Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-13


The Carmania quickly picked up the
oil ship and received the hearty re
spOnse quoted
True to his word, the skipper OF the
Narragansett brought his steamer on
to the scene early on Friday and
sluiced hundreds of tons of oil onto
the waves.
Humphrey Jones, a passenger on the
tCarmania, describing the scene at the
wreck said that the international feet
worked splendidly and with the regu'
llarity of naval review. The Grosser
Kurfuerst, the Kroonland and the
Czar did wonderfully.
"The spectacle of the burning ship
in the middle of the ring of vessels
impotent to help he said, was too
horrible to describe. But for the sub
sidence of the storm all on board the
Volturno most assuredly would have
been lost"
| On Board the North German Lloyd
Steamship Grosser Kurfuerst at Sea,
by Wireless Telegraph to Cape Race,
Oct. 13.-With 105 survivors on board
from the steamship Volturno burned
to the waters edge during gale in
mid-Atlantic and abandoned on Fri
day last, the Grosser Kurfuerst is
approaching New York.
! The passengers and crew of the
Grosser Kurfuerst witnessed some
thrilling scenes when their vessel, cal
led by distress signals from the Vol
turno, arrived in her vicinity.
| They found the Volturno burning
ifiercely and her crew and passengers
helpless in the heavy seas. 1t was
| learned by wireless messages from
the flaming vessel that he fire had
been started by an explosion in the
forward hold at O'Clock on Thurs
day morning, ships time.
| On the arrival of the Grosser kur-
fuerst the flames from the hold of the
Volturno were leaping so feet into the
air through the hatchways. 1t was
learned that fifty or more of the Vol
Iturno's crew and steerage passengers
had been killed by the explosion and
the fire.
Six boats were lowered immediate
Ily afterwards from the Nolturno's da-
Wits Three of them, still empty, were
smashed to pieces against the yes
sells side One boat with forty pas
Isengers on board capszed while being
Launched and all were lost. The two
Others, with from sixty to eighty pas
sengers on board, got away, but ap-
parently were lost in the mountainous
seas.
The sea was running too high to
| allow the taking off of the VOturno's
passengers when the rescuing YES
sells came on the scene. During the
Iday time the flames from the hold
were kept more or less under control
but about 8 o'clock on Thursday night
the fire reached the coal bunkers and
lit was found necessary to close the
ibulkheads. The pumps til ereupon were
unable to work at full pressure and
the flames broke out through the en-
tire forward part of the vessel.
At $40 on Thursday night, another
explosion occurred on the Nolturno
and caused a panic among her de-
spairing passengers and crew. The
Crosser Kurfuerst launched three
boats and rescued twenty-three per-
sons who had been washed into the
sea. One of the rescuing life boats
was out for six hours and was nearly
lost.
Most of those remaining on board
the Volturno crowded together at the
after deck of the vessel and were TAX
en- off safely after daybreak on Friday.
Rescued Nearing Port.
London. Oct. 13-None Of the
steamers which brought aid to the
volturno when she was burning in
mid-Atlantic, had arrived at its desti-
nation this morning, hut wireless re-
port from the Cunard liner Carmania,
which was the first to reach the scene
of the disaster, told that she had pas
sed Broadhead at 2:46 and expected
to reach Fishguard at half past one
this afternoon.
All the other eastbound vessels
which played parts in the rescue OF
the Volturno's passengers are expec-
ted to reach port with survivors of
the wreck today or tomorrow. The
is due at Gravesend in
the Thames at 1:30 tomorrow after /
noon, the Devonian at Liverpool, and !
the Charatrotterdram tomorrow even ;
ing, while the La Touraine may ar
rive at Havre this evening.
The Uranium line has made arrange I
ments to send those survivors who de-
sire to proceed to their destinations in
America on board other vessels as
soon as possible
Havre. Oct 13-A wireless dispatch
from the La Touraine, which is eX.
pected to reach here at 8 o'clock to-
morrow morning, was received today
by the French transatlantic line say
ing that ten children, several without
parents, two women and three of the
crew are among the forty-two surviv.
ors of the Volturno on board.
Those saved by the La Touraine i'll
cluded 16 Austrians, twelve Russians,
seven Germans, two Italians, two
Dutch, one Bulgarian, one Roumanian
and one unknown nationality.
LOST TUG REPORTED