The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, July 30, 1915, Page SEVEN, Image 7
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SURVIVORS' STORIES
REVEAL FILL HORROR
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Rescued From Imminent Death, Passengers
Tell of Harrow Escapes
and of Seeing Hundreds
Lose Liies.
Ciicago, July 24.?How the great
hulk of the Eastland, weighted with its
2,500 passengers, careened and threw
hundreds of its occupants to death in
the water of tf:e Chicago river was
graphically told by survivors. Most
of them were able to tell little beyond
the facts of their own escapes, but
these incidents go to make up a terrifying
picture of woe and death.
L. D. Gadory, employed as a cand
" butcher" on tJ-e steamer, was the first
eyewitness to tell a detailed story of
the accident.
"It was about 7:40 o'clock this morning
and the boat was lying at the dock
near Clark street bridge load ng with
^ passengers," said Gadory. "Vvle were
m to leave in 20 minutes and the upper
f deck and cabins were crowded with
passengers. T:ere were hundreds of
women and children. I estimate that
. there were between 2,000 and 3,000 on
the boat at the time of the accident. I
i was standing on the lower deck near
ft the gangplank watching the people
come aboard.
R Listed and Rolled.
"Suddenly I noticed the boat list toward
the middle of the river. It rolled
slightly at first and then seemed to
stop. Then it started to roll again. I
shouted to tf:e crowd to keep still. ApI
parently a majority of the passengers
were on one side of the boat and this
had overweighted it and caused it to
list. The hawsers wfaich held the boat
to the dock snapped and the offilers
^ pulled the gang plank in and refused to
allow any more on the boat.
"At this time everybody was panicstricken,
women screamed and men
tried to quiet them. I ran back to the
port side where tJ:e gangway had been.
The boat then slowly drifted away
from the dock, rolling as it slipped into
midstream, and a moment later it tad
turned over on its side. I climbed
v over on the side of the boat and stayed
there until I was taken off by life
savers. ,
"Many of tfce passengers leaped into
the water as the tpat went over.
Scores of others were caught in the
. cabins and drowned. When the small
boats began coming out to us I worked j
with other survivors in taking pas- j
k c-pnP'Prc nut nf water and cutting!
f
1 holes in the cabins to remove bodies."
Mrs. Paulne Vantak, mother of three
children, was among the drowned. Her
children were believed to have been
lost. Henry Vantak, her Lnsband, was
pulled out of the water.
Could >ot Believe It.
"I could not believe the boat was
turning o?>er," Vantak said. "About a
dozen of the 15 persons on the upper
^ decks jumped." 'lhe rest were thrown
into the river.
"I did not see my wife or children
after tl-e boat turned. They were carried
into the river with the crowd.
Some one grabbed me around the neck
and kept pulling me. It was a woman,
but I couid not save her."
Policeman Henry Sasher, one of the
first to go to the rescue, said: "1 saw
scores of men and women, many holdinor
?! ilrfron nliinpro into the water. I i
?o > ?
jumped }nto a rowboat and pulled to
tile drowning. I think I got about 50
ashore.
"The fire boat and tugs hurried to
the scene and picked up more than a
hundred people."
Capt. Henry Pedersen, 57 years old,
in command of fl:e boat, said:
* "I was on the bridge about ready to
pull out when I noticed the boat began
to list. I shouted orders to open
the gangways nearest the dock and
give the people a chance to get out.
The boat continued to roll and shortly
afterward the hawsers broke and the
I steamer turned over on its side and
L was drifting toward the middle of the
liver.
"When she went over I jumped and
held on to tfce upper side. It all* hapB
pened in two minutes. The cause is
a mystery to me. I have sailed the
W likes for 25 years and previous to that
mailed on salt water 12 years, and this
K is the first serious accident I ever had.
I do not know how it happened."
Chief Steward Albert Wycoff said:
"I was in the lunch room on the
i main deck when I noticed the boat
k beginning to list. Dishes fell out of
^ the rack and a scene of wild exciteH|
merit followed. I shouted for the people
to save themselves. A moment later
"^Tlumped into the water and managed
w to rescue three women."
William Barrett, a deck hand, said:
I "I was ready on the main deck at the
"I was on the main deck at the
boat started to list. I shouted warnings
to tlbe passengers around me and
tried to let go the hawser.. When the
*?K^t went over I climbed on the upper
side and helped to get.a cumber of
passengers into boats. It all -happened
in a few minutes.'
(Mrs. Emma QtDonn^ll of 'Berwyn,
111., said: "The steamer was getting
ready to leave and was crowded with
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excursionists. Tfce officers of the boat trie company's empl
pushed back the crowds which were city today. We had t
around the gangplank, in order to pull land, Petosky, The
it in. I think this "was what caused Racine and Maywoo
the boat to list. It never stopped after was the first boat
it started to roll and a few moments docks were crowded
later it was out in tlie middle of the who were to be tal
river on its side. I saw dozens of peo- boats nearby. One Un
pie drown around me, but was unable boat inspector and
to give assistance. By a great effort watched the Eastlam
I was able to climb on the upper side at the gangway and
of the boat and managed to hold on sengers as they we]
until taken off by rescuers." report shows there v
Trr gers on the Eastlanc
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Indiana Transportation company, who und^r tlle United Stal
was in charge of the excursion, said: ulations. I have no i
, _ , dent occurred."
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for the excursion of the Western Elec- fee^ away when the t
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oyes to Michigan j over. Some of the mer. on the boat
he steamers East- J were loosening some of the ropes. 11
odore Roosevelt, noticed one Ibeavy cable. still fast to'
d. The Eastland the stern. Then the boat began turnto
lead, and tlbe ing over on its side."
with passengers "Nine girls and I were in a stateten
on the other room having a little party of our own
ited States steam- and all of a sudden we felt the boat
. two assistants going over," said Miss Lottie Anderson.
1 load. They stood "We all fell into a heap. Screams
counted tlbe pas- of women in the other staterooms were
it aboard. Their j maddening. I fell into the water and
rere 2,500 passen-1 did not see my sister or any one of tJbe
I, its full capacity others after, that." ( 3
tes steamboat reg- Jose Brozak was saved, because his
idea how tine acci- coat caught on a nail. "My c<?at caught
on a nail when the boat went over and
) saw the accident I was held above tfce water," he said.
. was standing 100 "If it had not been for the nail I
>oat began to turn would now be at the bottom of the
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river, I suppose, with the four others husban
of my party." pitched
Among those rescued was W. J. and Ha
Plamondon, an electrical engineer and hold or
cousin of Charles 'A. Plamon-don, who, Mr. Th
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with his wire, lost nis me in uie ijuaitania
disaster. "My :
Mrs. William Peterson, wife of a were s
foreman at the Western Electric com- and all
pany, was pulled through; a port hole she sai
of the sihip to safety.
"I was pulled clear under water, and ^
when I came to the surface I saw two
bands reaching out of a port hole. They raj^:a
pulled me through. I don't know ?oraj,
whetfcer my husband, daughter and ?ores
sister-in-law were saved or not." zema
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of clinging to her two children, Henry, __
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husband and I and tfte children,
tanding together on the deck
fell into the water in a heap,"
d. MI am a good swimmer."
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