Show CAPTAIN SAVED HIMSELF I LEFT WOMEN TO DROWN Survivors Tell Thrilling Tales of the Wreck of the Steamer Larchmont Grave Charges Against Captain Providence It Terrible tales of Buffering were brought hero by some of the survivors of the steamer Larch mont which went to tho bottom In Block Island sound Monday night and some of the passengers assert that In the hour of peril helpless women were thrust aside by men who cared only for their own safety Tho charge of cowardice was made by Fred Ilulrgesell an 18yearold lad of Brooklyn N Y lie said that not I only were women loft to their fate but that Captain McVey left the sinking sink-ing ship In the very first life boat that some of the ships crow filled the boats to the exclusion of tho passengers passen-gers and that at least ono boat was wlthout oar when It was put over ttll j sIde + sIdeA A careful compilation of figures In this city early Wednesday shows that 138 lives aro known to have been lost In the disaster It is known that there were not less than 157 persons per-sons on board Of that number only nineteen survived Seventyone bodIes bod-ies have been recovered thirtyeight of them having been Identified There are still 100 passengers who arc either missing or uuliliiitllled A thrilling story of the disaster Is told by Harris Feldmnn of New York who with his wife was saved After dressing Feldman and his wife nm to the hurricane deck A wave struck the top of tho steamer and riped off n huge piece of the superstructure upon which they and many other passengers pas-sengers were standing As tho wreckage wreck-age slipped off Into the sea many of tho passenger either full backward I into tho saloon of the steamer or were thrown Into the water After I tho wreckage which was In effect Inn I-nn immense raft had been away from i the ship a tow moments Mr Fold I man counted his companions Besides Be-sides himself and his wlfo there were thirtythree on board but they were crowded so badly that one by ono they began to drop off into tho sea Some crazed by tho cold jumped from tho raft and were drowned Others Oth-ers sitting near tho edge were swept away and still others froet to death dropped Into the water An hour after the raft had been swept from tho steamer thero were but sixteen six-teen persons on It and of these only eight wore alive |