Show h 1 k n NO COWARDICE CO I ON VOL VOLTURNO t SAYS CAPTAIN 1 1 Shipper r Inch Denies Wild I Stories of of Steerage Pass Passengers 1 SJ i l NEW EW E VORK lORK Oct 17 Fraucis 17 Francis Inch tho boyish looking boyish looking Briton who comi commanded commanded commanded com com- i the burned steamer Volturno camo to port last ui ht t lri with him eighty cD survivors passengers I an and crow of his ill starred ill vessel His I j story of tho the disaster in which lives i were lost Lad had preceded him b by wire wire- I J lc es 9 B but in 10 a cabin of tho i I which brought him here hEH Inch told toM in in f simply phrased cd and modestly i I detail that described more vividly vi than the thc wireless could picture the tho panorama I of the Volturno's Volturno s 's los loss and the tho r rescue cue of more moro than of those she had ou ouI I board buard i No Cowardice in Crew I I t Cowardice there was none on tho either among officers or cr crow w I Inch said s There was no rush of ca- ca seamen camen men which made it necessary noces ary for fOl him hi j to warn them hack back with his ro ohl jr r. r His Ic cr WitS was in a drawer rawer iu in in his hiB cabin and it burned with tho ship hip And no one on board drew lIro a revolver This statement ho he said should re re- fate tho stories told b by steerage passengers pas who arr arrived etl y yesterday on the Ow Gro Grower Grosser sr The Volturno master besides defending his own om tiers and men ment said he bo had ball no criticism I Ito I to make mako of tho to tactics any of C of the th J 1 boats oat that stood byThe byTho byI by I The Tho Tho Carmania did its best the I same as the others ho be said There I is nothing but praise for everyone erno 1 did no not expect a boat could live h in tho those e seas peas when the Carmania and theother tho the other first few lew ships came up aP I The Carmania did drop a boat Inch I declared but it could not got get et near for fori forthe I i tho the Volturno drifted faster than the I I ero crow could rm row Later tho Carmania I sent off a life craft but it drifted I acro across s the V Volturno's s bow bon and nd disapPeared disappeared 1 Moro than that tho Carmania could not do raid taid Inch I i Boats Launched Eighteen n cabin and t two to o steerage e passengers pas pas pas- j entered the first lifeboat that ventured to leave the Volturno Only I enough h of the crew stopped stepped in to man manit manit manit Ii it said eaid Inch They did not rush to it r and it fit was not crowded Entangling Jin G itself in its after tackle it capsized I I All in it were drowned except Chief I Officer Miller and a steward who 1 climbed into it after it had been r ri righted and were rescued In tho the next I boat went thirty passengers and ten sailors This Thi boat got ot away all aU ri right ht I but has not been heard from The Tho t f third boat took off forty ten of them sailors Bailors As she ehe settled into tho water I ten ten more jumped aboard from tho the thoI I 1 Volturno's Volturno s 5 deck A A wave wa swept it itI I under the Volturno's Volturno s stern stem I I She just sat eat on it and crushed it out of 81 eight sight ht said Inch The Tho bosn dived di and was tho the OI only y ono to escape Inch denied reports of rotting tackle and fire hose and of unsafe J li lifeboats l i saying all of these articles were in good tood condition Ho counted only three I explosions the last ono one wrecking wheeland wheel l and compass so 80 that a 0 car had to tobo tobo I bo be rigged up Denies Deities Stories 1 Inch denied stories of steerage passengers pas pas' pasI I that people eople wore swept overboard overboard over over- board and babies babics wore cro trampled on i while being rescued by the tho Grosser s i KuT first boat Officers ur urged ed men and women to jump overboard for forI forthe I tho the lifeboat could not got get of near enough h for them to be lowered lowers into it it None dared to jump I Show them how to jump jumps Inch I told his crew Two To at i a time the they r leaved leaped over the rail When passengers saw fiat them reach the lifeboat they followed followed fol fol- ol- ol lowed them into tho sea Ca With and oars some somo of them were rescued Others went to their deaths No women were removed in this wa way Last to Leave Ship Before I climbed down I went over the ship to see if anyone remained Inch said ald The fire firo had eaten its way beyond amidships under tinder th the decks I r I found no one ono alive though h there thero were bodies in tho the forecastle men who had hall been cut off and burned to death I 1 II I went ent to tho rail with pith my do dog wrapping rappin it in a blanket T I leaned Jeane over o Here I said mid catch mj- mj bab baby I dropped tho the dog do into tho the arms of a om officer r in the lifeboat Ho lIo opened time tho bl blanket k t tenderly Wh Why its it's a dog dOI he hebald be he bald aid I I 1 thought it was your kid Inch's three kids and their mother are in London Ono One of his js first acts upon arriving hero here was to send them a cablegram am Their father went ent thirty six hours hourI without catin eating or 1 1 drinking drinkin refu refusing in to leave lewe the tho work of oC firefighting I 1 od smoked about all the time limo cigars pipes ci cigarettes anything I could get et Inch said A blast o of heat blinded blinde hi his eyes es with pain and tho the skin peeled from his liis face when he received bi his first medical attention after being rescued They The bad barl to drop co cocaine aino into bis his eyes before he lie could too see a again Among 1 the survivors ors on tho the Kroon Kroon- laud aull were wre three children tho the whereabouts where where- 1 i bouts of their parents rents un unknown |