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SURVIVORS TELL _ --MANY HORRORS OF VESTRIS DISASTER UOne hundred and fifty survivors form the sunken liner Vestris were landed at New York today by two rescue ships. Ths French tankship Myriam with An indefinite quota of survivors is due at New York late tonight., BELIEVE CAPT. DROWNED The. American shipper had <+»n board 127 passengers and members of the crew:; the German liner Ber-- lin ~varried 23 survivore, including five passengers and 18 seamen. A recheck of the rescue chart at noon put the number of persons un-- reported at from '105 to 115. The U. S. battleship Wyoming. which picked up five women and tiree men, steamed all night over the scene of the disaster, but failed to find any more suryivors. She is expected to put into Hampton Roads, Va., late today. Forty--four of the American shipper's 127 sur-- vivors were passengers. -- By DAVID P. SENTNER, New York, Nov. 14.--Of the first throo life boats that put off from the stricken Lamport and Holt liner V« *~'« containing women and chil-- d@ren». two sank and one capsized. While the launching of the boats was in progress the Vestris turned over in the water and panice--strick-- en passengers Cclimbed from the water upon the keel, clinging thore until the hulk sank. Capt. William J. Carey and Wire less Operator O'Loughlin died at sea. They plunged into the ocean from the ship and were seen no more. These grim facts were brought to port today by the five passengers It!l was the old order of the sea-- "Women and childrén first"--that cost so many lives among the wom-- en and children on the liner. And Women and children suffered the heaviest casualties. They were sent off in the first life boats from the Vestris. Two of these boats sank; The third capsized. -- Some of the surviving passengers upon reaching New York, bitterly criticize.qt officers .and seamen on the Vestris, claiming they were.too slow in sending out "SOS' calls and in launching the boats. However,, individual acts of heroism by the seamen were highly praised. Three negro members of the Ves:-- tris' crew proved heroés of the dis-- aster. They saved 19 of the 23 per-- sons taken aboard the Berlin. and 18 seamen who were snatched from death by the North German Lliovd liner Berlin. -- > it was the iromny of fate that the or-- der which. usually is the salvation of women and children should have brought them doom in the founder-- in« of the Vestris. The survivors on the Berlin brought a grewsome picture of the tragedy which followed the launch-- ing of the open boats. The passen-- rgers, while on shipboard and in the face of danger, remained calm. But panie followed the disaster to the life boats in the water. As the rolling seas swamped and gank two of the boats and the other turned over keel up screams of ag-- onized fear came from the water-- filled with wreckage and struga@ling forms of women and children. "We were not frightened; _ we were prepared to reach a ship, not to glo. We knew there had been an O $ sent out. When the Ber-- lin picked us up there was a heavy roll buf the seas were not very high. "We were always in water up fto our knees. * "For food we had crackers and water. The crew was fine. I{ the Carlos Quiros, chancellor of the Argentine -- embassy, . Washington, was strong in censure of the life saving operations on the sinking YVestris. "I was astonished," said Quiros, "at the lack of discipline among the crew of the Vestris at the launch-- ing of the life boats. The work was very slow and sloppy. "One boat they got lowered had a' big hbhole in it. The crew started| nailing and patching it up. It unk! within from 860 to 60 feet of the ship. ! "We were never told to get ready to take to the boats. ' "AM the boats were overloaded Twenty--five persons in one was atm ple. Quiros was later picked up by lifeboat number thirteen after swim-- ming in the sea for some time. There were 23 others in boat number 13, he sald. While he swam about in the wreckage--filled sea, Quiros said che saw many people swimming near Aim. "We had a list from 10 p. m. Sun-- day when we struck the ga&le until 10 a. m., Monday when the hurri-- cane deck was under water. "We don't know what caused the disaster,; Maxey said,. "but the Vas-- tris was loaded with automobiles and I do not see how the cargo could have shifted. Water entered the coal bunkers. from a leak in the hull -- PAGE STX "I started to get in a boat which I think was number eight,. 