EIGHT MEDFOBD (0P.EG3N) MAIL TRIBUNE
Fridsy, July 27, 1958
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Ship Collision Survivors Tell
Of Experiences, Feelings at Sea
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By UNITED PRESS
Quotas from -:,rv:vor- c-f An
rlrfa Doria-Storkholm colls.'iwv.
Ann Burrows. Univfrsit
Wisconsin s'udr-rit- ' It was ?
panic. It was hell "
of
Max Passant, D n
gist: ''The few instnir-'
v.fTP givrn in I'alian
ppople couldn't u n d
thprn."
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and mo-!
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never so, it.
Paola Sergio of Soi;:h fVnd.
Ir.d : ' We were going to bed. I
ran out of the cabin and saw
smoke in the corridors. V.V
heard somebody shouting. 'Aban
don ship!' ''
Mrchftntv:!le. X.J.: 'Suddenly
i'. ''he fe cirared. I don't know
what y. would have done if that
hadn't happened."
Mayor Richardson Dilworth
of Philadelphia: ' The slan'ma
rif-cks werr- like ski slides and
lots of passengers got badly
bruised."
Actress Rulh Roman: "All of
a sudden, there was an explo
sion like a firecracker I knew
something had happen'-d but I
didn't know what.-'
Jerome Reinerl. Brookh n en
gineer: "Kvorvhoriv had to et
fi'-v.'il tr.e side bv r'r, : j- la'Uirrs
Eetsy Drake, actress wife- of
Cary Grant: "I was just gelling
ready for bed when all of a sud
den there was a big bang.
Evrrv'hing flew across iht-room."
Gay Barton of New Orleans:
"Four of us were in the cocktail
lounge when he heard a terrific
crash. We ran outside and then
waited two hours until we were
rescued."
Purser Anionio Comichi: ' Pas
sengers behaved heroicallv."
.Some oi
some c;
ladders.
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and
the
Stanley Sanger of Baltimore-:
"There are more people dead
than they say. Don't let them
fool you. A lot died in the cab
ins whfire the Stockholm hit the
boat under the bridge."
Sidney G. Ellis of Sacramento.
Calif., construction company of
ficial: "There seemed to be con
fusion between the officers of
the Andrea Dona and the crewmen
Mrs. Rosa Adragna of Pitts
burgh. Pa : "I was sure that I
was going to die, that everything
was all over.''
Lena Scianninanic of New
York: "I was afraid, all right,
but not panicky."
Conrad Mangels of Jackson
ville, Fla.: "We prayed and we're
thankful we were spared."
Morris Novik, pi-e:,:rirn' of ra
dio station WOV. New York:
"There was no lar'-scaie panic
8nd everybody seemed to help
one another,"
Dr. Franco A. Fusco. Genoa.
3taly, a Kulbnght scholar: "It
cgs like a thunderclap. There
as a great shock. We stood in
(tiie dark, waiting for news. We
Mrs. Delores Sejda of ('nos
ier. Ph.- "We never did sec any
crewmen. Nobody cor told es
to put. e,n our life pp servers V. e
didn't even know the siup wa.,
sinking. "
Julia Strelitz of Marion. Ohio:
"There was a double crunch as
the Stockholm hit us on the sUir-i
board side. It was like bumping
into a dock."
Kenneth F. Merlin of Darien.
Conn.: The officers of the Doria
did .a izood job "
P'rances Aljinovic of Cleve
land: "Naturally we thought
about the Titanic."
Charles Annino of Chicago: "It
.'.as panic nut there and the crew
acted awful."
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'Next fo Impossible'
Washington U R Navy sal
vage experts said Thursday it
would be "next to impossible"
to raise the sunken Italian liner
Andrea Doria from its grave 225
feet beneath the surface of the
Atlantic.
The experts said the depth
itself is no unstirmountable ob
stacle The Navy onre brought
a submarine up from more than
300, feet.
But a Navy spokesman said "a
submarine is comparatively easy
to salvage. It's built to travel
underwater anyway and can be
made buoyant again without
natch trouble.
"But a ship the size of that
Italian liner is nothing but a
pile of junk when she hits bot
tom," he said.
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Passports, Money,
I Clothes and Other
Valuables Missing
New York 'U P) A thousand !
i survivors of the sunken Andrea
Doria came ashore here in the
I last 24 hours with a single thing
I in common they had lost every
; thing.
i There were burly Mike Ruti
i gliano and gentle Sister Maria
Collistus, suave Lucio Vizzini
land vivacious young Delores
Sejda. None of them owned
more when they set foot ashore
than they could carry in their
hands.
Mike Rutigliano carried a
dirty bundle wrapped in news
papers. "My shirt and pants." he said
holding them high in his hand.
He wore a pair of dungarees and
a sweatshirt borrowed from a
crewman of the He de France.
Lost Clothes, Money
"I saved my passport," he
said. "But I don't have one dol
lar or one suit of clothes. I don't
even know where I'll sleep to
night. Sister Collistus clung to a
handful of letters and a rosary.
Her habit was in disarray. But
she was happy and cheerful.
"We prayed aloud on this
rosary while we waited for the
lifeboats," she said. "I remember
we prayed the Glorious Mys
teries. It was Wednesday, you
know. That is the day for the
Glorious Mysteries."
Has Place To Stay
Sister Collistus said she felt
lucky. We don't have any money
but we have a place to stay. We
have a reservation in the Mar
tha Washington Hotel. I'm going
there now."
Lucio Vizzini wore the same
suit, shirt and tie that he had
on when he was dancing aboard
the Andrea Doria. It was neat
and well tailored . . . with a
black oil streak across the back.
