AN HEROIC GREW

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 41, 18 October 1913, Page 5

AN HEROIC GREW

THE VOLTURHO TRAGEDY. FRENCH COUPLE DIE TOGETHER. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] liiiES —Sydney Sun Special Cables. j (Received 8.0 a.in.) \ ■ London, October 17. I The second officer and third engin- ; per of the Volturuo emphatically deny that the crew panicked. They worked heroically, while the stokers fed the furnaces until the coal was exhausted. A newly married French couple despairing of being rescued jumped overboard locked in each others’ arms just before the boats saved the passengers. THE USE OF OIL [United Press Association. 1 London, October 17. The captain of the Xarrangansette states that her first boat rescued passengers from the \ olturno fortynine minutes after the oil was used. Ho urged that liners should carry oil tanks as well as boat". The only drawback was that swimmers had no chance where the surface of the sea was covered with oil. THE CARMAN I A’S CREW. London, October I'. The Cunard Company has granted a week’s pay to the Carmania’s crew |as a recognition ol their A olturno services.