Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-13
Crew Fought for Boats
as Fire Spread on Liner
Continued from First Pase.)

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less apparatus on board his vessel
but continued to fight the fire all day
and at O'Clock in the evening made
a peri1ous trip to the sGrosser Kur-
fuerst in a small boat with three
craft was sinking when she was
picked up by one of the lifeboats
from the Grosser Kurfuerst. The total
number of those saved is believed to
be 523
LONDON, Oct. 13.-With only one
survivor of the $50 men, women and
children trapped aboard the Volturno
In the worst fire disaster on the At
lantic for half a century, the Cunard
line steamship Carmania, the first to
answer the volturno's appeal for aid,
arrived today at Fishguard.
Captain Barr met the newspaper
correspondents with a positive refusal
to say a word about the Volturno
until the Carmania reached Liver
pool and he had delivered his report
to the Cunard company.
He referred his would-be interview
ers to the ships bulletin for an ac-
curate account of the tragedy. The
greater part of the contents of this
had already become history.
Alter describing the TeScuS VI lilO
German, Walter Trintepohl, the only
survivor taken on board the Car
mania, the bulletin proceeds that the
hope of saving more of those on
board the Volturno had been almost
abandoned when the sea suddenly
moderated and the fleet of rescuing
ships was able to get ava va number
of lifeboats and take off all the sur
vivors.
Captain Inch left his vessel at 8
O'clock on Friday morning carrying
with him all the ships papers.
From this lone survivor, Walter
Trintepohl German, bound for New
York, comes the first detailed story
of the terrible catastrophe, which
took a toll of 1876 lives out of the $50
men, women and children aboard the
I Volturno.
Trintenon: PIRATES highly the con-
4 duct of Captain Inch and his officers,
but declares that the Belgian and
German crew fought for first place in
the boats and added to the panic or
the passengers.
CarmaniA from the commander of
the doomed steaship Volturno before
he abandoned the burning vessel was
as follows:
z Cannot something be done to help
us? We must abandon the ship. Her
plates are buckling. Stand close as
may have to jump for 1t"
Captain Francis Inch handed this
to the wireless operator of the Vol
turno just before he was driven out
of his room by the flames. Shortly
afterward the Volturno was raging
furnace from funnel to forecastle.
The rescue of the only passenger
taken on board the Carmania. Wal
ter Trintepohl, a. German, was eff
fected by a gallant seaman of the
Carmania's crew. His name is Heigh-
way When he saw that the efforts
of those who were trying to reach
the man struggling in the water
from ladders hanging down the ship s
side were useless, he dived from the
upper deck Of the Carrnaria and at
tached a life line to the exhausted
swimmer.
The British cruiser Donegal was
despatched today from the west
coast of Scotland to destroy the
blazing derelict Volturno.
Trintepohl leaped into the sea from
the deck of Voturno and swan to
the Carmania after the deck had
grown so hot that the soles of his
shoes were half burned. 1t took him
nearly an hour to reach the Cunarder
and he was hauled aboard in state
of exhaustion.
Trintepohl said the fire was dis
covered IN Ine IOTWdIo ituiu at dDOut
6 o'clock in the morning and the pass
engers were warned by the alarm
which was sounded a few moments
later At the same time Captain Inch
sent several of the petty officers
among the passengers to inform them
of the extent of the fire and advise
that the life preservers be donned at
once, although Captain Inch and the
officers believed they would be able
to control the fire.
According to Trintepohl the pass
engers remained calm during the
early part of the fire with the excep-
ton of several of the children who
were in the storage. But as the vol
ume Of smoke rising from the forward
hold increased, the feeling of I'M
easiness among the passengers grew
to fear until at s O'Clock when the
first order to lower the life boats was
given, there was general terror among
both passengers and a portion of the
crew.
shortly before O'clock said
Trintepohl, I'VE could see the flames
shooting through the forward hold
at times. The smoke was swirling
about us and the iron deck was hot.