Show SCRIBE BOARDS LINERS LINER'S HULK Newspaper Man Describes Sickening ning Scene Aboard Ravaged Vessel I By B SANDER S. S KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent r Copyright 1934 by United Press t e ASBURY PARK N. N J. J Sept Seit 10 lOt lO- lO I t boar boarded cd the hot smoking hulk o of the Morro by breeches buoy Dvar the surf and viewed the remnants remnants rem rem- nants of ot a modern sea sea tragedy It was wu a heartrending rending sight The luxury liner so 2 lately tenanted by happy was a charred twisted mass with only ashes of the luxurious draperies woodwork and interior remaining among the smoking ing Lag steel d The breeches buoy extended from the lower promenade o of the Asbury Park ark convention hall hail which extends s over ver the water to the upper A deck of the stricken ship I got into the he canvas sack and coast guardsmen hauled me over over over-a a tickling nerve-tickling S journey of or more feet leet above the water The breakers rolled be low S SI I Clothing Scattered I Those who had preceded me helped I me Inc me aboard and pr proffered a smoke mask I donned it and started out The two inch planking on the deck had been burned away a and I walked on en steel sheeting that bulged up tip ward ivard In places the steel had been distorted into ripples resembling a huge Auge washboard E The deck was littered with bolts and debris There was a pungent Odor through the smoke mask not o of or smoke but bu of molten metal I Going up a companionway to the promenade deck I found articles of clothing scattered everywhere abandoned abandoned aban by the desperate passengers in their flight llight from Irom the inferno They included dresses coats sh shoes hats dancing slippers dainty feminine apparel ap ap- parel larel and vanity cases S Passing the cabins I see could how the tile intense heat had caused the steel walls to bulge and buckle huckle The paint from Irom the steel was gone leaving a aj austy austy j usty brown S f At times there was nothing but girders to walk on With the others board aboard oard I could see up through the 12 out burned apertures what was once t the e boat deck There was no boat deck k It had been burned away We moved to the bridge end Ind the heat increased becoming almost al al- al most unbearable The steel sheets be- be our feet leet were so hot we could not flot stand in one spot Our feet leet seemed on lire fire and the smell of or leather arose t S Hurrying down the stairway because be cause it seemed we would suffocate if Jl we did not get back to the stern Ve we e looked into lath the officers officers' quarters Nothing was left but the frames of metal beds twisted into grotesque grotesque gro gro- tesque designs I Smoke Smoke seeped from Irom every crack O out of portholes and windows Every here bere there was shattered glass |