New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-17
SORROW OF SURVIVORS ]
!. QUICKLY TURNED TO 10Y
Many Told That Relatives Or
Friends Were Saved from
the VoIturno.
MANY AT HEBREW HOME
Blue Cards Pinned on Men bv
the immigration Officials
Hardly Needed to
Identify Them.

The immigration authorities YESTERDAY
pinned blue cards TO the coat Iapels a,
such survivors OF the Volturno alreadv
here as had lost relatives or friends -
the disaster so that the officials ~ thu
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant AID
Society, at No. 229 East Broadway miab,
distinguish them. There was hardly anv
need for the blue card however. for ,hs
men who had lost members OF their
families or friends showed only too clear.
ly the loss in their faces. which were
pale and heavily lined. and their eyes
eloquent with sorrow.
All day the immigrants. one after an
other, sat before a bookkeeper and an
Interpreter and briefly and strongly told
the story of rescue. Their stories were
much like that told simply by joseph
GZiborsky, a seventeen-year-ol boy from
BereZka. Russia. When asked II he had,
been alone he looked away and mur-
INJURED: :
mo. sailed with my cousin. Brons-
law Bosianorsky We were born in the
same room and played together for years,
He's dead. | know"
When pressed for details he said:
1--WE decided to jump into the sea to-
getler. Bronislaw jumped. threw Up nis
arms and went down. Then he came up
and shouted something. | don't know
what he said. The he went down again.
lie stayed down. Then | Jumped. but 4
was picked up
Happier was the ending Of the story
told by Branislav Crelenkewitz. who,
limped into the office looking more lika
a ghost than a hardy peasant, and said
that ne had lost two young children
OF a friend He had promised to bring
them to America and care for them until
his friend could come. He was asked
their names. but replied:
why should l say their names'
They're In the ocean aren't they?'
But he finally gave the names 81
Branislav and Mariana Semtchakovitch.
Index cards were searched and books
looked through. and then the clerk In
formed the man that the children had
been picked up by boat from La
Touraine. now at Havre
The man threw his arms about the
clerk and kissed him. Then he dashed
from the office. There were other glad
scenes. too. william Eisenberg, night
nurse in the Beth Israel Hospital, came
20 inquire for his three children. No iist
OF rescued. he said, mentioned thera
They were his daughters. Brine ana
Maria. and son, JOSEF The clerk put
his arm about the old man and gently
told him that all were safe aboard varl-
Gus vessels. Brine was aboard the De-
yonian. due in Liverpool to-day; Maria
on the Rappahanock. already in Hallfa1'
and JOSEF on the Narragansett' due III
London yesterday Half an hour s'e'
the old man was yet crying. But IL was
with Joy.
The first taxicab bearing Volturno sur
yivors from the Red Star steamship pier
70 the Hebrew Sheltering Home ploushea
through n crowd OF fully five hundred men
and women that had gathered outside ohe
little building.
No sooner had the door OF the cat
swung open and four young cn'ior'
climbed out than their father Gersna"
Pollok. OF No $40 East 18TH street. gain
ored them in his arms, crying oet"ee"
kisses:
"Oh. nv children. where is mamma
where is our mamma
They told him that their mother vac,
thought. had been drowned. his so',0'
for few minutes was pathetic ou' "..''
I'm the house. he learned that his WIG
Plah. had been rescued and was aoOa'u
the Rappahannock.
Five OF the survivors of the aoahooHe'
shin were sent from the Immigrants nome
straight 10 ST. Vincents Hospital i"s'
waits were sent to Ellis Island for ea'e'
Forty-seven men and women wer' 'aSea
care OF at the immigrant nome VIM.
thirteen young girls were accepted py 20
Clara De Hirsh Home for immis'"
Girls. at No. $50 Second avenue. ana wv
girls were taken by their parents d.
pier. Three survivors were so III ms
they are kept aboard the Krooniano' a
three waits were sent 10 the NURSES ''
Element. at No. 265 Henry street