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AOL. XXXY HE AWFUL NEA1LY SIXTEEN HUNDRED PEO PLE WENT OOP IN GREATEST SEA TRAGEDY Carpathia, Which )rs(iay Night With 73»-'Rescued Aln/ard, and is Greeted, by Solemn Silence by Thousands Awaiting Her. The steamship Cafpathia 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 of her human cargo of 2,340 souls. To this awful death list six per sons were added. One died in the life boat when it put off from the liner's side and five subsequently succumbed on the rescue ship Car- pathla. The list of prominent men missing stands as previously report ed and the total death list as brought to New York by the Carpathia is 1,601. Survivors in the lifeboats huddled in the darkness at a safe distance from the stricken ahip saw her go down. As to the scene on board when the liner struck, accounts dis agree widely. Some maintain that a I rs * 0 comparative calm prevailed; others one w ' tt,out a special permit was al- say that wild disorder broke out, and hevond these ropes. As early BARNWELL. 8. CU THURSDAY. APRIL 25.1912 rafts, etc.; lack of trained seamen to maintain aame (stokers, stewards, etc., are not efficient boat handlers) not enough officers 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 fYie same to be prop erly handled. On the Titanic the boat deck was about 75 feet above water and consequently the pas sengers were required to embark be fore lowering boats, thus endanger ing the operations and preventing the taking on of the maximum num ber the boats would hold. Boats at all times to be properly equipped with provisions, water, lamps, com passes, lights, etc. “Life-saving boat drills should be more frequent and thoroughly car ried out; and officers should be armed at boat drills. Greater reduction In speed in fog and Ice, as damage, if collision actually occurs, Is liable to be less. In .conclusion we suggest that an International conference be called to recommend the passage of Identical laws providing for the safe ty of all at sea and we urge the United States government to take the initiative as soon as possible." The statement was signed Tiy Sam uel Goldenberg, chairman, and a committee of some 25 passengers. Many Police on Duty. In a drizzling rain, 250 policemen 'iaihered early at the Cunard line piers at west Fourteenth street and North river, preparatory to hand ling the crowds. Inspector McClus- key was in charge of the squad and ropes dotted with green lights were stretched for 75 yards in front of the hold back the throng. No that there w..s a maniacal struggle for the life boats. That the Inter b\ struck an iceberg, as reported wireless, was confirmed by ail. Hipped from stem to engiau loom I by the great mass of Ice, sue strut-.., i the Titanic's side was laid open as it' by a gigantic can opener. She quick ly listed to starboard, and a shower' of Ice fell onto the foiecasUe (U-.-i., Shortly before she s.UiS, she b.o^t In two abaft tha englnas^nd as .e. dltappeaied beneath 'he v\ a .-t ( a, preasion of a r caused two < \ ,t>.. >. which were plain!) he.nd vivors adrift A nie i*.-:.: the Titan.c had g j:.e o with the fat 1 licndt (-Is p the alter dt.k To the they were visible 'o ;!u- their cries and moans w.re .able Statement of the Survlv. rs. The following statenn nt !.^u*m1 by a committee of the surviving passeu- gsra was given the press ou the ar rival of the Carpathia "We, the undersigned surviving paasengers from the steamer Titanic. In order to forestall any sensatiouai or exaggerated statements, deem it our duty to give to the press a s'a’e- nient of facts which ha-e oii.e to our knowledge and which we be..cve to bo true “On Sunday, April 14. 1 b 12, .a: •bout 11: 40 p m . on a rol 1 star!! tht Bight, in a smooth sea, and with no moon, the ship struck an 1 eberg which had been n ported to the bridge by In o. ujts, but not early as S o'clock automobiles, in which • Hied women and silent men were rea'ed, began arriving, and by 8:30 i rtuall crowd had already entered 1 “ great steel and concrete struc- ‘itre whl h covers the piers. The police regulations were made ’"re rcid as tluj evening wore on. 'll trail c on Wist street, directly in of the piets, was diverted at ;r . ei’-h s'teel on tho north and ' liit't- n'h street on the south. ’ •r l.