Show 1 v I 1 9 r IL PREVENTED h r 1 SAVING ar V I 1 A I 1 I 1 4 al v f 1 r it Is claimed That yany of the anfor i on 4 athe ta Tenc abight a might have beer bee n Re rescued cued by the queen 11 I 1 san nr fran I 1 ra q keo e 0 cal the B Q n C a p in n james cousins has arrived 40 efrom puget sound ports and k 4 the scene of oftie tae berk 4 the fhe valencia 1 dir estly stories are told by tho chosen on seron board Fe regarding garding the failure vf athe tans roscue cue any of the people who we r ess sd ringing jangl ng to the rigging or i od led at the he afterdeck 2 biffl arit vessel reifel chief f boat aval C P tor jor 1 gensen athe l cruiser philadelphia bo winfra WINF pa a tailors belonging to 0 V a yla 40 ess esger reName came down on the queen Keie rely scores the officers of that abl he ile save sav I 1 a as stand ng on the forward deck and could plainly see the men and women on the valencia I 1 volunteered to man a lifeboat with nith my men and attempt to rescue some of the taper lied ones it was a life and death chance but we all were willing to take it the captain would not con sent and so we ard to stand by ana and watch the signals of distress after two hours during which no attempt was made to launch a boat the queen put back to victoria chief boatswain boatswains s mate D S sul ivan corroborated jorgenson a state ment that the philadelphia s men were nere willing willin to undertake to save all the lives possible but they were prevented from doing so by captain cousins sullivan also charges that the officers of the czar and salvor were too timid to take the risks feces s sary to rescue those e on the valencia captain cousins denies the state ments of the blue jackets saing saying its it s a lie ile that these fellows were ready to go out in a small boat not one of them said a word it if they had I 1 would not have allowed them to go to certain death in the heavy sea that was then running |