The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-10-16
those survivors who desire 70 proceed
to their destination in America ON
board other vessels as soon as pcssfbie.
LAST MESSAGE SENT FROM
BURNING SHIP ASkEDsAlr

BURNING SHIP ASMEO@At0s
London, Oct. 1.-THE last message
received by the Camabria from the
commander OF the steamer volturn0
sci was as follows.
ann something be done to help
us2 We must abandon the ship. Her
plates are buckling. Stand close as I
have to jump for It"
Captain Francis Inch handed this to
Just before he was driven cut of his
room by the flames. Shortly afterward
the Volturno was q raging furnace
from funnel to f~orecastle.
The rescue Of the only passenger
taken on board the Carmania, Walter
Ia gallant seaman Of the Carnania's
crew. His name is Heighwav When
he saw hat the efforts of those who
Were trying to reach the man strug-
Cling in the water from the ladders
hanging down the ships ! d were USE
less, he diyed from the upper deck OF
the Carmania and attached a line to-
the exhausted swimmer.
The British cruiser Donegal was dis
patched today from the west coast of
Scotland to destroy the blazing dere-
EIict Volturno.
SEA MODERATED JUST IN
4 IA tWGAiO SAtG &nf y
Fishguard, Oct. 14.-The Carmania
first of the rsscuing vessels on the
scene of the disaster to the velturno
arrived here shortly after 2 o'clock this
afternoon.
Captain Barr met the newspaper
correspondents with a positive refusal
to say g word about the Volturno un-
til the Carmania reached Liverpool and
he had delivered his report to the Cum
ard company.
He referred his would-be interviewers
to the ships bulletin for an account OF
the tragedy. The greater part of the
contents of this had already become
history. h fire on the Volturno APP
pears to have originated in her cargo
hold. When 1t became evident that the
flames had gained h mastery, Capt,
Erancls Inch devoted all his energy to
the salvation OF his
The Carmani's bulletin says that six
small boats We're launched from the
Volturno, that two of them with So
persons each, on board, got away and
that the other four were smashed
against the ships side and all their oc-
cupants persisted.
PASSENGERS Terrified.
After the failure of the life boats
from the Carnania to reach the burn
Ing ship and when Captain Rarr man
euVered his vessel close to the Volturno
the passengers on board the Cunarder
did everything in their power to en-
courage the terrified crowd huddled to-
gether IN the after part of the Vol
tlIrno. They waved handerchiefs, and
shouted cheering words through e
phones, TO which they received answer
ms signals from. the emigrants on the
Voltnrno.
5alked in his attempts to establish
communIcatien between the Carmania
and the Volturna Captain Barr sent out
\ W1ralaSC ILL cyoyoo1c 49,,
brought to the vicinity an in~ternation-
al fleet to the succor of the doomed
ship.
Late on Thursday afternoon Captain
Barr made another attempt to reach
the Volturno by throwing
life RATS. which he hoped might be
secured by those on board, but this at
tempt also proved futile.
In the meantime the despairing mes
sages from Captain Inch of the Vol
turno calling for succor grew more In
~sistent as the flames ate their wa,
veloped the ship.
Sea Stills in Nick of Time.
At abQut z O'Clock in the evenins
Captain Inch succeeding in lowering E
boat in charge of the second officer Of
the VolturEo and a crew of four mer
with the intention of taking a line te
the Grosser Kurfeurst. The small boa
dltef desperate Struggle reached The
German liners side, only to be dashed
to pieces. It's occupants managed tt
seize lines thrown out by the German
sailors and were thus saved.
About half past 8 at night. the sky
was suddenly illuminated with a lurit
glare as the flames burst through az
other part of the Vo1turno.
Captain Inch then sent a last des.
pairing appeal and in 20 minutes there
occurred a terrific explosion which, tt
the helpless thousands of spectators or
board the surrounding vessels seemed
to seal the doom Of those on the
stricken ship.
The hope OF saving any of those or
board the Volturno had been alnosr
abandoned when the sea suddenly
moderated and the fleet Of ~rescuinf
ships was able to get away a number
of life boats and take off all the sur
vivors.