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1 1 THE GASTONIA GAZETTE r' First First Section Section Pages 1 to 8 Pages 1 to 3 PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. GASTONIA IS A BUSY TOWN. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS. SI. 50 A YEAR IN ADVAKCIf GASTONIA, N. C. TUESDAY .ION, OCTO'lEK 14, 1913. VOL. XXXIV. NO. 83. . C. H. POE COMING SHORT LOCAL ITEMS SPECIAL SESSION. ENDS IN SOCIAL CIRCLES COURT IS IN SESSION SHIP GOES DOWN AT SEA THE MOVEMENTS OF GASTON PEOPLE THE ASSEMBLY ADJOURNED YESTERDAY CIVIL CASES ARE NOW BEING TRIED 136 PEOPLE PERISH IN MID OCEAN WILL ADDRESS FARMERS SATURDAY Well-Known Editor ami Authority on Agricultural Conditions to Speak in Gastonia 0era House Saturday Morning Will Discuss "Rural Co-Operation." The citteens of Gaston county as a whole, but more especially the far mers of the county, have a treat In store for them in an address to De delivered in the Opera House t-atur-day morning of this week, October fid clarence poe. 1 t li . beuiining at 1'i o'clock, by Mr. Clan tice l'oe, thi editor of Tlie Progrcssix Fanner :i it ! one oT tlie highest aut horitk s. on at rirult u rat subjects tn tlie entire South. Mr. l'oe was ( Ape U ! lo lie here to spe'k a! a Farm i ! ' ' " is' on picnic held it Liliwood College last sum nier, hut on account of failing to make a rai'road count" tion lie did not gel here. His coming this week to address the people xT tlie county will be his first visit to Gaston coun ty and he should have a large and representative audience. Mr. Poe will take for the subject of his ad dress Rural Co-Operation. Needless to say that this is a subject in which thero is an unusual interest in all parts of the State, and this fact will doubtless result in a large attend ance at the meeting which is to be held under the auspices of the das ton County Fanners' Educational and Co Operative. Union. THE HEALTH F.XIIIP.IT. To lie n Wide-.wnke Feat lire of the Statte Fair. Besides holding the ''etter Babies Contest at the State Fair. October 2"th to L'T.th. the State Hoard of Health will-give its first general health exhibit this year. In this ex hibit no attempt will be made to show how much has been a coniplisTi ed or how well any one department lias done its work, but special f orr will be made to show how sanita tion may be made to apply to com mon, everyday life. Particular at tention will be given to the matter of tuberculosis, care and feeding or infants, flies, and cheap, home-made sanitary devices of all kinds. Unless all signs fail, this will be one of the most practical education al features at the fiir. At least one demonstrator will he in charge at ail times, anil no pains will be spared to thoroughly acquaint all visitors with the meaning of every piece of exhibit material. The exhibit promisee to he a live, wide-awake feature of the fair. Any one looking for dry-as-powder statis tics, etc.. will be disappointed. On the other hand, there will he living, moving, working models, a free rive act, miniature plav, and other feat ures right up to the minute. If you want the worth of your admission ticket don't miss the health exhibit. It will be next to the Better Babies Contest. City Council To-Night. The city council will meet in reg ular monthly session for October at the city hall tonight. One i""io't ant feature of the meeting will oe the consideration of health ordinan ces for the city. , Alderman A. E. Moore, chairman of the health com mittee, will submit the report of that committee, embodying propos ed ordinances for the regulation matters pertaining to the pur'ie health. It Is probable that these or d:nfnce? will be cced at torsieht's f"1rn. The rr""nittce his crawn the p-oofd ordinances with great as to the ordinances in effect in oth er cities. Business men can reach the buy ing public in Gaeton better through the columns of The Gaxette than in an? other way. Advertising rate are r-wonablc. It will rT T" to Investigate. Personal Items About Gaston Folks atid Their Friends Short Items About People and Things That Are of Interest to Gazette Headers. Mr. Grover C. Page spent Sun day in Spartanburg, S. C. Hear Clarence Poe in Gastonia Saturday. - Good pine wood is one of the scarcest articles on the Gastonia market just now. Yesterday's court crowd was slim. Most of them went to the cir cus at Charlotte. Rev. U. E. Vipperman, pastor