The record-union., 1898-07-09

in the hope of Bleaching the steamer on
Sable Island. About five minutes after
the crash the water began to come into
the boiler room, and soon it rushed in
in great volume. The pumps were
tried, but to no avail. The waters put
the fires out, and the engines stopped.
The Chief Engineer gave orders to close
the water-tight doors, but even after
they were closed the water came in al
most as fast as before. Then all hope
was abandoned, and the engineer blew
twice on the whistle, the signal for all
to escape who could do so. There was
rush, but about fifteen men were
drowned in the stokeholes and the en-
gine room. Three men who succeeded
in getting out found that all the boats
had left, and they plunged into the sea.
They We're picked up later and taken
on board the Cromartyshire.'
Z. Chard, Frenchman, who had been
some years in Baltimore, was on his
way to France with his wife and two
children. On the morning Of the COL
lision he put them in a boat amidships,
and went to get another boat for him
self. Only one end of the boat he got
into was cut loose, and the boat tipped
when it descended, throwing its occu-
pants into the water. Just at this time
La Bourgogne's tunnels gave way, and
one end of them fell directly across the
boat in which M. Chard's wife and
children had been placed, crushing it
and knocking all the passengers over
board. One Of the funnel chains struck
Mrs. Chard across the chest and liter
ally cut her body asunder Chard fell
r1fr "a ofav. yu1,o ba
sank, but managed to get hold of raft,
to which he clung for eight hours.
Chard had $4,000 on his person at the
time of the wreck, and it was saved
with him.
From the testimony of three persons,
Otto Zeiser of New York, William Ach-
| ard OF Baltimore and Charles Lebra,
chief cook of the Stafford Hotel, Phila-
delpf1ia, it appears that the fourth en-
gineer of La Bourgogne, who was saw
! ed, acted in the most brutal manner to-
ward the passengers. The three men
agree in the statement that after the
collision, when everybody was sur
rounding the boats, the engineer said
Damn the passengers. Let them save
! themselves; We save ourselves first
He also said that if he had had a re-
| Mr.. Zeiser spoke in great praise Of
the Captain.
| On the voyage Liebra became ac-
| quainted with Yousouf, the wrestler,
who was a passenger. After the colli-
| sion Liebra says he saw Yousouf strug-
| Cling in crowd of drowning passen-
gers, beating them off with a stiletto
| and showing them aside, and trying 20
reach a boat. He failed, however, and
\ went down.
| L. Tarlaud Of New York and Nj. Lu-
| cas- from Northern France, the latter
| being a waiter ON board l. Bourgogne,
each tell of their being driven from a
| boat containing Austrians armed with
| knives.
! While the Halifax was entering the
/ Boston harbor this morning eight per-
| sons gave their names as witnesses to
| the fact that the Austrians used knives
| to keep people out of their boat.
NEW YORK, July S.-The survivors
of the steamship La Bourgogne arrived
here to-day from Boston, and were
taken in charge by the Coqnpagnie
| Transatlantique officials. The surviv-
| ors of the crew of La Bourgogne as
they passed the station We're hissed by
1 the crowd