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Show hm 3 -- A THE Scores Die As Fire Wrecks Luxury Ship DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY DAYATTRACTS PEAGH V SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8 1934 Passengers in Panic Refuse Take To Boats Says Crew; Steward Criticizes Rescue TEXTILE MILLS PLAN TO DEFY 10,000 J-T- o LABOR UNIONS (Cob tin tied From fate Om) came Ihe dawn, pitifully thin tlreara of .survivors m life grey boats and two who (warn safely ashore. EigWy-fiv- e survivors landed at AiburyPtrk. An additional 65 were brought in at Sea Girt and Spring Lake. Others were a here fid there but whether they were duplications was reported a matter of conjecture. sAn airplane, circling the charred hulk of the Morro Castle, reported two more boats beaded inshore. The plane, manned by a national guard observer, also reported sighting bodies in the sea. But little time could be given early m the day to bringing in the dead- - All thought was for the and exhausted lot. survivors, a terror-strickThose who came ashore related tales of horror." Members f the crew, until curtly checked by officers, told of lutile attempts by members of the deck watch to fight the flames which turned the vessel into sn inferno. A heroic fight through the waves was waged successfully by -- Mr. .and Mrs.' Abraham Coen nf 'Hartford. Conn., who Swam ashore and reached (he beach exhausted. They had one life preserver between them a. s j. sept. setttsG spring LAKE. K. J Sept, t or moe i INS) The flat charge that eome two hundred xveupcuuipoci. For Moni t(.P) Thelake, of the steamship Morropaengeri aboardth day; F resh Violence passengers who met death aboard the tie had no alternative but to burn Predicted flaming ehip eight miles at aea or Jump" was voiced today by of their ome tle, Jer-car- ly today, died because refusal to enter the lifeboats, mem- bersef the crew of the veeeel said today. e members of the crew Twenty-fi- t Interviewed separately told prse- tically the same storv a tale of htAror, of men It and women frenzied by the rag- and thick pall of smoke flames ing resisting aU attempts of the sailors to get them tnto the lifeboats and to safety. . ti The seamen insisted that could have U rally all passengers, . n had followed Morns. 1(02 flat Street, Brooklyn, a steward aboard ho thip ' Flames swept the B proraea- ade derit.' Jtea a,d. Be that time the ere and enter, had been called , I fought my way to the A deck (the boat deck) but it was too late t to the lifeboats, 'They kept us standing on the Crew members, before their talk was stopped, stated that fire hosea were brought forth only to find there was no water pressure.' Flames, gaming quick headway hi the rich furnishings of the library, spread so rapidly that the superstructure and upper cabins of the liner were sheets of flame before Sleeping passengers could be awakened and brought to the deck. The deck watch was powerless to break through the walls of fire and managed only to dash around the deck cabins and break (Oontlnued From Fag One) man or the strike committee, for hours yerterday. and later conferred with George A. Sloan.) president of the cottoirtextUe Institute. representing the employers. After the meeting with Sloan, loser d'--. k Governor John G Winant, of New "The fire started eating its way Hampshire, chairman pf the board. that (leak. said no proposal for bringing the Tile passengers were huddled opposing sides together pad been in a group made, addins that they discussions It was either burn or jump, thus far ha been entirely explora-J'or- o k .na,ty a it I turtle Described girl took tory. Sloan said ho described to. a seaman from the plimr She jump'd the board conditions in the industry. Albanyf N dr,nat-u!!(o, lowed other dcnobefore and after the textile code So did I went into effect. while Gorman; inbound from Havana as tu'e Morris a pi. ked u by a Ilfs boat and brought to sho-- e hero. out in the broke hi ear!) morning , , nrt m, d d voiced censure also or rescue (He northeaster stiff with blowing a ot fne stria era by new royaiea mere. . The crew had succeeded in Three-line- rs were not far away on deck. Kel-- , ail passenger -inanr said, despite the inferno wn!ebwMte the Tire was In progress, but would hu: a number of technical tower didnt they their boats d the for superstructure through men within the industry over the m the library in tho'a long time ' and would confer wnth th-- v , d.d he "Unally . , T .... Sloan and Gorman. again on Men- . J . Of 85 persons to come ashore at Asbury