of the Mount Holly Haptist churcn, was a Gastonia visitor yesterday. Mr. A. W. Hoffman, of Ix)well, route two, was a visitor in the city yesterday. Esquire I. P. Mabry, of Mr Adenville, was in Gastonia on busi ness Saturday. Mr. T. ('. Lanier, of Mayes worth, was in the city on business Saturday. Quite a number of Gastomans went to Charlotte yesterday to see Rarnum and Bailey's circus. Prof. 11. A. Query, principal of the Belmont public schools, spent Saturday in Gastonia.' Miss Ethel Stowe, of Belmont, spent the week-end in Charlotte as the guest of Mrs. James P. Stowe. -Mr. II. F. Forbes, of Crowuers Creek, was in the city on business yesterday. Attorney S. It. Sparrow, of Dal las, was in tli" city yesterday at tending Superior Court. Mr. 11. M. Cleveland, of Spar tanburg, S. C, spent yesterday in tlio city on business. Mr. ('. M. Glenn left Saturday for Hickory on a visit to li Is sister, Mrs. P. L. Russell. -Mr. and Mrs. Emory Ballard, of Spencer, spent Sunday here with his mother, Mrs. Mollie Ballard. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Spargo. or Stanley, spent the week-end wltn Mr. E. I.. Shelton's family. Miss I ola Maxwell of Clover, lias In i n visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Grii in East Gastonia. - Miss Maude Costlier, was tne guest Friday of Miss Lattice Shel ton. A new electric . light has been swung by the Rankin-Armstrong i'o. in front of theirSyore on Main av enue. - Mrs. J. No. ::s last to visit her II. llenderlite left on night for Norfolk. Va.. mother, Mrs. Virginia Crow. Mr. Thomas L. Rhyne. Jr., Dallas, route two, was in the Saturdav en route to Charlotte or city on business. --Mr. A. S. Jenkins, of Hickory, arrived in the city yesterday to spend a few days on a vie it to bis sister. Mrs. M. E. McArver, and otn- Miss Cora Gardner, of Char lotte, was the guest her Sunday o" Mrs. Joe Merrill and Mrs. Done Smith. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Bessemer City Bank was scheduled to be held tins afternoon at 2 o'clock. City Tax Collector R. A. Rateh ford gives notice tint the tax books are now open 4jyd requests all tax payers to call at the city hall ami settle for the current year promptly. Mutt and Je-ff drew a pretty fair crowd to the opera house Fri day night. These two characters were the stars, of course. The cos tumes were up-to-date, the (horns girls appearing in slit skirts. Mrs. O. O. Baber and li'tle daughter, Ruth, rettrnejj-' Saturday afternoon from a fck's visit to Mrs. Baber's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ormand, who live near Kings Mountain. Mrs. V. B. Strinsfellow. or Chester. S. C. arrived in the city last week to be the guest for some time of her parents. Sheriff and Mrs. .i. I). B. McLean, at their home on Soyth Broad street. There will be a box supper at the residence of Mr. W. E. Clemmer in West Gastonia on Saturday night of this week, October 1 Sth. for the benefit of the Second Associate Re formed Presbyterian church. Ev erybody is cordially invited to come. Mr. W. X. Davis, who has been for the past thpee weeks a patient at the JohnsjYillis Sanatorium in Richmond, where he underwent a surgical operation, fs expected to're turn home tomorrow or Thursday. Elsewhere in today's Gazette the reader will find a full page ad vertisement of Iebovitz Department Store. This enterprising firm has listed in this ad a lot of bargains that will appeal to the buying pub lic. Read it. Cleveland Star. mth: Mr. . C. Cornwell. who has the contract to survey the streets and number the lots in Shelbv. is here this wees. Mrs. B. T. Falls leaves Monday for '.cinri.i to v;s!t her sister, Mrs. Walter Ramsaur. A series of special services will be conducted next week at Boyd's school house In West Gastonia. be ginning Monday night October 20. Preaching will be by Jtev. R. K. Caldwell, pastor of the Second As sociate Reformed Presbyterian church. Principal Acts of Siecijn Session of legislature Were Acceptance of Railroad's Propnyftl as to Freight Hates and Passage of Intra-State Freight Hills .Senate Finally Agrees on Veal Hill. The gavels of President Daugh tridge of the Senate and Speaker Murphy of tlie House fell simulta neously at S:2S o'clock last night as the voices of these two presiding or neers rang out through legislative halls and the corridors of the State House declaring the 1 5 1 3-extra-ordI-nary session of the