The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-09

Boston. July s.-The Allen line steame
Halifax has arrived here, having on boart
162 survivors of the French line steame
La Bourgogne. which was sunk in a col
Iision with the ship Cromartyshire off Sa
bic island, last Monday. On the passag,
from Halifax, La Bourgogne's passenger
list was carefully revised, and it wa:
shown that there were ia souls on board
the steamer. of whom 800 were lost anc
l64 saved. OF the saved, u We're second.
class, AZ steerage, and the remainder, 105
Were members Of the crew.
On arriving here, the shiDwrecked mer
were given every attention necessary
Each was Drovisioned with a ticket fol
New York.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press, who tookspassage on the Halifax
for the purpose of learning of the survIv-
| ors more of the details of the disaster
than had been possible in the short time
between their arrival at Halifax and their
! departure for New York mad opportunity
to come in contact with many of those
who escaped. Their stories of experience
were thrilling. and many of them gave
horrifyiug details of brutality, if not of
murder, possibly never equaled in the his
tory of merchant marne.
Among the survivors there were several
who could speak English we'll. but most
of them could communicate only through
an interpreter. There were Swiss, French,
Germans. Belgians, Italians and Ara bians.
Some of them showed the marks and
bruises received during the terrible strug-
gle for life. Among those on board the
Halifax not one could be found who was
on deck at the time the collision occurred.
The only American saved from the La
Bourgocne who was on deck when the
shin was struck was Mr.. Lacasse. La
casse, with his wife, left Halifax by rail.
The survivors agree that when Bour-
gogne was struck by the Cromai Cyshire,
the shock was not great. Therefore, it is
believed, that many of the passengers
never awoke. The statements as to the
the sinking of La Bourgogne vary greatly.
Some say ten or 10 minutes, and others
say 80 or 40 minutes. while one man was
certain IL was full hour.
AN ENGINEERS BRUTALITY.
From the testimony of three persons.
Otto Zeiser of New York, William Achard
of Baltimore and Charles Liebra chief
cook of the STAFFORD hotel, Philadelphia. it
appears that the fourth engineer of La
Bourgogne, who was saved, acted in the
most brutal manner toward the passen-
gers. The three men agree in the state
ment that after the collision, when every
body was surrounding the boats, the en-
gineer said:
Damn the passengers: let them save
themselves: we save ourselves first" He
also said that # he had had a revolver
he would shoot the passengers. Mr.. lei
ser spoke in great praise of the captain.
Quainted with Yousef. the wrestler, who
was a. passenger. After the collision, Lie
bra says he saw Yousouf struggling in a
crowd of drowning passengers. beating
them off with a stiletto and showing aside,
trying to reach a boat. He failed, how
ever, and went down.
MURDEROUS AUSTRIANS.
L. Taraud of New York and Mons.
Lucas from Northern France, the latter
being. waiter on board the Bourgogne,
each tell of their being driven from
boat containing AustrianS, armed with
knives. While the Halifax was entering
the Boston naroor this morning. eight
persons gave their names as witnesses to
the fact that the Austrians used knives |
TO keep the people out of their boat.
SAW HIS WIFE KILLED.
E. Achard. Frenchman. who las been
some years in Baltimore, was on his way !
% France with his wife and two children. |
IN the morning of the collision he put |
hem in boat amidships and went TO get |
another boat for himself. One end of the /
)oat he got into was cut loose and the |
BOAT tipped when it descended, throwing /
is occupants into the water. Just at this |
ime La Bourgogne's tunnels gave way
md one end OF them fell directly across
he boat in which Achard's wife and
children had been placed, crushing it and
knocking all the passengers overheard.
Achard across the chest and literally cut !
Ter body asunder Achard fell into the
water but managed TO get hold of raft
o which he chung for eight hours. Achard
lad $50, 600 on his person at the time Of
he wreck and it was saved with him.
SURVIVORS KISSED.
New York. July S.-The survivors of the
teamship La Bourgogne arrived here to-
ay from Bostol and were taken in On rye
f by the COmpagnie Trans Atlantique
mcials. The survivors of the crew of La
Sourgogne as they passed the station
zero Kissed nv the crowd.