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VOL, XXVI MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 241912 NO. 41 vater and consequently the pas ;engers were required to embark be ore lowering boats, thus endanger ng the operations and preventing he taking on of the maximum num-! %er the boats would hold. Boais at ill times to be properly equipped vith provisions, water, lamps, com )asses, lights. etc. "Life-saving boat drills should be nore frequent and thoroughly car ied out; and officers should be armed Lt boat drills. Greater reduction in peed in fog and ice, as damage, if ollision actually occurs, is liable to >e less. In conclusion we suggest hat an international conference be -alled to recommend the passage of dentical laws providing for the safe y of all at sea and we urge the Inited States government to take the nitiative as soon as possible." The statement was signed by Sam el Goldenberg. chairman, and a ommittee of some 25 passengers. Many Police on Duty. In a drizzling rain. 250 policemen athered early at the Cunard line *iers at west Fourteenth street and orth river, preparatory to hand ng the crowds. Inspector McClus ey was in charge of the squad and opes dotted with green lights were tretched for 75 yards in front of the ers to hold back the throng. No ne without a special permit was al wed beyond these ropes. As early s 8 o'clock automobiles, in which eiled women and silent men were eated, began arriving, and by 8:30 small crowd had already entered e great steel and concrete struc are which covers the piers. The police regulations were made iore rigid as the evening wore on. .11 traffic on West street, directly in -ont of the piers, was diverted at ourteenth street on the north and t Thirteenth street on the south. nother line was drawn on the east t Eleventh avenue. Thus the block umediately in front of the piers as held sacred to those immediately :ncerned in the tragedy. Shortly efore S o'clock, news came that the arpathia was passing the statue of iberty. At that hour more than 50 utomobiles were parking in front of ie piers. The early arrival of the Carpathia : quarantine surprised even the cus )ms officers. 150 of whom were on te pier under the direction of Gen. elson P. Henry, surveyor of the :rt, who came to facilitate the land ig of the surveyors. Five hundred -iends and relatives had gathered side the pier sheds at S:30 o'clock, king up their positions under the Litial of the name of the survivor. he Carpathia at this time was a uarter of a mile down the Hudson ad drawing near the docks. A 1 ream of people was filing into the. ler entrance, and automobiles con nued to take their places in the reet. There were 1.000 persons in these ieds at 8:45 o'clock, many of whom ere weeping. Outside, the automo iles kept piling up. The Carpathia as off the end of the pier ready to ock at :55. The pilot of a tugboat agaged -to assist in warping her in anounced that she could not dock ntil the lifeboats were taken off. large number of Sisters of Charity -om the various hospitals arrived in number of ambulances. A commis oner of immigration was present expedite the landing of a number f steerage passengers. At 9:10 1ere was an agonized wailing, while le boat was being slowly warped ito her berth. Crowd Seemed Awed. The scene at this time in and bout the great pier was one of great nimation and eager expectancy. The rowd had steadily augmented, but aere was perfect order and an awed ir of waiting. Automobiles con nued to arrive in numbers and the rowd about the entrance to the pier iaintained a respectful silence. Eithin the vast enclosure the conm any of people, notwithstanding the recautions and the limit which had laced upon the number of passes is ued was dense but serious and or As the Carpathia was passing into er slip she was surrounded by news aper boats and there were frequent ashes from cameras which were aking flash lights on the rescue ship, unctuating the silence like a series f bombs. The great ship came up lowly and bad a hard time docking. ler decks were black with passen -ers. There was a notable absence f the hilarity and excitement usual e attendant upon an ocean liner's rrival. An air of solemnity was added to e scene by the presence of scores f white clad hospital attendants :!th stretchers, while, prepared for he worst, there mingled in the brong attaches from the coroner's af. Many invalid chairs also were oled up to the entrance and placed a waiting for those unable to walk., Vhen the ship docked at 9:30 thef :ang plank was quickly lowered and he doctors and nurses went aboard. he first survivors begaa? to leave he ship at 9:35. As they came into he street a dead silence fell over the ,rowd and even the flash light bat ery for a moment ceased its bom >ardent. Sister Had Brothiers Arrested. Frank Kinsey and William Kinsey f the Sniders section of Colleton "ounty, are in jail at Walterboro, aving been committed by Magistrate Rt. G. V. Bryan. Frank Kinsey i harged with hat'ing committed an ssault on his sister, Mviss Carolina t. Kinsey, with intent to kill. Wil :am Kinsey is charged with having~ :aken a horse from the same Miss: