The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-10
cINKIuG OF LA BOURGoGNE.
,r,c4 CONSUL GENERAL HOLDS
An INQUIRY.

cow of Course Testlues lh"'
..t,cd Good DiscipIine-Panic
-.,ed as All on the Part of the
..,,erS-Omcers of the Steamer
to. Describe the Survivors of
-. cre,, as a Bad Lot.
-. work.. July 9.-Consul General Bru-
-.orssenting the French govern
.,s city, told the history of the
me- .,.l Bourgogne, as he got it from
.~sg. If the ship on board La Touralne
.ssi~ 5,positions last night
J" - o.sre the sworn statements of the
.,1-er by the consul in his capacity
member of the French admiralty
court. ,,-.,.. ..,u.- =. so,,or,..
..U-5en the collision occurred Capt. de
-.-o,s was on the bridge. The shock
,sa collision was great 1t threw the
". shin 10 port and the bowsDrit of the
-s.r,artysh,re smashed the bridge of the
v.1r striking the captain in the side,
roundins him painfully.
nseeing that the ship had been hurt
,r ,bs collision, the captain ordered the
NJ, stssred for Sable Island. AT this
n,s he did not know the extent of the
,.i,,ry 10 the ship, but he ordered twelve
~. heats TO be manned by the crews com
n.,ies assigned to them. The crew re-
.o,rded TO the order. and remained at
their posts.
oAfter this the captain signalled from
.bs bridge 10 the officers below decks to
ascertain the extent of the injuries below.
u received no response to the signal
DTbe Cromartyshire had disappeared al
most instantly in the mist as the liner
sped past her
"About eight minutes after the captain
had sigma ed down below and received
no answer Fourth Engineer Laigne rush
81 No to the captain and told him that
the side of the ship was cut open and
water was pouring into the machinery
compartment Capt. de Lonocle, realizing
that the ship must be going down, or
dered the boats to be lowered.
The ship was stopped about this time.
Passengers from all classes of the ship
came rushing upon the deck and ran
about in a panic. They got in the way of
the sailors and pushed them away from
the boats as they were loosening them.
The sailors implored the passengers to
leave the boats, and In some cases they
tried 10 force them that they might be
lifted up and slid over the side of the
ship The passengers could not be induc-
ed to leave the boats, a crowd of steerage
Q.
their places
The engineers below stayed until the
first engineer told them to fly for their
lives He himself was lost.
THE boats manned by the crew of the
Bourgogne and the English ship circled
round and round about where the big
ship had sunk. picking up survivors wher-
ever they could be found"
The consul says that he made the in
resusadon carefully and the stories of
the men agree and We're told frankly.
The men were sworn in the French way,
the cruciiX being used. The sailors said
thar the life preserVers were furnished
by the crew to the passengers, but they
were in complete state of panic and
threw them away in many instances.
Consul Bruwaert inquired particularly
as TO the fighting among the chew or pas
sengers All the stories of the wrecked
"a i"NA4 HSt'1 tlltb llCANIci men lIOiI La
Fl B0urgOgne's crew or passengers did any
a fighting excepting the Austrians and the
n Italians
The Mail and Express to-day prints the
following interview with one of the Off
GERS Of the steamer Grecian, which car
NED the surviving passengers of the ILL
tat5d La BourgOgne from Sable TO Hall
lax, and which arrived at her dock here
this morning.
The officer said: "Our company does
not ike to have its officers quoted, but
can help saying that for the most part
the crew of the La Bourgogne were the
u poorest specimens of humanity I have ever
ueeH lhfoWn 10 contact with. It's almost
shame that decent men have to travel
vi lne same waters with them.
PERSONALITY l avoided them as much as
NsslpIe, but occasionally bits of their
~ U5uNefsalon would be waited TO my ears.
IHeSe fellows spent most of their time ac-
o'sIs tacA other of murder and cow
bidce and instead of being devo1ltlv
~dAhIU that their miserable souls stiu
t. o 10 tnelr bodies, would pass their
1o-ls Ie'ilns and swearing at each other.
"a ~ were not bosterous about it. but
81 81 mss sentences at each other as
t f'ousN lhey were fends. There were no
csrsa slrueA by any of them, simply be-
01'e lAey We're TOO cowardly."
1rs' July 9.-CounseI for the owners of
DII'ish ship Cromartyshire, which was
-o.'lsIon on July 4, off Sable Island, N.
soo" "l'h The French line steamer Ii. Ro,1r-
Ter Iesul .ing in the sinking of the lat.
LID "i'A Inc loss Of over 500 lives. have
& Cam claim for damages against The
ers ~ 5ue Generate Transatlantic. own
u La Rourgosne.
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