North Carolina General Assembly adjourned sine die says a special from Raleigh to this morning's Charlotte Observer. The Senate had held quite a busy evening session, while the House waited more or less hilariously the pleasure of the upper branch ror tinal adjournment. The Senate at last adjusted the ever-present Cald well calf bill prohibiting the sale oj shipment of calves dead or alive, un der one year old, to slaughter for veal. As" ratified the act applies to Caldwell, Alamance, Alexander, Av ery, Ashe, Burke, Cabarrus. Chero kee, Clay, Cleveland, Durham, (Tas ton, Franklin, Graham, Guilford, Henderson. Polk, Lee, Lincoln, Mad ison, McDowell, Mitchell, Robeson, Rowan, Rutherfordton, Sampson, Moore, Wake, Warren, Wilson and Lenoir counties. The extraordinary session of the Legislature just adjourned, that was' called for the specific purposes of taking action for the settlement of' freight rates and passing upon con- stitutional amendment proposals to j Ih- submitted to the people for rati- j Mention at the next general election, passed -1 It 7 acts and 19 resolutions,, the great bulk of them bearing on the local matters in every section of! the State. . The principal acts of really State- j wide interest are the resolution ac- : cepling the proposal of the railroads for settlement of the interstate freight rates, the passage or t7ie bill , to reduce intrastate freight rates and provide for special commissions to investigate allegations of any rail-i road companies that the rates pre-j scribed are confiscatory, the ad pro viding for a rate expert and addl- ; tional clerical force for the Corpor- I ation Commission, the act carrying tlie const it in ional amendment pro-, pos;als to be submitted to the people, j an act to work convicts on public roads built after present, contracts with railroad companies are comple ted, provision for completion and opening of the State School for Feeble-minded at Kinston and supple nu ntary appropriations for a num ber of State institutions. The bill for the prevention of tne killing or shipping of calves in Cald well county and a number of other counties that had been added uy amendment was a bone of conten tion for a long time and was finally passed in conformity with the last conference report anil enrolled ror ratification. There was much lev; ty injected during the discussion or th is bill. Senator Peterson made a motion that was ruled out of ort.er by Presidi nt Daughtridge that the bill be amended to also prohibit tne "exposure of calves." OTHER BILLS PASSED. Bills passed the Senate as fol lows: To allow ?l a day extra compen sation to clerks of the General As sembly. To amend the act of 1913 relative to validating registration of certain deeds and mortgages. 'I'o authorize any Consul Genera! to ta'ie proof of legal papers. Relative to commissioners of pi lotage and navigation under tne Constitution. At the afternoon session of 'Tie House Speaker Murphy announced the appointment of Representative? Seawell, Paw and Long as the spe cial commissioners on the part of the House to investigate the conduct of insurance companies in Norm "arolina, these commissioners to co-operate with two Senators an- ! pointed by the President of the Sen ate. The Speaker appointed Repre sentative Young of Vance to succeed Mr. Turner, resigned, as a member of the joint committee to examine the books of the State Treasurer and other State departments. The House concurred in the Cald-! well county calf bill and the bill as to the State School for the Blind. Bills were passed to amend the char ter of Greenville and change the terms of court in Onslow county. I NOTICE TO CM RMEMP.ERS IH SI NESS MEN. AND The Regular semi-annual meeting j of the Gastonia Commercial CIud, postponed from Tuesday, October 7, will be held Thursday, October ICth, at S:?,0 p. m. in the Club rooms. j All club members are urged to at tend and all business men of the city, not members, who are interest ed in establishing a more emclen: commercial organization for Oasto nia, ar? cordially invited to mcst with the Club at the i.bove time. J. W. TIMBERLAKE, Secretary Commercial Club. LATEST EVENTS IN WOMAN'S WORLD Gl'ESTS OF MItS. HOEY IX SHELHY. A party of Gastonia ladies includ ing Mrs. George W. Ragan. Mrs. Frost Torrence, Mrs. S. A. Robinson and Mrs. R. C. Warren left this morning in Mrs. Ragan's car ror Shelby, where they are spending