New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-16
SAYS FERRYBOAT PASSED
.SurrirOr Declares the BrOn,r Made
No Effort to Help SlOcum.

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Paul Lebenow. survivor OF the General
! slocum. who said that he lived at No. % East
One-hundred- and twenty-fifth-st- declared that
the fire started In the boiler room. and that
when the crew learned Of it they became utterly
dernoralized
The captain of the steamer blew distress
whistles and about this time the ferryboat The
Bronx running between ne-hundred-and-thir-
ty-eighth-st. and College Point. was nearing the
General Slocum. but passed by without offering
any assistance said Lebenow.
Kate Drugel. OF No 439 East Fifth-st. one
of the Sunday school teachers at st. Marks
Church. remained on the forward part of the
III per deck until the flames touched her skirts.
Then she jumped to the deck of a passing tug
boat. distance of about twenty feet. escaping
without a scratch
WOMEN SUCCOR EACH OTHER.
Mrs. John c. Hines. with her twin sons. George
and Theodore, each fifteen years old. among
the survivors.
Tying life preserver on myself I ran up
stairs, the boys having preceded me to the hurri-
cane deck" she said in telling of her escape.
I'VE became separated. and did not them
again until met the shore / stayed on
the ship long as I could when jumped into
the water. Hardly had 1 done so. when another
woman struck me on the shoulder as she
jumped. ! seized her about the waist until my
strength failed and then let her go. She went
down. and when she came TO the surface
grasped her by the hair and SWAN we'll as
could with hand to the paddle wheel where
I held her head above water until a colored man
swan up and took her from me.
When l relieved OF my burden /
rowboat approaching, and swan 10 it and was
taken ashore. I had been there but few min
utes when Theodore swan to the shore near
where ! was. and few moments later George
was brought 10 shore on a tug.
John Halphusen. sexton Of the church. said:
The crew appeared to me to be undisciplined
and unfamiliar with the working OF the life
RATS and lifeboats. l was standing beside the
pastor nearly all the time He did everything
in his power to save the people. I placed my
two daughters, Nina. aged twelve. and Clara.
aged ten, the top of the paddlebox, and kept
them there until tugboat picked all Of us up"
ROBBED AND LEFT TO DROWN
Miss Martha werk. of No 341 East Fifty
ffth-st.. pushed overheard by the frenzed
crowd. She says that while she was struggling
in the water a boat pulled up alongside OF her
and in IL stripped her of her rings. ear
rings and brooch and then pushed her back into
the water. She was later rescued in uncon-
scious condition.
Mrs. Helen Reichback. OF No. 241 Stockton
St, Brooklyn, with her two-year-old son Henry,
got 10 the side Of the boat She saw n rope over
the side leading 10 a raft alongside. but the rope
burning She seized her child and sprang
for the rope. She held on tight and slid down
to the raft holding the child on one arm. Her
hand burned and her clothing caught fire.
Just as she reached the raft man jumped from
the deck and landed within two feet Of her. She
and the child were thrown into the water. She
succeeded in getting hold on the raft and was
rescued. She her child appear twice on the
surface not ten feet from her. but was unable
10 reach him Mrs. Reichback says that the
man who jumped on the raft was drowned. She
thinks he broke his legs in the fall
Emil Behmer. of No. 800 East Ninety-third-
St, tried. he says TO let down a lifeboat but
found it strapped down tightly and so stuck
10 the deck with paint that it could not be
moved. Behmer jumped into the water and.
picking up Lizzie Ullner. OF No 232 Avenue A.
swan with her in his to a paddlewheel
Of the steamer. to which he chung with his bur
den for half an hour being taken off by tug
after mass OF burning timbers had fallen on
him and the child. and burned them. They
were taken to Lincoln Hospital
Mrs. Albertina Lembeck, of No. 427 East
Ninth-st. took her five children on the excur-
sion. Three OF Mrs. Lembeck's children were
thrown into the water. and she jumped in with
the other two Mrs. Haas the wife Of the pas
Tor, and her two children, who were with Mrs
Lembeck, disappeared. When Mrs. Lembeck
struck the water she became unconscious and
dIen were gone.