Garland Globe | 1906-08-11 | Page 2 | Murderous Cowards

MURDEROUS COWARDS. Immigrants Had No Regard for Women Wo-men or Children. London. Tljp Madrid correspondent of "the Dally Tologlaph describe"? the Birlo disaster as jne oj the worst on tacord. Tho itnllnn emigrants, with knives in tholr hands, nnd without regard re-gard for tho women or children, fought with greatest brutality for tho posses slon of llfo buoys nnd boats. Many woro Wllod or wounded, Including sov ernl mombers of the crow who woro attacked by omlgrants. When tho cnptnln saw ,tho vossel was lost nnd that tho emigrants had captured the bont ho commlttsd sul cldo by shooting with a revolver. Tho other officers thon lost tholr heads nnd there was nobody to direct tho worl of rosouo. Eyo wltnossos gave nwful pictures of tho brutal panic on board. For half n hour tho emigrants woro masters ot tho situation. They completely overcame over-came tho crow by shoer force of nurn bers, and this, In splto of tho offorts of the officers, who tried to savo tho women wo-men and chlldron first.