Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-08

III fated La Bourgogne has been in
creased since the first reports, as it Is
now known that but 1865, instead Of 200,
were rescued from the big liner The re-
vised list is made up as follows:
First class Passengers ............. 50
O""eu ''''.''. ............ None
second class assengers.. 1913
oeu '''''..'.' .'.............. III
Steerage passengers. 297
1.eSNue" ''''.''.. .'......... 81
O1llcers and crew.. ............... 222
hescueu NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. lOi
Total rescued. 185
Interviews with passengers rescued
from the liner adds to the horror and
shame of the disaster. In the annals of
shipwreck no such horrible scenes ever
took place before. Members of the crew
and some of the Storage passengers in
their selfish fight for their lives became
demons. in their fury they struck
deathblows with knives, with beat hooks
with oars.
Women imploring help were beaten
down with oars. Children We're kicked
down and tramped upon. Women who
had taken seats in lifeboats were driven
out with knives and oars. Even in the
water the shocking struggle continued.
| Passengers in the water who strove to
get hand on boat occupied by part Of
| the crew were struck upon the head.
| Survivors say they saw several MUIR
dered in this way. A life line upon which
| five women chung, attached to a raft,
was cut because it endangered those on
the raft.
| Passengers Leave For Home.
Many of the passengers left for their
homes today, money having been tele-
graphed them. A few started by train
for Boston. Many are at second rate
hotels and lodging houses temporarily.
Those who have no friends and no mon
ey will be cared for by the consuls of
the countries to which they belong until
they can be sent to their destinations.
An awful cry for Justice is going up
from the rescued passengers Of tho III
fated La Bourgosne. Many of them
saw loved ones beaten back into the
water that engulfed them by cowardly
members Of the crew and by French
and italian steerage passengers who
were mad with fear. Drawing their
stilettos and knives, they hacked at the
fingers and slashed the faces of those
WHO louSIl lpI me On llldl IilDI IlIb vi
horror off Cape Sable
Some of the survivors who almost
wish now that their fate had been thai
of their loved ones say they can picl
out of the motley crowd of steerage pas
sengers and crew some of those who
are as guilty of murder as any who evel
paid the penalty in the electric chair.
They say there must be some method
1k
avenged. Today there is talk of caus
ing the arrest of some of those wh'
were most conspicuous in beating thu
struggling passengers and holding then
pending an investigation There is M
clear idea Of the procedure to be taken
however, and the guilty may yet escape
Some Of the Murderers Known.
Some of the murderers are known
that is certain. Patrick McKeown,
Young Irishman and one strenuousl.
demanding that justice be done, saw
friend killed by a member of La Bour
gogne's crew. He was endeavoring t
get aboard the raft when TIC mai
struck him with, an oar, and 10 wen
down. The murderer was on the steam
err Grecian, which toWed the Cromarty
shire to Halifax, and left with the res
Of the crew for Boston.
CHRISTOPHER Bruniri, n passenger, ais
knows one who, If not an actual muir
derer. is one at heart. He is an en-
pineer. who declared that it was not nj
business TO save lives. He said he wa
sorry he had no revolver, so that n
could kill any one who endeaVored [
get on the boat.
It is hard for a Britisher to unoei
! stand how so per cent of the crew "er
saved and only 10 per cent OF lhe Pas
sengers The fact that only one Woina
was saved out &C zoo will so down in ms
> torv as a branS>of fire on the honor an
, courage Of the cowardly crew. Passef
cora were there to die in order tha
those who were naturally looked 10
tbeir professors mifht escape.
The prevailing opinion is that "ne
Tho Halifax reaches Boston the rartlf
who can he pointcd out IS gun y
,ourderous assault will be pleced und'
: arrest A remarkable coincidence ne
IN the fact that the passengers OF wv
.hins If the same lire should be hrouGl
. "a Halifax within a few months l.
ch.n,ncpna was towed here under CT
+ cumstances which fer many days eau
=. od urea. anxiety on both SIDES OF u
l. Atlantic. Hundreds of lives were e'
o sonoored on that occasion. In this hui
y dreds were lost.