Show STEAMER BURNS MANY LIVES LOST VESSEL GOES DOWN AFTER OUT OF passengers HAVE BEEN RESCUED ft wireless calls ten ren lines to aid of doomed ship out lifeboats are beaten back by waves and passengers arc are drowned london not since shire tho the sinking of the titanic has there been n ie recorded corded such a tragedy at sea as tho the burning ot of tho the steamship volturno in midat mid at lautic on october 11 with a loss so far as at present known ot of llva aud and tho the rescue of the survivors were placed aboard a fleeta fleet t steamers summoned by tho the calls for help some of which are bound ca eastward stuard and others the volturno sailed from rotterdam on october 8 for new york according to thi tho official statement sho she carried twenty two first clasa class cabin passengers steerage and a crew numbering 96 tho the rescue ships reached tho the scene of tho the dis disaster astur lu u plenty of time to save all bu bul 1 for hours stood by tho the blazing vessel impotent because of tho the storm to reach the agonized men women and children crowding the after part of the ship and within a stones throw all night thursday the made a desperate effort to get got alongside the volturno but the waves beat them back again and not until the storm abated at daylight friday did the rescuers succeed in rec receiving eINIng the survivors from the doomed ship the volturno was well equipped with boats sufficient the agents say for a people but thel the boisterous sea or lack of boat drill or panic among the passengers prevent ing the successful employment of them the rescue ships were able to lower lifeboats but apparently most of the boats launched from the volturno were smashed or upset and the occupants drowned two of the boats crowded with passengers are reported to have got away from the ship but a search for them has proved fruitless and they have practically been given up as lost the occupants of these boats are include ed in the death roll the steamer Car carmania manla bound tor for new york from liverpool was sev enty eight miles away when the call for help sounded captain barr ordering full steam in spite of the gale drove through the seas at twenty knots an hour and was first of 0 the fleet to reach the burning vessel she was followed by la touraine Tour alne minneapolis aca polls rappahannock Rappa hannock czar narragansett rag ansett devonian Kro onland grosser kurfuerst and Sey dIltz at various hours throughout the day but try es Ps they might the rescuing 6 vessels could not get either ano or lifeboat to the volturno the burning steamer lay in the trough of the seas pounding helplessly with her propellers fouled by the boats tackle the ter terrified rifled passengers 5 were huddled together as far as aia it was mas possible to get from tho the flames while hile throughout the dav dar the officers and crew fought ought desp abely with whatever vere ere at hand to hold tale firo nr in check bit night came on anu and the seas abated only slightly the carca of steamers dept thel thelt searchlights placing owing and waited patiently Aly within the danger zone for the first moment when they might again launch the lifeboats when day broke the volturno was still afloat the gale had moderated and the seas almost calmed doyn dwyn from fron every one of the encircling steamers lifeboats were vere sent out and to these women and children were lowered lovered first sei oral trips were necessary before the ere removed to a place of a fety |