The Washington times., 1934-09-10
SCR|BES FIND
. GRIM STORIES
IN MORGUES
BY International News Service
NEW YORK Sept. IL

BY IOEGEn8GlOnHA NOWB SSrVIC8
NEW YORK, Sept. 10
"FIuman interest stuff" sought by
newspaper men from coast to
coast was abundant in and
about New York today as the
metropolis slowly but surely re-
covered from the first shock #
the Moro Castle disaster.
Heroism Recounted
For example there was the tale
Of the rare heroism and christian
compassion displayed by q Catho.
lie priest at the height Of the
holocaust, told by Miss Helen
Brodie, %, Of Hartford, Conn.,,
as she lay on a cot in the Fitkin
Memorial Hospital in Asbury
Park, N. J.
Miss Brodie could identify the
clergyman only as Father Egan
of Fordham University" She
said:
'When the fire started, about
100 of us were sent to the stern
of the boat. Father Egan came
to US, and, standing on q com.
panionway, he calmly led US in
prayer. Then he gave us q gen.
eral abSOIution and . great
peace seemed to settle over US.
It seemed as he stood there that
the fire was eating into his back.
A few minutes later we all went
overheard"
One Of the most dramatic Of all
the stories came from the lips OF
Marjorie Budlong, 1S-year-old stu
dent Of Greenbriar College IN Wiz
ginia, the daughter Of Schuyler
Budlong, of the Central Vacuum
Products, Inc. She said:
"My friend, Doris Wacker,
and / were up until 3 o'clock
visiting in the staterOom Of a
Shipboard friend, Miss ROSita
Carmito.
"As we left for our own state
room we saw the flames in the
paSSageWay. Doris rushed to
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Her.
bert Wacker, and awakened
them, They came back, buckling
on lifebeIts and bringing one for
me-
CONFUSION REIGNS
1--WE all went up on &C"
deck. Everything was cOnfu'
sion there. People were running
about left and right. We could
MT see to get into q life boat.
The flames kept advancing TO-
ward us. A little knot Of peO-
pie clustered around us. Then
/ heard o steward say:
owed better jump. Wen
hold hands and stay together
1--WE started to 80 over to-
gether, but my foot slipped on
the rail and I fell alone.
came up dazed but unhurt and
started to swim. The water
seemed filled with bodies. They
were always humping into me.
"After a while / found
young man swimming beside
me. He didn't have any life
preserver on and he grapSed
out that he was tiring. told
him to hold on to mine. He
did it. It dragged me down a
little, but I could still keep my
head above water.
81 guess it was about two,
hours that he chung to me.
"He kept saying, i can't hold
on much longer
Il kept telling him to hold
on; that we'd surely be picked
up soon.
"Lifeboats were passing all
around us. shouted to those
which passed by. Most Of them
kept right on gOing-I guess
they couldn't hear.
"It was O'Clock when we
went over the side. 1t was
about six, I guess-dawn was
just breaking, when the young
man said, I'm going. Please
send my love to my mother,
won't you?
81 said, what is your name?
But he didn't seem to hear me.
A few minutes later his hand
slipped off and he went down.
"About $3.50 q lifeboat
stopped and picked me up"
HUSBAND DROWNED
Doris Wacker and her mother
were rescued after many hours
In the water, but Herbert Wacker
was drowned.
Up in the Bronx, Robert Loft
mark, subway motorman, sat
with tear-dimmed eyes in his third
floor apartment and fingered a
woman's wrist watch. He said:
''It was hers. See, It stopped
at 4:3O. They took it off her
wrist"
Mr.. Loftmark and his wife, Dor
othy, had been married for II
years and she had never taken a
real vacation. A motorman'S sal
ary doesn't permit Of long trips,
but finally Mr.. Loftmark con.
vinced her he had enough for her
to take rest-a cruise to Havana.