Park. 80 were officers and members of the crew. One boat contained only four seamen no passengers. Marion en No paas-eever- al to prac-Tiow- . h- -y "J Water Pressure 1 gt-effo- i0'iW - eiS x nosirili of the men and nomeri, .'who had been, aroused from their; in! ? bJd! liner brings on deck n,umber, and ifdered and baau' donn'd. tm ''",h,nK He the pressed "by . Iterated however, that the union-- KThe rrtw urged ,hfm to eroa,i cooperation with the board did not the decks and enter the boats. i mean the end ot the strike. and cinders fell shout! Because of the normal Saturday Sparks them The wait of smoke grew! closing of many mills, little picketrtsVMonarch of Bermuda in ing activity was expected today coming frenzied? The number of workers Idle be? ,hh0rt "I!! Port With First of cans, of th. walkout, estimated at ra'1 aDd e,y in ih 370,000, was unchanged With approximately a cor to go throufh mill, reopened In thteoutti under! ..Th,v ,,fuMd ia mtn Ketwy mate protection, additional reopen-..- . with them tried, sere looked for on Monda . . ?. Contmued Trom Page One) The assertion of Peter Van Horn would go. hy.?. even tried to Many lip ..j..4iAW president of the us and get ba k down the lad- - to fhe ship a toy room and asked pat G of textiles, and Arthur him what plaything he wanted, to the lower deks. head of the National Association. ders iHe chose a ship model, Forced to Leave of Wool Manufacture, that most; Six of the lifeboats were burned we w,re forr,j to Uke cIoe1 mills would reopen .jelnan the boaU without them as the before we had a chance to loose If the employers w ere assured of them." said Albert ftorel, a scamaa were cinders and aparkjf burning protection was taken to Indicate of Fall Rtver, Maas. that manv operatora would resume) th(Ke! n Two More 77i man of Additional companies conflnurd a ,ivid rerjtaI of the mad , That left six We got four of operation national guardsmen were or-them loose Two became tangled on the burning ship dered out In Vorth and Fouth faro-- activitjes He was asleep In the crew sViar !m the rope, and we couldn't low lina and police protection wan be- - ters (n er them " of the ship forward part n This picture of fhe disaster was ing strengthened In other he heard the alarm. ter. I jumped up and got Into my Stven bv Richard Parker a Newr Miss Perkin Speaks clothes Kelsey said 'and ran Up t ork broker, one of the Monarch n proc!a-oGovernor Bla'kwomls deca The wind was blowing pasaengers-matio1 was awakened by a steward commanding all persons hard., a lot of fellows in the crew engaged in or taking part In an,came afer should say there who said he could see flamec in the j unlawful obstruction, combination) I dressed raced to the top a ,n ut a dozen of us. Me or assemblage was Interpreted b bed the fire hoses and beganjshaii-,deo- k and there I saw the Morro labor leaders bere as aimed at the on fire from stem to stern, water on the fire which wasA'amie. ft hen the Monarch drew closer, "flying squadrons of plcke s that ra,.ln through the nikl-lu- p sc.rion in active Carolina been South have could see that the lifeboat had smashed windows to get otxr burned away, and that men streams an5.ls," People were,b,n Official note of the killing of sx shouting through women Fere Jumping Into the and Tou could hear them . was men at Honea Path. 8 open sea. taken by Secretary Perkins m plac A group of men had tied their coats together, and were lowering ing responsibility for the fatalities . on tbo action of local authorities in we saw we couldn't do much about children over the side of the sh'p arming as guards workers who had the fire and we didn't want to stand i?to Hfeboat. I could dist nctly ignored the strike order tb scream of people who there and roast, for just about tlttiear "This Is a very dangerous . time the water suddenly gave out. I apparently were being burned. shO told reporters. Such think the Captain Gives Wore must have stopped an arrangement is not the way to There we pumps were bolding useless hose' chP- - Albert R. Francis, master handle such a situation th Monarch, told how hja ship in our handa Green said he believed those re- . .. . Girls .Mum . Yen Vteamed iritinn. -i- OO yrd .