-i- was drawn on the eas' "v'-rrh avenue. Thus the block DETAILS^ WRECK OBTAINED FtOM SURYIYORS ON THE CARPATHIA. TELLS OF HEROIC ACTS StAff Correspondent of New York Newspaper, Passenger on Rescue Ship, Gives Graphic Description of - Terrible Scenes Monster of the Sea Disappeared. How the Titanic sank la told by Charles F. Hurd, a staff correspond ent of the New York Evening World, who was a passenger on the Car pathia. He gives the number of lives lost as 1,700. He praises highly the courage of the crew, hundreds of whom gave their lives with • hero ism which equalled, but could not ex ceed, the account says, that of John Jacob Aetor. Henry B*. Harris^ Jac ques Futrelle, and others In the long list of first cabin passengers. It was the explosion of the boilers, according to Mr. Hurd's account, which finally finished the Titanic’s career. The bulkhead system, though probably working, prevailed only to delay the ship's sinking. The posi tion of the ship's wound on the star board quarter admitted Icy eater, according to Hurd’s story, which caused the boilers to explode and ‘hese explosions broke the ship in two. “The crash against the iceberg, which had - beeri sighted at only a marter mile distance, came almost .ImultaneouBly with the click of the was that Capt. Smith shot himself; another was thkt First Officer Mur dock ended his life. Smith, Mur dock and Sixth Officer Moody are known to have been lost. The sur viving officers, Llghtoller, Pittman. Bothall and Lowe, have made no statement. "'Members of the crew discredit all reports of suicide and say Capt. Smith remained on the bridge until Just be fore the ship sank, leaping only af ter those on the deck had been washed away. It is also related that when & 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 Enacted Before preserverr 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 preserves!, 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 sh'p’s rails, the strain brought In through '.he words: “Nearer, My God, to Thee." “ 'So by my woes 1T1 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 bettor than this, HOW SHEWENT DOWN GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION Of THE SINKING OF THE SHIP AND MANY PEOPLE Sunrivor 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 cf 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 stokers shouted:' among the men, ‘the men are to ba put In boats on Uts starboard side.’ “I remained on the port alda presently heard the call: Any ladies on your deck, air?’ “No,” I replied, and looking down, TFfl, saw boat No. 13. “ ‘Then you bad bettor Jump.* ‘T dropped in and fell Into tho bot tom as they cried: ‘Lower away?’ As the boat began to depoen^ two ladles wars pushed hurriedly through the crowd on B deck and heaved over into the boat and a baby of ten months passed down after them. Down we went until we were som4 ten feet from the water. Here oc curred the only anxious moment ol our experience. “Irnmedlatelybelow our boat Tfll the exhaust of the condensers, a huge stream of water pouring all the time trom the ship’s side above the watst’ 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 A THRILLING H2 i Col. Gralce, Down Willi the TttMda, i Survivors, Tell Graphic the Sinking of the' Great Lose of Life. Some of the survlvora Titanic wreck tell graphic one of the survivors, thw aea j Nvirs operated from the bridges,, hlch stopped the engines and closed | 88 spreading fear caused an he water-tight doors 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., 1 felt a slight jar and then soon after a second ons. The engines stopped Immediately after wards. 1 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 -an:e of cards going on. “The card players apparently fell 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 giazed 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 1 retired to my cabin. I never taw Capt Smith ' e8rne8t a d v8nre 10 war< * 8 , * le rtn ' t * le or onlookers w as on the bridge a moment later. |raft, the orders women first were again, ummoned all on hoard to put on tlfe , ^ par ^ 8n< ^ I* 1 ® men were pushed preservers, and ordered the lifeboats ""'d*- ■wered. The first boats had more “To the scene of the next two Anxious Inquiries. “A little later, hearing people go ng up-stalrs, I went out again and alt* passengers, as the men were the hours on those decks and in the wat- found everyone wanting to know why , Ihc S . 