1 got one foot in and saw it was over loaded so | stepped back and leaped into the sea." 0. L. Maxey' of Richmond, Va.. a survivor on the Berlin, and other passengers also crtiticized the slow-- ness of the crew in getting the open boats into the sea. They said it re-- quired two hours to lower four life boats. "If the first S O S had been sent out the night before 1 bekeve there would have been no occasion _ for loss of life," said Maxey. Maxey told what he had learned of the cause of the sinking. BULLETIN Washington, Nov. 14. -- With ine boats still futilely combing the seas in the vicinity of the Vestris disaster, the coast guard today abandoned hope of dis-- covering any additional survi-- vors of the sunken craft. Head-- quarters declared. however, thé coast guard boats would prob-- ably continue their search two more days. * me of Surviv&n Bitterly Criticize -- Offigers and Crew of the Boat 6 8 O $ had been sent five hours ear lier gveryone would 'have been say ed." the life boats and the whole thing moved without any precision." [ The confusion and panic in the water after the three boats with their precious burdens of hbhuman life had been lost was heart rend: ing to the passengers still on board the sinking ship. ' But the passengers left behind had terrors and dangers of their own to face for the. ship began to roll and pitch fearfully. Before the last of the small boats were cleared away it was struck amidships by a tremendous wave which rolled it over keel up. The -- Vestris, waterlogged _ and hebpless, floated like the carcass of a huge dead whale while the passen-- gers and seamen tossing In the wat-- er tried to climb up the slippery bottom to the keel. . Fearing the ship wonld sink--at any minute they dived from the keel back into the water in an attempt to swim to the nearest boats or to keep them-- selves afloat with flotsam and jet-- tinued to list more heavily. . | _ *"The passeng« "In fact it was dipping iIinté the were women an sea. Captain Carey ordered all pas--; into the water. sengers on deck and ordered the lifeq _ "It was a ho 'bel}: ;distributed. Then the crew continued. . "Co begian to lower the life boats. ~whelmed the pa T. E. Mack, a construction engl| neer from Wyoming, who was on his| way to Brazil with Maxey gave, A| vivid description of the storm and' difficulty 'experienced in lowering| the boats. ' un'l';m--fi'l"t'l{e resoue fleet could rive on the scene. "The hurricane," he said, "started Sunday at about 4 o'clock in the aft-- ernoon., Soon after there was a de-- cided list of the ship which.contin-- ued all day. Sunday night the ship started to roll like a bottle and she began to list more and more on the starboard side as each hour passed. "The passengers becameé nervous. All the paraphernalia on the port side was ripped from their fasten-- ings, but at 6 'a. m., Monday, when the sea became calmer and the gale died down, the starboard side con-- tinued to list more heavily. . "It took two hours to lower four life boats, numbers 4. 6. 8, 10," Mack emphasized, "and while No. 8 was beling lowered she crashed into the The seammen failed to hurry up The Greater Optimism is Running Rampant Here with the approach ot this Great Metropo:itan Deparment Store now being erected in record t:'me . . . ' "HALF A BLOCK SOUTH" 'The Best Stove ~ On the Novth Shove' ar t Fifteen pef wrecked the pli picture. taken b LTBERTYVILLE _ TNDEPENDENT. TAHURSDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1920 _ First Picture of Factory Blast That Claimed Livef of 15 7 s 8 Copyright, 1928, NFA Service, Inc.----Transmitted by ~Telephoto. | Fifteen persons were reported to have been killed when: an explosion from an unknown causb! wrecked the plint of the Prebte Box Companmy: manufacturers of cellulo!id boxes, at Lyno, Mass. This picture. taken by a photographer for Waukegan Daily Sun and NEA Service and rushed by telephoto, | shows firemen digging in the ruins for bodies of the victims. ' side of the at ship stoving in the life most of wh ildren tumb This is No. Two of ~a series of messages pertaining to the GREATER RUBIN'S--A Metropolitan. Department Store for J had two children with her. When the boat tumbled into the water her life preserver was torn from her and all three fell into the sea. They dis-- 126 d two children with her. When| 2:35 p. m., on Monday and from this e boat tumbled into the water her| fact he fixed the time of the sinking e preserver was torn from her and| of, the Vestris. three fell into the sea. They dis-- i C@drl Schmidt of Chicago, whose peared. | home is in Germx'ny. was one of the "Throughout all the pantc Cam.'. herpes of the disaster ,according to irey appeared calm, but he also| the other passengers rescued on the peared undecided as to what tn!B«-an. Schrmaidt would not talk 1. Life boats No. 4 and No. 6y about himself. ere lowered so late that they cap--| .Thrée Negroes from the Vestris' z2ed .' | crew -- proved themselves _ heroes. Mack said his watch stopped at, They were in the water while the --and at Rubin's is the optim-- ism that comes from the knowl-- ( edge that a business builded on , such a rock--bound foundation of truth and integrity can not be stopped from its onward sweep. OPTIMISM guides the des-- tiny of man through the dark-- ness.. Without optimism there would be desolation and decay. Optimism turned the thirteen colonies into the United States of America .. . gave' Lincoln gqublime faith through the ap-- palling days of the Civil War . . Optimism is t he corner stone of vast industrial and commercial enterprises. Optimism is based on the law that truth will ultimately pre-- vail. -- --The Greater Rubin's De-- partment store now under con-- struction '"Half a Block South'" from a physical viewpoint ra-- diates the spirit of optimism. It is any wonder that Optim-- ism permeates our business? <o $ hi ) & | Archibald