insey, his sister also. Concrete H1omes for Gary. One hundred concrete houses, the kind Edison wishes to have for work men, will be built a: Gary. Ind., this spring. They will cost .t5T.000 and will not be used by ordinary work men. They will be occupied instead by officials anid high salaried rollers f he tin pate mills. DETAILS Of WRECK OBTAINED FROM SURVIVORS ON THE CARPATHIA, TELLS OF HEROIC ACTS Staff Correspondent of New York Newspaper, Passenger on Rescue Ship, Gives Graphic Description of Terrible Scenes Enacted Before Monster of the Sea Disappeared. How the Titanic sank is told by Charles F. Hurd, a staff correspond ent of the New York Evening World, ho was ' passenger on the Car pa:hia. He gives the number of lives ost as 1,700. He praises highly the ourage of the crew, hundreds of whom gave their lives with a hero ism which equalled, but could not ex eed, the account says, that of John Jacob Astor. Henry B. Harris, Jac :ues Futrelle, and others in the long ist of first cabin passengers. It was the explosion of the boilers, ccording to Mr. Hurd's account, hich finally finished the Titanic's :areer. The bulkhead system, though probably working, prevailed only to ielay the ship's sinking. The posi ion of the ship's wound on the star board quarter admitted icy water, rcording to Hurd's story, which yaused the boilers to explode and :hese explosions broke the ship in :wo. "The crash against the iceberg, hich had been sighted at only a iuarter mile distance, came almost timultaneously with the click of the evers operated from the bridges, vhich stopped the engines and closed he water-tight doors. Capt. Smith as on the bridge a moment later, ummoned all on board to put on life reservers, and ordered the lifeboats owered. The first boats had more nale passengers, as the men were the irst to reach the deck. When the -ush of frightened men and women ind crying children to the decks be an. the 'women first' rule was rigid y enforced. "The officers drew revo've:s. but n most cases there was no use for heni. Revolver shots heard shortly yefore the Titanic went down caused lany rumors. one that Capt. Smith ad shot himself, another that First )fficer Murdock had ended his life. >ut members of the crew discredit hese rumors. Capt. Smith was last een on The bridge just before the bip sank. leaping only after the ecks had been washed away. What ecame of the men with the life pre ervers was a question asked by many ince the disaster. Dead Bodies on Surface. "Many of these with life preserv rs were seen to go down despite he preservers, and dead bodies float d on the surface as the boats moved way. Mrs. Isador Straus refused to eave her husband's side and both ershed together. Harold Cotton, darconi operator on the Carpathia, id not go to bed at his usual time unday night and, as a result, caught he first message of the Titanic's slight. which was responsible for say g the hundreds of rescued 'who vere landed in New York. It was estified by several survivors that he Titanic was going 23 knots an iour when she crashed into the ice >erg. "That the Titanic's officers knew everal hours before .the crash of the ossible nearness of the icebergs. hat the Titanic's speed, nearly 23 nots an hour, was not slackened. hat the number of lifeboats on the itanic was insufficient to accommo lae more than one-third of the pas tengers, to say nothing of the crew. tost members of the crew say there vere sixteen lifeboats and two col apsibles; none say there were more han twenty boats in all. The 700 ho escaped filled most of the six en lifeboats, and the one collapsible which got away, to the limit of their apaci ty. "Ifn the crow's nest, or lookout and the bridge, officers and members f the crew were at their places, iwaiting relief at midnight from their wo hours' watch. At 1:45 came the sudden sound of two guns, a warn Eng of immediate danger. The crash gainst the iceberg, which had been ighted at only a quarter of a mile,. :-ame almost simultaneously with the :lick of the levers operated by those n the bridge, which stopped the en ines and closed the watcr-tight doors. Captain at His Post. "Capt. Smith was on the bridgea moment later, giving orders for the~ summoning of all on deck and for utoting on of life preservers and the lowering of -the lifeboats. The first ~oats lowered contained more men passengers than the latter ones, as the men were on deck first and not enough women were there to fill them. "When, a moment later, the rush of frightened women and crying chil dren to the deck began. enforcement1 -the 'women first' rule became rig id. Offieers loading some of the boats' draw revolvers, but in most cases the mn, both passengers and crew, be haed in a way that called for no such restraint. --Revover shots heard by many r.'rsons shor:17 before the end of the Tianic caused many rumors. One wa that Cap't. Smith shot himself: :nother was that First Officer alur dck ended his life. Smith. 