Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16
HE DENIES THATTWO BOATS
GOT AWAY FROM THE SHIP
Forty Persons Were in Them and All Are be-
lieved to Have Perished, According to Other
ACCOMPLISHMENT Impossible Owing to
Heavy Sea-Crew Acted Badly.

1'Ilupl ~ :" 'N '"N''' "NN'''iN
of the disaster to the steamship Vol
,urno burned and abandoned in mid.
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fences. and his story is too incoherent
10 he accented in every detail Most i'm.
nortant If true is his denial that twc
boats got away from the Voltnrno
According to other accounts Captain
Inch was tho las, 70 leave his vessel
which was sti,l burning late Friday uirbt
md wac q danqer IN navigatior
Landau oct Eortr 90 ,bo oo
hundred and tbirtv-sv norso, ,o..
,ron tho s.oorsbtn voI.urn :. ,,t1
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from tho burrirr .o.so,s ana u.bt.,
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thar uvov wbar fo,r ,+hor hoo+. u.oro
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IN an ottennt 70 ,.r,oh .hor,
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of .bo Cor,onia a,a H. 49,. it..u.
v,umorod ~. ,,ina,a, aaua g.. 49,.
rro,, ,ha Coruonia,. aa a..,.1.
comes n tbri,,iro storr &c ,ha hmrn.r
oe .ho aua ~ ~ az
s~truge,o for ,bo hoots .ho aoath -,
those wbo wort orar ~ sido. a,5
his own desnerato fpb, for life
~ mo ,,,
" III"
Arthur ~SpurSeon' a passenger on the
Carrnahla IN a wireless despatch, sup
PIGMENTS MS own description of the
race OF the rmanl to the burning
vessel and the rescue of the passen-
gers OF the NoIturho by the story told
MIN by the SURVIVOR Walter Trinte-
pom, a "erIhah' VINO swan to the Car
mania ana was rescued In an exhaust
ed conultioh' since being taken
oeeh In the shlps hospital threatened
with lie told his story to
MI S~purseon before he became Seri-
ously IL but owing to his exhausted
state ana his broken English his ac-
count OF the dlsastH was somewhat
~"
ce,ora and ,ooL ,hird-oras. ans -,
the VoI,urno to sec,ro q ,osi,ior oYarod
TO him in New York
can went we'll, said Trir,.nob1 ,urtn
six o'clock Thursday morning whar tho
fire alarm sounded. We were aroused
and told to 90 on deck as fire had broken
out in the hold. On ~assemblin life holts
were handed around and much time WA ,
occupied in fastening them. We were told
that the fire might soon he nuenched. b,t
the captain thought it wise for all TO nava
belts as a precaution.
THE fire frightened the children. Who
cried bitterly. There we've many babies
In arms.
"The fire grew worse. We saw thinss
blazing down haIow About ten o,c,,c.
there was a cry to lower the h1atI.
THE captain behaved splendidly So
did the officers. who were English 7 am
sorry to say that the crew, who were
Germans and Belgians, behaved very
badly. The people rushed ABOUT wildly.
land the crew seemed to think they ought
to have first place, and instead Of quiet
ing the passengers they made the panic
worse.
CREW CROWDED INTO BOAT.
..Tbo Gre. oeioar ,oo1 or ,ha
er.t hoo. hrt oIthauah 10 na,.od ~,
wor,an ond chi,dran sarod ers, wa
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b" ''"' was ~ asa'hS' ''"'
"iP : sue JUST a. II 'e"o"eu II water
II "i'N' III 1--WE an" an were uro"heu'
M'ai"ilIo attempts were maue 10
'o"er the second boat cannot say
WHO was IN charge OF this but ! 40
Nho" that after the chief steward had
thrown provisions in he jumped in him
sell There were more men than women
ana children in this boat, which did not
go down from the davits fer it was