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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 611, 15 October 1913, Page 5

1 fl '"* ' v 4few,^' 1 Mi being rr.odi>r;)l(TWJ M C ni ma rescued one passen t 1 t lournine 40, tho Mi:i w i 1 0 tho Rappahannock .111. h i 11_ the Narragansett 2!» m J \ inn r i'\ the Kroonland 90, In Gin i Kurtuist 105, and the lin ( It i 3 feared thßt the remainder have perished. DETAILS OF RESCUE WORK. BOATS RUSHED BY CREW. Received Tuesday, 10.50 p.m. London, Tuesday. It i 8 bilieved 78 of the crew out of 993 perished, while moat of the officers were saved. This lends colour to the stitement that the crew rushed the boats. It may also account for the failure of tho Volturno to make some attempt to second the Carmania'3 attempt to get a line aboard. The oilship, Narrgansett's timely arrival, was an important factor in the rescue. The oil calmed the waters and enabled the boats to reach the Volturno. The passengers were reduced to a state of collapse after n nipht'of hor ror when they Haw the heroic efforts of the boats from the Minneapolis and other steamers fail, Mr Smith, a Cambridge University graduate, a passenger on the Carmania, in an interview, said the first sign of anything wrong was the sudden increase of speed during breakfast on Thursday morning. The Carmnnia rushed through the water with spray Mying high over the decks. After four hours' steaming they saw the smoke from the doomed steamer. People were huddled on the decks dumbly appealing for aid. They lauehed a boat quickly, but owing to the high seas, could do nothing. Chief Officer Gardner's heroism was magnificent when the attempt of his boat to reach the Volturno was abandoned. He first volunteered to save a drowning man drifting nearAdackhan], however, jumped over. bond and rescued the man. The appearance of the Volturno at night was ike a picture of Dante's Inferno. The flames enveloping the fore part up to the funnels, lit up the terror stricken faces of men and women on tho Carmania. Women wept and men were struck dumb at the inability to help. When the detonators and rackets in the Voltumo'B chart room exploded those aboard thought the en 1 had come and terror druve them almost mad. A boat sent out by the Minneapolis was out five hours. She had her rudder broken and was at the mercy of the sea. The Carmania going to her assistance lost her position in the plan of rescue operations, now being *ur(hefcO'ro'.u the Volturno. Oiptain Barr signalled that as the ,> ilin;! ni:i was difficult to manoeuvre lie v. ould stand aside if handier eenld do the work. ;\"ir Lloyd, with second officer of tho VoHunici. with four men, launched a lur.it and made a gallant effort to carry ;! line to tho Grosser Kurfurst. The heat was dashed to pieces aganst 'the steamer's side, but all were rescued.