31ur dock and Sixth Officer Moody are knowtn TO have been lost. The sur vi ving officers. Lightoiler, Pittman. f~o:hil and Lowe, have made no stat emenlt. "Mmbers of the crew discredit all rp'rts of suicide and: say Capt. SmiTh rtuied on the bridge until just be fore the ship sank, leaping only atf er Ths n the deck had been THE AWFUL STORY NEARLY SIXTEEN HUNDRED PEO PLE WENT DOWN IN GREATEST SEA TRAiEDY News Brought by Carpathia, Which Reaches New York Thursday Night With 739 Rescued Aboard, and is: Greeted by Solemn Silence by Thousands Awaiting Her. The steamship Carpathia arrived at New York Thursday night with first news direct from the great White Star liner Titanic, which sank off the Grand Banks of New Found land early Monday. The great liner went down with her band playing, taking with her to death all but 745 o her human cargo of 2,340 souls. To this awful death list six per sons were added. One died In -the r life boat when it put off from the s diner's ide and :fve subsequently iuccumbed on the rescue ship Car pathia. The list of prominent men missing stands as previousiy report-la ed and the total death list as brought to New York by the Carpathia is s 1,601. Survivors in the lifeboats huddled in the darkness at a safe distance from the stricken ship saw her go down. As to the scene on board n when the liner szruck, accounts dis- - agree widely. Some maintain that a f comparative calm prevailed; others say that wild disorder broke out, and that there was a maniacal struggle for the life boats. That the liner a struck an Iceberg, as reported by 1 wireless, was confirmed by all. Ripped from stem to engine room c by the great mass of ice, she struck, 1 the Titanic's side was laid open as if C by a gigantic can opener. She quick- L ly listed to starboard, and a shower a of ice fell onto the forecastle deck. t] Shortly before she sank, she broke in two abaft the engines and as she a disappeared beneath the water com- t< pression of air caused two explosions t! which were plainly heard by the sur- N vivors adrift. A moment more and p the Titanic had gone to her doom ii with the fated hundreds grouped on fn the after deck. To the survivors ii they were visible to the last and t, their cries and moans were pitiable. ii Statement of the Survivors. T The following statement issued by q a committee of the surviving passen- a gers was given the press on the ar- s rival of the Carpathia: P "We, the -undersigned surviving t passengers from the steamer Titanic, s in order to forestall any sensational or exaggerated statements, deem it s Qur duty to give to the press a state- v ment of facts which have come to b qur knowledge and which we believe NN tobe1true. d "On Sunday, April 14, 1912, atle about 11:40 p in., on a cold starlight ra night, in a smooth sea, and with no ju moon, the ship struck an iceberg A which had been reported to the il bridge by lookouts, but not early a enough to avoid collision. Steps s: 'were taken to ascertain the damage t< and save passengers and ship. Or- o ders were given to put on life belts ti and the boats were lowered. The t: ship sank at about 2:20 a. m. Mon- i1 day, and the usual distress signals were sent out by wireless and rock ets fired at intervals from the ship. a F'ortunately, the wireless message a was received by the Cunard ship Car- c pathia at about 12 o'clock mdgh, t and she arrived on the scene of the disaster at about 4 a. mn. 'Monday. t "The officers and crew of the steamship Carpathia had been pre-'a paring all night for the rescue and comfort of the survivors and the last mentioned ' were received ot. board 1 with the most touching ca -e and kindness, every attention bei:. giv-s en to all; lrrespective of class. The passengers, officers and crew gave up gladly their staterooms, clothing and comforts for our benefit, all honor to them. "The English board of trade pas senger certificate, on board the Ti tanic, allowed for a total of approx- ~ imnately 3,500. The same certificate'5 called for life-boat accommodations for approximately 950 in the follow ing boats:c "Fourteen large life-boats, two smaller boats and four collapsible K boats. Life preservers were acces sible and apparently in sufficient numbers for all on board. "The approximate number of pas sengers carried at the time of thei collision: FIrst, 330; second class, 320; third class, 750; total. 1.400., Officers and crew, 940. Total, 2,340. "Of the foregoing, about the fol lowing were rescued by steamnshin Carpathia: First class, 210; second class, 125; third class, 200; officers, 4; seamen, S89; stewards, 96C; fire men, 71. Total, 210 of the crew.. The total, about 745 saved. was about S80 per cent. of the maiu capacity of the life-boats. "We fell it our duty to call the at-1 tention of the public to what we con sider the inadequate supply of life saving appliances provided for on~ modern steamships. andi recommerd that immediate steps be taken to compel passenger steamers to carryI sufficient boats to accommodate the maximum number of people carried on board. The following facts wer e observed and should be considered in this connection. "The insufficiency of life boats, rafts. etc.; lack of trained seamen to maintain same (stokers. stewards., etc.. are not efficient boat handlers) not enou:gh offieers to carry out emer gency orders on the bridge and su perintend the launching and control