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BBKbmS/ 9w': s * DETAILS OF WRECK' BR!* '"' * ' j OBTAINED F80M SURVIVORS ON m 1 THE CARPATHIA. p TELLS OF HEROIC ACTS ' <11 iM /"I .1 A V^vt.lr CiUAll VOIT?S|)OIUK'llt HI new a 111 iv Newspaper, Passenger on Iiescuc Ship, Gives Graphic Description ol' Terrible Scenes Enacted Before h Monster of (ho Sea Disappeared. IcH 'How tho Titanic sank is told by i Charles F. Ilurd, a staff correspondIent of tho Now York Evening World, who was a passonger on tho Carpathia. He gives tho number of lives lost as 1,70 0. He praises highly the courage of tho crew, hundreds of whom gave their lives with a heroism which equalled, but could not exceed, tho account says, that of John Jacob As-tor. Henry 13. Harris, Jacques Futrelle, and others in tho long list of first cabin passengers. it was tho explosion of the boilers, according to Mr. Kurd's account, ; which finally finished tho Titanic's i career. The bulkhead system, though ] probably working, prevailed only to i delay the ship's sinking. Tho posi- | tion of the ship's wound on the star- | board quarter admitted icy water, i according to Hurd's story, which caused the boilers to explodo and these explosions broke tho ship in I twCK I "Jho crash against the iceberg, Iwhlch^liad been sighted at only a ] quarter milo distance, came almost ; simultaneously with the click of the | levers operated from the bridges, ] |. which stopped the engines and closed . tho water-tight doors. Capt. Smith ; a nn fhr? liridirn a moment later, , | summoned all on board to put on life , I preservers, and ordered the lifeboats \ lowered. The first boats had more . h: male passengers, as the men were the first to roach the deck. When the rush of frightened men and women , and crying children to the docks began, the 'women first' rule was rigidly enforced. "The officers drew rev?'ve.*s but In most cases there was no use for thora. Revolver shots heard shortly before the Titanic went down caused r many rumors, one that Capt. Smith had shot himself, another that First Officer Murdock had ended his life, but members of the crew discredit these rumors. Oapt. Smith was last j , . seen on 'the bridge just before the ship sank, leaping only after the decks had been washed away. What became of the men with the life preservers was a question asked by many \ since the disaster. Dead Italics on Surface. "Many of these with life preservers were soon to go down despito the preservers, and dead bodies floated on the surface as the boats moved away. Mrs. Isador Straus refused to ? ??*. ti natinnrl'a e i rl r? nnH hntll IlCtt VU 11UI U UOVUUU M M*V? V v?M\* perished togethor. Harold Cotton, Marconi operator on the Carpathia, did not go to bed at his usual time Sunday night and, as a result, caught the first message of the Titanic's plight, which was responsible for saving tho hundreds of rescued who were landed in New York. It was testified by eevoral survivors that the Titanic was going 23 knots an hour when sho crashed into the iceberg. "That the Titanic's officers knew several hours before the crash of tho possible nearness of the icebergs. That the Titanic's speed, nearly 23 knots an hour, was not slackened. That tho number of lifeboats on the Titanic was Insufficient to accommodate more than one-third of tho passengers, to say nothing of the crew. Most members of the crew say there were sixteen lifeboats and two oollapslbles; none say there were more than twenty boats in all. Tho 700 who escaped filled most of the sixteen lifoboats, and tho one collapsible < which got away, to the limit of their i capacity. "In the crow's nest, or lookout and on tho bridge, officers and membors of tho crew wero at their places, awaiting relief at midnight from their two hours' watch. At 1:45 came the sudden sound of two guns, a warni ing of Immediate danger. The crash I against the iceberg, which had boon L sighted at only a quarter of a nillo, yx came almost simultaneously with tho H click of tho lovers operated by those I on the bridge, which stopped the enJf gines and closed the water-tight doors. Captain at His Post. "Capt. Smith was 011 the bridge a I moment later, giving orders for the 1 t summoning of all on deck and for, \ putting on of lifo preservers and tho i lnwAPinir nf the lifeboats. Tho first 11V/ ?f vt o boats lowered contained more men passengers than the latter ones, as tho men were on (leek first and not _ enough women wore there to fill them. "When, a moment later, the rush of frightened women and crying children to the deck began, enforcement of the 'women first' rule became rigid. Officers loading some of the boats draw revolvers, but In most cases tho men, both passengers and crew, behaved fa a way that called for no sueh restraint. "Revolver shots heard by many forsoa* shortly before the end of tho Titanic caused many rumors. Ono was tliat Capt. Smith shot himself; another was that First Ofllcer Murdock ended his life. Smith, Murdock and Sixth Oflicer iMoody are known to have been lost. The surviving officers, Liglitoller, Pittman, Dotliall and