The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-14

megaphones to which they received an
Swering signals from the immigrants on
the Volturno.
Made Another Attempt
Baked in his attempts TO establish COM
munication between the Carmania and
the Volturno Captain Barr sent out wide
cast wireless signals which brought a
world travelling fleet to the doomed ship.
Late Thursday afternoon Captain Barr
made another attempt to reach the Vol
turno by throwing overheard life RATS.
He hoped these might be secured by those
on board, but this attempt also proved
futile.
In the meanwhile the despairing mes
sages from Captain Inch of the Volturno
calling for succor grew more insistent
as the flames progressed.
Great clouds OF smoke enveloped the
ship.
At about o'clock at night Captain
inch succeeded in lowering a boat in
charge of the second officer of the ship.
In this was placed crew of four men
with the intention of taking a line to
the Grosser Kurfuerst.
The small boat after a desperate strug-
gle reached the German liners side only
to be dashed to pieces.
Its occupants managed to seize lines
thrown out and thus were saved.
About $3.50 o'clock the same night the
sky suddenly was lighted with a lurid
glare as the flames broke through another
part of the ship,
Captain Inch then sent a last despairing
appeal and 20 minutes later there oc-
Cured terrific explosion to which the
helpless spectators on board the surround
ing vessels believed had sealed the doom
of the victims of the Volturno.
After describing the rescue of the
German, Walter Trintepohl, the only
survivor taken on board the Carmania,
the bulletin says the hope of savine g.
any more of those on board the Vol
turno had been almost abandoned
when the sea suddenly moderated and
the fleet of rescuing ships was able
to get away a number of lifeboats and
take off all the survivors.
Captain Inch left his vessel at s
o'clock on Friday forenoon, carrying
with him all the ships papers
81 viii be up with the milk in the
morning" was the cheerful answer rad
iographed by the commander of the
steamer Narragansett to the Carnla-
MAS call for help. As soon as Cap
tain Barr of the Cunard steamer real
lied the situation he told his Marconi
operator to- get in touch with the oil
steamer Nara gansett, as an abundant
supply of oil seemed to be the only
means of subsiding the violence of the
seas and of facilitating the rescuing
operations.
The Carmania quickly picked up the
oil ship and received the hearty re-
Spouse.
True to his word, the skipper of the
Narragansett brought his steamer on
to the scene early on Friday morning
and Immediately sluiced hundreds OF
tons of oil onto the waves.
Humphrey Jones, a passenger on the
Carmania, describing the scene at the
wreck, said the IL vessels worked
splendidly and with the regularity of
a naval review. The Grosser Kurfuerst
the Kroonland and the Gar did won
derful work.
The spectacle of the burning ship
in the middle of circle of vessels, i'm
potent to help" he said, was too ter
rible to describe. But for the sub
sidence of the storm all on board the
Volturno most assuredly would have
been lost or perished."
First intimation of the passengers of
the Carmania that anything unusual
had happened was while they were at
breakfast on Thursday when the con-
tinuous breaking of green seas on the
decks above them and the plunging of
the vessel indicated that the Car
mania's course had been changed and
that she was speeding In the face OF
the current of the gale. y
Immediately on receipts of the