(-sponsible for arming the non-- rlk "Someone ye'led about getting to hip Is Gov. be Box maid the to artful gold Crater the Above, a scene at the peach queen; ing workers sere guilty of mur- .the boats and we ad made a move... lifeboats with men. in float of the ball lake and Ogder and added. Hder AommercUI Club and . Henry H. Blood; Marge las said, and also a tot pf The passengers had ringed hewt fihere den Chambers of Commerce, son of ball lake, Brigham 'So far as I and the American Chamber of Commerce in and HV n we to get them1,men n h Pop deck They were ora Peach day qneen; Federation of Labor gre concerned 'off tbe hip YAell.had symbol&zitig their united cam City's the side on rom snd anKnK Brigham City, during the wo told them Iter second maid, Miss Dixie ratal for ft greater mb. This w wjjl do everythin- - w can iprettiy pamiv they would have for distinguished visitors eU!S W atoatadee." toi ' emiof one and a the aa (scoweroft of blame PcdPh the and the Ogdeft. The the guilplace outstanding day bring gala following captain said his crew get through that smoke and prob- floats in the parade. gres man Abe Murdock. Bade ty parties to justice they must parade. In the group are: get amged by the flames he- - rJgarded the lifeboats with men is have known that those armed fore they row, left. Mayor 2. Wesley Below, a tiew of the thouFront row, left to right, K. L because we figured they reached the boats But workers would shoot to kill " sands of Tbitors paying tribute Holst. Peach day manager and Horsley of Brigham City; (tn-p-t, we all had to take the same chance c2t1. take care f themselves, to the world famous Hox Jdr Organisers Furnished There were some men o n ;t h e we told the men and women. They Major Harman W. Peery president of the Chamber Mid Instructions were sent by Green b of Ogden, and right. Mayor Commercial dub; Mis Lei one peach In the carnival section not eome -- off i1? t seem toTmderstand. -to all Internationa! unions of the ,didn Louis Marcus of Salt Lake. of the celebration. Bott of Brigham City, first e them repeated- rlrls'fbu5il wer. p kn. lhwe thr.e j L. to assign their orgaoiz-- ) wllo had lh. nerv, to folow u,"anJ he said, "They seemed to think - era to assist in every were tern porarile safe as war possible they got ashore all right .they they WOMANS IMS .. ere clear of th fire he strike comm.ttee o' tie Ur'tedl -- We made a breal( for i-Victors Acclaim Celebration Biggest Best in 31 Textile Workers, headed by "Amo"' ,htw was Ihe n. We knew It was that or get ASHORE FROM nsandinc offlcw bunifd Years History; Parades, Concerts, Games addition Share Oothe, representative, o' "We got to the boats And then I BURNING SHIP theIn federations 143 vou know e had to for bairCas Tou u 'r u'ained around Feature Entertainment unions were summoned to meet ,ouidn t stand there work fastabout Id pick ,f 1 1 et,rS talking here next week to dwcuse w bd 13 any. p Then ASBURT PARK N J Sept wav.t Those boaU are made to be means by which the textile lowered In cases aboard, some of Then'came the Bear Ruer band BRIGHAM (TTY, Sept. S. - IS) Parted from her and second, and we did strike can be carried to successful uork fast witl) dire need, we decided to them iBox Elder Countv Fair and Rodeo ,he m)Bd bIowin W inners In the Peach day husband when they both leapOD York the flames at our backs and the air- ; float and the Garland and Qgden ed into the ea from the blar-in- jf Green declined to discus, what fu of blf cUnkers ,B Monarch h- -parade yesterday and today and showers of City floats The business section Morro P ana might he made to rive finan hner Castie Mr. Rothes thlr with the survtvom. cinders. I ran still feel that heat were announced this after, was headed by the Bojle Furniture cia! Atonce to the striking unto Howard Pamno 3 of Banin the back of my neck and sroeUt?!?f 0f w!,ora wr company of Ogden, followed by the noon as follows; but said all phases be dis the gor Pa , Bwuni for mile and chilled by exposure?" Bar-otl Olsen i known. Wonder smoke Bicycle, dirty Bread, Box Elder waves asSweepstakes, cussed, through today including lowing "And ad the time It s as getting Woolen Mills and two young As the Monarch of Bermuda proceeded up the bay toward her and reached, shore In aa'ety worse and worse. There was high school. Community sec. heav weights foretelling the highpier m Manhattan at the West Fifties, the New York police deon the beach her I pon the outcome o conference lifeguard in the bouts tion at the saw Mr. Pamno bravely strugOgden, first; Garland, stopping the fire, boxing lights partment went into action with amhulancesi and moiinted details today depended th. status of thou- W e got the boats Bluebird arena South Cache band second. away and se Business 'sectiojl wme to clear the streets to hospitals Emergency crews and ambulances Lfe her for S(0 gling came next, succeeded bv the folfeet out to ea The donned industries