New-York tribune., 1913-10-13
Big Cunarder Pictured Sailing Around Doomed
Steamship, Spraying Oil in Vast Circle,
While Smaller Vessels Save
Scores from Death.
SAILORS MEET DOOM OF COWARDSl
Carmanas Lone Survivor Gives Graphic Description of
Crew Rushing to Fill First Boats Lowered and Meeting
Death When Fral Craft Smash Against Ships
Sides-Captan's Bravery Praised
tBy cable to The Tribune. !


ty cable t.
Queenstown Oct l2.-The Cunard liner Carmana passed
Queenstown tonight having been wireless communication with
land all the evening AS communication had been eab
ished passenger by wireless the following account OF the
Voturno disaster the Tribune correspondent
THE Voturno passed Head October signalling all
we'll This heard Of her until her wireless sent out the
s. distress signal all points the with the news
that she burning mdocean and that help must come at once
passengers from DEATH either by
flames the
The first ship the wireless the Carmana ninety
miles Captain Barr for second proved equal to the
emergency speed assistance of the Vol
maintained between
the broadcast by the Carania
in the hope of locating vessel closer to the scene
The spread the passengers and word was passed
mouth Of the mission which the Carmana was
bound Sleep thought Of but meeting called by the
passengers joined that the would
late The sole question Shall we be in te
APPEALS MORE AND MORE DISTRESSING.
Captain before what speed the Carmana was
capable the made seemed slow the anxious shps
company Fastening its mission OF rescue tor the wireless from
the Volturno distressing appeals and then
fainter at entirely Captain Barr then sum-
chief engineer and exhorted him get every possible
it'of speed out Of the vessl
wireless stuck to the job and tried to PICK up
the Vono again. but nothing do but wait AS the
the she found that several vessels IN
vicinity picked the S S call and had hurried IN the
Eary on the morning of the Camania sighted the
Vorno in latitude longitude 49, battling with tremendous
seas the blowing gale and the forward end OF the Votuno
all the fire spreading aft with alarming rapdy Inc
passengers were crowding aft, pancstcken
Before arrival of the Camania the captain OF the Votuno
would be useless longer to save the snip ana
that imperative get the off, In spite of the
tremendous seas given fill and lower the boats
Six only reached the water and lived IN the
gale being hurled against the sides OF the ship and
broken egg shells swamped when they struck the water
Not Of these four boats was saved eSaP
ing death the flames only to be drowned or patteieo ~ w
less against the wreckage around them
CARMANIAS CREW TRULY HEROIC.
ad hev waited recuing ships all might have been
saved CAPTAIN Barr with his truly heroic tried
to reach the Votuno but it was Impossible because inc
violence Of the storm momenta The Carmania and
Voturno not TAR apart ana every ehoi' "'' ~ ~
Carmanias boats
he these being persisted flames burst from
the Vounos engine and second later there was te-
erdos explosion apparent that the ship must be
abandoned Immediately Those able to swim sufficiently well 70
reach the thrown by the were eventually saved
The others perished
Oher vessels had been made the disaster had
b this time arrived these assisted picking up those VINO still
ro ~ the buoys There 1876 lost missing All the others
s 70 be but until the various ships get into COM
;or with land these figures be confirmed The Vol
- 70 sern with only the funnel and mast standing The
c,rnania has only survivor aboard
Ioos tributes paid Marconi by the passengers In
Of wireless almost certain that all would nave peen
Wireless messages exchanged between the Camana ana INC
vessels state the survivors all WELL but there
h mental distress owing the separation OF families