The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-10-18
lsSENGERS ARE
| TRAPPED BY FIRE
nc Storm Prevents Other
Boats From Reaching
Doomed Ship.
busARDs SEE DISAsTER
vessels Respond to Wireless Call
n Help and Rescue Survivors
When the Gale Subsidies.

I'm Newspaper Union Jews Service.
ksrpool.-One hundred and thirty
|puls we're added to the toll claim
N the seas when the steamship
kno, bound for New York from
Srdam, burned in mid-ocean
nnds of persons looked on at the
&fy.ng spectacle, unable to render
IA because of a terrific gale
bvas blowing.
"a steamships caught the call for
y rom the wireless and were on
|eeDe within a few hours. Their
sn and men made one effort after
|ner to rescue the passengers from
Turning ship, but without avail
| sieht and during the greater part
7 day, the battle with the waves
&hred while the passengers on the
mo waited to be succorred, or,
kiring of being taken from the
leaped into the ocean and were
NED.
n boats were launched from the
y ships, only to be dashed to
y against the sides of the vessels.
\ &yelinrno's own life boats were
~ to pieces when an attempt was
y to lower them into the raging
i The greatest loss of life occur.
)yhen four of the Volturno's six
llnb were crushed like eggshells
~ the side Of the steamer after
Pere launched. The occupants
thrown into the water and practi-
" Of them were drowned.
Y Lives to Save Passengers.
\ story Of the battle to save the
d the Volturno's passengers is
d the most thrilling tales of the
nat has yet been told. officers
men Of the ten steamships which
snded to the call for help, risked
lives In the effort to save the
Fsds who were trapped on the
1ng boat but time after time they
beaten back by the terrific gale
rsained their own vessels with
zfy. All night the battle lasted
not until morning when the gale
q somewhat were the survivors
1ed nom the doomed ship.
Yolturno sailed from Rotterdam
esooer 2 for New York. Accord
the Official statement, she car
2 nrst cabin passengers, 53S
zee and a crew numbering sc.
~ the fire broke out in the Vol
and was seen to be beyond con.
ne wireless flashed this call out
pihs seas:
are on fire and will have to
p ship. Can hold on for a
SO. s."
my Boats Respond to Call.
Steamer Carmania, bound from
iork for Liverpool, was IS miles
Y xhen the call for help sounded.
y BAR, ordering full steam in
= me gale, was the first of the
3 reach the burning vessel. The
81 was followed by LaTouraine,
ous, Rapahannock, Car, Mar
Devonian, Krooland, Gros
'urst and Zeidlitb at various
nughout the day. But try as
nt the rescuing vessels could
ner line nor life boat to the
the forward part of which
most hidden by a dense cloud of
snen the Carmania arrived.
s OF the terrific gale raging
y vessel arrived near the Vol
me captain of the Carmania
o. his lifeboats lowered to
@ the volturno to help in the
Inc boat was launched with
uaeulty, for even on the lee
ne Carmania the seas were
roush and it was only by ex-
NY Efforts that the small craft
sseated from being smashed
'1ed as she left the side of the
sse's Battle With Waves.
srmania's lifeboat, in charge of
acer Gardiner, made a gallant
enort to get alongside the
volturno. After two hours
- Aa the waves, during which
s'0at lost all but three of her
A " rest kas,