The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-16
HER0lSM ATTENDS
RESCUE or THOSE
ON BURNING SHIP

on Board the North German Lloyd
steamship Grosser Kurfuerst. at Sea.
BY Wireless Telegraphed TO Cape Race,
Oct. M.--With los survivors on board
from the steamer Volturno, burned to
the waters edge during q gale In mid
Atlantic, and abandoned on Friday
last witha loss OF 136 lives, the Grosser
Kurfuerst Is approaching New York.
The passengers and crew Of the Gros-
ser Kuerfuerst Witnessed some thrill
Ing scenes when their vessel, called by
distress signals from the yolturno, arr
rived In her vicinity.
We found the Volturno burning
nerceiy and her crew and passengers
helpless In the heavy seas. 1t was
learned by wireless messages from the
Naming vessel that the fire had been
started by an explosion in the forward
hold at o'clock on Thursday morn
Ing, ships time, On the arrival OF the
Grosser Kuerfuerst the flames from the
hold OF h Volturno We're leaping so
ways.
1t was learned thar 90 or o OF the
Volturno's crew and. storage passen-
gers had been killed by the explosion
and the fire.
Six boats were lowered Immediately
afterward from the volturno's davits.
Three OF them, stifI empty, were
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boat with 40 passengers on board cap
sized while being launched and all
were lost. The two others, with from
80 to 30 passengers on board, got away.
but apparently We're lost I'm the noun
famous seas.
Twelve Liners Responded.
Altogether IL liners were brought by
the wireless distress signal within hail
OF the Voltnrno, The cunard liner Car
mania was the first OF these. She
reached the scene at about 70 o'clock
noon. Then followed the Seydlitz, the
Grosser Kurfuerst, the Kroonland, the
New York, the Devonian, the la Tour
aine, the NarragRnsett, the Minneap-
Oils, the Asian. the Rappahannock and
the Gear.
The sea was running too high to al
low the taking on OF the Volturno's
passengers when the rescuing vessels
came on the scene.
During the daytime the flames from
the hold OF the Volturno were kept
I more or less under control, but about
3 O'Clock on Thursday night the fire
reached the coal bunkers and II was
found necessary to close the bulkheads.
The pumps thereupon were unable to
work at full pressure and the flames
part OF the vessel.
AT 1910 o'clock on Thursday night
another explosion occurred on the Vol
turno and caused a panic among her
despairing passengers and crew.
Reseuers Nearly Lost.
The Grosser Kurfuerst launched three
boats and rescued 80 persons, who had
been washed into the sea. One OF the
rescuing life boats was out for six
hours and was nearly lost,
All those remaining aboard the Vol
turno crowded together at the after
end of the vessel and were taken Of
safely after daybreak on Friday.
Second Officer =. Lloyd, Of the Vol
turno was one Of the heroes of the dis
aster. He fell from a height OF 20
feet while repairing the wireless appar-
atns on board his vessel, but continued
20 fight the fire all day and at z o'clock
In the evening made a perilous trip to
the Grosser Kurfuerst in a small boat
with three others from the VolttMno.
The little craft was sinking when she
was picked up by one OF the life boats
from he Grosser Kurfeurst. The total
number Of those saved is believed To
be 523. =