The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-10

water was pouring into the machinery COM
partment. Capt Deloncle ordered the boats
to be lowered.
The Passengers Were Crazed
1.-THE ship was stopped about this time
Passengers from all parts of the ship came
rushing up on the deck and ran about in I
panic. They got in the way of the sailors
and pushed them away from the boats as
they were loosening them. Before the
boats could be got from the davits and
ready to launch, the ship suddenly listed to
starboard, throwing some of the passen-
gers overheard. The slant of the deck
was so steep that passengers could not
stand on It, The passengers of the first
class had rushed out of their rooms to the
port side of the ship and, against the pro-
tests of the sailors, clambered into the six
boats there. A list to starboard made the
big boat swing on the inward and turned
the davits back against the sides of the
cabins.
Sailors Coaxed Them to Be Quiet
1.-The sailors implored the passengers to
leave the boats, and in cases tried to shove
them out, so that the boats could be lifted
over the side of the ship. A crowd ap-
ors heaved away at them, but could not
bulge them. They gave up at last and
were engaged in cutting the boats free
when the big vessel pitched, going down.
ward, and sank, carrying the lifeboats
with it.
Starboard Boats Smashed
ION the starboard side three boats weie
smashed by the Cromartyshire in the col
lIsion. Boat No. was filled with women
and other passengers and had been
launched successfully, when the big fun
mel fell crushing the boat and killing most
Of those in it.
Twenty Austrian sailors from the steer
age seized boat No. II. There was room for
go in the boat, but passengers and crew
were fought off by the men in it. Passen-
gers in the water tried to get aboard, but
were pushed off.
Boat No. 9, filled with passengers, got off
successfully. It had some SO aboard, in
Guiding its crew. The only boat on the port
side, where the first-class passengers had
rushed after trying the starboard side, was
No. s. The sailors around it succeeded in
getting 1t launched, leaped into it as the
ship went down and picked up passengers
enough from the water to fill it.
Passengers were also rescued from the
water by the only raft saved.
Work Of Rescue
Boats from the Cromattyshre came up as
the ship sank. Two good boats and the
part Of the smashed boat to which some
were clinglng were taken to the sailing
ship. The boats manned by the crew of the
La Bourgogne and the English ship cir
cled around about where the ship had sunk.
| picking up survivors.
The consul says that he made the in
vestigation carefully and that the stories
OF tha men agree and were told frankly
Life Preservers Thrown Away
| The sailors said that the life preseryers
were furnished by the crew to the passen-
| gers, but they were in complete state of
| panic and threw them away in many in
| stances.
Consul Bruwaert inquired particularly a 8
to the fighting among the crew or passen-
gers. All the stories of the wrecked men
agree that neither the men from the La
Bourgogne and crew nor passengers did anv
fighting excepting the Austrians and the
Italians. Most Of this was done by the
Austrians In the single boat.
Defends the Crew
Among the callers at the steamship COM
a survivor. He said that his own expert
pany's office today was Brother Romano
ence would not bear out the criticisms OF
the Bourgognes crew. He said the officers
OF the ship were in their places doing every
thing they could to restrain the panic among
the passengers. A sailor came to- him and