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DETAILS OF WRECK'
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OBTAINED F80M SURVIVORS ON
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p TELLS OF HEROIC ACTS
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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. Only tho hardiest of tho
n en could enduro more than a few
minutes of such a numb bath Such a
vigorous stroke gave away to hoaitbreaklng
cries of 'Help! Help!' and
stiffened forms were seen floating,
the faces relaxed In doa'.l.
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Eggs for Hatching?$ L tor 18. Silver
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imiian Kiinncr Duck JOggw?From the
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Prize Winning fc>in^lo Comb Buff Orpingtons
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\\ liite Hocks and i>egh??riis exclusively.
A beautiful lot of well-mated
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Cotton Seed?Cook's Improved Big
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H. Barnett, Westminster, S. C.
Eggs for Sale?Your bens don't lay?
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Eggs?Cockerels, Breeding, Stock,
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Leghorn eggs, $1.00, Ilondans,
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Spartanburg Poultry Supply Store
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Mnety-day reasonable fertile egg
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bi\cct Potato Plants?Leading variI
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Barred Plymouth Hocks?Eggs,
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Special price in two barrel lots or
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.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
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