of life boats: absence of searchlights.: "The board of trade rules allow for entirely too many people in each boat to permit the same to be prop ety handled. On the Titanic the boar deck was about 7> feet above washed away. It is also related that when a cook later sought to pull him aboard a lifeboat, he exclaimed: 'Let me go,' and, jerking away, went down. "What became of men with life preservers is a question asked since the disaster by many persons. The preservers did their work of support ing their wearers in the water until the ship went down. Many of those who went down into the vortex, de spite the preservers, did not come up again. Dead bodies floated on the surface as the last boat shoved away. "To relate that the ship's string band gathered in the saloon, near the end and played "Nearer, My God to Thee," sounds like an attempt to give an added solemn color to a scene which was in itself the climax of solemnity. The various passengers and survivors of the crew agree in the declaring that they heard this music. To some of the hearers, with husbands among -the dying men, in the water and on the ship's rails, the strain brought in through the words: "Nearer, My God, to Thee." "'So by my woes I'll be Nearer my God to Thee. Nearer to Thee.' "In the loading of -the boat, the restrictions of sex were not made, and it seemed to the men who filed in beside the women that there would be boats enough for all. But the ship's officers knew better than this, and as the spreading fear caused an earnest advance towards the suspend ed raft, the orders 'women first' were heard and the men were pushed aside. "To the scene of the next two hours on those decks and in the wat ers below such adjectives 'dramatic' and 'tragic' do but poor justice. With the knowledge of deadly peril gain ing greater power each moment over those men and women, the nobility Df the greater part, both among cabin passengers. o'7.cers, crew and steer age, asserted itself. "Isador Straus, supporting his wife on her way to a lifeboat, was held back by an inexorable guard. noher officer strode to help her to a seat of safety, but she brushed )way his arm and clung to her hus band, crying, 'I will not go without -ou. "Another woman took her place ind her form, cfinging to her hus and's, became part of a picture now rawn Indelibly in many minds. Seither wife nor husband, so far as tny one knows, reached a place of afety. "Col. Astor, holding his young ,ife's arm, stood decorously aside as he officers spoke to him, and Mrs. t.stor and her maid were ushered to eats. Mrs. Henry B. Harris parted n like manner from her husband, aw him last on the rail beside Col. tstor. "Walter M. Clark, of Los Angeles, rephew of the 'iontana Senator, joined the line of men as his young wife, sobbing, was placed in one of :he crafts. 'Let him come, there is -oom,' cried Mrs. Emil Taussig, as :he men of the White Star Line mo ~ioned to her husband to leave her. No Tiding of These. "Of Major Archie Butt, a favorite ith his fellow tourists, of Chas. M. {ays, president of the Grand Trunk; f Benjamin Guggenheim and ofWm. . Stead, no one seems to know hether they tarried too long in theirI mtate rooms or whether they forebore o0 approach the fast filling boats. one of them was in the throng, (hich, weary, hours afterward reach d the Carpathia. "Simultaneously those in the boats) aw what -those on the decks couldi riot see-that the Titanic was listing apidly to starboard and that her itern was rising at a portentious an le. A rush of steerage men towardi Ihe boats was checked by officersi with revolvers. "Some of the boats, crowded, drift d for a time. None had provisions r water, there was lack of covering rrom the ice and aid and the only ights were the still undimmed arcs and incandescents of the settling ship, safe for one of the boats. There 1 steward, who explained to thme :as 5engers that he had been shipwreck d before, appeared carrying three oranges and a green light. That green light, many of the survivors say, was to the shipwrecked hun dreds as the pillar of fire by night. Long after the ship had disappeared and -while confusing false lights danced about the boats, the green lantern kept them together. "As the end of the Titanic be came manifestly but a matter of mo ments, the oarsmen pulled their boats awaiy and the chi'ding waters began to echo splash after splash, as passengers and sailors in life preserv ers leape-i over and' started swim ming away to escape the expected suction. Only the hardiest of the r en could endure more than a few' minutes of such a numb bath Sucei a vigorous stroke gave aovnv to heamt breaking cries of 'Helo: H-elp!' and M tffbed forms were seel floating, the faces relaxed In dean.. Major Butt is Lost. Maj. Archibald lutt, well known througout the country as President Taft's and Former President Roose velt's military aide, was among those lcst on the Titanic. He was from Augusta. Ga., and had gone abroad' fr his health. Forty Persons Drowned. A boat into which the passengers' of the British steamer Seang Chnun u'ero disembarking, ca psized Tues lay and 40 persons, mostly women, were drowned. The Seanig Chung