The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-10-16
HER0ISM ATTENDS
RESCUE OF THOSE
ON BURNING SHIP

On Board the North German Lloyd
steamship Grosser Kurfuerst, at Sea,
by Wireless Telegraphed to Cape Race.
Oct 14-With 10S survivors on board
the waters edge during a gale In mid
Atlantic, and abandoned on Friday
Flast with a loss OF 136 lives, the Grosser
Kurfuerst is approaching New York.
The passengers and crew OF the Gros-
ser kuerfuerst witnessed some thrill
ing scenes when their vessel, called by
distress signals from the volturno, ar
rived In her vicinity.
We found the SVolturno burning
hercely and her crew and passengers
helpless in the heavy seas. 1t was
learned by wireless messages from the
Naming vessel that the fire had been
started by an explosion in the forward
hold at Z o'clock on Thursday morn
Ing. ships time. On the arrival of the
Grosser Kuercaerst the flames from the
hold of the Polturno were leaping 80
feet into the air through the hatcn-
ways.
1t was learned that SO or more Of tina
Volturno's crew and storage passen>
gers had been killed by the explosion
and the fire.
Six boats were lowered Immediately
afterward from the Volturno's davits.
Three of them, still empty, were
smashed against the vessels side. One
boat with 40 passengers on board cap
sized while being launched and all
We're lost. The two others, with from
so to so passengers On board, got away,
but apparently were lost in the noun
famous seas.
Twelve Liners Responded.
Altogether IL liners were brought by
the wireless distress signal within hail
of the Volturno. The Cunard liner Car
mania was the first of these. She
reached the scene at about IL o'clock
noon. Then followed the Seydlitz, the
Grosser Kurfuerst, the Kroonland, the
New York. the Devonian, the La Tour
aine, the Narragansett, the Minneap-
Oils, the Asian. the Rappahannock and
the Gar.
The sea was running too high to all
low the taking off of the volturno's
passengers when the rescuing vessels
came on the scene.
During the daytime the flames from
he hold of the Volturno were kept
more or less under control, but about
8 o'clock On Thursday night the fire
reached the coal bunkers and it was
found necessary to close the bulkheads
The pumps ~thereupon were unable tic
work at full pressure and the flames
broke out through the entire forward
part of the vessel.
At 10:40 O'Clock on Thursday night
another explosion occurred on the Vol
turno and caused a panic among heI
~despa1ring passengers and crew.
Rescuers Nearly Lost.
The Grosser Kurfuerst launched three
boats and rescued 80 persons, who had
been washed into the sea. One of the
r%escuing life boats was out for six
hours and was nearly lost.
All those remaining aboard the Vol.
turno crowded together at the after.
end of the vessel and were taken of
safely after daybreak CO Friday.
Second Officer E. Lloyd, of the Vol.
turno was one OF the heroes of the dis.
aster. He fell from a height OF q
feet while repairing the wireless appar.
atus on board his vessel, but continued
to fight the fire all day and at z O'Clock
in h evening made a perilous trip t.
the Grosser Kurfuerst in a small boat
with three others from the Volturno
The little craft was sinking when sht
was picked up by one of the life boat
from the Grosser Kurfeurst.. The tota
number of those saved is believed tt
be 523.