The age-herald., 1898-07-10
STORY
 OF THE DISASTER
 l1 According to oTheir Account They
 Acted Brav!eIy. PASSENGERS IN A PANIC The Crew MaD,s : Lie Boats and Stuc,S s aeir Posts.
 .<5' THE tess ANS AND ITALIANS .S
 Were thu Only Ones to Use Their Knives on the Passengers. LIFE PREsERvERs WERE FURNISHED The Passengers Were Completely Demora1- ized, and in Many Instances Threw
Were tnss Only Ones to Use Their
 Knives on the Passengers.
LIFE PREsERvERs WERE FURNIsnED
The Passengers Were Completely Demora1- ized, and in Many Instances Threw Themselves Into Ocean-Brothcr
 Romaine Confirms Testimony.

New York, July 9.-Consul General Bru- weart, representing the French government in this city, today told the history of the wreck of the La Bourgoyne as he got 1t
 from the crew of the ship in their deposit tions. MT. Bruweart tells the story as fol.
 lows: s
 When the collision occurred Captain De-
 Loncle was on the bridge. Seeing that the
 ship had been hurt by the collision, the
 captain steered for Sable island. At thfs time he did not know the extent of the injury, but ordered the twelve life boats to be manned by the crews assigned to them. The crew responded quickly to the order and remained at their posts After this
 the captain signalled from the bridge to the
 of1icers below decks to ascertain the ex-
 tent Of the injuries below. He received
 no response to the signal. About eight mint Ntes after the captain had signalled down below and securing no answer, Fourth En, gineer Laisne rushed up to the captaid ana told him the side of the ship was cut open and water was pouring into the rna- chlhery compartment. Captain DeLoncle ordered the boats to be lowered
 Passengers In a Panic
 The ship was stopped. About this time passengers from all parts of the shin cama rushing upon deck and ran about in a panic. They got in the way of the sailors ana pus1ed them away from the boats as they were loosening them. Before the boats could be got from the davits ard ready to launch, the ship suddenly listed to starboard, throwing some of the passen- gers overheard. The slant of the deck was so steep that passengers could not stand if ba af cabins had rushed out of their rooms to the port side of the ship, and against the protests of the sailors, clambered into the six boats there. A list to starboard made the big boats swing inward and turned the davits back against the sides of the cabins The sailors implored the passengers to leave the boats and in some cases they had to force them out that the boats could be lifted up and slid over the side or the ship. The passengers could not be induced to leave the boats, a crowd of steerage passengers having appeared ready to take their places. The sailors heaved away at them, but could not budge them. They gave up at last and were engaged in cutting the boats free when the big ves- sel pitched stern downwards and sank. carrying the port boats with it.
 On the starboard side three boats were smashed by the Cromartyshre in the col lison. Boat No. was filled with women and other passengers and had been lalnch- ed successfully when the big funnel fell, crushing the boat and killing most of G.ose in it.
 The Crew Fought on
 Twenty Austrian sailors from the steer a/e seized boat No. II. There was room for 50 in the boat, but passengers and crew were fought off by the men in it. They the order of a ships officer, who drew his revolver and ordered them out, t1,nxr right in the boat as the others. They put ed knives and stabbed at the sailors The crew left their boat alone, not even cut ting it loose, but the men knew how to it and launched it safely. Passea- gers in the water tried to get aboard but were pushed off.
 Boat No. 9, filled with passengers got off It had 53, including it's crew. The only boat on the port side where the first class passengers had rushed after irving the starboard side, was No S. Tie sailors who found it succeeded in getting it aunched leaped into it as the ship went Town and picked up passengers enough from the water to fill it.
 The engineers below stayed until the first engineer told them to fly for their lives He hlmslf was lost They climbed in single ile up the iron ladders to the midship louse. Water rushing in had put out thefr ires. On the top of the midshlp house were our rafts. They unshfpped one and threw overheard, but one of the copper cylin- ers in it was smashed A second was put verboard successfully before the ship sank. 'he other two were not used. Passengers were rescued from the water on rhe snge aft.
 Boats from the Cromsrtyshire came up s the ship sank. Twc sA~xi boats and the art of the smashed beat, to which soma we're clinging, were taken from the sink