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Show I WILD SCENES OF I JOY AT DOCK I I Eleven Survivors of Volturno li Disaster Arrive Mother Meets Her Children. New York: Oct, 18 The arrival to. day of eleven women Paved from the burning Volturno by the freighter Rappahannook was the signal for the wildest scene of joy and thanksgiving thanksgiv-ing witnessed here since the rescuing fltet began to bring in their cargoes of BurvlvorB The women were transferred at Halifax from the Rappahannock Rap-pahannock to the liner Florlzol, which docked in Brooklyn. Ten of them were young girls The eleventh was Mrs. Peia Polack and there was an affecting scene at the dock as she met her three children, chil-dren, whom she had given up for lest. Mrs Polack was the last woman to leave the Volturno. She was low-crc-u into one of the Rappahannock s ; boats believing that her children al-! al-! ready were there. When the boat put off and she found that the lit-tlo lit-tlo ones were left behind, 6he be-I be-I came hysterical and the boat's crew J with difficulty kept her from Jumping Jump-ing overboard She remained In a I hyeterical condition during all the I Journey to New York Here she learned that the children had been saved by one of the boats from the J Kroonland They met her at the I dock with their father, an East-side merchant The ten girls were taken care of by the Jewish Immigrant society. |