The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-07

\ in which the sailor was and attempted
10 get on board.
There were ia persons on board and ls3
! were saved. With the exception of two
| passengers. Prof LaCasse and his wife.
al the survivors OF che Bourgogne are
aboard the steamer Grecian at the Gun
ard wharf. The crew are also on board
that boat. The GreciaR IS expected 10
! sail for New York this evening.
GALLONS RIPE EELLIONS.
All the crew are collected by them
! selves in the forward part of the deck
and are anything but pleasant looking
/ The officer Of the gangway looked at
I them with a scowl and said if he had had
/ his way they would all have been hanged
/ TO the yard arm long ago.
ONE OFFICER FAITHFUL.
The correspondent interviewed nearly
! all the passengers who could speak Eng
lish. One passenger said the officers and
+ crew Of La Bourgogne neglected the pas
sengers entirely. The second officer was
the only man Of the crew who did any
thing to help the terrified and hapless
passengers. He cut loose all the boats he
could. and in fact all the boats that were
launched were launched by the brave sec
ond officer. He was last seen standing on
the deck. with his hand on the rigging,
going resignedly to certain death
SAILORS HELD THE BOATS.
Christopher Buninia, a passenger was
thrown into the water and swan for two
hours before he found a boat. He chung
TO this as his last hope. After soma time
another man got hold OF the same boat
and together they managed TO right it.
Under the safes they found the dead
bodies of four men and three women, who
had evidently been drowned by the cap
sizing of the boat
3runlni said that the crew were cruel
in their conduct toward the passengers.
Re was unable to get in the steamers
boats when he came on deck being
showed away by the sailors. He saw
many OF his friends being prevented from
getting into the boats by the sailors. He
lost everything but what he stood in.
BATTERED WITH OARS
Mehlini secondi. an Italian steerage
passenger is among the saved. When he
on 1t. The raft, however, was tied and
chained fast to the deck and no sailors
were near to let it loose. None of the five
men had knives The ship sank rapidly
and they were all precipitated into the
water. He was in the water twenty min
utes and alone, the other Ave sinking be-
fore his eyes. He came across a boat
which he tried TO get into. He eventually
succeeded but not before a desperate fight
with the crew. He was battered with
oars and showed with boathooks. He
managed to seize an oar, however and
pulled himself to the boat and climbed in
SAW HIS MOTHER MURDERED.
August Pourgi was eager 10 giNe your
correspondent an account of his ex-
perience. He was in the water about an
hour and attempted to get into boat
He was seized when he managed to get
half in and thrown back into the water
Again he tried to enter the boat. but the
savages who manned it were determined
to keep him out. He managed at last to
get in and stay in. Clinging to the life
line of a boat not far away he saw his
mother, and as if his trials were not
enough he was forced to watch a man
shove her into the ocean with an oar.
She never rose. He said the man was
saved and he was almost sure he could
recognize him.
CURSES FRENCHMEN FLUENTLY.
Fred Niffler. Swiss, was the most
jovial and contented among the unfor.
tunate passengers. He lost all his money
and clothes, with the exception Of pair
Of pants and shirt, but he laughed now,
and again cursed the French sailors with
passionate earnestness. He got into
life boat with some others and remained
there until he reached the water, when
he thought it was time to leave. None Of
the sailors even attempted to let the boat
loose. He swan for a long time before
he was picked up. He saw an English
man attempt 10 get into a boat, but che
men in the boat, who were sailors of the
Bourgogne, hit him over the head with
the butt end of an oar. He fell back and
sank.
LOST HIS TWO CHILDREN.
Charles Liobra, a Frenchman, expresa-
ed himself as thoroughly ashamed of his
couutrymen's conduct. This man is one
of the most unfortunate. He had his
two motheriess boys, 5 and Z years old,
with him. He put them in boat but was
prevented from entering himself. He
could not get in any boat and wen down
with the ship, but he came to the surface
and at once looked about for his boys.
They were no where to be seen and he
mourns them as lost. He floated a long
time beforea boat came along. He tried
TO get in bus was assaled with oars and
baothooks.
Mr.. Liobra showed the Associated
Press correspondent his arm. His arms
were black and blue and his body is terri
bly, bruised from the blows he received.
After this boat went off he was in the
water eight hours.
PAT M'KEOWN'S TALE OF HORROR.
Patrick McKeown is an intelligent
young Irishman from Wilmington. Del.
He is indignant at the brutal crew. He
was more fortunate than most OF his fel-
low passengers and got on q raft when
the Bourgogne was sinking
One Of the wort sights. he said. he ever
saw was the murder Of an American with
whom he had become acquainted on
board the steamer. This man, whose
name he cannot recall, was from Phila-
delphia, where ne has a wife and family.
The Philadelphia was trying TO get on e
raft not far distant from the one Nc
Keown was on. French sailors grabbed
half an oar and beat him over the fore
head.
ANY WEAPON THAT LAY HANDY
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