Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-11-30 | Page 29 | Girl Says III Fated Ship Was Not Seaworthy Last Spring

11 Flays Pays I Girl Says III Fated Ship Was Not Seaworthy Last Spring I CLEVELAND The was a floating death trap death trap for tor months before it final went to the bottom with 11 people in mid Atlantic This is the assertion of Miss Mis lisp Ludwig of or Cleveland who ho made a i t voyage from Buenos Aires to New NewYork NewYork pw York on the Ule last spring The even then was not I In good condition she says and the crew crow was Ignorant drunken and undisciplined She declares that on her trip she and other passengers noticed that the tile lifeboats looked entirely entirely entirely en en- sOme some of 0 them being literally full of t holes boles Miss Ludwig with her fiance Luis Luls Markert or Argentina sailed from rom Buenos Buens Aires on March 10 From tl tile the e it was terrible she says sas of 0 the third class passengers ers bec became m ill lii during the first day out The quarters were vile the staterooms dirty and ver ver- min The n native crew was surly and insulted passengers Man Many of ot the tile women kept to their cabins When hen the reached the Barbadoes cw ow was given Iven si shore ore liberty and returned with several boatloads of ot whisky As they came alongside one of 0 the officers ran xan an from from- the bridge and tried to Prevent Prevent Prevent Pre Pre- vent their coming aboard They disregarded him and he went for lor help Together the officers with withdrawn withdrawn withdrawn drawn pistols tried to get control of 0 the situation Most of ot the passengers passengers passengers pas pas- locked themselves In their cabins There was much shouting and sounds ot of fighting on the ship Later we learned that British marines had bad been called caned from the of 0 shore to arrest some members the crew But Dut mu mush much h liquor had bad come como aboard in the confusion contusion and the following night there was a a. great deal of ot confusion Our steward who had been violently drunk was wag tied to the deck with ropes In the nl night ht he broke loose and amI came to our part of 0 tho the ship We Ve locked ourselves In our stuffy cabins hardly daring to go out when morning came Lifeboat drills on the were a farce arct according to Miss Ludwig Three times during the tho day 24 the crew assembled for lifeboat drill ho sho says says They made a huge hugo Joke of 0 it As they swung the tIse boats clear of 0 the nav davits Its they would laugh about the holes Inthe inthe In Inthe the boats Copyright 1028 1928 NEA Service Inc