The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
Rescue Ships Reach Shore and
Details of the Horrible
Night Are Being
Told.
CAPTAIN USED REVOLVER
orove ts Men Back TO the Engine
Rooms and Cut Away
All OF the Life
soate.

United Press Leased Wire Servtce.1
LONDON, Oct Is.-Captain Barrs
full story of the yolturno disaster and
his almost complete list OF survivors
viii be given TO the world when the
Carmania arrives al FSshguard today
A heavy gale early today made It i'm
possible for the Carmania to put In ST
Queenstown as she was expected TO do
and Captain Barr wtrelessed that he
would proceed on TO Fishgusrd The
Carmania passed Eastnet Light at
s:4S q. m.
The Minneapolis with thirty-ons sur
vivors is expected to arrive at I'll,
bury dock, London tomorrow afternoon
and the Devonian will reach Liverpool
with sixty about the same time. The
kroonland and the Grosser Kuerst,
with 90 and los respectively are ex.
pected st New York tomorrow, Accord,
ing to the latest details ohtaina0le the
four life boats that were smashed
against the sides OF the yolturno vera
crowded with members OF the crew
and with men passengers. Few. II
any women were In them
When the four boats were lost with
all in them Captain Inch cut away all
the other litebosts from their davits
TO prevent further needless loss OF
life.
The full horror OF the day and night
aboard the burning ship is being grad,
uaily told. Fire broke out at s q. m
/ Thursday and Immediately Captain
/ Inch ordered q general alarm. All
steerage passengers were ordered on
deck and supplied with life belts
They did not know how to use them
and much time was lost in getting
them on. Captain Inch personally ex
planned to the hewildered emigrants
that he did not anticipate any grave
/ danger but thought 1t best TO have
them prepared for any emergency.
After the fire had burned for more
/ than two hours, It got beyond control
and Captain Inch ordered Wireless
/ Operator Pennington to send out the
IS. o. s" The fremen rushed up from
| the engine rooms and refused to work
| longer at the furnaces, but Captain
back Then came the first rescue ship
the Carmania. Just In time to see the
life boats so down. The two that got
away safely were searched for in all
directions. but not found.
The after deck of the Volturno got
so hot from the flames that 1t burned
the soles of the passengers shoes. The
partial calm that finally came early
Friday, enabling the other ships to
send boats to take OFF survivors. was
not altogether natural cessation OF
the battle OF elements. 1t was pro.
duced by the Narragansett. an oil tank
steamer, which was the last of the
vessels to arrive. The Narragansett
/ played two streams OF oil on the trou.
bled waters for hours, until 1t was pos.
stble for small boats to get to the
burning liner, Latest reports added the
New York, an oil tank. to the list OF
rescue ships. making eleven In all
/ Captain Inch estimates the lost at 144
while all others place the death estt
mates at 1876.
4 A wireless message from the Car
mania today on Fishguard, said that
the rescue of Walter Trintepohl of the
Na!tnrons passengers was one of the
most thrilling feats at sea. Trintepohl.
the soles OF his boots burned through
on the hot deck of the burning ship.
jumped into the ocean, the search
/ light of the Carmania showed him