4 - , • ’ .c-!) in front of the p:ers :nor i:.d , h, ' ' u-red l O those imti.("Lately UT <\ » i.J* > i "i,, 1 ti th e traci oy. Shor’h o 4 e ! ,... ■M.. ' ft* l,. k. new s caa.e tha' the . . i.«* : .-, * a wa* ; ■ assLiz the sta:uf» of UiHt til 1 in "y At 'ha 1 ‘ hour more than 5u •i>- chiles were parking in front of lie piers The early arrival of the Carpathia a: quarantine surprised even the ous- ' cithers, 150 of whom were on ■he pier under the direction of Gen 1 Nelson P Henry, surveyor of the port, who came to facilitate the land ing of 'he surveyors Five hundred friends anil relatives had gathered inside the pier sheds at 8:3') o'clock, taking up their positions under the • nitial of the name of the survitor. '1 he <’arpa:hla .at tills time was a yar'er of a mile down the Hudson and ill awing near the docks A rst to reach the deck When the ers below such adjectives dramatic ush of frtirh’ened men and women *nd ‘tragic’ do but poor justice With ind crying children to the decks be- (be knowledge of deadly peril galn- n. the 'women first' rule was rigid- mg greater power each moment over y enforced those men and women, the nobility “The offii ers drew revo’v c.s but of the greater part, both among cabin '! most cas's there was no use for passengers, officers, crew and steer- hem. Revolver shots heard shortly'age, asserted Itself. '(■'ore the Titanic went down caused, “Isador Straua, supporting his auy rumors, one that Capt. 8mtth' w |f e on ^er way to a lifeboat, was Mil shot himself, another that First held back by an Inexorable guard. Officer Murdock had ended Ins life. Another officer strode to help her to nut he engines had atopped. No doubt many were awakened from sleep by , he sudden stopping of vibration, to whb-h they had become accustomed luring the four days we had been on 'hoard. c "On going on deck again I taw ''hat there waa an undoabted list downstairs from atern to bowa, but, knowing of what had happened, 1 concluded acme of the front compart ments had filled and weighed her members of the crew discredit a B#at of ta f e ty, but ahe brushed do * n 1 w#nt down 8 * aln t0 put on hese rumors Capt Smith was last aw#y bi, arm , nd c | unK to her huB _ warmer clothing and aa I dressed seen on the bridge Just befo-a th*|band, crying, T will not go hip sank, leaping only after the y 0U rlthout decks had been washed away What became of the men with the life pre- rervers was a question asked by many ‘•'nee the disaster. i Dead Itodles on Hu r face. “Many of these with life preserv- * Another woman took her place and her form, clinging to her hus- Pand's, became part of a picture now drawn Indelibly In many minds Neither wife nor husband, so far as any one knows, reached a place of heard an order shouted: “ All passengers on deck with life belts on.' “We walked slowly up with them fed on over our clothing, but even tli»n we did not realize the danger " ‘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 w4it and presently floated with our ropes atill holding ua directly under Boat No. 14, which had filled rapidly with men and was coming down on ns In a way that threatened to submerge our boat. " ‘Stop lowering 14/ the crew ‘homed and tho crew of No. 14, now only 20 feet above, shouted the aame. But down she came—-fiften feet, tan feet, five feet and a stoker, and 1 reached up and toughed her swing ing above our heads. J ust before sne dropped another stoker sprang to the ropea with hie knife. His knife eat through the pulled ropes end tho 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 tha ship. The crew seemed to me to be mostly cooks in white jackets, two to i oar, with a stoker at the tiller. The stoker who was steering was chosen captain. He set to work at once to get into touch with the other boats, calling to them end getting as close as seemed wise, so that when the searching boats came In the morning to look for ue there would be more chance for all to be rescued. “It was now about 1 a. m., a beau tiful starlight night, with no moon, and so not very light. The sea was as calm as s pond. “Ae we rowed sway from the Tl- tanlc, we looked back from time to time to watch her. In the distance •he looked aa enormous length, her great bulk outlined In black against the starry aky, every port hole and saloon biasing with light. It was im possible to think anything could wrong with such a leviathan, wore It not for that ominous tilt doen- ers were seen to go down despite safety. he preservers, and dead bodlea float- enough to 1 i ollltdon. Stops were taken to ascenain the damage and save p .