The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-09
gRVIVORS ARRIVE HERE.
,oUReoGNE's SAILORS HOOTED AT
THE RAILWAY STATION.

~. other survivors Taken by tho
,rsnoh Consul-GenernI-They VIII Sail
a. France To-Day on La TOurnine.
m. hundred and sixty-one OF the survivors
IL. M Lated French liner In BourRogne ar
"a IN this city by rail from Boston at 4:30
i,,,o.t Yesterday afternoon. There were fully
So narsons in tho Grand Central Station when
~ tr,in came in, all interested IN one was or
'.o,bsr in the survivors. Some were friends
= %,oIatiyes OF passengers reported lost and
-ns In the desperate hope that some mistake
HIsht have been made and that they would
- the ones they were looking for among the
nved.
when the passengers walked down the plat
,-m the fifteen policemen assigned to keep the
I'D hack were swept aside as though they
Ssro 40 many feathers. Men and women fell
n sach others arms and shouted their happi-
,sss so that they could be heard n block away.
those whose hopes were doomed to disappoint-
ment gave way TO wild grief.
Tho twenty-five or thirty sailors Of La Bour-
,oone got a reception that they will not soon
Srcot. They were tho first to come down the
rlattorm. and the company had q stage outside
Eating TO take them to the pier. where shey
iii PASS the night on La Touraine. They are
,svarthy lot Of big. muscular men. and they
roked along in silence. Just as the first two
a, the sailors started through the lines Of
pnople, a man cried out:
"0h, you ours! amt you ashamed Of your
%selves'"
This was all that was needed TO start the
eroyd, There was a chorus OF groans, boots
and Kisses. The police tried to stop the dem
onstration, but their efforts were In vain.
"No wonder there was only one woman
myed" shouted a man. Look ut theml Did
you ever see such a ganG?"
Few OF the sailors understood what was said.
but they seemed to know what the demonstra-
ton meant. and they quickened their steps.
They were finally hustled into the waiting
stage, around which q crowd gathered. shout
ink and swearing at them. An officer OF the
french line ordered the driver to get away as
fast as he could. and the man whipped up his
horses and soon had the stage and its ocru-
rants out Of sight Of the crowd.
Just behind the crew came the passengers.
The first man to appear was Albert Galdot. He
hadn't taken n dozen steps along the platform
when a little woman in black leaped out OF the
crowd with a scream and rushed into his arms.
Gadot kissed, her. then. holding her of at
arms length, he looked at her for u second.
folding her in his arms again.,
Hurry up and get out Of here" said a big
policeman. but the couple were not In a hurry,
They danced up and down, Gaidot laughing all
the time and his wife laughing and crying by
turns. Finally the policeman got behind them
and by a succession Of pushes managed to get
them outside OF the crowd. The last seen Of
them they were, going across. Forty-second
street, skipping like u couple of children and
stopping every once In n while for another hug
and kiss. to the utter CONSERVATION OF passing
persons who didn't know the circumstances.
The saddest scene OF the afternoon was in
the case Of two sisters who had come to meet
their husbands, Only one ofthe husbands was
on the train. These two women were at the
station at 4 O'Clock. almost distracted. They
had been told that their husbands were among
the survivors. As the passengers came along
Both Of these women made a break through the
lines and rushed Mt a small man whose clothes
were literally in, tatters., One of them threw
shouting questions at him in French. She was
asking for her husband. The man finally
He is not here. He was lost. I'm afraid"
The woman gave Il wild shrek and fell back
INTO the arms OF a man standing near by. B1t
and made the big building ring with despairing
cries, The other woman and the man tried 10
console her. and finally the man said in French
He was reported saved. He may be all
right. All didn't come, on this train. There
are some in Boston yet
At this the woman begun to laugh. but a look
o. DESPAIR soon came into her eyes.
.h,HG is lying to me-" she said. He is lost.
An agent 0fthe French line came up at this
iumneture and led the three ofr to a cab.
There were dozens of such scenes. 1t was a
Zee men, fall into each others arms and kiss
each other after the French custom for five
minutes uJ q Tune. Inere was one group OF
seven stalwaTt men who kissed each other and
sohbed until policemen pushed them out OF the
.Eatlon;, W were survivors Of q party OF five
that sailed on La Bourgogne.
fatrlck Mckeown of Wilmington. Del, was
among the survivors who arrived. McKeOwn's
story has already been told in The Sun. He
was. Questioned by dozens of persons in the
cation yesterday. BECAUSE he could answer in
English; A nephew Of Father kessler, who was
on La Bourgogne. asked MeKeown II he had
seen the priest. McKeown said that he saw him
administering the last rites of the Catholic
Shurch, TO passengers as the ship went dow
he made no effort to save himself.
Charles Dutweiller. a baker OF 81 Maujer
street, Brooklyn. showed a Sun reporter a cut
On the side Of his head Just over the left ear.
he said that a French sailor had hit him there
ESIih an oar while he was trying to climb into a
nall empty boat.
There was a mall army OF French line off,
SS,als at me station under Agent Paul Faguet.
ihey supplied the survivors with money and
ulI everything possible for their comfort.
rIonSul,General BrunwaeTt OF France, Vice.
Consul Charpentier. Agent Faguet, and Passen-
81 agent IreyvOuX went aboard La Touraine
WIN ~ members of the crew and passengers
o. La Bourgogne at $50 o'clock yesterday
SIternoon for the purpose of taking the
GeRosl9ons OF, the survivors. They re-
NAMED on the steamship until 1850
cNock and then went away, declining to
tel the result Of their work. Agent FaRuet
salu mat the company was not making an in
Eestlgation. and that the depositions were
ueIng taken by the counsel simply because
Ynany OF the SURVIVORS were to sail to-day on
q tonralne; The Consul and Vice-Consul alb
s"'u'eiy declined to talk about the matter.