The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-07

rience. He was in the water about half
an hour and attempted to get into a
/ boat. He was seized when he managed
to get half in and thrown back into
the water. Again he tried to enter the
boat. but the savages who manned ii
were determined to keep him out. He
maraged at last TO get in and stay in
ClinginG to the lifeline of boat not
far away he saw his mother, and, as
4 his trials were not enough he was
forced to watch a man shove here into
the ocean with an oar. She never rose.
He said the man was saved, and was
almost sure he could recognize him.
Fred Nifler, a Swiss, was the most
jOvial and cOntented of all the unfor-
tunate passengers. He lost all his
money and clothes with the exception
of pair of pants and a shirt, but he
laughed now, and again cursed the
ffenZied sailors with passionate earn
estness. Niffler got into life boat
with some others and remained there
until he reached the water. when he
thought il was time to leave None of
the sailors ever attempted 10 let the
boat loose He swan for a long time
before he was picked up. He saw an
Englishman attempt to get into a boat,
but the men in the boat who we're call
ors of the La Bourgogne, hit him over
the head with the butt end Of an oar.
He fell back and sank.
ASHAMED OF HIS COUNTRYMEN
Charles Liobra, Frenchman, ex-
presses himself p thoroughly ashamed
Of his cOuntrymen's conduct. This man
is one Of the most unfortunate. He
had his two mOtherless boys. and :
years old. with him. he put them in
a boat, but was prevented from enter
ing himself. He did not get in any boat
and went down with y. ship. but he
came TO the surface al. at once looked
for the boat with his boys. They We're
nowhere to be seen, and he mouTns
them as lost. He floated a long time
before q boat came along. He tried to
get in, but was assailed with oars and
bOathOoks. Mr.. Liobra, showed the
correspondent his arms and body. His
arms are black and blue and his body
is terribly bruised from the blows he
received. After this boat went off he
was in the water eight hours.
AMERICAN MURDERED.
Patrick McKeown is an intelligent
young Irishman from Wilmington, Del:
He is indignant at the brutal treat
ment. He was more fortunate than
most Of his fellow passengers 4 nd got
sinking. One of the worst sights, he
said, he ever saw. was the murder of
an American with whom ne had be-
come acquainted on board the steamer.
This man, whose name he cannot recall,
was from Philadelphia, where he has
a wife and family. The Philadelphia
was trying TO get on a raft not far
distant from the one McKeown was
on. A French sailor grabbed half an
oar and beat him over the forehead.
Charles DuttWeiller, a German, man.
aged by an Interpreter, to tell his story.
1t is this: He got in a boat which was
tied fast to the ship and stayed in it,
until he saw it was certain death to
remain longer. He jumped, but was
carried down in the whirlpool made by
the sinking steamer. He was in the
water half an hour when a boat came
along within reach and he attempted
TO enter, but the Wrctches in it showed
him off with boat hooks. His left eye
IS badly cut by the jabs he received.
He saw women showed away from
boats with oars and boat hooks when
clinging to the life lines OF the RATS
and life boats. He also says the crew
assaulted many passengers with any
implement that came handy and if no
instrument was TO be had, punched the
lelpless women and men into the water
with their fists.
WOMEN MURDERED.
One of the most important witnesses !
viii be John Burgi, who got into a boat ]
with his mother before the ship sank. |
The sailors in the boat held him and /
hreW his poor mother into the wafer |
The sailors threw him out, beat him |
With oars and showed him under the /
BOAT. He was in the water nine hours /
before he was saved by a boat from |
he Cromartyshire.
Charles Zebra. who lost his two chill
lren, also said that he saw five women.
Who were evidently exhausted, clinging
o the life line of a boat. The French F!
ailors cut the lines and the women
ank.
Gustave Crimaux, a French passen-
-er, corroborated the other passengers
Il their statements about the crew.
hey did not attempt to cut any boats
pose except those which they needed
themselves. He saw women showed
way from boats with oars and not
My being showed away, but pushed
eep in the water.
The officers of the Grecian say the
assengers and sailors presented a
orry spectacle when they were taken
n board from the CrOmartyshire. They
ad not eaten for nearly a hours. Some
re still dazed and do not know where
hey were or what they We're doing.
he third officer of the Cromartyshire
aid that one half-drowned wretch
rhom he pulled over the side some
ours after the collision seized his life
cit and asked the steward for his
nife. He cut a piece off the life belt
nd started to eat it, saying it was all
g wanted.