Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-10-22

London, Oct. THE following was
received at the Offices of the Cunard
company by wireless from the Car
mania, one of the vessels that as
sisted in rescuing passengers on board
the burning Volturno, which is due to
arrive at Queenstown at five o'clock
today.
''The Volturno is floating, ablaze at
the fore end, her masts and funnel
standing The northwest gale is mod
Grating. Records are not complete. 1t
is supposed that 1875 were lost who
attempted to get away in the steam
ships boats previous to the arrival
Of aid. Others were saved
Rappahannock Saves Nineteen.
On board the Steamship Rappahan-
mock, Via Cape Race and Camerdown
Wireless Station and Halifax, N. s.,
Oct. 13-We are bound for Halifax
with 10 of the survivors Of the steam
er Volturno. We we're fortunate
enough to save Is women and four
children.
There were ten steamers engaged in
the work of rescue, but the weather
was rough.
The names of those we saved fol
low:
Feice, Katake, Esther Kalske, Maria
Asenburg, Esther Lentelake, Bella Re-
ceresky, Mrs. Pho Pollack, Mrs. Geduck
Parsche and son, Nikoli; Mrs. Maria
Veketezek and sons, Pedro and Dimit-
ri and daughter, Katrina; Leolodia
Woyore, Alex. Konlkouska, Esther Kap-
pima, Previe Becks, Pearl Becks, Edna
Freedman and Vesey Lavden.
All these were scantily clad when
we rescued them and they were suf-
fering from exhaustion and the great
hardships to which they had been sub
jected.
VoIturno Burns at Sea.
London, Oct, 13.-The Volturno of
the Uranium line, burning and helpless
In a raging mid-Atlantic storm, last
Thursday sent wireless call over the
sea and drew to it ten ships that came
up in time to save 521 of it's 656 pas
sengers and crew.
The others, 1876, were swallowed by
the ocean when the lifting waves
crushed four of the Volturno's life
boats against the ships side.
Helpless for Twenty Hours.
For more than twenty hours the ten
rescuing ships that had wheeled in
their courses when the IS. o. S." halt
ed them in the storm cruised around
the Volturno, unable to give aid be-
cause of the dangers of wind and wave
1t was not until Friday morning that
they were able to transfer the Voltur
nos passengers, who were for the
most part immigrants from eastern
Europe bound for Halifax and New
York.
And it was a matter of two or three
hours at the least that meant the diff
ference between life and death to the
621 who had been driven aft by the
growing fire and who had about given
up all hope.
Resort to Lifeboats Vain.
Most of those who lost their lives
had taken to the lifeboats in an effort
to reach the vessels which had arrived
to give aid. Several of these boats
were seen to be swamped by the gi
gantic waves. Nearly all who remained
on board were rescued.
So far as is known, none of the vic
Tins of the disaster was a native borr
American.
Marine men pointed out the coinci
dence that, less than four years ago
the Volturno was the rescuer of the
crew of French vessel in almost the
same spot where it met disaster Thurs
day.
Burns Amid Big Fleet.
On Thursday night, as it fell dark
the 5000 passengers Of the ten ships
that had come up to deliver the Vol
turHos people, had one of the most re
markable experiences that ever fell t.
people that sail the sea.
They saw a great ship burning IL
the center of a fleet impotent to help
The flames leaping from the VolturnC
illuminated the great waves tina
daunted the rescuing vessels. Al
around were steamships ablaze will
light whose people heard the cries o