The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
LOSS OF LIFE
LIMITED TO 1886
Details Of Disaster That Over
came the Steamer VOIturnO.
CREW FIRST TO LEAVE SHIP

First Definite News Of the Burning lr
Midocean of Il Vessel Is Received
at New York by the Uranian Steam
ship Line-Eleven Vessels Took
Active Part In the Work of Rescue
Story of the Horror.
New York, oct. 14.-The Uranium
steamship line received the first def
mite news of the burning of the
steamship Voltuno in midocean, OF
the death by fire or drowning of 134
of her passengers and crew and Of the
sescue by II steamships of 532 men,
women and children.
The Rappahannock, one of the II
ships that came up in time to assist in
the perilous work of rescue. transmit
ted by wireless the first list of names
of persons saved. She is on her way
to Halifax with 10 women and four
children.
Unless these women and children
were transferred from the Rappahan-
mock to another ship in the neighbor-
hood, they will be taken to Halifax and
will arrive there tomorrow The Rap
pahannock's wireless expressed the
hope that she could arrive on sched-
ule time. The Furness, Witty G. Com
pany ship reported that approximate.
ly 10 or so had perished, but at the
same time reported 112 to be missing
On the other hand, Captain Bar of
the Carmania places the number of
rescued at 521, which would seem to
mean that the loss of life is 1856, in
cluding the two boatloads of immi.
grants who escaped being dashed
against the Volturno's side, but who
it is believed now were soon after
ward swallowed up in the terrific gale
that was raging.
The II ships-the name of an addi-
tional member of the international
resCuing squadron, the oil tank
steamship New York, was supplied by
a wireless message from the Crosse
Kurfuerst-searched the ocean un-
availingly long after the last of the
Volutrno's survivors had been taken
off the burning ship. The storm was
so great that the captains of the II
ships have given up for lost the pas
sengers of the two missing lifeboats.
The wireless dispatch received from
the Crosse Kurfuerst supplied with
disappointing brevity some of the es
cnnfia1 Jptoi1C tAI Of nv
plosion which killed 40 of the crew
and passengers, of the disappearance
into the storm of two boatloads of
passengers with about 100 in them
and of the number of survivors that
had been taken on the various rescu-
ing ships. The dispatch read:
Message by Wireless.
-Four Volturno boats smashed.
Forty persons we're drowned; two
boats with 100 souls are missing.
Forty men were killed by the explo-
sion. The TouTaine has AZ survivors,
the Narragansett 28, the New York
18, the Seydlitz 46, mostly women and
children; the Devonian 60, the Kron-
land so, including Captain Inch, who
is wounded; the chief engineer, two
engineers and the two wireless opera
tors; the Kurfuerst 106, including Of
fcers aa2 eagicco,@.: thN (Sarmania !,
the Gar go, including the doctor and
the purser; the Minneapolis 81 and
the RappahannOck 49,"
The Uranian line received from the
Cunard line the text of a wireless
message that had been sent by Cap
tain Barr of the Carmania to his Office
in Liverpool. 1t was as follows:
THE Volturno is floating ablaze at
the fore end. Her masts and funnel
are standing. Northwest gale moder-
ating. The records are incomplete.
Only one survivor here. 1t is sup
posed that 1876 were lost. They at
tempted to get away in the ships
boats previous to the arrival Of the
steamships"
Seeing that the use of small boats
was futile, Captain Barr worked the
Carmania as close to the Volturno's
stern as 1t was possible to get her.
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