tne day as the guests of Mrs. Clyde it. Hoey, who is giving a dinner in their honor. Thay will return to Gastonia this evening. s STl'HY CIA H MEETING WITH MHS. MOORE. The regular meeting of the Study Club is being held this afternoon with Mrs. H. B. Moore at her home on West Airline avenue. The topic for study is Porto Rico and the pro gram includes the following num bers: History and Inhabitants, by Mrs. Joe S. Wray. Physical Geo graphy and Cities, by Mrs. F. L. Wilson. Reading by Mrs. T. W. Wilson. Round Table Discussion. Religions of Porto Rico, led by Mrs. W. J. Clifford. I . C. CM 11 MEETS WITH MISS IH I F. The First meeting of the I'. C. Club for the fall season was held last Thursday afternoon with Miss P.irdie Duff at the residence of Mrs. T. W. Wilson on West Franklin av enue. The house was prettily dec orated for the occasion with baskets of roses. The topic for study was England, and interesting papers were read by Miss Ida Pursley, Mtb. A. E. Woltz and Mrs. S. J. Durham. The hostess was assisted in serving refreshments by Mrs. T. W. Wilson. . BRIDGE CM H MEETS WITH MISS PEGRAM. The Auction Bridge Club held a very enjoyable meeting last Friday afternoon at :'.:'.)) o'clock with Miss Jennie I'egiam at her home on South Hioad street. Besides the members of the club Mrs. J. Iean Adams. Mrs. C. K. Marshall and Miss Blanche Gray were present as invited guests. A delicious salad counv and tea were served. The meeting this week will be with Miss Nell Mi'L'an, and w ill be in honor or Miss Madelyn McCutcheon. of Rlcn mond. Va., who is expected to arrive Thursday night to be the guest or Miss Clara Armstrong. KINGS MOl XTAIX FLORAL I AIR. Wednesday and Thursday, Octo ber L".Mh and t'.nth. are the dates ror the annual lloral fair given by the ladies of Kings Mountain. The com mittee linvinir the fair in citar'ro, composed of Mrs. I. B. Goforth, Airs. R. C. Baker and Miss Crawford Sledge. requests The Gazette to state that the public is cordially In- i vited to attend and a warm welcome I is assured all who attend. This fair j conies on the two days just preced- ing the Gastonia fair. In the past a j large number of Gastonia ladies have attended the Kings Mountain fair and this will doubtless be tr.e case again this year. The exhibi tion of chrysanthemums and oilier flowers by the Kinus Mountain la dies is always unusually line and if is worth a trip to that good town to see them. w MI'SIC t M P. TO MEET WITH MRS. It. H. PARKER. At her home on West Second ave nue tomorrow afternoon at :!:t!0 o'clock Mrs. B. II. Parker will be the hostess at the meeting of the Music Club. Th' topic for study wiil he Coimod's Faust as an example of French Opera, and the following proL'iain will be rendered: Round Table discussion of Gounod. led by Mrs. W. T. Rankin. The Opera. Mrs. Frost Torrence. Vo.al Trio. Marguerite Waltz. Mrs. .1. M. Holland. Mrs. H. Rutter, Miss Torrence. Violin Solo. Faust Fantasia, Miss Lil!i;n Atkins. Vocal Polo. Flower Pong, Miss Jane Morris. Vocal Solo. Jewel Song, Mrs. H. B. Moore. I,;;ino Duet. Soldier's Chorus. Mrs. F. D. Hark ley and Mrs. B. IL Par ker. V l. A. IL MET WITH MRS. KOIUXSOV. A very interesting and enjoyable meeting of the William Gaston Chap ter. P. A. It., was held last Friday afternoon with Mrs. S. A. Robinson at her home on South York street. Mrs. George W. Wilson's paier on ' Short Descriptions of Spanish Cit ies and History of Spain at the Time of Ferdinand and Isabella" was react by Miss Mary Ragan. Mrs. Rufus M. Johnston read a highly Interest ing paper on "The Inventions and Discoveries of the Fifteenth Centu rv and How They Have Influenced tiie World." Mrs. P. R. Falls gave a d light f ill reading from Irvine's Ai hanibra. Mrs. George A. Sparro" and Mrs. R. M. Johnston, as regent, were elected delegates to the State meeting to be held with Liberty Hall Chapter in Charlotte on November 4th. Mrs. P. R. Falls and Mrs. Geo. W. Ragan were elected alternates. Two new members, Mrs. J. F. Thom son, of this city, and Mrs. T. M. McCoy, of Mount Holly, were pres ent. Special prices on Furniture, Stove and House-furnishings at Gastonia Furniture Company. Entire Hay Yesterday Sent on Small Case In Which Sum Awarded by Jury Was $lil.fl0 Judge Webb Presiding Criminal Term Next Wevk, Followed by Another Week of Civil Court Many Cases fon tinued as Usual The Calendar of Hvil Cases as It Stands. Gaston