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Richmond, va;, ITRIDAY, APRIL 19 1912"
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TiTAMIC WAS DESTROYED TWE TITANIC GTf?AWrJ ALONGSIDE TO SHOW PPUTIV^PROP^TIONS * ^? ^Su^ o? <J
Lifted From Gates of Death, Survivors of !
i
Oppressed by Sorrow and the Weight of Their Calamity and Misery, They Come Home
on Carpathia, Where Great, Sad Crowd Gives Them Greeting?Many Hysterical and
Weak, Their World Left Void and Empty by Loss of Loved Ones, but Their
Physical Condition Better Than Those Waiting Had Dared Hope For.
[Special to Tro- TimcF-Dispatch.1
Neil York. April IS.?Lifted from ?he|
gale* of dcntli. Ihr 710 survivors <>'
the Tltnnle "i-rc landed m-nlght hj
?he ( Mr put in ii. ertlich rescued them|
two hour* nnd a holf nftcr the great
"White Star Huer hurled her?rlf nKoluKt
fin Iceberg Ifmt Sunday utRht. IMif'.K
ured by calamity nnd misery und op?
pressed by awful sorrow, the women j
nnd ehlldrco anil the few men who ei>
enped from the world'* greatest dlsna
ter were In better physical condition
than the most optimistic bnd hoped tor.
Ont of the gr*at company that waited
for hours In bitter cold otuong the
grinding bergs, many of them thinly
clad, many bruised and hurt by the
rolllalon nhlcb destroyed Ihrlr ship,
few nrrdrd the ministrations of physi?
cians when they came out In sight or
the vnst crowd thai had been waiting,
in almost unbearable uncertainty.;
Many, It I? true, were weak and uer-J
voui and hysterical from the expert
rnce that had left the world void nnd!
empty for (hem. Hut?thousands!
thanked find for It ax the? notched?j
1bc majority of the saddened, bereaved
compnny were i>ell In body.
Only one of the Titanic'* survivors J
died while the f.'arpathla wan driving'
through fogs oud Htorinn to thia port. !
Pour of the Titanic'? people had per?
ished trying to get nlioard the C'Orpn
thla, and another Titanic panncnger
lent his life by the overturu of u boat.
One woman, o ?crond-eubln pasaenge'r,
who was landed to-night was nuiYerlug
from a broken arm. Hut the general
condition of the hundreds an druninit- I
rally saved from denth wna n raune of j
Inexpressible pleasure to the thousand* |
who saw them land. There ? iih no j
need, an I? turued out, for the minis?
ter? of denth.
Figure* Do Not Agree.
The Carpnthlo reported that there
were 710 saved out of n passenger list
which the White Star Mnc figured nt I
2.1S0, making n l?>?? of 1,170 Uvea. The
ntatemcnt from ihr Titanic'? passen- j
gera any there were 745 rescued out of I
n paecrnger Hat of 2,340. The Hat of
names furnished on the f'arPnthln on
ber arrival ?how 1SS first.cabin pns.
?enger? saved. I IS In the aernnd cnliln,
I7S third class, and '-Oil of the crew, n j
total of US" saved. A vi onion passen?
ger on the I nrpntuln heard from the
palD'a doctor, that Wo of the passengers
and 21? nt the crew hnil h<-m govdl,;
nnd thnt c 1:1 r t < -n I nr ffomrn lost their
husbands. Six of them ?tre bride".
Tbc world's nnnala have provided
? few more Intense and dramatic mo?
menta thnn when all that nai left of
the Kreat company tbet aallcd mo Rally
on tbe Titanic appeared to-nlgbt on
tbr ruaard pier. Nothing of the story
of tbclr miseries and of their suffering
nfter the Titanic foundered hnd come
from tbr nee. It mn not Unonii for
certain whether aoroe who had been
given up for dead might appear mirac?
ulously on the gang-plank. There were
? corn of people, unions them men and
women ivbose names are famlltnr tbe
country over, nbo waited In the moat
Intense suspense while the Cunnrder,
with her and rargti, made her vruy
slowly up the Hudson, passed the great
alilp shelter, whose flags showed direct?
ly at hnlf-MnfT In the bars of river
light. There were some of those who
bad not dnred to give op nil hope, who
lingered, still n prey to most dreadrul
uncertainty, who refused to hellcTe the
cruel Uonst as to who werc saved, that
they might nfter all uppear themselves.
-Nearly nil of these werc disappointed
anil turned aws.v with looks that no
rann who saw the arrival of the t'ar
pntbla will over forget.
Tragedy Written In Fnces.
The tragedy of the Titanic was writ?
ten on the faces of nearly all of her
survivor*. Some, It la true, who were
j aared with their families, could not re?
press the joy and thnnUfulness that
ftlled their hearts, but they were very
few compared to tbe number of tbe
rescued. These others bore Impress
of their time of darkness, when their
people pnxsed In an accident which
seemed like an Insane vision. Their
faces were s\Tollen with weeping, They
had drunk ns deeply of sorrow as Is
ever given to butnnu ktud. lint many
whose spirits were fainting from
dcspnlr walked firmly down the gang*
plunk. Some walked unseeing, In a
kind of dreadful somnambulism of de?
spair.