-tengers and ship. Or ders were g:\in to put on life b I'.-U and thu boats were lowered. The ship sank a: about 2:.’e a m. Mon day, and the usual distress signals were sv-nt out bv w.r-le-s and ro k- ets fired at m'erva.s from the ship Fortunately, the wireli-s* message' was reodved by the U .mini shin i’i;- pathia at ahum 1 o'cluek n.idn: and she arrived on tlm sv •■im of tin disaster at about -4 a. in. Monday. “The officers and crew of the steamship Carpathia had been pre paring all night for the rescue and comfort of thu survivors and the last mentioned were received on hoard' with the most touching can* and' kindness, every attention being,.giv en to all, Irrespective of class. The, .-:tei;n of people was filing Into theied on the surface as the boats moved ; S r entrance, and automobiles con- sway. Mrs Isador Straus refused to ' cued to take their places lit the ! leave her husband's side and both street. j perished together Harold Cotton,' Thi re were l.nno persons In these Marconi operator on the Carpathia, i ■‘hills at s 45 o'clock, many of whom did not go to bed at his usual time, ■ • -e wei ping. Outside, the automo-, Sunday night and. as a result, caught ■ lbs kept piling up. The Carpathia 1 : ho first message of the Titanic's! i> off the end of the pier ready to “Col. Aator, holding his young wife's arm, stood decorously aside as the officer* spoke to him, and Mrs. There was a total absence of any wards In the bowa, where the wate; panic or any expressions of alarm, was by now up to the lowest row cf and 1 suppose this can be accounted port holea. Presently, aoout 2 a. m for by the exceedingly calm night and > as near aa I can remember, we ob- i he absence of any controveray. The! served her Battling very rapidly. Site ship waa absolutely still and ex- slowly tilted straight on end and with cept for a gentle tilt downward at the stem vertically upwards, and aa \stor and her maid were ushered to the time, no signs of the approach-; she did so, the lights In the cabins seats Mrs Henry B Harris parted | nK dsaster were visible. But In a and saloons, which had not flickered from her husband, n , onj( . n t 8 we saw the cover* lift- for a moment before we left, died ed from the boats and the crews al- out, came ou again for a single flash k .it v55. The pilot of a tugboat u- 1 'o assist in warping her in i m ‘ d that she could not dock tin- lifeboats were taken off. l-irc* number of Sisters of Charity t'ie various hospitals arrived in .utuber of ambulances. A comniis- of immigration was present •lite the landing of a number • i "light, which was responsible for sav ing the hundreds of rescued who were landed in New York It was •estlfled by several survivors that the Titanic was going 23 knots an hour when she crashed Into the Ice berg. “That the Titanic’s officers knew several hours before ’he crash of the In like manner saw him last on the rail beside Col A Btor lotted to them standing by and curl-1 and Anally went out altogether. At “Walter M Clark, of Los Angelos, ^ng up the ropes w hich were to low- the same time the machinery roar- nephew of the Montana Senator, er them by the pulley blocks Into the joined the line of men as his young water. wife, sobbing, was placed in one of “AU Men Stand Back." No Tiding of These. osslble nearness of the icebergs.! "Of Major Archie Butt, a favorite ’ s'c-nuro passengers. At 9:10' That the Titanic's speed, dearly 23 w,tb bt8 ?ellow tourists, of Chas. M ktc was an agonized walling, while, knots an hour, was not slackened. t,ay8 - president of the Grand vrunk; le boat was being -Titanic was Insufficient to accommo- boat :i!o her berth. Crowd