VESTRIS ENQUIRY
further evidence
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 24
The Chief Engineer, John Adams, told the Vestris Inspection Inquiry that the firemen left their posts at 10.39 in the morning, the officers being compelled to replace for the remaining half hour before further work became impossible. Meantime, before Tuttle’s inquiry, an affidavit, of an English first-class passenger. E. \Y. Walcott, was road, statin*' intense excitement and tear prevailed among the passengers tor over two hours before the S.O.S. "* IS st ,„|. Passengers appeared on Hm decks wilh life belts, while the stewards assured them there was no danger. Walcott also declared that the captain’s voice was so hoarse that he could not understand what, the a Q was saving and on the last oraer it broke altogether. Walcott corroborated the testimony ol other witnesses that the captain went down still "caring a heavy overcoat, hut "dum a lifebelt. ____
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1928, Page 5
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157VESTRIS ENQUIRY Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1928, Page 5
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