County Superior Court for the trial of civil cases convened yes terday morning with Judge James L. Webb, of Shelby, presiding. The entire day was sient in the trial of one case, Carter vs. Key, which had been on the docket for quite a long time. The trial resulted in the Jury awarding damages to the extent or $l.."i() to the plaintiff. There were nine cases on the calendar for trial yesterday. Of this nymber one was tried, two were held over till today, namely Robinson vs. Huffstetler and Rivet & Stud Co. vs. Craig & Wil son. The other six were continued either till later in this term or till the next term of court. On today's calendar there are sev en cases. Of this number it Is ex pected that probably one will be tried, namely Carolina & Nortn western Railway Co. vs. Carpenter. Three of the seven. It is understood have been compromised, the defend ant in each of these three being the Piedmont Traction Company. Below is given the calendar ror Wednesday, Thursday and Friday or this week. No cases are scheduled for Saturday. Also lxdow are given the cases scheduled for trial week after next. Next week will be devot ed to the trial of criminal cases. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER l.'.TIL Capell VB. Capell. Gaston County vs. York Bridge Company. Balthls vs. Carpenter and Tuttle. Taylor & Co. vs. Frazier-Wetzell Co. Weaver vs. Rayfleld. Brewing Co. vs. White. Whitney, Fuller et al vs. White. THURSDAY. OCTOBER K.TH. Suinmey vs. Abernethy & Howard. Starr vs. Cotton Oil Company. Lent z vs. Piedmont Traction Co. Tailoring Co. vs. Houser. Piedmont Traction Co. vs. Mc Arver. Ford, Admr. vs. Sulphur Co. Sisk vs. W. U. Telegraph Co. Rodgers vs. Gray Mfg. Company. FRIDAY. OCTOBER I7TH. Standard Oil Co. vs. W. S. Robin son. Kinley vs. Kinley. Clem r vs. S. A. L. Ry. Co. Perry vs. Monarch Cotton Mill. Deal vs. Avon Mills. Ideal Grocery Co. vs. (iinard. nl, ins vs. Southern Ry. Co. Rhyne vs. C K N.-W. Ry. en. Itoss vs. Ross. MONDAY. OCTOBER '' 7 T H . West vs. Foreman. Dick son vs. Kendrlck. Hudson vs. I.oftin. Bethel vs. Drainage Commission. Bovter vs. Glenn. . Mitchem vs. Mitchem. W right vs. Carson. Swift vs. Swift. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2STH. Anthony vs. Poag. Groves vs. Southern Railway Co. Vandvke vs. Farrls. Purkey vs. C. & .:.-V. Ry Co. Lowell Cotton Mills vs. Maryland Casualty Co. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER L'OTH. New some vs. Sanders Spinning ' 'om pan y. Tharp vs. Southern Railway Co. Sunimey vs. C. & N'.-W. Railway. THURSDAY, OCT. HIE R o T I L Fayssoux vs. C. & N'.-W. Railwav. Williams vs. C. & N'.-W. Railway. Morrow vs. Southern Ry. Co. White, Aclmx. vs. Fayssoux et al. Robinson vs. Melville Mfg. Co. Carpenter vs. Vivian Cotton Mill. Thomas vs. Gaston County. Baltimore Bargain House vs. Fa rns worth. IAMSEUH-PATTEIISO WEIUHNfJ WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The following from last Satur day's Shelby Highlander will be oT special interest to many of our read ers : "At S o'clock Wednesday evening, at the home of the bride near Kings Mountain, Miss Bessie Ie Patter son beanie the bride of Hillis W. Ramseur, of New Orleans, La. Rev. Thos. D. Bateman. of Shelby, per formed the ceremony that linked trie lives of these fine young people. The wedding was one of the most beau tiful occasions of the season and many friends of the popular couple were present. Mr. and Mrs. Ram saur left on No. 20 for New Orleans, where they will make their future home. "The bride is one of Cleveland county's fairest and most accomplish ed young women, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Patterson. Mr. Ramseur is the son of Mr. Wil liam Ramseur, of near Bessemer City, and is a young man of sterling qualities. He now holds a responsi ble position In New Orleans, with one of the largest lumber companies of Loulsana. The best wishes of hundreds of friends follow the hap py young couple to their far South ern home." line of guaranteed Ranees, Stoves nd TTeters at Gastonia Fur niture Company. Steamer Yolturno, from Hamburg to New York, Hums in Mld-AtLantl and l:MI Perish Heroism Sareg from Watery Graves Ten nig Liners Itespond to Wireless Call for Help Hut Heavy Sea Makes it Imintssible for Them to lo Much. An Associated Press dispatch from Iindon dated Saturday and appear ing in the morning papers of Sunday said that not since the Titanic