Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-13
German Survivor of voIturno Leaped Into Sea and
 Was Picked Up by Carmania
DESCRIBES SCENES ABOARD BURNED STEAMER
Denies That Two Boats Got Away From the Ship-Says That Ships Officers Behaved Manfuly But Members of Crew Thought Only of Saving Themselves -Fremen Driven Below by Captain at Point of Revolver

I gan to get very warm, then hotter ano hotter. But we did not seem to fee 1 the heat"
 When shown his boot with the soIes half burned through, Trintepohl said; | T don remember this, but il was aW- i ful when the flames burst out Some 1 of the men and women tore their hair { but others were quite still. i After the explosion 1 thought il ! better to jU~~D, for 1 am a good swim ! mer, and English passenger and one of the crew said they would ac- company me. jumped first; they fol- lowed but l never saw them agan.
 T made for the German ship. but they did not hear me. Then I came towards the Carmania and shouted 1 Help! HeF!' and was seen by aid of the searchHght. I was about an hour in the sea and almost unconscious l know not how I was gotten out
 No Boat Got Away.
 During the day five sailors and one steward fell into the fire and were burned to death.
 T know nothink more. I came away because it was too hot to stay any longer and feared the whole ship would blow up."
 When Trintepohl was told that ac- cording to the captains wireless mes sage six boats had been launched and two got away, he said:
 Tt is so. I was there all the time and -aW everything. No boat got away"
 MT Sturgeon in his own account tells of the attempts to get lifeboats alongside the VOlturno. Nothing" he says, was seen of the two boats launched with about twenty passengers each Ofter they left the Volturno's side. Four others were smashed against the ships side and the occupants either killed or drowned.
 Total Number Lost 136.
 At o'clock Thursday night the captain of the NOltUrnO sent a despair ing message which read:
 For Gods sake. help us or we per-
 By a miracle the flames did not spread to the afterdecl1. Eventually the seas moderated and the boats saved 536"
 oil Poured on Angry Sea.
 4 wireless from the CarmaDia U the Daily Mail thus describes the rescue of the passengers from the Nolturno:
 The boats took off in quick success sion the survivors who passed one by one down the lines. Daybreak saw the arrival of the two other steamers the Car and the Narragansett. The latter an oil tank steamer, which came at full speed took up a position slightly to the windward of the Vol turnO- 1 n a few minutes she had two large streams of oil pouring op the water. This was invaluable in helping the rescue work of the small boats around the NOlturno's stern.
 Five Factors in Rescue Work.
 By nine o'clock the remaining i've hundred and twenty-one had been safely taken off. Each ship went on a short cruise in different directions to scout for the missing two boats, but nothing was seen of them.
 That over five hundred and fifty lives were not lost was due, first, to the wireless; second to the speedy ar rival and organization of Captain Barr of the Carmania; third, to the splendid seamanship of the interna4 uonal rescue squadron; fourth to the FOlturno's staunch bulkheads; fifth, and above all, to the providentiaI mod eration of the gale Thursday night"