Show b NO COWARDICE GO ON VOL VOLTURNO fURNO SAYS CAPI AIN AINI I SHipper Inch Denies Wild Stories of Steerage Passengers a 1 V NE Oct 17 H.-Frands H. Francis Inch tho tim looking boyish Briton who com com- tho the burned burnel steamer Volturno came conic to port last night rin J with ith I him ei ht cn c survivors ors passengers cD ers and aud crew of his starred ill C vessel HIS lis I story stan of the di disaster in ii which lives Ji were lost had preceded ed him b by wire- wire t r les less but in a n rabin alJ n of or the thc which brought hi him m here Inch told in n and simply phrased modestly detail that described moro more vividly than 1 the wireless c could picture tho the 11 panorania 1 of tho Volturno's loss los and the rescue of more than noo of tho those e she had on OIL board buard iI No Cowardice in Crew Cowardice Cot thero there was vas none noue on tho thoY Y rno either cither among amont officers or crew lCt V Jn Inch h t said aid There was no rush of s CI ea- ea J men lD which made it necessary s ary for him to tot warn wani them 11 back with lii his revolver r His revolver ol drawer in iu his W was S in m n u in cabin and it burned With ith the ship 1 And no ono one on OD board hoard drew a revolver cr i This Thill statement ho said should hould roo re ro 1 fute the stories told b by steerage pas pas- J s1 senders who arrived yesterday y on the Gro Grosser ser Kurfuerst Th The Volturno's 1 master besides defending lef his own um ofil- j I cers and wen men mont said he had no criticism I I Jl to make of the tactics of any of tho the Ij I boats that stood h ny by I r Tho The Carmania did dill its Hs bc best t the theN N same game as tho the others he said There I t is nothing but praise everyone I Idid Idid Ir r did not expect a boat could live in in inI in I those seas when the Carmania and tho the other first few ships came up t The Tho Carmania did drop rop a n boat Inch t declared but it could not get et near forthe for forthe the Volturno drifted faster than the I crow could row Later the tho Carmania j I 4 i sent off oft a life craft but it drifted 1 I. I across I the Volturno's bow bo bond and nd i More Moro than that the Carmania could not do said aid Inch I Boats Launched J Eighteen cabin and two tt steerage pa pas pal entered the first lifeboat that d' d ventured to leave tho the Volturno Only enough h of tho the crew stopped topped in to man manit manit t. t it t said Inch The They did not rush to it and it was not crowded Entangling itself in its after tackle it capsized All in iii it ero drowned except Chief Officer Miller and a steward who climbed into it after it had been righted and were wore rescued In tho the next boat went thirty passengers ors and ten sailors This boat got ot away all right hut ut has bas not been heard from The third bird boat took off forty ten of them sailors Bailors As she abe settled into the tho water ten more jumped aboard from the deck A wave O swept it under the Volturno g stern She just sat on it and crushed it itI I out of 51 eight ht said Inch Tho The bosn dived and and ana was tho the only ono one to escape Inch denied reports of rotting tackle L and fire hose and of unsafe lifeboats saying ainA all of these articles articleS' in good condition Ho counted only three I explosions the last ast ono wrecking wheel wheeland wheeland I and compass so that a had bad to tobe tobo be bo rig rigged cd up Dente Stories I Inch denied stories of steerage passengers pas L en ers that people were swept overboard overboard overboard over over- board and babies were trampled on while being boinA rescued by the Grosser Groser 8 first b boat at Officers ur urged ed edmen men mon and w women men to jump overboard o forthe forthe for tor the lifeboat could not ot get near enough h for them to be lowered into it None dared to jump I Sh Show w them how howo o to jump Inch 4 I told toM his crew Two at a tune tuno they 1 leaped over tho the rail When passengers ors I saw Baw them thom reach the lifeboat the they followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed them into the thc sea With s and oars some of them were res rescued Others went to their deaths deatha No women wore removed remo I in this way Last to Leave Ship Before I climbed down own I went over o the ship to see if anyone remained Inch said The lire fire had cat eaten en its way I beyond amidships under tho the decks I L i found no no ono one alive though there were bodies in in the forecastle men who had been cut oIl oft and burned to d death ath I 1 wont went to the rail with nI my dog wrapping nar it in a blanket I leaned over oer Here Ilore I said catch my mv ba baby y I dropped tho the dog into the arms arms of a officer in the lifeboat lIe He opened tho the thet t blanket tenderly Why its it's a dO dog t ho said I I 1 thou thought ht it was your kid p pInch's 1 Inch's three kids and their i r aro are in London One of his 1 first acts upon arr arrin arriving in hero was to I send them a n cablegram cable ram Their father wont went thirty thirty six six hours without eating or oi I drinking refusing refus to leave the tho work of I firefighting I smoked smoked about all tho the I time ci cigars pi pipes es cigarettes anything anything- 1 1 I could get et Inch said A blast of i heat beat blinded his bis eyes eves with pain and tho the skin peeled front from his lils face when he hei i 1 I received his hia first medical attention after bein being lE rescued cued They Thov hail bad to drop J. J l I cocaine cocaine into his e eyes es h b fore he lie could I i see ee IO a again am r i J Amon Among the tho S survivors ors on Oil t tIle r Kroon Kroon- 11 r laud land were three thre children tho the where 1 I t I t of parents unknown |