The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-17


of Forty Persons and Two Boat
Loads of Passengers Are Missing
and ProbobIy Lost-OnIy Wireless
Details Received of the Disaster.
NEW YORK - The first definite
news concerning the burning of the
steamship Volturno in midOceon on
Thursday, of the death by fire or
drowning of 1874 of her passengers
and crew, and of the rescue on Fri.
day morning by eleven steamships Of
533 men, women and children, has
been received.
The Rappahannock, one of the
eleven ships that came up in time to
assist in the perilous work of rescue,
wirelessed 10 the Uraniam Steamship
line the first list of names of persons
saved. She is on her way to Hall
fax with fifteen women and four chill
dren.
Those on the Rappahannock are:
Feice Katske, Esther Katske, Maria
Isenburg, Esther Lentetske, Bella
Recensky, Mrs. Pollok, Mrs. Gaduck-
parasha, Nikoli Carbohydrate, Mrs.
Maria ViEiszvck, Pedro Vikitszvck,
son; Dimitro Vikitszyck, a son; Katri-
ma Vikitszvck, a daughter; Leckadi
Woicieck, Alexandria Kontkonsha, Es-
Their Popplua, Privie Viks, PERI Vika,
Edna Friedman and Bisy Laudin.
mine steamers at rescue. Weather
rough. One hundred and twelve peo-
pie missing Approximately seventy
or eighty persisted. Report later.
"F CRNESS.'
The Furness Witty and Company
ship, reported that approximately
seventy or eighty persisted, but at the
same time. reported 112 to be missing.
On the other hand, Captain Barr of
the Carmania places the number of
rescued at 521, which would seem to
mean that the loss of life is 1870, in
Guiding the two lifeboat loads of i'm
migrants, who escaped being dashed
against the VOlturno's side on Thurs
day morning, but who, it is believed
now, were soon after swallowed up in
the terrific gale that was raging.
The wireless dispatch received from
the Grosser Kurfuerst supplied with
disappointing brevity some Of the es-
sential details 1t told of a great ex-
plosion which killed forty of the crew
and passengers, of the disappearance
into the storm of two boat loads of
passengers, with about 100 in them
and of the number of survivors that
had been taken On the various rescu-
ing ships.
Panic was the first cause of the
great loss of life, when the Volturno
burned. Members of the crew and
men of the steerage passengers push
ed aside women, with babies in their
arms, and sprang into the first boats.
These boats were crushed against the
ships side and all in them persisted.
Captain Inch terrorized stokers with
his revolver and finally cut the life
boats tackle to prevent more boats
being lowered.
A dispatch from the Grosser Kur-
fUerst, Cape Race Radio, says:
-Four Volturno boats smashed For
ty persons were drowned. Two boats
with 100 souls are missing. Forty
men were killed by the explosion. The
Touraine has AZ survivors, the Mar
ragansett %, the New York IS, the
Seydlitz 46, mostly women and chill
dren; the Devonian 60, the Kroonland
80, including Captain Inch, who is
wounded, the chief engineer, two en-
gineers and the two wireless opera
tors; the Kurfuerstt 106, including Of
ficers and engineers; the Carmania 1,
the Car 90, including the doctor and
the purser, the Minneapolis 81, and
the Rappahannock 49,"