Seemed Atved. Tho scone at this time In i on: :!;c j ■uim ition and eager expectancy lowly warped That the number of lifeboats on the of 1?eD J amln (luKKenhelln antl of " m - T. Stead, no one seems to know the crafts ‘Let him come, there is “We then began to realize It was room,' cried Mrs Fm'l Taussig, as more serious than had been supposed, the men of the White Star Line mo- Presently we heard the order: "All Coned to her husband to leave her. men stand back away from the boats and all ladles retire to next deck be low;’— the smoking room deck, or B deck. The men all stood away and nmalned In absolute silence, lean ing against the railing of the d?ck | Mate more than, one-third of the pas- an( l, sengers, to say nothing of the crew. or pacing slowly up and down. The rd down through the vessel with a rattle and a groaning that could be heard for miles But thla was not yet quite the end. “To our amazement, she remained In the upright position some minutes and we watched at least 150 feet of 'he Titanic towering up above the level of the sea and looming black against the sky. Then, with a quiet, slanting dive, ahe Mfeppeared be neath the water and our eyes had looked for the last time on the gl- whetber ihey tarried too long In their i !,oala w , or « 8WU "K out and lo ' ver i ed a 'Kantlc vessel. And there Was-left to state rooms or whether they forebore at pier was one of gre=- i Must of the crew say there n aPP n r f 0 ^ m th ® i Nere collected, the ladles got In qulet- v i. «iTt« W n iifnhrvata n nH pr ,,jNone of them was In tha throng,' deck. When they were to the level of the 1! deck, where all the ladles The passengers, officers and crew gave up i crowd had steadily augmented, but arid ere gladly their staterooms, clothing and comforts for our be rig fit, all honor to them. “The English hoard bf trade pas senger rertiticate, on board the Ti tanlc, allowed,for a totaK of approx imately 3,500. The 6ame\ oer'ifieate called for life-boat aceonunodation? tor approximately 050 In tli^ follow^ Ing boats: \ “Fourteen large life-boat's, two smaller boats and four collapsible boats. Life preservers were Voces Cmtc wms perfect order and an awed ir of waiting. Automobiles con- to arrive In numbers and the ■rouil about the en’ranoe to the pier maintained a respectful eilence. Within the vast enclosure the com pany of people, notwithstanding the precautions and the limit which had placed upon the number of passes is sued was dense but serious aud or derly. As tho Carpathia was passing Into her slip she was surrounded by news were sixteen lifeboats and two col- Inpeibles; none say there were more which, weary, hours afterward reach- ly, with the exception of some who - . . i refused to leave their husbands; in than twenty boas in all. The 700, e e p I some cases they were torn from them who escaped filled most of the six-1 “Simultaneously those In the boats I an j j n t 0 the boats, but In teen lifeboats, and the one collapsible saw what those on the decks rou ' d ' man y instances they were allowed to which got away, to the limit of their (Pot see that the Titanic was listing p^n^^jn because there was no one to capacity. “In the crow's nest, or lookout and rapidly to Starboard and that ber j lntji8t they thou i d g0 stern was rising at a portentlous an-, .. Looklng over the side, one saw of the crew were at their places, awaiting relief at midnight from their two hours' watch. At 1:45 came the sudden sound of two guns, a warn ing of Immediate danger. The crash against the iceberg, which had been sible and apparently in sufficient! paper boats and there were frequent si ^ lted at onl y 8 quarter of a mile,- \ n r» 1 rv> r\ « f e l i x 1 f a rwart 11 o 1 xr xsr 5 4 Vx + Vt a ; flashes from cameras which were s-: taking flash lights on the rescue ship, e' punctuating the silence like a series numbers for all on board. “The approximate number of sengers carried at the time of collision: First, 330; second cla^s, 1 of bombs. The great; ship came up 320; third class, 750; total, 1,400, ! .