Deck officers of the Dollar liner President Cleveland unanimously placed responsibility for the deaths fof a large number of victims of the Morro Castle disaster squarely upon the shoulders of the commander of their own vessel, Captain Robert Carey, in testimony given to-day at the Federal inquiry into the most disastrous fire in the history of the American merchant marine.
One after another, the chief officer, the first, second and third officers, gave testimony that Captain Carey bad displayed pitiful indecision in a moment of acute crisis, but for which many, of those who drowned after leaping from the inferno of the [Morro Castle might have been picked up.
The Chief Ofcer, Mr. Dwight Randall, second in command of the President Cleveland, testified that the President Cleveland stood idly by while scores foundered in the sea, without lowering a boat for 48 min= utes after the vessel arrived by the faming Morro Castle.
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