had just arrived at Amoy from Sing Thousands of Negroes Rescued. A dispatch from Tallulah, La., says two thousand negro flood sufferers Iwere rescued in boats from perilous position on levees, the result of the Misissisppi river's Invasion of that territory, HOW SHE WENT DOWN GRAPllIC DESCRIPTION Of THE SINKING Of THE SHIP AND MANY PEOPLE Survivor Tells of the Disaster, How the Passengers Acted, the Loading of the Life Boats, the Plunge of the Great Ship Into the Sea and Other Details. Mr. Beasley, of London, one of the survivors of the disaster, tells of the sinking of the Titanic. He says: "The voyage from Queenstown had been quite eventful; very fine weath er was experienced and the sea was quite calm. The wind had been very cold. I had been in my berth for about 10 minutes, when, at about 11:15 p. m., I felt a slight jar and then soon after a second one. The engines stopped immediately after wards. I went up on the top (boat) deck and found only a few people there who had come similarly to in quire why we had stopped. We saw through the smoking room window a game of cards going on. "The card players apparently felt more of the jar and looking through the window they had seen a huge Ice berg go by close to the side of the boat. They thought we had just grazed it and the engines had been stopped to see if any damage had been done. No one, of course, had any conception that she had been pierced below by part of the sub merged iceberg. The game went on without any thought of disaster, and retired to my cabin. I never saw tny of the players or the onlookers tgain. Anxious Inquiries. "A. little later, hearing people go ng up-stairs, I went out again and :ound everyone wanting to know why he engines had stopped. No doubt nany were awakened from sleep by he sudden stopping of vibration, to ;vhich they had become accustomed luring the four days we had been on )oard. "On going on deck again I saw hat there was an undoubted list lownstairs from stern to bows, but, :nowing of what had happened, I oncluded some of the front compart nents had filled and weighed her lown. I went down again to put on varmer clothing and as I dressed teard an order shouted: "'All passengers on deck with life )elts on.' "We walked slowly up with them ied on over our clothing, but even hen we did not realize the danger. Phere was a total absence of any )anic or any expressions of alarm, .nd I suppose this can be accounted :or by the exceedingly calm night and be absence of any controversy. The hip was absolutely still and ex ept for a gentle tilt downward at ;he time, no signs of the approach g dsaster were visible. But in a ew moments we saw the covers lift d from the boats and the crews al otted to them standing by and curi ng up the ropes which were to low r them by the pulley blocks into the water. "All Men Stand Back." "We thenf began to realize it was nore serious than had been supposed. resently we heard the order: "All nen stand back away from the boats nd all ladies retire to next deck be ,ow!'-the smoking room deck, or B eck. The men all stood away and mained in absolute silence, lean .ng against the railing of the deck r pacing slowly up and down. The oats were swung out and lowered a eck. When they were to the level f the B deck, where all the ladies vere collected, the ladies got in quiet y, with the exception of some w~(ho refused to leave their husbands; in some cases they were torn from them tnd pushed into the boats, but in ~any instances they were allowed to temain because there was no one to Lnsist -they should go. "Looking over the side, one saw boats from aft already in the water, slipping quietly away into darkness nd presently the boats near to me were lowered and with much creak ng, as the new ropes slipped through :he pulley blocks down the seventy-i five feet, which separated them from the water. An officer in uniform eame up as one boat went down and shouted: 'When you are afloat, row round to the companion ladder and stand by with the other boats for orders.' " 'Aye, aye,' came up the reply, but I don't think any boat was able to obey the order. When they wcre afloat the sailors saw they could do 1othing but row from the sinking No Disorder. "All this time there was no trace of any disorder; panic or rush to the boats and no scenes of women sob bing hysterically. Every one seemecd to realize slowly that there was im minent danger. When it was real i'ed that we might all be presently in the sea, with nothing but our life belts to support us until we were picked up by passing steamers, it was extraordinary how calm everyone was 'nd how completely self controlled. "One by one the boats were filled with women and children, lowered and rowed away into the night. "Presently the word went round among the men, 'the men are to be nut in boats on the starboard side.' "I remained on -the port side and presently heard the call: " 'Any ladies on your deck, sir?' "No." I replied, and looking down, aw boat No. 13. "Then you had better jump.' "I dropped in and fell into the hot to as they cried: 'Lower nwa:y?' As the beat began to descend, two adie were pushe hrr11v through ine crowu on D ue;- auu uacu - into the boat and a baby of ten n'onths passed down after them. Down we went until we were som en feet from the water. Here oc curred the only anxious moment ol our experience. "Immediately below our boat was the exhaust of the condensers, a huge stream of water pouring all the time from the ship's side above the water line. It was planned we ought to be smart way from this not to be swamped by it when we touched water. We had no officer aboard nor petty officer nor member of .he crew to take charge. Soon after the stokers shouted: " 'Some one find the pin which re leases the boat from the ropes and pull it up.' No one knew where it was. "Down we went and presently floated witha our ropes still holding us directly under Boat No. 14, whcI had filled rapidly with men and was coming down on us in a way that threatened to submerge our boat. "'Stop lowering 14,' the crew shouted and -the crew of No. 14, now only 20 feet above, shouted the same. But down she came-fiften feet, ten feet, five feet and a stoker, and I reached up and touched her swing ing above our heads. Just before she dropped another stoker sprang to the ropes with his knife. His knife cut through the pulled ropes and the next moment the exhaust streams then carried us clear, while Boat 14 dropped into -the water, into the space we had the moment before occupies. "We drifted away easily and head ed directly away from the ship. The crew seemed to me to be mostly cooks in white jackets, two to an oar, with a stoker at the tiller. The stoker who was steering was chosen I captain. He set to work at once to get Into touch with the other boats, calling to them and getting as close 1 as seemed wise, so that wken the 1 searching boa-ts came in the morning to look for us there would be more 1 chance for all to be rescued. "It was now about 1 a. m., a beau- 1 tiful starlight night, with no moon, 'I and so not very light. The sea was 1 as calm as a pond. "As we rowed away from the Ti tanic, we looked back from time to t time to watch her. In~ the distance t she looked an enormous length, her ( great bulk outlined in black against I the starry sky, every port hole and I saloon blazing with light. It was im- 1 possible to think anything could be i wrong with such a leviathan, were C it not for that ominous tilt down- I wards in the bows, where the wate-.- t was by now up to the lowest row ef ;,ort holes. Presently, aDout 2 a. m., as near as I can remember, we ob- I served her settling very rapidly. She t slowly tilted straight on end and with I the stern vertically upwards, and as I she did so, the lights in the cabins 2 and saloons, which had not flickered E for a moment before we left, died I out, came on again for a single flash N and finally went out altogether. At t the same time the machinery roar- 2 ed down through the vessel with a h rat-tle and a groaning that could be ; eard for miles. But this was not et quite the end. "To our amazement, she remained '3 n the upright position some minutes I and we watched at least 150 feet of 8 he Titanic towering up above the a evel of the sea and looming black I gainst the sky. Then, with a quiet, I slanting dive, she disappeared be- s eath the water and our eyes had s ooked for the last time on the gi- I antic vessel. And there was left to f s the gently heaving sea, the boat a filled to standing room with men and women in every conceivable condition1 f dress and undress.E "And then thereon the ear the t iost appalling noise that human be- E ing ever listened to-the cries of 3 undreds of our fellow beings strug- I ling in the icy cold water, crying for t ielp with a cry that we knew could 3 nt be answered. "We tried to sing to keep the wo- 3 [en from hearing the cries and t rowed hard to get away from the 2 scene of the wreck, but I think those sounds will be one thing the rescued will find it difficult to efface from C memory. "We kept a lookout for lights and I bout 3 a. m. saw faint lights show ing in the sky, which turned out to I be only the northern lights. "Presently low down on the ho- I rizon we saw a double light. They 2 proved to be the masthead light and a deck light below of a rescuingi steamer. We swung around and I headed for her. The steersman I shouted: 'Now boys sing,' and fort the first time, the boat broke into song with 'Row for the Shore, Bloys,'C and for -the first time tears came to the eyes of us all, as we realized that safetpx was at hand. The song was I sung, but it was a very poor imitation] of the real thing, for quiet evening voices make poor songs. A cheer was 1 given next, and that was better." NONE RESCED) BY THEM. NoD"s of Titanic Passrs~gers on Pa risian or Virginian. A dispatch from Montreal says the definite statement that neither the staemer Parisian nor the Virgin Ian succeeded in rescuing any of the Titanic's passengers was made Tues day night by George Hannah, gen eral passenger agent of the Allen Line. It is believed, Mr. Hannah said, that the Titanic sank more rap idly than those on board had ex peted she would do, and that the work of loading the boats and get tingt the passengers over the side had ~ot been completed when the final plunge