing for us. They paid no atten-|Ket @ boat to the Volturno, for he did] stoutest sailor. | crew in getting lines o . directing th burned to death. “The passengers did not seem to re: the boa! 5 4 Braemer of the Kurfurst came off | on and thought only of themselves.” [not think the ship would stay afloat un- Vhen Thursday afternoon began to hose to work, and he ordered me to hide mesroeea te om Psgiaed es GAVE THOSE IN BOATS WARN®| with a boat and called up to us to eend| “! asked one of them what I should |til morning. This hoat disappeared in| close and the dusk of evening 4 | quiet the passengers. ee vee ING OF DANGER. down women and children. fe do," Rimer took up the story, “and he {the darkness and did not get back for| there were times when the fifty or #ixty boats to us. was not aiMeoulty 6 “One great until then that we realized that the| turned on me and shouted angrily: | #ix and a half hours foot blaze from the Volturno was com- | {ae the danger and thone on deck #094] wien thong aiinn sont a wane Ttner| which came out from the other ships tol women and children were all safely |‘Why don't you Jump overboard, d—n| “When the Devonian came up, after ptetely whut out by the hills and valleys) avout with staring eyes. When we hid] oy couian't get boata to us it began| help us was that Made by the danger of] off and we filled the boat with men.” [¥OU! Don't you seo the rest of them| We had arrived at the scene, it was! o¢ water that aeparated us COFFEE the passengers qulet we began to 11D] Oy ontem Cant Inch called me jumping?’ with a tremendous rush, The boat tore!” st guppose the general impression «4s | holes in the deck through which to piay| Over” z 180 then I Juraped,” Rimer went on| by not fifty yarda away from us aWUNK| hat the Daasengers who watched 3¢| the hose. The flgges would shoot out php 5 jsimply. “I was sort of crazy. Others |in a circle and tried to run in close to] yyrning veswel—eapesially the wormen— through thege Bolgaga scorah the men | yoy, zyoter sald Be de you think Cruelty, Fi ear and Horror mere Jumping and they ‘were never| the Volturna, Before the night Waal were hysterical, Kuch was not the ca+».| SEEMAN BROS., NEW YORK, holding te ne wtuck to their jcoming up, but I jumped and a big | over there were ten ships lying about in}; never in all my life, and I am sen to show them that it is pos wate the ae ie 4 Proprietors WHITE ROSE Ceylon Tea poss, The Ing hotter aNd ginte for a boat to live? They say Ave threw mo against the vessel.|a circle, helpless to save, We on the] trained nurse, have seen women no cal | then Capt. the first wire-| they eamet ' ‘xperience Uy assengers There was a rope trailing and { caught | Grosser Kurfurst, as all on the other] nthe tuce of wo terr!ble a situation.” Jens eal for be pent. “ sald X would try. ; ‘t and then, T don't know how long | boats, were racked with apprehension. |""sjzow Jong did it take Officer Lioya| f THE FLAME: JOTAPWARD FOR) “rhe captain told me vo pick out some} Once they felt the firm planking of] were huddied on the after deck they afterward, ho pulled me into a boat." here were prayers for the safety of the] ang his crew from the Volturno wo} ~ mx’ ‘FEET. volunteers. Before 1 got through calling| the Grosser Kurfuerst's pier beneath melked about eas some of them smoked, | | Rimer pointed to Kovoll, who had|poor wretches we cou:l ave huddled in ch your vessel?” was asked. i} FOUND AND REWARD: The fiames sie ap.shrough the for-| for volunteora 1 had six sailors Who| their feet and realized that at last they | put tMey would mot pay any attention | rescued him after he himself had been | the aft part of the burning ahip.” hyas-quarters of an hour, wnd thel Loar to us. ealekin collars ay taken from the ship. New York. Finde el operatic of ward hold an@ openings in| wanted to go. I didn't want to risk Jans most of the Vol- Mra. Marie Mattfeld, operatic singer, the deck for fully sixty feet, and thing began to look bad. The passengers) were worried, by’now. The women be- | gan to scream and pray end ao did ‘the | men, and then some man started to the lives of too many men, 80 T ploked four men, "We lowered a boat over the aide and just ae it reached’the water we slipped down the falls and into the boat and were safe on turno's survivors were very gxeady to talk. Chiefly, it appeared they wanted to complain of the way the Volturno's watlors had treated them in the dread- ful hours when they watched the flames “There was @ panic on board and when they finally deckled to lower the boats there was a rush