Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
WIRELESS CALL SUMMONS TEN
SHIPS TO SCENE CUT THEY
ARE ALMOST POWER i
LESS. ~#. ~
WORK OF RESCUING WAS
DELAYED SEVERAL HOURS
l0earchlight Reveal lndescribabIe Hor
ro-Carmania Leads Fleet Of
Steamers in Work of
Saving Passen.
gers.


and thirty-six women, children and
men lost their lives when the Uranium
lime steamship Volturna, leased from
the Royal line, caught fire in mid-At,
tantic on Thursday and burned to the
waters edge on Friday.
Survivor Tells Story.
The only survivor that has yet told
his story says the English captain and
his English officers behaved calamity
In the face of death, but declares the
German and Bulgarian crews acted
cowardly.
The carmania, with one lone surviv.
or of the Volturno aboard, found it too
rough to stop at Queenstown and is
proceeding direct to Fishguard. From
that survivor, however, comes thrill.
ing story of the burning of the steam,
er, OF the terror, the struggle for the
boats, the death of those who went
over the sides and his own desperate
fight for life.
Ten big timers, led by the Cunard,
or Carmania, Captain Barr, stood by
the striker ship and battled for many
hours in fierce gale to rescue the
passengers and crew, but were able
to take off and pick up only 521 per-
sons.
Rescue Long Delayed.
While hundreds of passengers
aboard the rescue fleet crowded the
rails, spellbound with horror, the cap.
talns maneuvered in desperate at.
tempts to get alongside the Volturno,
but were unable to do so until day.
break Friday.
Captain Barr then ran lifeboat I'M
der the stern Of the Volturno and took
on eleven passengers. Other captains
followed, and the survivors taken from
the Volturno as we'll as those picked
up in the only two Volturno lifeboats
that got away during the fire were
distributed among the rescuing liners,
From Thursday noon the Carmania
stood by. helpless, on account of the
terrific storm and mountainous waves,
until early Friday. The last of the
Surviving passengers and crew were
taken off at $3.50 a. m. Friday. The
Carmania was alone with the burning
liner until the Grosser, Furst and Sci.
nelitz came up about 4 p. m. Thurs
day. The other seven rescue ships ar.
rived shortly afterward. ~
Four Lifeboats Smashed.
While the Carmania's passengers
looked on, frantic and helpless, four
ifeboats lowered from the Volturno
were smashed against the side Of the
heavily rolling ship and their passen.
gers, including women and children,
were drowned. A broken propeller of
the Volturno had so fouled the tackle
OF the l1feboats that only six could be
lowered and only two got away.
AS darkness fell, the Carmania kept
its powerful searchlights. playing on
the waters around the burning boat,
looking for possible passengers that
might have taken to the sea in their
desperation. Captain Barr also threw
out burning buoys all night to light the
CHASTITY scene. Their light played on
the poop of the Volturno and showed
plainly the hopeless women, children
and men huddled there throughout the
night. |&. 49,
At midnight there was some hope
aroused when the fire appeared to be
dying down. Captain Barr made an
other attempt to get a boat to the
ship, and when this failed he ran the
Carmania head-on within 100 feet Of
the Volturno's stern. It was impos
sible, though, to get line aboard the
wreck. y.
VoIturno Sinks. I'd
The fire broke out fercely in the az
ter engine room before dawn and whe1
daylight came it was seen that the
Volturno was sinking by the head. !
The gale had abated by then ant
lifeboats from the rescue feet were
run alongside the burning liner, taking
off the last of the survivors.
The Volturno was abandoned at 9:2(
q. m. on Friday and sank a few min
utes later. -ssitv@&sl y &ss
The 1876 missing passengers wer,
burned to death, drowned in tn,
smashed boats or jumped overheard.
Officials Of the Uranium compan,
declared early that those on boart
included "a cabin and $40 steerag,
passengers, with a crew Of SO. s%e#
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