occurred. Loose Found the Leak. Hunting for a gas leak, Enoch Loose, of Cuyahoga, Falls, 0., light ed a match in the bathroom of his' home. There was an explosion which blew out a wall of the house, and severely burned Loose, his wife and daughter, and Frank P. Schaf-j r a boardr. WAs DiAYtl UN Kil FELL iRAPIIIC STORIES Of Tl AWFUL DISASTER. A THRILLING BESCRIPTIQI Col. Graice, Rescued After Goin Down With the Titanic, and Oth( Survivors, Tell Graphic Tales ( the Sinking of the Great Liner an Great Loss of Life. Some of the survivors from tb ritanic wreck tell graphic stories c :he terrible disaster, by which near] ,ixteen hundred people lost thel ives. E. Z. Taylor of Philadelphih yne of the sur;'vors, jumped int :be sea just three minutes before tb )oat sank. He told a graphic stor s he came from the Carpathia, whe he arrived in New York Thursda ilght. "I was wakened when she struc he iceberg," he said. "There wa n awful shock that made the boa remble from stem to stern. ' I di iot realize for some time what as lappened. No one semed to knoi he extent of the accident. We wer ;old that an iceberg had been struc y the ship. I felt the -boat rise an t seemed to me that she was ridin ver the ice. I ran out on deck an hen I could see ice. It was a ver4 able sea of ice, and the boat wa -ocking over it. "I should say that parts of th ceberg were 80 feet high, but it ha )een broken into section, proball >y our ship. I jumped into the ocea Lnd was picked 'up by one of th )ots. I never expected to see lan ain. I waited on board the boa tntil the lights were out. It seeme o me that the discipline pn boar 7as wonderful." Col. Grace a Hero. Col. Archibald Gracle, U. S. A, he last man saved, went down wit] he vessel, but was picked up. Col racie told a remarkable story o ersonal hardship and denied em hatically the reports that there hal een any panic on board. He praisei a the highest terms the behavio: f both the passengers and crew an aid a high tribute to the heroism o he women passengers. "Mrs. Isador Straus," he said went to her death because shi -ould not desert her husband. Al hough he pleaded with her to tak er place in the boat, she steadfastl: efused and was in the ship when I ettled at the head and the two wer ngulfed by the wave that swep .er." Col. Gracie told of how'h ras driven to the topmast deck whe3 he ship settled, and was the solo urvivor after the wave that swep er just before her final plunge ha assed. "I jumped with the wave," h aid, "just as I often have jumpec ith the breakers at the seashore |y great good fortune, I managed t< rasp the brass railing on the decl bove and I hung on by might anc ain. When the ship plunged down was forced 'to let go, and I wa: wirled around and around for wha eemed to be an interminable time ~ventually I came to the surface tc nd the sea a mass of tangled wreck' go. "Luckily I was unhurt, and cast og about managed to seize a wood n grating floating nearby. When: ad recovered my breath I discov red a large canvas and cork liferaf rhich had floated up. A man, whosa .ame I did not learn, was struggling oward it from some wreckage t< hich he had clung. I cast off and elped him to get on to the raft, and re then .began the work of rescuing hose who had jumped into the sei nd were floundering in the water. Saw Wretched Men Die. "When dawn broke there were 34 f us on the raft, standing knee deel a the icy water and afraid to mov< est the cranky craft be overturned everal unfortunates, benumbed ant .alf-dead, besought us to save them .nd one or two made an effort ti each us, but we had to warn then way. Had we made any effort ti ave them, we all might have per shed. The hours that elapsed be ore we were picked up by the Cai athia were the longest and mos errible that I ever spent. "Practically without any sensatiol f feeling because of icy water, w' ere almost dropping from fatigue Ve were afraid to turn around ti ook to see whether we were seen b; ass-craft, and when some one whi vas facing astern passed the wor< hat something that looked like teamer was coming up, one of the nen became hysterical under th train. The rest of us, -too, wer iearing the breaking point." Col racie denied with emphasis tha Lny men were fired upon, and de lared that only once was a revolvs ischarged. "This was to intimidate som ieerage passenger," he said, "wh ad tumbled into a boat before it wa repared for launching. This she vas fired in the air and when th origners were told that the ne3 ould be directed at them the 'romptly returned to the deck. Ther vas no confusion and no panic." Col. Gracde was in his berth whe he vessel smashed into the berg an ras aroused by the jar. He looke it his watch, he said, and found ras just midnight. The ship san wvith him at 2:22 a. mn. for his watc topped at that hour. "Before I retired," said Co racie, "IT had a long talk with Cha Et. Hayes, president of the Gran 'runk railroad. One of the la: rhings Mr. Hayes said was this: " 'The White Star, the CJunard at [ho Hamburg-American lines are d voting -their attention and energy Ing speed records. The time will soon come when this will be checked by some appalling dlsaster." "Poor