The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-09
Most of Those Who Escaped Drown
ing HurriedIy Sent Aboard La TOu-
raine, and VIII Sail To-Day.
TALKS WITH PASSENGERS
STORIES OF MURDER AND CRUELTY
BY THE CREW REPEATED.
Efforts of YOusOuf, the Wrestling
Turk, to Save HimseIf-Chargea
Against the Fourth Engineer.

NEW YORK, July S.-A heavy train ar
rived at the Grand Central station tonight.
In the coaches of the train were 161 sur
vivor3 of the wreck of the French line
steamer La Bourgogne. Out of ia persons
who sailed SO happily down the bay last
Saturday, only these were left with the ex-
ception of three who parted company with
them on the way from Halifax. The re-
mainder were drowned at sea or killed in
the mad rush following the collision of La
Bourgogne with Cro.narty shire For a full
hour before the train bearing the survivors
arrived persons interested in those saved
from the wreck began to appear at the sta
ton. The arrival of the train had been
foretold, so that the hour was known. With
no word of any kind one way or the other,
they came hoping that by some fortunate
oversight the ones they were looking for
might have been saved. AS the reports had
made known the fact that none of the first
cabin passengers had escaped, the friends
of those who travelled in that cabin knew it
would be useless to go to the train, but de-
spite this, there were friends who were AnX-
ious to get additional details of the sad af-
fair, and they were present simply to hear
the tale repeated and hungrily grasped at
every word spoken.
Among the waiting ones the agent Of the
French line moved with note book in one
hand and pencil in the other. From one
to another he fiitted, making a note here
or giving a word there. He told freely, so
far as he was able, all about those who
were coming on the train and some of these
who had gone to the station with one little
CLEAN of hope left had this quenched by d
word from him. Outside the station the
gx-.A 80. fI1ncn
he held to carry the survivors from the
station to the pier of the French line, so
that they could be taken aboard the steamer
La Touraine, which sails tomorrow for
France. He was quiet courteous and alert,
and would talk to no one except those dl-
rectly interested.
There were pathetic incidents in connec-
ton with the arrival of the train. One
tall, muscular, well-dressed man stood in
one of the lines, wisCfully watching the sur
vivors march past. The expression on his
face as they went through hardened until
it became bitter. When asked if he was
looking for some one, he said he was not.
Then he added that he had lost sister on
the boat. He said that he knew she had not
been saved, and he said he did not know
whatever attracted him to the spot and
stand my loss, but when you look at these
and think that these are the survivors.
IheSe-theSe and then words failed him,
and he turned away. However just, how
ever honest, however fair, however deter
mined not to PREJUDICE, anyone who saw
the band of survivors that came TO the
city to-day could hardly escape a sicken-
ing sensation about the heart ana feeling
that the stories of brutality told of the crew
were true. The members of the crew, with
few exceptions, and some of the steerage
passengers as well, were low browed, stock
ily-built, shifty-eyed, swarthy men, and
looking at them one could not help feeling
that they were not men of whom heroic
deeds could be expected on a steamer