The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-10-16
DISASTER STORY
EXPECTED TO-DAY
cARMANiA EXPECTED TO REACH
FisHGuARo THIS AFTERNOON.
HAS ON BOARD II SURVIVORS
The Minneapolis With 80 anu Devon.
Ian With SO Expected Tomorrow
Grosser kurfuerst and kroonland
Reach New York Same Time.

ors VIII be given to the world after
the Carmania reaches Fishguard,
Wales, today. A gale prevented land
ing ut Queenstown. The Minneapolis
with thirty survivors is expected here
tomorrow, and the Dcvonian viii
reach Liverpool with 50 more. At the
Same time the Kroonland and the
Grosser kurfuerst with 80 and los re-
sceptively are expected in New York
tomorrow. The English government
has sent a warship to the scene of the
disaster following the report that the
Valturno did not sink, but is still
afioat. She will be sunk by gun fire.
Disaster to Steamship. =.
London, Oct. 13.-The following was
received at the Offices OF the Cunard
company by wireless from the Car
mania, one OF the vessels that as
sisted in rescuing passengers on board
the burning Volturno, which is due to
arrive at Queenstown at FIVE o'clock
today. "... - -.
The yolturno is floating, ablaze at
the fore end, her masts and funnel
standing, , The northwest gale is mod
Grating: Records are not complete. II
is supposed that 1876 we're lost who
attempted TO get away in the steam
ships boats previous to the arrival
OF aid. Others were saved
Rappshannoek Saves Nineteen.
On board the Steamship Rappahan-
mock, Via Cape Race and Camerdown
Wireless Station and Halifax, N. s.,
Oct. 13.-We are bound for Halifax
with 10 of the survivors Of the steam
err Volturno. We we're fortunate
enough to save Is women and four
children. 49,. III. ,r
There we're ten steamers engaged In
the work Of rescue, but the weather
was rough.
The names Of those We saved fol-
low:
Feice, Katake, Esther Kalske, Maria
Asenburg, Esther Lentelake, Bella Re-
ceresky, Mrs. Pho Pollack, Mrs. Geduck
Parsche and son, Nikoli; Mrs. Maria
veketezek and sons, Pedro and Dlmit
ri and daughter, Katrina; Leolodia
Woyore, Alex. Konlkouska. Esther Kap-
pima, Preyie Becks, Pearl Becks, Edna
Freedman and vesey Lavden. f
All these were scantily clad when
we rescued them and they were suf-
fering from exhaustion and the great
hardships to which they had been sub
jected. ~
voiturno Burns at Sea.
London, Oct, lathe yolturno OF
the Uranium line, burning and helpless
in raging mid-Atlantic storm, last
Thursday sent wireless call over the
sea and drew to it ten ships that came
up in time TO save 521 of its 656 pas
sengers and crew. .....-t ...-..-
The others, 1876, we're swallowed by
the ocean when the lifting waves
crushed four OF the volturno's life
boats against the ships side.
Helpless for Twenty Hours.
For more than twenty hours the ten
rescuing ships that had wheeled in
their courses when the "S. o. s." halt.
ed them. in the storm cruised around
the. yolturno unable to give aid be-
cause of the dangers OF wind and wave.
1t was not until Friday morning that
they were able to transfer the voltur-
nos passengers, who were for the
most part immigrants from eastern
Europe bound for Halifax and New
York r ,e e
And it was a matter OF two or three
hours at the least that meant the diff
ference between life and death to the
I 521 who had been driven, aft by the
growing FIRE and who had about given
up all hope.
Resort to Lheboats Vain.
Most OF those who lost their lives
had taken to the lifeboats in an effort
to reach the vessels which had arrived
to give aid. Several Of these boats
were seen to be swamped by the 81
gantic waves Nearly all who remained
on board were rescued.
SO far as is known, none OF the vic
Tins of the disaster was native born
American,
Marine men pointed out the coinci-
dence that, less than four years ago.
the volturno was the rescuer Of the
crew OF a French vessel in almost the
same spot where 1t met disaster Thurs
day.
Burns Amid Big Fleet.
On Thursday night, as It fell dark,
the 5000 passengers Of the ten ships
that had come up to deliver the Vol
turno's people, had one OF the most re-
markable experiences that ever fell TO
people that sail the sea.
They saw a great ship burning in
the center OF fleet impotent to help.
The flames leaping from the yolturno
Illuminated the great waves that
daunted the rescuing vessels. All
around were steamships ablaze with
light whose people heard the cries Of
the voltdrno's passengers and we're
powerless TO give aid,
These ten ships we're the Carmania
OF the Cunard line. the Grosser Kur-
fnerst OF the North GermanLloyd. the
Rappahsnnock. the Kroonland Of the