for them, Not ® woman got ints the first two boats. Men, wild with .terror, pushed and shoved them aside. The weaker wom: RESCUE BOAT MISSING FOR SIX HOURS, After two boatloads of immigrants— all men—had been safely brought from who was one of the passengers on the Grosser Kurfuerst gave a concert for the benefit of the rescued Immigrants and It Is understood chat about twelve The con- hundred marks was netted. {istance was about a bundred yards, was the reply. W. H, Wolf of New York. one of the Passengers aboard the Grosser Kurfurst, und Fecel 11s W. AL. between in fir peck plece; la renan Ken: the burning ship to the German vessel, Third Officer H, Lievermann von Son- nenberg was sent out with a third res- cue party—all fresh men. The crews of} the two previous trips lay on deck, ex- | sing a hymn and. lot of the ateerage passengers joined in, That kept the) people calm, But the flames kept on wrowing hotter and Capt. Inch cried: ‘Man the lifeboats.’ out ourselves loose, Capt. Inch called to me to ask the captain of the Grosser Kurfurat to please serd boats to take off the passengers, FLASHED THE LIGHT OF HIS certs took place in the main saloon, which was croded, "The operatic singer forgot for the time that she Was @ great artist, After she had sung her firs, number, a song of reop closer to them and eaw the rea-|en had no chance and they had to draw back to the rail on the after decks. It waved thelr lives though, for the boate sank. “I saw a etewardeas run to the rail ‘cue ships, floating, powerless to aid, only short ry distance from thelr doomed Ki, a German carpe: J hausted from their fight with the ele- | home pecullarly affected the big The. wind wap bowing o gals 06 POCKET LAMP. ter fr in West Prax and leap for the second boat. she | m alia Ie Sl he heavy Imost washing lent | roomful of men and women, the singer | the decks when, about 720 o'clock, we|, it Was dark when we aturted to pull |xreat blond man, was very calm feos between i and the ship and «| ‘The rescue boat loft the Grosser Kur- | sald whe would be pleased to accompany } - 3 : for the Grosser Kurfurst and 1 hud a|he talked. He had seen his wife, R big wave cru the little boat against | ; ipaingh jae Degan to unahip the tackle and lower | 07 gs Y ‘ werst at 9 o'clock and then wos lost! any other singer on the piano. There } ey Gente Two boate-No. 1 and No, |Dcket lamp that 1 flashed toward the iss ae nO by ane it Ane, Sera nene eee. (ee her head crushed be-| sient of, For three hours the search Tie voen aleetionaana: Vibln\ Solon: } 4—were put off with thelr crews and pas- | Volturno every fow minutes, Capt, | boats, ‘ v, ae, light of the Carmanta played about the | Everyone on board to-day had a kind t sengers, but they didn’t live more than |29¢h couldn't follow our course jars aig Paes nine; Valeri: SAW BOAT SINK AND ANOTHER | waters, but could not plek her up, Wuen! word for the singer 4 ei é ion, five, ord for the | & minute in that Twas an: Cao |TETMEN LDR Phe Ae ee an rescued by the crew of a Devonian FALL. midnight pasted the passengers on the| John H. Adama, managing editor of Sel for Thursday i other side of the Voltumno seeing to) i that we were stil afloat, and | lifeboat, “The first boat got off safely, but |German boat gave up hope of ever | the Baltimore Sun, his wife and a CHOCOLATE COVERED FR ULT the lowering of my Mfeboat and did not ae Neel while, 1 flashed the light to] "It was early on last Thursday morn-| Just @s it struck the water @ sailor |*i"® the missing officer and crew | griend, Miss Claire Craigen, were among MARMA\ j see the other two go down. I did not hab tte lek ‘em know we were|ina” he said in German, “when I Jumped for it. He struck right in the |#88!n. At 3 o'clock Friday morning the! the Grosser Kurfurst's passengers. Mr, hear any cries ‘They must have gone pedis mae tO) Le | Roman toddted to and wane) Middle of it ond his weight smadied | "Mt Made ite appearance, however ite Adams spokesin the highest terms of the down qm ily or the roaring of the| OTe scurturat wan ubout{ me up Sy climbing over me and talk- {4 Bole through the bottom of it, 1| "Smen and officer 4o exhuusted that | bravery of the Grosser Kurfurst's crew flames a:vwned their cries. There were ie from the Volturno, and | ing in my ear, ‘Smoke, papa, smoke,’ | Watched that boat and saw it eink | ey had to be lifted on deck. And they | in attempting to forve boats through the SS quite a few women in those twe boats, irae pil dade at the oars pulling | Was what she said to me, and sure! When it had got about forty