Lowe, have made no statement. "Members of the crew discredit nil reports of suicide and say Capt. Smith remained on the bridge until just before the ship sank, leaping only after those 011 the deck had been 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 do wn. "What became of men with life preservers is a question asked since the disaster by many persons. The preservers did their work of supporting their wearers in the water until the ship went down. Many of those who went down into the vortex, despite 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 tho saloon, near the end and played "Nearer, My Clod lo Thee," sounds like an attempt to ijivo an added solemn color to a scene which was in itself the climax of solemnity. Tho various passengers and survivors of the crew agree in the declaring that they heard this music. To some of the hearers, with liusbands among the dying men, in die water and on the ship's rails, die strain brought in through the words: "Nearer, My God, to Thee." " 'So by my woes I'll bo 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 chip's officers knew better than this, and as tho spreading fear caused an earnest advance towards the suspended raft, the orders 'women first' were heard and the men were pushed aside. "To tho scene of the next two hours on those decks and in tho waters below such adjectives 'dramatic' and 'tragic' do but poor justice. With tho knowledge of deadly peril gaining greater power each moment over those men and women, the nobility of tho greater part, both among cabin passengers, officers, crew and steerage, assorted itself. "Isador StrauS, supporting his wife oil her way to a lifeboat, was held back by an inexorable guard. Another officer strode to help her to a seat of safety, but she brushed away his arm and clung to her husband, crying, 'I will not go without you.' "Another woman took her place and her form, clinging to her husband's, became part of a picture now drawn indelibly in many minds. Neither wife nor husband, fto far as any one knows, reached a place of safety. "Col. Astor, holding his young wifo's arm, stood decorously asido as the officers spoke to him, and Mrs. Astor and her maid were ushered to seats. Mrs. Ilonry B. Harris parted in like manner from her husband, saw him last on the rail beside Col. Astor. "Walter M. Clark, of Bos Angeles, nephew of the 'Montana Senator, joined the line of men as his young wife, sobbing, was placed in one of the crafts. 'Bet him como, there is room,' cried Mrs. Emil Taussig, as the men of the White Star Bine motioned to her husband to leave her. "Of Major Archie Butt, a favorite with his fellow tourists, of Chas. M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk; of Benjamin Guggenheim and of Win. T. Stead, no one seems to know whether they tarried too long in their ototn rnnm? or U'hpfllPr ttlOV forobore to approach tho fast filling boats. None of thorn was in the throng, which, weary, hours afterward reached tho Carpathla. "Simultaneously those In the boats saw what those on tho docks could not see?that the Titanic was listing rapidly to starboard and that her stern was rising at a portontlous angle. A rush of steerago men toward tho boats was checkod by ofllcers with revolvers. "Some of tho boats, crowded, drifted for a time. None had provisions or water, thero was lack of covering from the ice and aid and tho only lights were the still undimmod arcs and incandcscents of tho settling ship, safo for one of the boats. There a steward, who explained to the passengers that ho had been shipwrecked before, appeared carrying thico oranges and a green light. That green light, many of tho survivors say, was to the shipwrecked hundreds as the pillar of fire by night. Long after the ship bad disappeared and while confusing falso lights danced about tho boats, the groon lantern kept them together. "As the end of tho Titanic becamo manifestly but a matter of moments, tho oarsmen pulled their boats away and tho cht'Mng waters began to echo splash after splash, as passengers and sailors in life preservers leapel over and started swimming away to escape the expected suction. 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DTI I CAROLINA n 1910 $206,271.00 n 1911 193,872.34 2 years $400,143.34 >10 $107,496.60 six $48,286.37 lina ; than $781,000.00 ire on the Annual Dividend has, by increasing its Annual payments so rapidly. OUTII CAROLINA the insuring public of South Mutual Life is paying to its yholdcrs more than is shown other life insurance company. good points for local agents. next policy, write to us for lill out the coupon below and . auencv. ' - O J er for South Carolina. , Superintendent. SIA, S. C. COUPON. . .. Address . .. Occupation .carried down with tho suction of tho Isinklnj; liuor. "For six houra I beat f.ho water with hands and feet to keep warm," he said. "Then I was picked up by one of the Carpathia's boats which was cruising around looking for survivors. I was numb ( with the cold after a fight which I A ' can scarcely bear to discuss." * Bwat the fly first, last and all tfca \ tima. ?