New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-07

me TO go TO HI
THE captain lid not appear to he aware OF
the danger at the beginning. He blew the
another signal. but the water filed the engine
room. Half an hour later he fired distress sig
nails but Il was too late. Then he put up the
danger signals. was told he was in the cabin
when the accident happened. but he was on
the bridge when the ship went down loosened
one Of the lifeboats. of which three we're left
on the steamer. but they were soon crowded
with women who behaved very quietly and
| bravely. Then ! climbed on the superstructure
and climbed all over the ship In company with
two engineers We found the RATS on the
other side threw them overheard and Jumped
onto them
| FRENCH SAILORS WOULDN'T VOLUNTEER.
Our raft was damaged BY big hole In IT, so
! we had to abandon It: but We were picked zip
all right by boats from the sailing ship Cro-
martyshire We were the first crew, and we
saw other boats following us FAR away. The
captain Of the Cromartyshire called for volun-
teers. hut none Of the Frenchnen would volun'
teer 10 go out at first. and the crew ~ the
sailing ship had 10 60 out Afterward the
French sailors went out and picked up some OF
the people struggling in the water The sailors
got hold Of the Rats first One raft had a cord
| around Il, to which five women were holding
| The sailor. cut the rope and the women were
drowned"
III. oph II
| were thrown off a raft by the French sailors
| He himself was thrown of Ave times. but man
aged TO clutch another raft He said Nv
mother had hold Of the rope One Of the sailors
| drew his knife. cut the rope. and my mother
and four or FIVE other women fell backward
| into the water and were drowned
Another passenger told how twenty-s'x
| svrians and Arabians got a boat crowded ana
pushed into r.. refusing 20 take any but their
own nationality
STRUCK IN THE FACE WITH AN OAR
Charlie. Liebre. second-olass passenger, had
a desperate fight for life. He had his two moth
erless boys. FIVE and seven wears old. with him.
| He put them IN boat. but vas prevented from
| entering Il himself He could not set In 70 any
boat and vent down uith the ship He went
so deep that he thought he vas lost. but he came
| TO the surface and a. once looked for the boat
containing his boys They we're nowhere 70 he
seen and he nourns them es lost He foated
| q long time before relief came. IN The form ~
raft which seamen were padding away As ne
| tried to climb aboar- a sailor struck him in the
! face with the oar The blow threw him hack
| into the water but he dived under the raft and
succeeded in climbing aboard. but only after
his arms had been beaten black and blue by the
| inhuman monsters Mr. Liebre said that in one
instance he saw sailor. who was atterward
drowned. open the head Of a Storage passenger
! with an oar Many men and women were muir
dered. and not drowned One sailor the
edge Of the raft with an oar In his hands. beat.
| ing back any person who attempted TO get on
board man was swimming toward the raft
with the unconscious form OF his wife in his
arms when the sailor lifted the oar and struck
! him on the back Just as this happened. the
sailor slipped. fell overheard and vas drowned
Mr. Liehre also said that he saw Ave women. who
were evidently exhausted clinging TO the life
line 81 boat The French sailors maliciously.
as the women we're in no ones way, cut the lines,
and the women sank never 70 rise again
TERRIBLE TALES OF BRUTALITY
All the eteerage passengers tell heartrending
stories Of their struggles for lfe. One OF them
tells the following. man and his two small
sons succeeded In getting into a. boat. when
one Of the crew swam alongside. and, before
the father could prevent II. pushed the lads In
the water. where they sank Immediately The
father showed wound on his hand. which he
says he received from sailor as he was at
tempting to get into the boat Such diabolical
actions as these have made the sinking Of La
Bourgogne disaster OF horror and crime.
Patrick McKeown. of Philadelphia. who
worked for William Clark Co. at Ninth and
Walnut ste. as an expert leather operator. and
who was going 70 Paris 10 enter the employ
Of large French leather firm. gives graphic
account Of his fight for life. when La Bour-
eogne went down. and a narrowing description
of the awful fate. which befel another Phila-
delphian, who. beating bis way through the
crowd Of people. battling for life In the rolling
sea. caught hold Of floating raft ana was
brutalIy beaten with an oar IN the hands Of O
sailor until he fell back into the ocean and
disappeared from sight McKeown was ASLEEP
when the crash came. He Jumped from his
berth and hurriedly pulled on his clothing. III
did not forget his watch, but he overlooked
his wallet containing $40. which he had placed
,der fha
INDEscRIBABLE PANIC on DECK
Fastening on deck. he found everything in In
describable confusion: screaming women were
running 10 and fro. with wailing. undressec