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Last week the Ward Line, now operating as New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., offered to pay about 400 claimants against it an average of about $3,000 apiece. Of this $1,250,000 total, $890,000 would go to Morro Castle plaintiffs and the balance to Mohawk plaintiffs. In the case of the Morro Castle, which burned in September 1934 with a loss of 124 lives, about 80 suits have been entered for passenger deaths, 30 for crew deaths, 225 for personal injuries. Claims in the case of the Mohawk, which a few months after the first tragedy collided...
Last week in Manhattan it took a Federal Court jury which had spent ten weeks listening to evidence on the burning of the T. E. L. Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast in September 1934, scarcely ten hours to reach a verdict...
Convicted of criminal negligence were The New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., operator of the Ward liner; Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud, the shore official in charge of safeguarding the Morro Castle; Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, the two chief officers of the ship which took 124 lives...
...jury decided otherwise after hearing that; 1) The Morro Castle was not thoroughly inspected in port because she did not stay long enough. 2) Fire drills were rarely held, never thoroughly. 3) Fire-fighting equipment was in such poor shape as to be virtually useless. 4) Mr. Cabaud knew the regulations were not complied with, ignored them in order to keep the liner busy. 5) Captain Warms had no command over his crew, which was completely disorganized. 6) During the fire, he hesitated too long in sending out an SOS, failed to tend to the passengers until too late, handled...
...Brooklynite helped organize the Dixie Club, whose object was "to cheer the other passengers by singing and drinking." Mrs. Beatrice L. Carter of Cambridge, Mass, brooded on the "premonition" which had kept her off the Mohawk and Morro Castle, warned her against the Dixie. A North Bergen, N. J. man passed the time writing his experiences for the New York Times. Sewage and sea water had by this time risen knee-deep in the staterooms. When it had spread its stench and filth into the public rooms, a band of women got down on their knees, tried to scrub...