The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-16
los SURV|v
OF VULTURNO
IN NEW YORK
Brought into Port BY One OF
the Rescue Ships
CHEMICALS CAUSED FIRE
officers Of Burning Steamship Prov
ed Themselves to Be Men
of Courage.
CHEMICALS CAUSED FIRE

New York, Oct l6.-New York
took in and sheltered yesterday the
first survivors of the steamship Vol
turno to arrive in this country, 105
in number, brought into port by the
Grosser Kurfuerst the North German
Lloyd liner that sent the first rescue
boat careening across the heavy
seas to remove passengers and crew
from the burning ship. The wireless
had brought ashore graphic accounts
OF last weeks sea tragedy, and to-
day from the lips of some OF the
Volturnos saved there came descrip-
tons which accentuated the heroic
conduct of the Volturno's captain,
officers and some of the crew, and
of men who manned the lifeboats
that put forth from other ships. The
explosion of drum containing chem
icals was the cause of the fire, ac-
cording to the story told by Waldron
Disselman, third officer of the Vol
luIHO. MOI6 IMAM on p"SSShbNio
we're burned to death, he reported,
cut off by the flames in the No. !
compartment
Ranking well up with the bravery
displayed by Capt. Inch of the Vol
turno were the feats of daring of
several of his officers, among them
Second officer Lloyd. While 10
ocean liners Unanswered about the
Volturno after darkness had settled
on Thursday, Capt. Inch wirelessed:
I'VE cant last long, Our boats are
gone. Send boats" No rescue
boats came. Then Second Officer
Lloyd measured up to the mark.
Taking four men with him he enter
ed damaged lifeboat, the Voltur-
nos last, and showed that the seas
could be lived upon. Second Officer
Won Carlsberg OF the Grosser Kur-
furest told the story of how Lloyd
and his crew set the example for the
other ships. Soon a light-Lloyds
pocket lamp-was seen dancing up
and down on top of the waves,
said Won Carlsberg land in a short
time the Volturno's boat reached u.s.
Second officer Lloyd and his crew
were in the boat and no sooner had
they boarded the Kurfurst than their
boat sank, being nearly full OF
water"
Won Carlsbefg commanded the
first lifeboat that put out toward the
Volturno as a result of Lloyd's ven
ture. Besides the Grosser Kurfuerst
other of the liners that had come to
the Volturnos assistance lowered
lifeboats and assisted in the danger
Gus work of rescue. The Carmania,
which had relayed the Volturnos
wireless calls for help to the other
steamships, did not despatch any life
boats according to Second Officer
Lloyd of the Nolturno. when we
got alongside the Volturno," said
Won Carlsberg, 81 shouted to the Of
fiers to tell the people to jump into
the sea and thy would be rescued
This advice was taken and we pick
ed up man after man. When we
got back to our ship found we had
rescued , men. The following morn
ing | made two trips and rescued
more. While we were at the Vol
turnos side could not see single
woman. They all appeared to be
men,"
Second officer Lloyd risked his
life in other ways than by his trip
to the Kurfuerst. When the fore
mast threatened to topple it was
Lloyd who climbed to the wireless
plant and mended it so that COM
munication could be maintained with
the other ships. Descending, Lloyd
fell 20 feet. wounding his forehead.
This was before he took his crew of
four and entered the Volturno's last
boat. Third Engineer Alfred Pinsch
was another hero, refusing TO desert
the famethreatened engine-room I'M
til he got orders from Capt Inch to
do so.
Mayor Kline's committee. the Red
Cross relief workers and representa-
tives of various charitable organiza-
lions. met the Grosser Kurfuerst at
her Hoboken pier and the survivors
we're brought to New York. Efforts
will be made to reunite families who
are alive. The immigration rules
we're suspended. although many Of
the rescued are papuers.
At shelter homes where they had
been fed and clothed the survivors
last night declared almost in one
voice that many OF the Volturno's
crew we're guilty Of cowardice. They