The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-07
GOES DOWN WITH NEARLY ALL ON BOARD
One Hundred and Saved While Fifty Went
Frghtu Death The French Liner La Bourgogne Run
in Fog by British Steamship

| of the whirlpool. and the sight of the
faces and the arms and the sound of
shrieks was so terrible that she will
remember them to her dying day.
| Terrible Scenes of Murder.
Some of the scenes enacted on La
Bourgogne just after the collision were
| terrible to witness. Men fought for
| positions in the boats like raving mani
| acs. Women were forced back from the
boats and trampled on by the men.
who made self-preservation their first
| object. Among them were a large num-
Der of lower class Italians and foreign
ers. who. i'm their frenzy, stopped at
nothing that promised safety for them
selves. In a boat was a party of 40
women. but so great was the panic
not a hand was raised to assist in its
| launching. The occupants so nearly
saved were drowned like rats when the
ship. with an awful kissing sound, went
down.
| So desperate was the situation that
an Italian drew knife and made direct
| on one who, like himself, was endeav-
oring to reach the boats. Immediately
! his action was initiated in every direc-
tion. Knives were fiourished and Used
| with effect. Women and children were
| driven back to the inevitable death at
the point of weapons, the owners of
| which were experts in their use. Ac-
! cording to the stories of the survivors,
the women were stabbed like so many
sheep.
The scene on the water was even
worse. Many of the unfortunates who
were struggling in the water attempted
to drag themselves into the boats or
on RATS. These were pushed back into
a watery grave. Here. too, knives were
used freely. Not all of the dead met
death by drowning. Christopher Bru-
mini saw a sailor belonging to La
Bourgogne strike a passenger over the
head with a bar and kill him. The body
dropped into the water. The passenger
grabbed the boat in which the sailor
was and attempted to get on BOARD.
There We're ia persons on board. and
163 were saved. With the exception of
two passengers, Professor Lacasse and
his wife, all the passengers of La
Bourgogne are aboard the steamer Gre
clan at the Cunard wharf. The crew
are also on board that boat The Gre
clan is expected to sail for New York
this evening. All the crew are coll
lected by themselves i'm the forward
part of the deck and are anything but
pleasant looking. The officer at the
gangway looked at them with a scowl
and said if he had his way, they would
all have been hanged to the yard arm
long ago.
The Brave Second Officer.
The correspondent interviewed nearly
all the passengers who could speak
English. One passenger said the Off
GERS and crew of La Bourgogne
neglected the passengers entirely. The
second officer was the only man of The
crew who did anything to help the ter
rified and helpless passengers. He cut
loose al the boats he could, and in fact
all the boats that We're launched were
launched by the brave second officer
He was last seen standing on the deck
signedly to certain death.
Christopher Bruinini. a passenger,
was thrown into the water and swan
for two hours before he found a boat
He clung to this as his last hope After
some time another man got hold of the
same boat and they managed to right
it. Under the seats they found the
dead bodies of four men and three
women, who had evidently been
drowned by the capsizing of the boat.
Bruinini said the crew were cruel in
their conduct toward the passengers.
He was unable to get in the steamers
boat when he came on deck, being
showed away by the sailors. He saw
many of his friends being prevented
from getting into the boats by the sail
ors. He lost everything but what he
stood in.
Mehilin Secondi, an Italian steerage
passenger, is among the saved. When
he got on deck he found a raft with
five men on IL. The raft, however. was
tied and chained fast to the deck. and
no sailors We're near 10 let IL loose.
None Of the five men had knives. The
ship sank rapidly and they were all
precipitated into the water. He was in
the water 20 minutes and alone. the
other five men sinking before his eyes.
He came across a boat. which he tried
to get into. He eventually succeeded,
but not before a desperate fight with
the crew. He was battered with oars
and showed out of the boat with
hooks.
Matte o. surich, a Norwegian. said
it did not appear to be anybodys duty
to look after the launching of the
boats. Those on the port side were not
touched by the crew. People climbed
into them, waiting for the boats 10 be
launched. but in a short time the
steamer listed so rapidly 1t was i'm
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