-lowly and had a hard (time docking. Officers and crew, 940. Total, 2,34l)\ Her decks were black with passen- “Of the foregoing, about the fol-\pers. There was a notable absence lowing were rescued by steamship Carpathia: First class, 210; second glass, 125; third class, 2 00; officers, 4; seamen, 89; stewards, 96; fire men, 71. Total, 210 of thi^crew. The total, about 745 saved, was about 80 per cent, of the maximum capacity of the life-boats. “We fell It our duty to call the at tention of the public to what we cop- slder the Inadequate supply of life saving appliances provided for on modern steamships, and recommend thar immediate steps be taken to compel passenger steamers to carry •nfficlent boats to accommodate the the hilarity and excitement usual- on the bridge, officers and members gl«. A rush of steerage men toward^ boatg from afl a i rea( iy ,hi the water, the boats was checked by officers; 8lj ppj nK q U j e Hy away Into darkness with revolvers. jand presently the boats near to me “Some of the boats, crowded, drift- were lowered and wjth much creak ed for a time. None had provisions j ing, as the new ropes slipped through or water, there was lack of covering j the pulley blocks down the seventy- from the ice and aid and the only five feet, which separated them from lights were the still undimmed arcs the water. An officer in uniform and incandescents of the settling j came up as one boat went down and ship, safe for one of the boats. There ! shouted: ‘When you are afloat, row a steward, who explained to the pas-1 round to the companion ladder and sengers that he had been shipwreck-' stand by with the other boats for ed before, appeared carrying thiee | orders.’ came almost simultaneously with the click of the levers operated by those on the bridge, which stopped the en gines and closed the water-tight doors. Captain at His Post. “Capt. Smith was on the bridge a moment later, giving orde/s for the fia5r ' attendant upon an ocean liner's: summoning of all on deck and for ival. n air of solemnity was added to the\scene by the presence of scores of Vhite clad hospital attendants with \s:retchers, while, prepared for the worst, there mingled in the thronA attaches from the coroner’s staff, tyany Invalid chairs also were rolled u\) to the entrance and placed in waiting for those unable to walk. When thV shfj) docked at 9:30 the gang plafig was quickly lowered and the doctort and nureea went aboard. The first wirvlvors began to leave maximum number of people carried the ship at 9:35. Ae they came Into on board. The follewlng facts were'the etreet a dead silence fell over the inch observed and should be cousidered crowd and even the flash light bet- 1 putting on of life preservers and the lowering of the lifeboats. The first boats 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 ifomen and crying chil dren to the deck began, enforcement c f the ’women first’ rule became rig id. Officers loading some of the boats draw revolvers, but In most eases the men, both paesengsrs and crew, be haved In a way that called for ne oranges and a green light. That green light, many of the survivors 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 away and the ebBMng waters began to echo splash after splash, as passengers and Sailors In life preserv ers leaped over and started swim, mlng away to escape the , expect ad ■notion. Only tha hardiest of ‘he p en could endure more than a few minutes of such a numb bath. Such a vigorous stroks gave twav to heatt- breakjnj; cries ef 'Help! Help" and stiffened forms were seen floating, tha Item refund la fler.l. Aye, aye,’ came up the reply, but I don't think any boat was able to obey the order. When they'"were afloat the sailors saw they could do nothing but row from the sinking ship. No Disorder. “All this tlms there was no trace of any disorder; panic or rush to the boats and no scenes of women sob bing hysterically. Every one seemed to realise slowly that there was Im minent danger. When It was real ized that we might all be presently ln.,th#.sea, Ylth nothing hut our 111* belts to "support ns until we were picked np by passing Steamers, it was extraordinary how oalm everyone was and how completely self controlled. "One by one the beads were filled with women and children, towered and rfwad away into the nlcht. 