fellow, a few hours later he was dead." "The conduct of Col. John Jacob Astor was deserving of the highest praise," Col. Grace declared. "The millionaire New Yorker," he said, "devoted all his energy to saving his young bride, nee Miss Force of New York, who is in delicate health. "Col. Astor helped us in our ef forts to get her in the boat," said ol. Grace. "I lifted her into the r boat, and as she took her place Col. Ast.or requested permission of the second officer to go with her for hey own protection. "'No, sir' replied the officer, 'not a man shall go on a boat until the women are all off.' Col. Astor then Inquired the number of the boat which was being lcwered away and turned to the work of clearing the other boats and in reassuring the frightened and nervous women. "By this time the ship began to list frightfully to port. This become so dangerous that the second - leer ordered every one to rush to star board. This we did, and we found the crew trying to get a boat off in: that quartet. Here I saw the last of t J. B. Thayer and George B. Widen At High Speed. V Col. Grace said that despite warn e ings of icebergs, no slowing down of E speed was ordered by the eommand I er of the Titanic. There were other g warnings too, he said. I "In the 24 hours' rin ending - 14th," he said, "the ship's run was 9 546 miles, and we were told that the next 24 hourn would see even a bet 5 ter record posted. No diminuition I of speed was indicated in the run. F The officers, I am credibly informed, 1 had been advised by wireless from 1 other ships of icebergs and danger ous floes in that vicinity. The sea L was as smooth as glass and the weather clear, so that it seems there was no occasion for fear." "When the vessel struck," he con tinued, "the passengers were so 'dt tle alarmed that they joked over the matter. There was not the slightest indication of panic. Some of the fragments of Ice had fallen on the deck and these were picked up and passed around by some of the face tious ones, who offered them as me mentoes of the occasion. On the port side a glance over the side failed'to show any evidence of dam age and the vessel seemed to be on an even keel. James Clinch Smith and I, however, soon found the ves sel was listing heavily. A few min utes later the officers ordered men and women to don life preservers." One of the last women seen by Col. Gracie, he said, was Miss Evans of New York, who virtually refused to be rescued because, according to the army officer, "she had been told by a fortune teller in London that she would meet her death oA the water." Fifth Officer Efficient. .A young English woman who re Quested that her name be omitted, told a thrilling story of her experi ence in one of the collapsible boats which had been manned .by eight of the crew from the Titanic. The boat was in command o' the .fth offcer, H. Lowe, whose actions she described as saving many lives. Before the life boat was launched he passed along the port deck of the steamer commanding the people not to jump into the boats and otherwise re straining them from swamping the craft. When the collapsible was launched Offier Lowe succeeded in putting up a mast and a small sail. He collected the other boats togeth er; in some cases the boats were short of adequate crews and he di rected an exchange by which each was adequately manned. He threw lines connecting the boats two by two and all thus moved together. Later on he went back to the wreck with the crew of one of the boats and succeeded In picking up some of those who had jumped overboard and were swimming about. On his way back to the Carpathia he passed one of the collapsible boats which was on the point of sinking with 30 passengers aboard, most of them in scant night clothing. They were rescued just in the nick of time." MEET IN CHARLESTON NEXT. Col E. 3. Watson Elected a Vice 1 President of Body. Resolutions urging the appropria tion by congress of $10,000 annual ly until the completion of the Pana ma canal and $5,000,000 annually thereafter for land reclamation and other purposes, and calling for an immediate conference in Washing ton of the executive committee and officers of the National Drainage congress, were unanimously adopt ed at New Orleans Friday night by the delegates of the thirty-three States and four foreign countries at tending the National Drainage con gress, which adjourned Friday night. The congress elected Former Gov. David R. Francis of Missouri as pres ident; Edmund T. Perkins, Illinois, first vice-president; E. J. Watson, of South Sarolina, Col. W. C. Gorgas, U. S. A., Bernard Baker, Maryland, - and Edward Wisner of Lauisiana, vice presidents. Charleston was se lected as the place of the next meet ing, January, 1913. Three People Die in Fire. SMrs. Amanda Dunn, aged fifty-five, Cleveland Dunn, her son, aged twen ty-three, and 'Mildred Dunn, aged . two, daughter of Cleveland Dunn, . lost their lives shortly after mid night Thursday night in a fire which t destroyed the home of Milton M. Dunn, treasurer of Lee County, a few miles south of Opelika. Cleve ~land Dunn lost his own life and that of his baby in an heroic effort to - sav his mother.