Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-07
MINES BLOW Up
BRITISH CRUISER
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the consequences to themselves, in
| view of the possibility that there
were other mines in the neighborhood,
| pushed through the wreckage and
picked up sailors and passengers who
| were clinging to sticks and RATS.
These were people who, in the first
| panic, had jumped overheard or had
been blown into the sea. Others were
gathered from the decks of the fast
sinking ship.
The Runo, when she struck the
mine, Immediately tilted at an angle
which made 1t difficult to launch the
| lifeboats. Only two were launched.
survivors said, and these, after reach.
| ing the water, were both overturned
by the frightened people trying to get
into them.
The Runo, after settling by the
head somewhat, remained in that po-
sition for nearly two hours, her bulk
heads holding her af1oat until b
o'clock, when the bulkheads suddenly
gave way, elevating her stern high
in the air for moment, after which
she slipped quietly into the depths.
Many of the survivors, injured by
flying debris, were taken in ambu-
lances on arrival here. 1t is believed
all will recover.
Inc WOrK OIL LIlt II dWlCl 10 QSSidi GU
by the Runo's crew to have been one
of the finest episodes of it's kind in
the history of the sea. The trawler
Silanion was the first on the scene.
The Runo's people were forward, and
the Shannon had difficulty in getting
near, on account of the peculiar up
ward tilt given the ship
As the passengers generally under
stood little English, the orders to
| them were not understood, and this
accounts partially for the panic and
| for the failure to get off more life
| boats. One of the stewards who
| landed here said he rushed into the
storage section after the explosion
and saw that it was wrecked and
splintered He noticed that some Of
the passengers were badly wounded:
After the efforts to launch the
Runos lifeboats had failed. the crew
of the Silanion threw out all their
| lifelines, picking up women and chill
dren first, as far as possible. The
| Strethon arrived on the scene imme-
| diately afterward and saved thirty
| two persons who were clinging tc
wreckage in the sea. The mate of the
Strethon fastened rope around his
waist and was lowered alongside the
ship to the water level, where he was
able to pick up many Of the injured.
When the Prince Victor came VI
her crew went overheard, some il
boats and some swimming. Tue chiei
engineer dived overheard and saved
a woman and child. One of the res.
cued women gave birth to a child a
few minutes after being saved.
Most of the passengers suffered
somewhat from shock and exposure
| but restoratives and warm food were
given them under direction of the
Runos surgeon on the trawlers.
Before reaching here most of the
victims were transferred to the pass.
enger steamer Solway, which brought
them into the royal yacht basin here
where they were met by Major Tate
the town clerk, and the Wilson lines
local manager, who constituted them
selves a committee to look after the
welfare of those injured, the sick ano
| the destitute. Later 1t was decided
to send all the refugees to Hull or
the Solway. u
The scene on the Solway as she
locked was distressing. Wives who
| had lost husbands or mothers who
had lost their children sobbed with
out restraint. Most of the Russians
were still in a panic, and when they
learned that the boat was about tt
take them up the river to Hull many
protested. f1ercely refusing to leave
solid land again.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.-Consu
John A. Ray, at Odessa Russia re.
ported seriously injured in the wrecl
turned to Hull, England. and notified
| Tho Stota 5ara ri m ant that his II, i,,~;.