metres |came back without a passenger from | mountainous seas to the side of the au nunnestion for Wednesday FORCED TQ QO BACK AND FIGHT through thone seas. The four men with| enough I coukl amoil it myself, But, {™ the ship. 1 saw the men swim. |the Volturno burning Volturno, He said:,, “Ee oi "ey te mate: LASS S| ChnY oe’ Fir! me were pulling theie hardest, and 1] 4ll through the voyage, against the | about in the water for @ time} William Andre of No, 279 East Two! “When the captain auked for volun- Coramel- feetlons, wiehiy “When Capt, Inch saw what happened |inow if It were possible for a boat to| xpress orders of the officers, some of M4 then they disappeared, Hundred and Fourth street, New York, | teers to man the firat boat more than aE delight- permint and te the twocbeats he gave up the at-ltive wo would get through. Then we| the men had deen smokiag in the| “The second boat never reached the] Was xenervus in his praise of the Gros-|a hundred stepped forward. febyd fe the hose am “" 19¢ tempt to get Dis passengers away in] got clone to the bik German ship, and | #teerage and I thought It was one of | Water. The dead falls on one side broke | er Kurfuerst crew. He said the men | members of the stewards brigade VOUND Ro! the lfeboate, Anyhow te flames were | those lights looked good. We ran in as| those vilo elxars 1 smelled, so 1 we 1 | Just am it was being lowered and alt the {under Capt. Spang bere were all vo ready to Ro. eda Rpen senhere: Fark How een, faith firget and Brooklyn Heres once, eve & growing 60 bad fe had to glve UP oUF] ologe as we could until they got some | DAK to sleep, 1 shall never forgot) Men In It Were poured into the sea jus: |UMteers, and that had the occasion de- | and his navigating officers eee iner 4 BARELAY S11 STREET” i 206 BROADWAY work at the @RMUbeand go back %0/ rope over the wide to um The four | MY Next awakening 4s peas are poured out of @ colander,| Minded there would have been twice {greatest praise for Sean. Corner West Broad: Comer Fulton Street fighting the fire 7 sailors with me caught hold of ropes| “Through the steerage sounded ter-| They screamed and yelled for help, but |#% Many men to man the oars. handled the ship in the dangerous situ-|] 4 Cerne Mest, Brosaway nae NASSAUSTREET Wt peers rible cries of ‘Fire! Tho ship ts ‘ourn- | tere was no help. “Lt was an awtul sight. The waves ation at the scene of the fire. . When the passengers @aw what and pulled themselves up the side. Ctl Aer , r Ba p Corner Church Street Between Beekman & Spruce Sts, bad happened to the two lifeboats {Phen I made a jump for the rope, and i ins Palate ir Pa i un “Me lees there 88 No secure fer mort of un, Park Row and Nassau St. oe We 125th STREET hone had eoen golatives and | was just in time, for as my feet lof | *! ne. 8 ent. ‘The 0 stay where we were 474% Fulton Street, corner Kim Fiace, Brockiya At City Hall Park 400 BROOME ST. Comer Centre Street Just East of Eighth A 23W. Sth ‘STREET Just East of Sixth Avenue steerage was filled with smoke, grabbed up the smaller children made the others run, and we made 1 iriends ge Gown bogus to scream and several wasted to jump in after them, bute sailors and We | 1 walted on deck from Thuraday morn- and |ing til 9 o'clock Friday morning. It our | WAR awful then. The pitch was melting the lifeboat she was swamped by a huge sea and went down, “But say, 1 want to Men in Fear Driven to Leap give all the way on deck, We had scarcely any out of the deck seams beneath my fect Stewards worked hard among them credit I can to the boat from the Grosser clothin, iy e 9 e 0 zon, and it was cold, and the roar of the fumes owoUN t s00n began Kurfurst that tried t t alot ied u tc soon ine Brac nging bogan |irrurnt that led to Ee onan ys poure we wayed Meck, We tanded nea vutertat the merase! OQuerboard at Pistol’s Poin init we ing the fire and| night. The Grosser's boats were the] ad nothing to ‘and little Roman, haa told us that the wireless had sum- ile whom 1 was carrying, cried because ne Was so hungry. One man had a bottle of milk and I asked him if he would sell it tg me for the baby. He ted to kill me. He said it was all the food| he had, and I said: ‘Kill me, then, for]! ca! moned help and that would reach us by 11 day “We watched for hed! Perhaps yo tell you hundred yards of sea that separated were jerror-atricken ey refused to stand. They clung to the deck Mke beings bereft and thelr groans floated across the water to us, ‘Our firat boat reached the bow of the @ rescue ship o'clock Thurs- On a stage lit up by