The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, April 25, 1912, Image 1
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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