Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-14
Those on Board Inflated Ocean Liner Compelled to
NJ. Stand on Deck Which Was Hot Enough to
Burn Holes in Soles of Their Shoes
RESCUERS NEARBY BUT UNABLE TO
s EXTEND SLIGHTEST ASSISTANCE
Steamers With Survivors of Disaster Are Near Ports
on Both Sides Of the Atlantic; Cruiser Sent
Out to Destroy Burning Dereict

Fishguard. Eng, Oct. 13.-The
Carmania first Of the rescuing yes
sells on the scene of the disaster to the
Volturno arrived here shortly after 2
clock this afternoon.
Captain Barr met the newspaper
correspondents with positive refusal
to say word about the Volturno un-
til the Carmania reached Liverpool
and he had delivered his report to the
Cunard Co.
He referred two would-be interview
ers to the ships bulletin for an account
Of the tragedy. The greater part Of
the contents of this had already become
history. The fire on the Volturno ap-
pears to have originated in her cargo
flames Had gained the mastery, Cap
tain Francis Inch devoted all his
energy to the salvation Of his pas
sengers.
The Carmania's bulletin says that six
small boats were, launched from the
Volturno that two of them with thirty
five persons each on board got away
and that the other four were smashed
against the ships side and all their
occupants perished.
cheeeed the Victims.
After the failure Of the life boats
from the Carmania to reach the burn
ing ship and when Captain Barr
his vessel close to 4 the
VoltIrno;~ ;~the passengers an board the
CunArder did everything In their
power to encourage the terrified crowd
huddled together In the after part Of
YAtk
chiefs and shouted cheering words
through megaphones, to which they
received answering signals from the
emigrants on the volturno.
Story Of Survivor.
The latest accounts OF the disaster
to the steamship Volturno, burned and
abandoned in mid-oceon on Friday
morning. confirm that the loss Of life
will be limited to about 1885,
The Carmania first OF the rescuing
ships to reach the burning steamer, ar
rived of Queenstown this morning, but
owing to the gale proceeded to Fish
guard. where she is due to arrive at
IL q. m.
A graphic story by. the solitary sur
vivor aboard the Carmania was re.
ceived by wireless and presents ter
rible picture of the horror, the panic
and confusion aboard the burning
liner
Story 10 lncoherent.
Walter Trintepohl, a German, who
tells the story. however, is clearly suf-
fertng from the stress Of illness and
awful experiences, and his story is
too incoherent to be accepted In every
detail.
Most important. If true, is his denial
that two boats got away from the Vol.
turno.
According to other accounts Captain
Inch was the last to leave his vessel,
which was still burning late Friday
Arthur SpurgeOn, a passenger on the
Carmania, in wireless dispatch sup
plements his own description Of the
race of the Carmania to the burning
vessel and the rescue of the passengers
of the Volturno by the story told him
by Trintepohl, who swan to the Car
mania and was rescued in an ex-
hausted condition
Survivor Near Pneumonia.
Since. being taken aboard the Car.
mania Trintepohl has been in the
ships hospital, threatened with pneu
monia. He told his story to Mr..
5Spurgeon before he became seriously
I'LL, but owing to his exhausted state
and his broken English, his account
OF the disaster was somewhat incoher.
:ent. Trintepohl had been employed at
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