Captain Carey, himself, finally re-tuted the allegations of his subordinate officers.
The skipper of the President Cleve-and declared that a high sea was running and that the vessel was slow in backing up to a position suficient~ ly close to the Morro Castle to get over her lifeboats.
"The President Cleveland's gear is lout of date," Captain Carey sai explaining the delay in putting her boats in the water.
Further testimony with regard to the alleged incompetent manner in which the crisis was met by Acting Captain William Warms and other officers of the Morro Castle was given by Rafael Torres, a watchman on the Mlestarred vessel.
These latest accusations dealt with the failure of the Morro Castle to fulfil legal requirements regarding fire drill, as a result of which it was alleged that members of the crew were unprepared to deal with such emergency.—United Press 'William Price, a New York policeman, who was' passenger aboard the Morro Castle, declared that, after his wife had been lowered into' the water, a lifeboat refused to pick her and she was drowned.
Price said he saw a member of the crew of the Morro Castle standing on the rail "about to jump. The policeman pulled his gun and told him, "You're a dead man if you jump." The man did not jump—Reuter.
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