allied with the textile ,hink In a few mlnutiuickiy. f0r i waited to meet the Andrea F. Lockenbach in Brooklyn, while company, ' lowing floats Business Profession Boyle Furniture the h life prtaenera and then swam rade Most important of these areWOUId the entire Manhattan mid-tosquad was assigned to emergency first; Brigham Athletic clnb, al Womens Club float. Salt Lake out be, burned 'and to ad her to the beach the silk and ravon der and thei would haT, reserve duty. ail have , been City and Ogden Chamber ot Comsecond. iot Mrs la an expert hoenr workers mho are not opmerce, Veterans of Foreign Ware swimmerPanino First Dead Found Club section. Civic ImproveThe moment the erating under union contracts. National Home. Thirty-firas aboard sounded the 'a alarm Vtolrncr Pauses Box FJder ment float, first; The President Cleveland, which answered the Morro Castle's Peach Day, Deseret News d doomed hher she and her Gorman arranged to confer with Texaco. Super Shell Utah Power SOS. earned no survivors when she reached Quarantine. Chamber of Conunercr, second. on life preservers and representative of the Iyer? Union put rasbengers About; ahd Light. Sperry Mills, Box Elder The first actual dead to eome to the beach was a man. who Industry, Texaco, first; Ctah o' Paterson. X J, while a meeting jumped from the rail. Painters. Royal Bread, Associated floated in with another man and a grav haired woman. The man a husband her She of the executive leap council of the CMropractIc association, secJensen Brothers Utah Chiropracand the woman were still alive, but their condition was described moment after she jumped, but American Federation of Ho5er ond. Schools, Box Elder high tic Association, Utah Poultry, new as grave . neer saw him again Workers was to decide whether the Ford Anderson model, Produce Central school, school, tint; 1 Mrs Pamno was taken to hosiery workers would be ordered miniature Union Pacific freight ROCHESTER. N Y. Bept. f i e second. Fit kin memorial hospital in to loin the walkdut c , T Head train carrying eight caret also two t.eat-e- d About jSd persons were where was she Serious violence was hsent yesNeptune, Marching. Aonians, first; streamline cam. hc continually for shock some of them sey.oualy, terday in contrast to the turbulen tors Declares Central school, second. The school section was led by Ship asked for news of her husband. scenes of Thursday when ven when a ferry boat chartered for a the Box Elder high school band, were killed In ,tnke dispersons BRIGHAM CITY, FePt I- - TI,cjioHowed moonl.ght excursion on Lake by the Box Elder High order The number of dead a, ttte NfeW YORK, Sept. S was struck by a msteriou. (INS). Charles TP. Rogers, heroic radio Peach" City tendered royal hoa-- ! school float. Box Elder Boosters, MOONEY CORTFGE strike rolled into the final dav of was believed Morro wave cirly today lata tidal the Castle, aboard Club Athletic Girls to have Aonlana. float. today operator to more than 10,000 visit week stood at 14 its PASS first LEAVES TO evea pltality About 5 50 were aboard the ferry. Elder Bee float, B Iverai Box paid with hi life for hJ bravery. strikers two mpathizers and one streets Box Elder High school float. Central raa Ho was known to have stayed at his post until flames were ora who thronged its busy GATES OF PRISON mill guard Immediate Investigation of the n approximately twelve the and room during Linthe school of today radio floor of yesterdav th th He has not float, marching groups. shore when the wav ahip Morro (ami, disaster was begun crackling across . off w !h vunslde -- able fore fruit festival and received freely coln School float and future prodboen reported sine. ,Ira Tbs SAN FRANCISCO. today by Dickerson N Hoover as- Spt sistant director of the bureau of na-- 1 of luscious, peaches and fine mel- uct from the Lincoln school. a8r .were tbrosn aga net of CCC W ORKER .V CAP) The funeral cortege 1X8 1 Twenty-tw- o bodice of ons and cantaloupes at Pioneer SPRING LAKE. N. J- - Sept, Fruit IrtMrlbated Mrs. Mary Mooney left an undervigation at steamboat Inspection ,he boat toiling, chairs tables and Hoover conferred at once with otvLT oh!et? and many were hurt. victims of the Morro Castle disaster "were reported found along thei'"" IDAHO KILLED BY this When I oclock came around the taking establishment hre The rot kin hi New Yrl' and New Jersey eg- of the boat was shore front between Man.hqu.n and Point Pleamnt by police and Brigham fruit feasters had the.r appetites morning for San Qtjen'in toha and asked for all details of bntf hoflfcver and