It was with difficulty that the isnencs
of many were loosened to speak ot the
scenes of ngony and fear that fell over
the Tltnnlc's dreadful ? company when
It became swiftly known thnt the ship
must go down. Nome told hnltlagly,
with drend still frozen In their eyes,
.of men who strove sind struggled
against no men for tbc lifeboats, nnd
of officer* shooting I In in ?oud. One
"union nnn nn officer shoot ?wo men,
?he sH|d, and other pmirngc? recoiled
how officers bad stood nidi drawn pis?
tols while the women and children were
being: guided Into the boat*. No one
seemed to know of the exact fate of the
Titanic'? captain, E. J. Smith. There
wo? n story that he hnd committed
aalclde, but the .CarpntbJa's passenger*
did not know that was true. Many of
them had heard shots fired. They be?
lieved that anme of the Gbootlng was
done to warn hnck steerage pnsaen
gera. For the Titanic3? officers and
crew the rescued seemed to have noth?
ing but praise. These men acted
calmly and coolly, In the face of certain
foundering, wn? the report brought
here to-night by the rescued.
Received Solemnly.
The unhappy company ao marvelons
ly torn from the grip of the sea was
received solemnly and with remarkable
ciulct by the enormous crowd which
Those Saved and Lost
In Sinking of Vessel
New York, April IS.?-The follow?
ing tabulation of the passengers
and crew on hoard the Titanic, to?
gether with those saved and lost,
han been compiled from the figures
In the statement Issued by the com?
mittee of passengers i
Approximate number of paasen
gera aboard!
First class. .130
Scrnnd eins*. 320
Third class. 7 {50
Officers and crew. 040
Tola! .2,340
Number of passengers snved by
rnrpntblni
First class. 210
Second class. 125
Third class. 200
Total passengers .B3B
Member* of crew savedi
Officers. 4
Seamen. Sil
Stewnrdn .. ,. fid
Firemen . 71
Total members of crevr saved, 210
Total saved passengers nnd crew, 743
Total number perished.'..I.KflK
First and second cabin pn?
aengers . 030
First and second cabin pns
sengern snved . 333
Total cabin passengers lost.... 3!if
gathered near the Cunard piers nnd by
tbe few hundreds that penetrated, by
right of relation or friendship or mer?
ciful business to the Interior of the
pier. There wa? no cheering, no uprls
Ing of volcea in salute of tbe living,
for the thought of the dead w?* 1* the.
mlnda of nil onlookcm. The depression
of death was oppressive on the spirit
of tbe waiting men and women. Those
who found their gladdest hopes real?
ized and looked through the press to
make out the well-known faces of hus?
bands and fathers and sisters and
wives, could not conceal their tremen?
dous elation, their thankfulness that
all suspense and disheartening conjec?
ture were over. Hut they greeted their
rescued onea quietly for the most part,
with a thought ever present for the
overburdened hearts of the many who
had been bereaved.
So plainly were the police and other
nrrangeniCnts made there was no surg?
ing of crowds, no hustling and push,
lag of the Titanlc's survivors. The
crowds werte held back two blocks
from the pier on the north, east and
south. Everything was done to expe?
dite the passage of the rescued ones
and make their transfer from pier to
hom*o or hotels as easy and as com?
fortable as possible.
? Within the pier shed were hundreds:
who had the keenest personal interest
In the survivors. Young Vincent Astor
was there early, awialtlng wt'th an au?
tomobile for Mrs. John Jacob Astor.
still hopeful that by some chance good
news would be given of his father.
J. P. Morgan, Jr., was an early ar?
rival. There was a committee from
the Stock Ex change, headed by Han?
son K Thomas, the president, r. A.
B. Wldener, of Philadelphia, the trac?
tion magnate, who waited for his
daughter-in-law nnd gnnd?on. bit",
with no hope Idft of tha survival of
hts son, George D. Wldensr. Senator
William A. Clark. Dr. Herman Frau
enthal and others with relatives and
frlend3 aboard the Incoming boat en?
deavored to master their anxiety, and
waited with all patience thaj was pos?
sible. Tho plor was crowded with
repres3ntatives of relief organizations,
ambulance surgeons from tho hospi?
tals, with Sisters of Oharlty. nurses,
doctors?all those who' could be of
help In alleviating dlatress or suffer?
ing. It waa a long and trying wjdt
I before the news time to the pier that
the big Cllharder was coming up the I
harbor, and even then there were, no
details obtainable aji to the real con?
dition of the survivors, and no more
new* as to whether more were picked
up than had been reported In the
papers and thi passing list printed.
A little arier 9 P. M.^ when the Car
paihla was reported as passing tha
Battery, hundreds were In tears. Tho
emotion of the moment was overmas?
tering. Nerves were too greatly
strained. One man danced orazily
through the crowd on the pled. Peo?
ple started forward to rebuke him, but
he was suffering from hysteria mid
nervousness. In n llctle while 'the
lights of the ship wore plainly dis?
cerned down river as she. made her
way past the big boats tied up In their
dock.?. There were no salutes, no
noisy welcome .for the Carpathla. The
?adne.= s of her oompany permitted of
no demonstrations, but her slow pro?
gress up the river was watched silent?
ly by 'the s-samen, wlio knew better
than any what the survivors had
passed through.