the flames of tie doomed ship the passengers of the Grosser Kurfuerst witnessed what was perhaps the most dramatic of the night's drama, They saw men huddled only ones to stay out that night.” Second Officer Lieyd lost all his longini setting cur face ly roasted the steam steering gear gave way and (hat made the cone goa oy ‘The Vokurno 1: when the Volturno went down. One of the passengers gave hin a sult Oh, how we can imagine it and sure enough, about was kept going had to use the hand gear té mm The helm was of clothes, He said the first thing he wanted to do when he got ashore was Women’s Fashionable kept hard up, The reason for this was Bs we have not long to live.’ noon a ship came up, but It couldn't| ke @heep Ariven ahead by the offcers| Volturno, but there were no rop allow the nd the crew to] {0 nend A cablegram to his wife in Ret | cput then came the boats. I don't reach ua, 1 s1W a Woman—ahe weented | of the doomed veesel—heard their| iaddera to lower the passengers. Boots at $3.50 Tight the flame ne'weasher side, | terdain. He has a two weeks! old baby) ow just how we were saved. The|to have gone craay ut the wight of the! sisleks as they reached the battered inane ae “All the thmgy we were fighting the [Over there thal was born a day oF (Wo) song noure of waiting had been ao ter-| rescue ship—throw her two children | aij, und then saw them pleked ap ant] , - Yew fall models combining style, comfort i fire the captain was wefding urgent mea-|nulate the Volturno sailed rible T cannot remember well. Hut | overboard and then jump over herecit.| jn 4s Wen 8 EMO NE olEce. ! ‘ oh sages to the ships we saw beginning OFFICER GIVES HIGH) (icy my wife was saved and my babies I mever saw any of them @ome up, | 'Utled # distance of thirty feet to the Meiuvicos seen Gat 14. 1038, and wear to a degree rarely equalled at this bi to approach us About 11 o'clock the PRAISE TO CAPTAIN, and T'll see them all again,” though I hung over the rail.’ xit-Hlecked wives below. ‘WILLIAM J. K. KENNY, ‘2 yea pri And th rt 7a flames which had been shooting up| Walt Dusselman, the third oMftcer| Otto Kovoll, who eft Westphalia for| Henry Schwencke, who comes from Mise F. B, Upton of Boston, one of Funeral on Thursday morning, 161 ice. n ie assortment is ; alongside the foremast burned the/of the Voiturno, insisted on starting |Giasgow Bay, Canada, was Indigmannt | Westphalia, also corroborated Kovoll's| the first cabin passenseres on the Gers Som Maeheen are, Gnd, Poritiee us. Street and dress boots. ropes holding the wirelsss and the wires | anything he had to say about thelat the way the steerage paxsen had | story and toll how they had been taken | man ship; Miss Flora ; Re- Langenhelm of vompanion, and Mis trained nurse of Johns were blowing about. Knowing that we would have to depend on wircless if we burning of the ship with praise and ad- miration for his captain, genero' in black kid, patent leather, tan or black calfskin, with tly or heen treated on the Volturno, He eald; off at last when fea moderated anc “The sailora didn't give a continental the Grosser Kurfuerat's beats reached Pittaburgh, ara Craii her attbred for + requiem mage will were to be saved I climbed up the} “I always knew he was a «ood cap-|for us, They pald no attention to us, | them, | Honking University, Baltimoas told off | PAMece ® foremast and, repaired the wires. it|tain and as brave ax men are made.” |when tho ship was burning and we! Isaac Bate, @ Musslan farmer, on hir| what they tam. Sald Mine Upton: | at aaateveivnen tee eietion 1:06 aM; military heels and various shapes was rather ticklish up there in the gale, {he said, “but 1 never knew that it _ — | WAY to Minneapolia, was frantic over! The smashing of the lifeboats earlier; SHORTLISS,—On Tuesday, Oct. 1918, of toes, ‘but It had to be done. Was In one man to meet frightful odds) === . of the sacred acroiis, whieh. | in the day had unnerved the poor im+| THOMAS SHORTLIB®, age 6 fe fought the fire and kept the| as steadily and as wisely as Capt. Inc! the head rabbi of Rotterdam | beloved uncle of Thomas B. Shortt migrants huddled In the fore part of | vessel The women, ax we could! ya with our night glasses across the, 1606 va et them all through the fire, He fur: sax got nothing. He seemed to iy things HE cht Bl Pasvengerp. from getting into ® panic i twat! about 4% c'ctowk, Ap the ater Funeral {rom his late residence, Topping ave., Thureday, Oct. 16 ‘M. “Anterment Westport, Conn. Mato had entrusted to him Sree art when the ei gt f the Jews in the ourg ayant at tr