'PreeeffUy the ««r4 wen: ua the gently heaving tea. the boat filled to standing room with men and women In every conceivable condition of dress and undress. “And then thereon the ear the most appalling noise that human be ing ever listened to—4be crlee of hundreds of our fellow beings strug gling In the Icy cold w#»fer, crying for help with a cry that we knew could not be answered. “We tried to sing to keep the wo men from hearing the cries and rowed hard to get away from the scene of the wreck, but I think those sounds will be one thing the rescued will find it difficult to efface from memory. "We kept a lookeut for lights and about 3 a. m. saw faint lights show ing in the sky, which turned out to be only the northern lights. "Presently low down on the ho- 1 rlzon we saw a double light. They proved to be the masthead Ugtaft and a deck light below of a rescuing steamer. Wa swung around and headed for her. The steersman shouted: ‘Now boys ling,’ and for the first time, the boat broke into song with ‘Row for the Shore, Boy*,’ and for the first time tears came to the eyes of as all, as we realized that safety was at hand. The song was sung, but it was a very poor imitation of the real thing, for quiet evening voices make poor songs. A cheer i given next, and that was batter/* e dTsaster/ by wblcb sixteen hundred people Imfl Uvea. E. Z. Taylor of teaf* just' boat sank. Ha told a ... as ha came from tha Carpaflkla, W, sha arrived in New York night / "I was wakened whan sha the Iceberg/* ha said. An awful shock tint madn the tremble from stem to not realise for soma time happened. No one aamafi In the extent of tha accident, told that an iceberg hmd by the ship. I felt tha boat it seemed to jne that over the ice. I ran oat on dnsl then I could see Ice. It waa g table sea of Ice, and tha Mtt/ rocking over it “I should say that pqgti at Iceberg were 10 feat high. b«t II bean broken into by our ship. I Jumped lain tha and was picked np by ona of ttg boats. I never again. I waited on feonrd tha «»tH tha lights were eat It to me that the discipline was wonderful." dot. Oracle a Hen Col. Archibald Grade, U. *. A- the lact maa caved, want dawn WNfi the veeeel, but waa picked eg. CM. Oracle told s remarkable staff qfi personal hardship and denied era* phatlcally the reports that n any panic on board. J In the highest of paid a blgb tribute ta tha tbe women passengers. "Mrs. Isador Straus," “went to her death would not desert bar though he pleaded with hdT bar place In the boat, aha i refused and was la tha ahlg settled at the head aad tha twmt engulfed by the wave that her." Col. Oracle told of h waa drivea jo tbe topmast deal the ship settled, sad wsa survivor sfter the wave that Der just before her final pli passed. “I Jumped with the wave/* ■aid, “Just as I often have with the bseakers at tha By great gooi^qrlaae, I grasp the above and fhuag an by mifhl'aaft- rnsln. Whenthe ship plaaged I was forced to let go, and p—^ swirled around and around far i seemed t6 be an Intermtnabi# Eventually ,1 came to tha anrfln find tbe sea's mass of tangled w age. “Luckily I was unhart, end Ing about managed to seise a i en grating floating nearby. Whan 1 had recovered my breath I iHasnr ered s large canvas and cork lifaraft which had floated np. A man, name I did not learn, waa toward It from some which he had clung. I east og helped him to get on to tha we then keyin' the work of those who had Jumped into thn Mg >•>. and were floundering In ffib water. Hew Wretched Mra l**, ** T™, "When dawn broke than wane S# of us on the raft, standing In the Icy water and afraid leet tbe cranky craft be Several unfortunates, bennml half-dead, besought us to si and one or two made an reach us, but we had to warn away. Had we made any save them, we all might hhVf/J lotted. The hours that slap—fl fore we were picked np by the I pathla were the longest and terrible that I ever spent "Practically without any w of feeling baca-nse of icy wi were almost drooping from We wera^ afraid ^ look to see whether gro pass-craft, aad wh— —mg ggg was facing astsrn pas—A tlM that something that looked steamer was coming np, o— men became strain. nearing Oracle any ms dared dia hysterical of ns, too. wrigigug* only with The Heathen ffrtneee Way, At Peking, China, six who warp emoted in connection the murder of Boat Hicks of outlet that