the panic cans n' It other rescue work. returning her. with survivor, of th. sea tg- the BLAST before with There aiil pes delirious fully appeased the tragedy. He eald the Morro M among the paseergera was short peaches, water melons and canta- gates of the prison in which her -You can on of th flhest vessels ,iTd loupes galore at Pioneer park, dis- son, Thomas J Mooney, is sen ing LEWISTON. Id. Sept 0 f AP) !Ca,tle two. bod or a fowithout a dicapta.n immed.ately ordered the 191g prelife aentence finding said coastal Albert Ellington 2 Ketcbum fio1at 10 l American jyeara of it existence and express- - tributed bv BojH Scouts under 10 P Kan 'was' back in ho"- - Th Sliaw T rection and of James day bomomg Roy klltodihen paredness Idaho Inaun'tly' !hf fe7Y were ,ra.'i fed confidence in Us future growth 10 persons 12 full Wick of dynamite be was Francisco in which brought to this cKy Jensen, Tt" Ward ,lre steamship Morrm lniur"d NEW YORK. Sept. J. (INS) A cigarette carelessly dropped, and success. ,n were killed and 40 injured Castle, Hoover said, 1. equipped raiInlr coaches and those moet exploded on a chair cushion In the lounge of the liner Morro Caetie started! Baud concerts were held at 14 Many attended the baseball The cortege will not he per- earning every device known to provide wtIouk!) hurt were taken to in front of the. courthouse also games in the park at 2 pm. yesEtvington Harold Roberts. It (WHb the blaze which destroyed the ship with heavy loss of life. accord-!a.or the the within Petals, mitted the of of gates safety Main snd passengers some survivors who of reached hers aboard the on Third South and and Third terday where ijricham City defeatIda. and E E Hnitols. ing to the opinion Our Inspectors In New Yi rk! Officers of the boat were puzzled North .and Main streets. Charac- ed Honeyvllle at the tune of H to prison, however and the widety(js- - (address not given) all CCC em. cargo. Monarch of Bennudo this afternoon. and Nw Jersey-e- o far have been a the source of th wave There ono of the passengers, said he was cer- - terised aa the most spectacular 1 1. while Tremonton trounced Gar- known convict will not be allowed ,pl0TM warc n( ouf. tCTday John Turbag of Brooklyn, fire. It as to watch no storm and the lake was it obtain first hand the s passes . 1 gwe,frora the Mesdow Creek camp ,'nab!e and brilliant procession ever spon- land bv a score of 1$ to tain this was the cause of the hS Last evening at 7 o clock a bant Warden James b. Holohan sored by the Chamber of Comcounty to blow out mf,tlon but 1 am certain that the'coVhparatively calm when the wave j a if he grantedwuch aid privilege ,tamp, aIonf a road Ma provided by the opra- - suddenly rolled aganst'the boat merce. the parade started prompt-- , concert delighted many at the con. equtpmnet LONDON. Bept . INS) The liner Morro Castle was insured of the Morro Castle would give (m' tossed it violently ltrs crw from Stic to stand In the meantime if Mocm- -f he rouid hardly deny strueted ly at It a m. with P. N. Pierce vetto information here. some to the (.400 and the passengers more side It subsided almost as quickly Pvivllege fgr 3.(ee.04 according wended the eran horseman, leading pro- targe crowds Elvtngton carried the explosive tjjj their, way tv'J.?1ar ot '?r Prisoners. In addition, a special loss In suranc was carried. It wa r- - as it came. ln break ,'ren ' the show " at Dunn (he the flower followed cession. wired in and buld by Ogden with equipped raps, Lloyds, which handled the Insurance, stands to to, gbont Terminal band and the Brigham ing hi left arm. He also carried a North Main and tbe school nivkiftniM 11,004.00? by the tragedy. Fire department. Next came tha exhibit id the basement of the Fistr. cry. Apparently the wire attach-- ' TMO a II I i u K,OTS ufidi-tMr and Mrs. W. B. Granger, ed to the dvnamite and the hat-- ) elaborate and artistically decorated National Bank end ti. CINCINNATI Sept. I. AP) -Mor-ra l.mcoln street, announce the tery wires contacted as he walked, Pearh float bearing ''Hies Utah numerous inierestihg rtcc MADRID. (API Seventy survivors of the Sept Riitam E ItJtton. 89. founder of BRIELLE, N. J Sept to girt today at tbs Holy fore of the blast noman and a po(icman v rr the Ctnc nnatt and New York tfi- - disaster wero landed her this afternoon by the fishing boat Peach w Miss Marge Lawson of, on Mnn d Forrc ibrth of the-v- .l -t the Bl.- C otwo maids dense thr salt Lake City, and hospital. Mrs. Granger was Hoifols suffered sevpre Inlurie Hied, a I. borer crlticii. - oun t ' Paramount. J A smaller boat brought in bodies of ton persons. None,!of bearing his cam ji hoofise pneumonia. 