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Show I' CAPTAIN SAVED HIMSELF LEFT WOMEN TO 0R0WI ) Survivors Tell Thrllllna Tales of the i Wreck of the Steamer Larchmont. 1 Grave Charges Against ( Captain. I providence, It. I. Torrlblo tales of l Buffering wero brought hero by somo ' of the survivors of the steamer Larch It mont, which went to the bottom in Block Ifllnnd sound Monday night, and nomo of tho passengers assert that In the hour of porll helpless women were thrust asldo by men who cared only for their own safety. Tho chargo of cowardice was mado : by Fred Hclrgcsoll, an 18-year-old lad 1 1 of Brooklyn, N. Y. Ho said that not I :.' only were women loft to their fate, If . but that Captain McVcy left tho sink-II sink-II ing ship In tho very first llfo boat; j that some of tho ship's crow filled tho f boats to tho exclusion of tho passcn ' gcrs, and that at least ono boat was I -without oars when It was put over tlu eldc. i f A careful compilation of figures In J this city early Wednesday shows that jl38 lives aro known to havo been jost in tho disaster. It Is known that there wero not less than 1G7 persons per-sons on board. Of that number only Blnetecn survived. Soventy-ono bod-f bod-f les havo been recovered, thirty-eight of them having been Identified. Thoro are still 100 passengers who aro cither missing or unidentified. A thrilling story of tho disaster is told by Harris Feldmnn, of Now York, who with Ills wlfo was saved. After dressing, Feldman and his wlfo ran to (he hurricane deck. A wave struck , 1 the top of tho steamer and rlpcd oft I a hugo ptoco of the superstructure i upon which they and many other pas sengers were standing. As tho wreckage wreck-age slipped off into the sea many of . the passenger either fell backward Into tho saloon of the steamer, or were thrown Into tho water. After the wreckage, which was in effect an immense raft, had been away from I the ship a fow moments, Mr. Fold- man counted his companions. Bo- aides himself and his wife there wero lip- thirty-three on board, but they wero I i crowded so badly that ono by one I they began to drop off Into tho sea. Some, crazed by tho cold, Jumped Irom tho raft and wero drowned. Oth- ra, sitting near tho edge", wero ewept away, and still others, frozon to death, dropped Into tho water. An hour aftor tho raft had been swept from tho steamer there wero but sixteen six-teen persons on It, and of thoao only eight wero alive. |