Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-07-14

Dhu NOT recovered from Its fearful
shock. He was 10 the water about half
an hour and tried to get into a boat.
He was seized when he was hall 10 and
thrown back into the water. Again be
tried to enter the iioat, but the inhuman
saragea who manned il seemed detes.
mined to keep him out. At last, now
ever, he got in and they lot him stay.
SAW HIS MOTHER KILLED.
Clinging to the life line of boat net
far away he saw his mother. As IL his
trials were not enough he was forced to
watch a sailor cut tho line and then
with the snd Of an oar thrust his
mother deep into the water, from which
she did not rise.
THE man who murdered my mother
was saved," said Burge. IL don't
know his name. but I'll know him
whom l set Him. Then let him take
care of himseliu'
But August Burgs said. too, that aa
no SWAN away from the ainking steamer
be looked back. AS the steamer went
down its captain, standing ON the
bridge, drew revolver and shot him.
self. THE statement, II is believed, is
but imaginative. for many say the cap.
tain stood motionless on the bridge NJ
his ship went down.
BEATEN DAcK FROM THE boats.
Chriatopher Baupini, to whom the
French engineer cursed the passengers.
said the crew heat him and many OF
his friends hack from the boats before
the ship sank. After il did Bauniui
rose, and, clingirg 10 pieces of wreck
age, kept himself afiuat for two hours.
Then he found boat upside down and
chung to it, After awhile another man
got hold OF the boat aud they labori-
ously righted it.
Under the seHtH were the bodies OF
four men and three women who plainly
were drowned when the boat capsIzed.
Finally Baunini and his companion
were picked up BY one of the Grecian
bOats.
BauDini, too, declared the French
sailors wilfully murdered the passengers
who tried to climb into the boats.
Bauuiui saw sailor hit pasaengerfour
or i've times on the head with boat
huok. Then the unfortunate man sank.
Carl CaselIa was a steerage passenger,
and had with him his wife and threa
children. Now Casella is alone ia the
world. He says no tried hard to get
the ship sank, but the sailors pushed
them away, curaing them. The next
thing he knew he was in the water,
being carried down. When he came to
the surface he managed 10 ret into
bUat He saw nothing more Of his wife
and littls nnes, but he did soc the
sailors kill several persons who were
struggling in the water by striking
them with oars.
HAD TO BATTLE FOR HIS LIFE.
Caspar Giovanni. another survivor,
lost his wife. He got on one raft aud
his wife on another. The one on which
his wife WAS WIS overturned and when
those on 1t tried to get back they were
killed or pushed under the water by the
frenzied crew. Giovanni himself had
to battle for his life, and was struck
several times, but Kept on the raft.
am ashamed of my countrymen 20
exclaimed Charles Liebra, a French
passenger.
Liehra put his motherless sons, 5 and
years old, in boat before La Bour-
gogne went down. But the crew, wha
crowded tbs boat, would not let him
get on and hs sank with the shin. He
went down 10 deep that he gave himself
up for lost. but no came to the surface,
and at once looked for the boat with
his boys. 1t was nowhere to be seen,
His sons were not picked vi. Liebra
is certain the crew threw them, the
weakest. overheard and be mourns
them as lost.
Liebra swan long time before
boat came along. He tried to get in
but was assailed with oars ana bont.
hooks Mir. Liebra showed the World
correspondent his arms and body, His
arms are black and blue and his body
is terribly bruised from the blows be
recslved. This boat pulled away and
he was in the water eight hour before
he was picked up.
Menoini Secondo, an Italian storage
passenger, is among the saved. When
he got ON deck he found a raft with
five men on it. The raft, however, was
lashed and chained fast to the deck. and
no sailors would loosen 1t. None OF the
five nor Secondo had knife. The shin
sank rapidly and they were thrown into
tue water. Secondo was in the water
20 minutes and saw the other five siuk.
de came across boat which he tried
TO get in. He eventually succeeded,
but not bBfore desperate fight with
her crew. for he was battered with oars
and pushed away with boat. hooks.
PUSHED FROM BOAT WITH BoAT-HooKs.
Charles Duttweilsr. a German, can mot
speak English very we'll, but the World
correspondent got his story through an
interpreter. Duttweiler got in a boaI
which WAS lasbed fast to the shin and
stayed in it until he saw it was certain
death to remain my longer. He jumped,
but was carried down in the whirlpool
made by the sinking steamer, He was
in the water half an hour when boat
came within reach ana he attempted "a
enter IL, but the wretches in IL ahoy ed
him oil with boat hoo<s. His loft eve
is badly cut by the iabs be received.
lie saw women thrust away from
boats with oars and boat hooks whun
clinging for dear life TO tne life lines OF
the RATS and lifsboata. iie also sayr
the crew assaulted many passsppers
with any implement that came handy.
And il none were handy thcy punched
with their = fists the men and womep
helpless in the water. s,71
Andrew Ross said he was reused from
deep sleep by being Thrown from hi.
bunk when La Bourgogns listed, He
threw on few clothes and rushed or
deck. he reached it just az tho shit
was going under and jumped. He ia 4
strong swimmer and was in the waite,
more than five hours, clinging to n
piece Of wreckage.
Then a boat approached. He tried Il
get in. but they showed him of with
their oars, Another boat came along
and took him in. =
cur LINE TO WHICH WOMEN oLuNe.
Anton Laus was in q boat that wa,
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