'os-- o m ntso ct the honor. Mie Dixie Sroircroft of, bird arc- -' ore of polc ami stri- - d.r1 fodav rly Mira Ida Riter. It Is their in th$ and He fo and Robert cd and ed either group was immediately Identified. load were women nod two offeden and Mica UVuifc Bott oft imviMon i wrll aa tbe local I bra mcond ehUd. the first being a $irt,ileft d m wa a Paramount nio;p-ethe ratrtU of tbe ccnra from half of badsem oerarnl ured by than More injure jlrom therv , . too. bonera i . riots today. Br.gham City. and caused the explocioiip the T were children. Operators of the line reported that Acting Captain Warms and two of his bndge officers had stayed with the ship, together with some of the members of the crew. ' Although Asbury Park is the nearest city, the closest inlet at which-coa- st guard craft could land survivors is Shark River, three miles south. larger vessels brought their crew of survivors directly into New York habor. Scotland Lightship, by which the Morro Castle fixed its position in the SOS, is famous as New York harbor's welcome to ships from the soutti. It is three miles off Sandy Hook The disaster presented a picture of horror to those on the shore, w here storm warnings --flew. Seen From Shore So brightly did the flames leap that the blaze could easily be seen, even though the heavy ram and gales which whipped the coast line at Asbury Park. The (hip was described by first witnesses as a globe of fire." Coast guard stations were scenes of feverish activity. Again and again guardsmen, shadowy figures of the sea in southwesters and old skins. ran their boata in the roaring surf only to be beaten back by the fury of the seas. As dawn cast a mournful grev over the shore, mist and fog settled down to blot out from anxious watchers the arrival of rescue liners and freighters. Occasionally a rift appeared in the haze, permitting watchers on ono or two occasions to eee the disfant grey forms of oceangoing vessels standing by. Dudley Thomas. Havana agent of the Ward line, derided vague rumors that sabotage might have been responsible for the fire in connection with the recent labor troubles which have harried Cuban dock movements and stevadonng. Lightning Causes Blaze . He said one possible cause of the blaze was lightning A similar version was given by a seaman. It is hardly possible that the fire could have resulted from ignited cargo because it was not inflammable. Thomas said. However, Maj. Hilario Gonzalez, chief of the Havana port police, began an investigation into the loading of the ship to determine whether there were anv signs of sabotage gnd if all cargo-loadrules bad been complied with. A graphic description of the burning ship and the sea in her vicinity, was given by Governor A. Harry Moore of New Jersey upon his return from an airplane flight to sea. The governor reported he could see at least 100 persons in the water, some swimming and others floating quietly and appar- enlJy dead. New Jersey national guard planes were sent at once to $ea Girt and there at once took off to circle the locality of the Metro Castle in a effort to report the position of survivors and guide rescuers to them through the fog and haze. Mrs. Renne Mendez Capote of Havana, landed from a life boat to tell how she bad given up hope of escape from the flames which bad trapped her in a cabin. Rescued by Seaman I opened the door only to be met by a w all of flame," she I slammed the door shut and thought it was the end. said. Then one of the erew smashed the glass from the cabin porthole and helped me out on deck. He lowered me to the next deck where the life boats were being manned and I got in. Few. if anv. of those on the lower decks could have lived." Mrs. Mary Robinson of Richmond Hill. N. Y, (1563 Sixth street fought a heroic battle with the wave and storm for five hours, landing safely but in a state of complete exhaustion. She swam with the aid of a life preserver. Daughter Lost She was earned to a first aid station on the beach, calling incoherently for her daughter. Lucille. 18. whose fate was no', , s -- . cerv.tk , - .Jersey (e - , Ise 1 hnar-,whe- I , ! n grab-i"tan- - st ban-qu- m et -- dis-ab- iy - Gor-onc- e. com-ma- inter-nation- S- nhu I pjjY BOAT f'T' Wa''' , Qy - st Anui-versi- tv PROBE STARTS INTO DISASTER! hue-ban- nb) I On-tar- io t feg JSd T Ul,Aullt SxtlT ' ; mfor-iwa- j i " y, g n .IHJ -- ! , hr ' -t t" I -- to' dri-- r Ar (to 4 1SS. U- lr THi jmff yj iiVb erik insi'H) .to' a T at i -- |