sank has Europe been so thrilled as by a wireless message today telling of the burning of the steamship Volturno la mid-Atlantic with a loss so far as is at present known of 13.1 lives and the rescue of .121. The survivors are now aboard a fleet of steamers summoned by the Volturno's call for help, some of which are bound eastward and others westward. The Volturno sailed from Rotter dam on October 2 for New York. According to the official statement, she carried 22 first cabin passengers, ,i:is steerage and a crew numbering it i'. The rescue ships reached the scene of the disaster in plenty of time to save all, but for hours stood by the blazing vessel, impotent be cause of the storm, to reach the ag onized men, women and children c rowding the after part of the snip, a stom.'s throw away. All night Thursday the lifeboats made a desperate effort to get along side the Volturno but the waves beat them bac k again and again and not until the storm abated at daylight Friday did the rescuers succeed In removing the survivors from the doomed ship. Even now only tho fringe of one of the most thrilling tales of the seaB is available. Ex actly how the rescue was effected Is not known. The Volturno was well equipped with boats, sufficient, the agents say, for 1.000 eople, but the boisterous sea or lack of boat drill, or panic among the passengers, prevented tho successful employment of them. The rescue ships were able to lower life boats, but apparently most of the boats launched from the Volturno were smashed or upset and the oc cupants drowned. Two of the boats, crowded with passengers, are reported to have got away but a senrch for them has proved fruitless and they have prac tically been given up as lost. The steamer Carmanla, bound from New York for Liverpool, was 7S miles away when the call for help wns sounded. Captain Harr ordered full steam, and drove threugh the seas at 20 knots an hour. The Car mania was first of the fleet to reach the burning vessel. She was follow ed by La Touraine, Minneapolis, Rappahannock, Czar, Narragansett, Devonian, Kroonland. Grosser, Kur fuersta and Seydlltz at various hours through the day. Hut the 'escuing vessels could get neither lino nor lifeboat to the Volturno, tne forward part of which was almost hidden by a dense cloud of smoKe when the Carmanla arrived. The burning steamer lay In the trough of the sea. pounding helpless ly with her propellers fouled by tne boat's tackle. The terrified passen gers were huddled together as far as It was possible to get from the flames while throughout the day tne oflcersjand crew fought desperately w'th whatever appliances at hand to hold the fire in (heck. Night came on and the seas abated only slightly. The hopelessness of the situation was manifested at 0 o'clock In tne evening, when a great explosion tore away a part of the upper worKs ana flames bust from the engine room. It then became a matter of how long the Volturno would stay above the waters. Meanwhile several of the terrified passengers, wrapped In life buoys, dropped into the sea. One ot tnem was taken aboard the Carmania. It irnv be that others found a haven with other vessels of the fleet but some undoubtedly were swept away. When day broke the Volturno was still afloat. The gale had moderated and the seas had calmed down. From the encircling steamers life Doats were sent out and into these tne women and children were lowered first. Several trips was necessary before the survivors were removed. Ixmdon. Oct. 12. Forty of the 136 persons lost from the steamship Volturno in mid-Atlantic were in the two boats which succeeded in get ting away from the burning vessel and which without doubt were swamped. The majority of the other persons who lost their lives were In four other boats which were smash ed against the steamer's sides in 'at tempts to launch them. All this occurred before the artTT al of the Carmania and the other li ners summoned by wireless calls for help. The Carmanla with one lone survivor of the Volturno aboard found it too rough to stop at Queenstown and is proceeding dt rect to Fishguard. From that sur vivor, however, conies a thrilling story of tke burning of the steamer, of the terror, the struggle for;; tne boats, the death of those who went over the sides and his own desper ate fleht for life. GIVES VIVID DESCRIPTION. Arthur Spurgeon, a passenger on (Continued on page 8.)