The age-herald., 1898-07-07

5 and ' years old, with him. He put them in boat but was prevented from getting in himself He could not get in boat and went down with the ship, but came to the surface and at once looked for the boat with his boys. They were nowhere to be seen, and he mourns them as lost. He float ed long time before a boat came along. He tried to get in, but was assailed with oaths and boat hooks. MT. Liebera showed his arms and body. His arms are black and blue and his body is terribly bruised from the blows he received. After the boat went off he was in the water eight hours. "-- Patrick McKeown is an intelligent young Irishman from Wilmington, Del. He is in- disnant at the brutality of the crew. He got on a raft when the Bourgogne was sinking.
 One of the worst sights he saw was the murder of an American with whom he had become acquainted. This man. whose name he cannot recall was from Phila- delphia where he has d wife and family. The Philadelphian made an effort to board raft not far distant from the one Me KeoWn was on. A French sailor grabbed half oar and beat him over th)e fore head.
 Charles Dutwener, a German, got into a boat tied fast to the ship and stayed until he saw 1t was certain death to stay longer. He was carried down by the whirl- pool made by the sinking of the steamer. He was in the water half hour when a boat came within reach and he attempted to board it but the wretches in it hove him off with boats hooks. His head Is badly cut by jabs he received. He saw women showed away from boats with oars and boat hooks when cinging to the life lines of the rafts and life boats. He also .say5 the crew assaulted many passengers with any implement that came handy and if no instrument was to be had, punched the rpen
 
 their fists.
 An Important Witness
 One of the most important witnesses will be John Burgi who got into a boat with his mother before the ship sank The sail -ors in the boat held him and threw his poor old mother into the water. The sailors threw him out, hit him with oars and showed him under the boat. He was in the water nine hours before he was saved by 8 boat from the Cromartyshire.
 Charles Liebera, who lost his two chill dren, also said that he saw five women, who were evidently exhausted, clinging to the life line of a boat. The French sailors cut the lines and the women sank.
 Gustav CrimauX, French passenger, corroborated the other passengers in their statements about the crew. They did not attempt to cut any boats loose except those which they needed themselves. He saw women showed away from boats with oars. and not only being ShoVed away put pushed deep into the water.
 The officers of the Grecian say the pas- sengers and sailors presented a sorry spec tacle when they were taken on board from the Cromartyshire. They had not eaten for nearly twenty-four hours. Some are still dazed and do not know where they were or what they were doing.
 The third officer of the Cromartyshire said that one half-drowned wretch whom he pulled over the side after the collision seized his life belt and asked the steward for his knife. He cut piece off the life belt and started to eat it, saying it was all he wanted.