Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-14
OFFICIAL DENIES
STORY OF PLOT TO
BURN VOLTURNO
Manager of Uranium Line Dee
clares No Letter Was Written
Threatening Destruction.
BURNED STEAMER STILL
AFL0AT LAST SUNDAY
Captain Rostron. Hero of Tis
tanic, Sights Derelict and
Seeks Boats.

LIVERPOOL. Oct f4.-The man,
aver of the Uranium line has denied
that there was a plot to destroy the
burned ship Volturno, but without
that element of conspiracy the story
Which is woven around the destruc-
ton OF the liner is one of such
transeendant human interest as has
never before been put on the wires
and cables of the world.
Human interest" that fnfaneibl<x
thing for which every news wrife1
searches as he attacks a story, is OUT
done IN the cultural truths which are
uttered BY the emigrant survivors OF
wnat Is admitted to be tie most dra-
matte OF all ocean accidents up to
date
Many OF these stories came here
To-Day on the rescue ship Devonian.
which brought to port fifty OF the
survivors of the nlid-ooean f1re.
Two living chapters of the story
We're an infant and a little s-year-old
girl The baby had been thrown into
the sea by its mother when the
woman was overcome by the hyster-ia
OF fear and had been rescued through
the daring dive into the waves Of q
seaman who as yet is unnamed and
whose heroism may never be reeoe-
nized The child was rescued from
tne stern of the burning Volturno.
and she stood today on the deck of
the Deyonian. helpless. uncared-for
and unclaimed-a humble BIT az
wreckage in the maleetrom of greater
affairs
And the stories the survivors teiii
There is one of the fear-nladdeued
father who threw first his wife and
then his two children into the sea
before ieaping himself to the waves
which offered cool. inviting death as
relief from the inferno-like heat OF
deck
From another angle comes the tale
of the wife of the first officer Of the
doomed ship She was on another
liner and saw her husband 20 to his
death while battling braveiy for the
lives OF a boat load Of passengers who
had been swung to the raging sea
from the davits of the volturno.
On La Touraine, which landed az
tavre today. a group of eight chill
dren stood wailing for the lost
mothers and fathers who may be on
other of the rescue ships. or who may
be dead in the ocean from which they
90 narrowly esca ped.
Iafe storK Of the plot TO IRE rl7a
sszsafnfnu was denied by Captain Tisas-
! ley, manager of the Uranium line. in
a dispatch from Rotterdam. He said:
Il never said word to anybody rel
ative to q letter having been received
BY the company threatening to burn
the ship
The Voiturno was still afioaf on
the afternoon of Sunday in latitude
47.37 north, longitude s345 west.
There is apparently a possibility Of
the hulk yet reaching land
The Camparia was in her vicinity
at quarter past on October "a
says Captain Rostron In q wireless
dispatch to the Cunard Company.
The derelict was then going SOUTH
east. making about q knot an hour.
Her hull appeared to be in good con-
dition and likely to float indefinitely.
"A careful search was made by the
Campania for the missing boats. The
Lorraine six hours later continued
the search, but did not see any
boats"