The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-14

decks and wept today when tug boat
meeting the liner at the harbor,s en-.
trance brought score OF newspaper
correspondents who could speak
Dutch and German. When some Of
these on the tug, gave the survivors
money, they kissed their hands. All
of them had lost their baggage and
had only the clothes they wore and
little money.
Ten Little WaIfs.
| HAVRE Oct A. Carrying ten lit
tie babies whose parents, IL alive, are
scattered to the ends OF the earth, the
French liner La Touraine arrived
here today with forty-two steerage sur.
vivors of the Uranium liner volturno
| that burned In mid-Atlantic on Thurs
day.
Uranium line officials from Rotter.
dam took personal charge of the res
cued and prepared to trans-ship them
q America
Ten little babies some Of them un.
der year old, all scantily clad and
few wrapped only in blankets were
among the forty-two volturno surviv-
ors brought to port by the La Touraine.
! Some of their parents were killed in
| Thursdays disaster. Others have been
located by the far reaching wireless
but they are scattered on both sides
of the Atlantic aboard the rescuing
steamships
Until they can be restored to their
parents, the Uranium officials will
take the best of care of the little waits
OF the sea and they will be returned
to their parents as quickly as possible
aboard the swiftest liners available.
The first life boat that reached the
La Tourafne carried seven of the little
/ babies, some crying Justify, others too
frightened and cold to make a sound.
One little boy, stark naked and wrap
4 ped In a blanket, was sound asleep
When he was passed over the La Tour
alne's rail. The first cabin women of
the French boat crowded the boat
j decks when the baby survivors were
taken aboard. Crying Historically ov.
q er them, they We'd with each other for
possession of the little ones. Expen.
sive first-class state rooms were turned
into nurseries. The babies were wash
ed and fed and were wrapped in all
manner OF apparel until clothing could
4 be produced for them.
i Tearing up some of their own skirts
and bodices, some Of the costliest ma
terial, women passengers made clothes
for the little waits. Some of them.
wealthy women who perhaps had nov.
er seWed a stitch before, obtained
needles and with their fingers stitch
ed little slips and warm undergar
ments for the little. survivors OF f,re
and sea. Touraine women. some more
impulsfve than the rest, wanted ia
adopt the babies that the sea had civ,
en- into their care, but when they were
assured that the wireless had found
the parents of most and might find
them all. the women turned the chill.
oren over to Uranium officials who
met the ship at the docks.
Ship Was Set on Fire.
LIVERPOOL Oct 14.-Oflcials OF
the Uranium line were today prepar,ng
TO urge rigid investigation Of the
burning liner yolturno on the theory
that 1t was deliberately set ablaze az
part Of fight to put the line out OF
business. Captain Tinsley OF the
Royal Naval Reserve and manager
of the Uranium line, declared that he
bad received many threatening letters
Just before the Volturno sailed he re.
ceiyed an anonymous communication
declaring that zone of your boats
will be burned il you do not listen IN
cur demands He paid no attention
, to the letter.
In addition to the war against the
Uranium line because of low rates at
which 1t carried emigrants, there
!, has been trouble with the crews It
was stated. The officers of the boats
are English but the seamen are Dutch
, and Belgian. This has resulted In
4 trouble at times and Captain Tinsley
, has been trying to man the vessels
with English seamen. This action has
resulted in additional bitterness.
Tinsley believes a bomb was explod.
ed in the hold of the vessel.
J, The Uranium line has been In oper.
+ alton for seven years. 1t is an indie
pendent company and has not been a
: member of the North Atlantic pool.
Officials declare they have had much
I trouble in Europe where members of
! the pool are in control.
Calls It All Rot.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14-When shown
I the interview of Fred RadLa +b -.
I man Volturno survivor. who arrived at
r Havre today, Edward Q. Thomas, man.
$ ager of the Uranium line, declared the
/ statement that the yolturno had but
. nine available left boats was rot.
II Is too foolish for sane people &c