"I lost my passport and my
money, my baggage and my sou
venirs," he said. "Do you know
how much money I have. Look."
He showed two one dollar bills
carefully folded in an address
book.
Furs, Passport Gone
"My uncle will meet me here.
He'll take care of me. I don't
have to worry," he said.
Delores Sejda, a lovely 24-year-old
blonde daughter of a
doctor, carried only a pair of
high-heeled shoes.
"They're my mother's," she
said. "But I don't know where
mother is. She must have been
picked up by another rescue
ship."
Delores said she had had 15
pieces of luggage . . . and saved
nothing.
"I didn't even save my glasses."
she said. "It's hard to see with
out them. All my furs, my pass
port, everything is lost. But my
father saved some money. He
tucked it inside his life preserver."
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Sea Rescue Operations
Praised by Captain
.verythin
Gone
New York -UP.) The man
who directed rescue operations
at the Andrea Doria for almost
six hours said today it was a
"miracle" so many were saved.
Capt. John S. Shea, command
er of the USNS Pvt. William H.
Thomas, said that in his 30 years
at sea he had never seen a rescue
operation proceed so smoothly.
"It is certainly unusual to get
so many survivors off a sinking
ship safely," he said. "If this
happened four months from now
it would be a different story. In
cold weather there would be
lives lost. You could bet on it."
Shea said visibility was dead
zero when his ship received an
SOS message from the Doria.
By the time we got to the ship
fat 1:23 a.m. EDT) the visibility
had cleared to three miles.
"A thing like that would hap
pen once in a lifetime," he said.
"If the fog hadn't lifted when
it did it would have been bad
. . . very bad."
The rescue ship Thomas sent
two motor launch lifeboats to
the Doria twice each and took
off 158 survivors. Some they
fished out of the water. Many
Experimental Car
Lost in Sinking
Detroit U.R; A S100.000
"idea" car went down in ttie At
lantic ocean with the Italian
luxury liner Andrea Doria.
Chrysler Corp. announced
Thursday.
The car. named the "Nors
man," was more than two years
in the making. It was on Chrys
ler drawing boards for a year
and it took another 15 months
to hand-build it in Italy.
The car was in the hold of the
Italian liner 200 feet underwater
off Nantucket Island. Mass.
Chrysler said the car. a com
plete loss, was covered by insurance.
Designed by Chrysler Corp.
engineering division, the car was
built by Ghia of Turin. Italy
classic sports car designers and
builders.
The car had no door posts but
cantilever arches on each side
held the top from the rear with
the same strength of present cars
with front posts. Rear body pan
els were made of aluminum to
reduce weight. The body was
streamlined along aerodynamic
principles.
they took from the stern of the
sinking ship, the last part of the
stricken vessel to go down.
Shea said it wasn't necessary
to direct the lifeboats of the
other rescue ships. He said they
all displayed perfect seaman
ship. The captain's report of the
fog lifting at the exact critical
time was born out by the sur
vivors on his ship.
"The fog was so thick you
couldn't see the people on the
deck," one survivor said. "After
the crash we all began to pray.
We prayed so hard. And then, as
if in answer to our prayers, the
fog lifted. The moon came out.
the water was calm, and we felt
hope again."
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Newscaster Doesn't Tell
All in Describing Disaster
New York U.Ri Edward
P. Morgan left something out of
his ABC news broadcast Thurs
day night.
Morgan, broadcasting from
New York instead of Washing
ton, told how relatives and news
men waited anxiously for word
of survivors taken from the
stricken Andrea Doria.
He told of how newsmen
boarded the He de France off
New York harbor. And how they
were able to spot the survivors
among the persons standing on
the deck by seeing "here a shirt
tail sticking out, here a banaged
hand."
He saw a friend, Morris Novik,
who had been on the Andrea
Doria and "threw my arms
around him." Then he went to
the liner's infirmary to see Mrs.
Jane Cianfarra, wife of Camille
Cianfarra, the New York Times
correspondent in Madrid.
Mrs. Cianfarra told him how
the Stockholm had smashed into
their cabin, splitting it in half.
Mrs. Cianfarra's husband and
two daughters were cut off in
the other half and have not been
seen since. They are presumed to
be dead.
Then he told of how He de
France passengers donated shoes,
clothing and money to the sur
vivors. And the eyewitness ac
counts of the tragedy.
"It's a horrible thing but an
inspiring thing to see how people
react in a time of tragedy," Mor
gan concluded.
He did not say on his broad
cast that Mrs. Cianfarra is his
former wife, and that one of the
two girls believed to be dead is
his 14-year-old dauughter, Linda.
But the story had still another
unexpected development. When
the Stockholm arrived in New
York carrying survivors from the
Andrea Doria, it was discovered
that Linda was aboard and had
miraculously escaped death. She
had been injured and was taken
immeditely to a hospital for
emergency treatment.
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Ends Actress' Ordeal
New York (U.Ri Movie act
less Ruth Roman saw a small,
brown-haired, bewildered little
boy at the rail of the damaged
liner Stockholm and knew her
ordeal was over.
"Dickie." she shouted from
the pier where she had waited
with a mother's fear and anxiety.
A shy smile broke over the
tear-streaked face of her son,
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the last group of survivors from
the sunken liner Andrea Doria.
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separated when they scrambled
from the sinking liner. She hand
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lifeboat and it pulled away,
leaving her hanging on a ladder
on the side of the listing ship.
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it went to a different rescue ship
than that of her son.
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