The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-14
81 VICTIMS ARE
STILL MISSING
Ing, liz; total on steamer 152; bodies
ecovcred, but not identified, so.
Saved Bv Miracle.
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BLOCK ISLAND, r. l., February
13.-One OF the two women survivors
OF the Larchmont disaster was Mrs.
Harris Eeldman, of New York City.
who was rescued with her husband
from the after portion OF the deck
house. which had been torn from the
steamer by the bursting Of the lower
decks from the air pressure as the
water rushed In. That woman should
have survived the horrible experiences
on the frail support was a miracle.
She was one of sixteen persons who
We're carried Oft on piece of wreck
age. There was one other woman
on the deck-house. but in a minute
after the raft Went adrift, seas swept
overheard the second woman and two
men. From II o'clock Monday night
until picked up by the fishing
schooner Elsie. at II o'clock Tuesday
! morning, the small portion of the
afterdeck driftcd helplessly.
One by one the men dropped Off.
Some, weakened by the cold and ex-
| posture, lost their grip on the support,
and were washed away by the waves
| and drowned. Others died and rolled
! overheard. Still Mrs. Feldman. aided
| by her husband. chung to the raft.
1 Fcldman at one time was sailor
| of the Black Sea, and he knew the
necessity of keeping up some physical
action to make the blood circulate in
such biting weather. BY word and
example. he induced his wife to keep
arms and legs moving, although the
woman became go greatly exhausted
that she could scarcely make her
muscles respond to her will Her
chilled limbs were rubbed by Mr..
Feidman into activity when they were
benumbed. and by his efforts she sur
vived. although apparently more near
lily dead than alive when the Elsie APP
peared
Charges Cowardice.
PROVIDENCE. r. l., February 10
: Terrible tales of suffering were related by
: some of the nineteen survivors of the
steamer Iarchmont, which went to the
bottom In Block Island Sound Monday
, ! night, and one Of the passengers as
!. serted that in that awful hour of peril
!, helpless women were thrust aside by
!, men who cared only for their own safety.
) The charge of cowardice was made by
: Fred Hergesell, an eighteen-year-old lad
. of Brooklyn, n. y. He said that not
;. only We're women left to their fate, but
:. that Captain McNcy left the sinking ship
: IN the very first lifeboat; and that some
I Of the ships employees filed he boats to
J. the exclusion of the passengers.
{, Another Version.
:. Louis Mcfarland. u negro waiter o.
, the l.archmont, gave version OF tn
;" reparture of the captains boat whlc
!; was entirely different from that give
J. by Hergesell. He said that when Il
I, reached tho captains boat. to whlc
:. he was assigned, he found Captain Nc
V Vey there. The captain ordered tina
the boat be swung out board, ready t
lower, calling to the passengers at til
same time to step Into the boat. Th
IT, passengers, Mcfarland said, SCENE
afraid to do so, and as the stenmc
r was going down fact, Captain Move
ed ordered that the boat be lowere
When 1t reached the water, howcvo
re Il rope fastened to the ring-bolt an
le attached to tile davit above BEGAN
caught. and those in the boat were
n danger Of being dragged down viii
Il the steamer, when Boutswain Andre
Tobcsen, who was on the dock save
= their lives BY cutting the rope.
of Hergcsells statement was not col
ee firmed by any other survivors Of IL
terrible tragedy
Will Lose Limbs.
= Mcfarland, who was removed to II
& East Side Hospital, was suffering s
vercly from frozen hands and feet.
The steamer kentucky arrived he
from Block Island shortly before
o'clock. AS soon as She docked Il
suffering survivors We're taken ashol
placed in ambulances and sent to t
& hospital.
\ Many We're in such serious conc
= tlon that the amputation Of limbs W
be necessary.
Thc forty-ninc bodies which arriv
on the Kentucky were placed In q nea
by morgHe, and tho police had Difficult
in holding back the crowd that wish
to view the bodies. Tho work OF idc
tihcauon progresses rapidly, and
midnight the names of thirty-cight
the forty nine victims We're known
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