Evening journal., 1913-10-14
VOLTURNO SURVIVOR SAYS
SHIP CARRIED ONLY NINE
LIFEBOATS FIT FOR USE
Radke Declares Crew Was Ignorant of Their Usf
and That Many of the Boats With Human Car
goes We're Smashed TO Pieces Against
Hull Of Burning Ship. Explosion
After Fire Breaks Our
MEMBERS OF CREW SAY WOMEN
AND CHILDREN WERE CARED FOA


NEW FACTS OF THE VOL 4
TURN0 DISASTER BROUGHT
OUT IN THE FIRST COMPLETE Z
STORY TOLD TO THE UNITED
PRESS BY THE SURVIVORS
ABOARD LA TOURAINE AT
HAYRE.
The vOIturno had only nine
lifeboats that we're flt for use
All Of them apparently we're :
rotten and not in condition for
8 launching.
. The crew seemed ignorant Of :
their use and passengers helped
10 drag six Of them over the side.
One Of those that WAS smashed,
was lowered with a hole In Its
bottom.
The fire apparently smouIdered
for hours before II WAS dlscOT-
cred.
No explosion occurred untiI
hours after the fire had burned
fierceIy.
Four and perhaps more Of the =
crew we're smOthered in the fore
castle by smoke before the
was discovered.
Members of the crew sa,
cOwardlce and denied that NJ
tain Inch used his pistol TO 4
the firehghters mt work. n!
No confusion and panic was ~
ticed among passengers or ere
Women and children. acc0rs
. ing 10 the crew, were the last
he taken on the V0lturn0 because
many men leapcd overheard dur
. ing the night and few waited for
= the lifebOats Of the rescue ileci.
Ten little babies, all separated
from their parents. were rescued
BY La TOuraine and cared Tor by
women dn the first cabins.
and warm undergarmcnts for the
tiny survivors OF hre and sea.
Some of the Tourainc women. moro
linnulsive than the rest wanted e
, adopt the babies that the sea hel
given into their care. but whom tho
were assured that the wireless ha
& found the parents OF most and migl
{, find them All the women tnrn'
z their children over 10 the Uroniu
> officials who met the ship. At u
dock
/ Architect Describes Horror. ~
A. y. Norton au architect OF De-
vcr. who was aboard IA Touraine
graphically described the gccne o
the burning Nolturno.
"1.a Tonraino was ono OF the lasl
OF tho liners 10 arrive ar the hellish
scene on Thursday night" said Nor
ton. First VIC could see only a dull
rod glow over the horizon. II look
ed as II the world were afire. Then
we saw a column Of smoke the top
Of which spread over the water for
miles
eve got close enough 10 make ou'
the fear distorted faces of the women
children and men gathered on the poo
OF the volturno and all around us in th
water we could sec men.
Captain Caussin ordered boats lower
ed. and they picked up several su
vivors. At the risk of their lives, N
Touraincs sailors remained in the WI
ter in small boats all night. but the
were unable to get TO the Noltuno unit
early morning
81 believe that one OF our boats vi
the first TO get TO the stern of tho VC
turno on Friday morning. The fir
boat returned with two survivors. IT
. leg Of one was broken The secol
boat brought seven. think the lii
boats on none of the other liners we
Z working that early.
81 am told that the Voltuno's ir
and second class passengers insisted {
, being saved first and fought back n
steeragc passengers while they erowdc
A into the Volturno's boats. If this
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