Bannister, ,boatswain's mate, said he last saw Capt. Carey tstanding on the port side just be-- fore the Vestris sank and said he believes the master went down with lhls ship. ' ~Bannister also believes the 'radio 'operator. Michael O'Loughlin, went down in the Vestris. > - » l"lna\ly theéy swam in close and wrenched from its davits a life boat --No. 13--from the second cabin section. The Negroes manned this boat and then paddled away through the floating debris picking up such persons as they could from the wat-- er. It was this boat that saved O. L. Maxey and T. K. Mack. liner was sinking, swimming through the wreckage not far from the stric-- ken vessel. . _ © Gaetano Abbadin of Philadelphia was another rescued aboard the Ber-- lin. He told a story substantially the same as those related by Quiros and Mack. l At the pier taoday members of the Vestris crew acted as though they had been instructed not to discuss the details of the disaster until they had reported to the ship's owners. Second Steward A. Duncan said that water rolled into the coal bunkers, but he thought it was coming from an open hatch as the seas were high and were washing over the decks. He said be did not know if there was a leak in the ship's hull. Duncan said that four life boats were launched fromrthe port side of the liner and four from the star-- board. : Chief Enzineer Avard Adamse said in his opinion some of the. cargko shifted, causing the list. Adams said all mystery connect-- ed with the sinking ship would be cleared up later. He refused to elu-- cidate. Thomas Ewans, a steward, said: eight sury there were about 40 _ passengerk,% mostly women and children, and ap| SH, proximately 10 members of the crew New Yor in each of the first three life boats fate worse launched from the Vestris. The some of th l An earlier report said eight bod-- les weer already enroute to New !York ab'oarq the cutters Acushnet, f'Manning and Porter, 'while a sut sequent dispatch declared the Tuck-- !er, with four bodies eboard, had ! started for 'New York. _ Two victims on the Tucker were 'id('hfl?}('d as Jose Condalzesrua, of ; New Bedford, Mass., and Raymon ©Garcia Telal of New York. boats were smashed and the women dumped into the sea as the boats cauéht and hung crazily from the davits. While life boat 13 was being row-- ed away from the hulk : of the Ve&-- tris the liner plunged beneath the waves. i +% Gaetano Abbadini, of Philadelphia, described the scene after the three life 'boats filled with women and children had been lost as "too hor--| rible to be put into words," he said | it was sickening and 'terrifying to watch the helpless women strugzl-- ing in the water, trying to save their children and calling vainly for aid. PICK UP 12 BODIES Wrshington, Nov. 14.--The coast guard rescue has picked up 12 bod-- ies of victims of, the Vestris dis-- aster, according to radio reports to headquarterg this afternoon. The coast guard announced today that following the departure of the vessels carrying bolies to New York, the destroyers Manninge and Shaw and the cutters Mascoutin and Modic, would remain on the scene probably for two days search: ing for additional bodies. . The Davis and Shaw are now pick ing up additional bodiee from the water.' All the bodies will be taken aboard the Devis to New York. The Battleship Wyoming. pected to abendon the | sea night and head for Norfolk w eizht survivore she has ab SHARKS GET MANY New York, Nov. 14. --Belief fate worse than drowning some of thoge lost from the search 1 the was expressed today by E. J. Maf* vin of Montclair, N. J., who arrivegn, on the American shipper and told o ta' seeing sharks swimming throu".' the humaen lo@ded wreckage, _ Marvin said he saw a man WhE looked like Earl DeVore/ Los Angeay les automobile racing driver. pulle bereath the 'surface of the 88ed which then turned crimson. Seame in the lifeboat with Marvin told ond seeing sharke. bot he mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeey . sunccmmmemmenpmmm mt * ) +¥. R LCE CA a° 0 BoRRlo l aave nd The Devil's Goif course is in Death valley. The name is given to part of the playa, or dry lake, that occupies the lowest part of the valley. This playa is composed qf salt and clay beds, parts of which are quite smooth and other parts very rough, with jagged poigts. The smooth parts jerhaps sugkit the greens and the rough parts'the hazsards of c golf course. Ascribed to Jefferson _ " It is | supposed -- that | "belittle"® was coined by Thomas 'Jeflenon.h' At Jleast he gave the word cur-- rency. Duripg his Presidency an: Englisbh mag@zine, writing of the-- faults of American writers, sald: "President Jefferson talks of be-- littting the productiots® of »ature." Hem af course, the woftd. mean® to Make smaller. Usually the term is now used to signify speaking of a person or thiug in a deéprecatory or contemptuous way.--Pathfinder Magazine. A state commisstion chas pur-- chased about 4T5 acrés of Wash-- ington's original camp;ground and converted it dntoo Viiley Forge park. _ concaining _ Washingion's beadquariers and o!hef landmarks that chave been preseaved or re gstored. f Historic Spot Preserved Devil's Piayground