The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-03
VOlturnO Survivor
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Stephen Kamp1in Recalls Vividly the Terrors of the Great Tragedy of Mid ocean.

T was prepared to die, and had giv- en up all hope of rescue, though had healthy heart and wanted to
 ive,'' today said Stephen Kamplin, a survivor of the iIl-fated "VoIturno" who after more than months time spent travelling back and forth upon the sea, has finally reached Bridge port and his wife and expects to make his home in this city.
 Surgeons do not yet say whether he will recover or may yet succunb to a threatened attack of pneumonia which they believe may have had it's inception in the chill of the water from which he was picked by willing hands in life boat of the s. s. Car of Russia, bound from New, York to Rotterdam, and which came to the rescue in response to wireless calls for assistance.
 He is confined at his new home, BOA Pine street, having this morning been the subject of a careful examination under the direction of Supt. Fred Johnson to whom the case was refer red by Investigator Alexander Nor rissey of the department of charities. l Several officials took up the case at the instance of the Red Cross socie- ty.
 When seen by a reporter for the Farmer the victim said:
 ! T left my home in Dobrowah, Hun gary on the 27th of September, com ing to Rotterdam to take ship for America I was placed on board the from my own country. There were 112 of US in the steerage. We were getting up about 2 o'clock on the 9th
 of October, having sailed on the End.
 We smelled smoke and soon the word passed about that the ship was on l inclined Income panic-stricken but there was a Hun garian officer upon the ship and he told us there was no danger as other l ships were on their way to our res night were awful as we were crowded I to the stern of the ship and steadily l saw the flames sweeping towards us
 both upon the deck and below.
 Towards the last the ship had l frightened materially and although the l storm had subsided we rolled about | terribly. Finally as the other ships
 managed to get boats to US, one by one we were pulled by ropes far over
 the side of the vessel and dropped into 1 the sea where we were picked up by 1 the various boats. was taken with
 about fifty others to the Car of Rus | sia where we were given comfortable quarters and after some delay taken 1 back to Rotterdam. It was foul | o'clock in the morning when l was taken up the side of the tCzar in 3 | boatswain's chair None of our pas
 sengers in the life boat was injured 1 though many of those who sought the l first boats were dashed to pieces and 1 we did not see them again. tI had no relatives on the ship and | though I was prepared to die and felt l that big and strong as I am there was
 no chance, I walked about watching l the terror of others and speculating l as to whether the ship would sink or
 whether the fire would finally drive | us over the side to practically self-de-
 struction. We were all relieved. when | the first ship hove in sight although when we saw the 1ife-boats dashed tC l pieces we again lost hope. Finally the
 method was devised of throwing the l human cargo into the sea by means ot 1 the derricks and lifelines tied to ou1 l bodies and extended to the waiting 1 hfe-boats.
 T am glad to rejoin my wife here
 and I shall get work as soon as I re- l cover from what the doctors fear may
 be pneumonia, and try to become g l good citizen here. I am most thank
 full for my preservation after the awful | experience of which I do not want
 another.
 | T arrived on the Steamer Cam
 paneIIo, in New York on Wednesday reaching Bridgeport on Thursday The survivor was the subject o1
 much detailed search by the Depart
 ment of Charities, resulting from 2 1 letter received by Superintendent Fred
 R. Johnson from the National Rec | Cross society. His name was among | those sailing from Hamburg fol
 Bridgeport and there was doubt ex,
 pressed as to whether he was among l those lost.