Swings Slowly to Tier l?|er.
At 0:25 P. aL the Cunardor was
swinging slowly to her pier. Out on |
the derk rlve.r there were sudden, vivid
flashes and explosions, as photogra?
phers snatched a vlaw of the ship lying,
pierward. No photographers were al?
lowed near the pier on the land side,
but a large numbei^'of picture men dls
r?garded requests and rowed close
enough to the ship to get the pictures
they were after. It was dark on the
river, hut presently. In gleams of light
from the Carpathla's ports, the watch
?rs on the pier observed that she was
lowering boats to facilitate her worp
Ing Into dock. Bsrs of light foil on
those .boats. a.Tid the people on land
made ottt with catching breath the!
f^orTtTnueTTon Sixth Page.)
Figures Are Secured
From Various Sources
According to tho Associated
Press dispatches, there Were U.340
persons on board the Titanic when
she struck the Iceberg. Of this
number 7-15 were rescued and six
died before reaching port, making
the total number of lost 1,(101.
In the sperlnl dispatches from
New Vnrk, It In given tbnt there
were 2,180 person* on the steamer,
of whom 1,470 were lost, leaving
710 survlvora.
The?e figures, which do not agree,
are ns ncenrate as can be obtained
at an early hour this morning, and
It Is not possible nhaolntely to
verify the accuracy of either op* |
In preference to the other.
CARPATHIA COMES
BRINGING DIRECT
NEWS OF DISASTER
Of the 745 Rescued After Destruction of
White Star Liner, Six Succumb Before
They Reach Port and Are
Buried at Sea.
AS VESSEL PLUNGES TO HER FATE, BAND
PLAYS "NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE"
Stories Told by Survivors Are Conflicting, Some
Saying That in Last Moments Calm Prevailed
Among Doomed Passengers and Crew, While
Others Tell That There Was a Maniacal Strug?
gle for the Lifeboats?Rumored That Captain
Smith and Chief Engineer Committed Suicide.
Before Sinking, Titanic Breaks in Two, and Ex?
plosions Complete Her Destruction.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, April 18.?How the W hite Sur liner Titanic, the
largest ship afloat, tank off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland on
Monday morning last, carrying to their death 1,601 of the 2.340 per?
sons aboard, was told to the world in all its awful details for this
first time to-night with the arrival in New York of the Cnnard liner
Carpavhia, bearing the exhausted survivors 01 the catastrophe. Of
the great facts which stand out front the chaotic account of the
tragedy, these arc the most saleint:
The death ilst has been increased rather than decreased. Six
persons died after being rescud.
The list of prominent persons lost stands as previously re-?
ported.
Practically every woman and child, with the exception 06
those who refused to leave their husbands, were saved. Among
these last was Mrs. Isidor Straus
Heard Groans and Cries of Those Doomed.
The survivors on the lifeboat saw the lights on the Stricker! v
vessel glimmer to the last, the band playing, and saw the doomed
hundreds on her deck and heard their groans and cries when the
vessel sank.
Accounts vary as to the extent of the disorder on board.
Not only was the Titanic tearing through the April night to
her doom with every ounce of steam crowded on, but she was under
orders from the general officers of the line to make all the speed of
which she was capable. This was the statement made to-night by
J. H. Moody, a quartermaster of the vessel and helmsman on the
night of the disaster. He said the ship was making twenty-one
knots an hour, and the officers were striving to live up to the orders
to smash the record.
"It was close to midnight," said Moody, "and f was on the
bridge with the second officer, who was in command. Suddenly he
shouted. 'Port your helm.' I did so. but it was too late. We struck
the submerged portion of the iceberg."
Of the many accounts given by the passengers, most agree that
the shock when the Titanic struck the iceberg, although ripping her
great sides like a giant can opener, did not greatly jar the entire
vessel, for the blow was a glancing one along her side. The ac?
counts also agree substantially that when the passengers were
taken off on the lifeboats there was no serious panic, and that many
wished "to remain on board the Titanic," bcieving her to be un
sinkable.
Distressing Stories of Those in Lifeboats.
The most distressing stories arc those giving the experiences of
the passengers in lifeboats. These tell not only of their own suffer?
ing, but give the harrowing details of how they saw the great hulk
uf the Titanic break in two, the after part sinking first amid a scries
of explosions, followed by the sinking of the forward part of the
ship. As this awful spectacle was witnessed by the groups of sur?
vivors in the bats, they saw plainly many of those whom they had
just left behind leaping from the decks into the water.
J. Bruce Ismay, president of the International Mercantile Ma?
rine Company, owners of the White. Star Line, who whs among
the seventy-odd men saved ; P. A. S. Franklin, vice-president of the
White Star Line, and United States Senator William Aldcn Smith,
chairman of the Senate investigating committee held, a conference
aboard the Carpathia soon after the passengers had come ashore
to-night.
After nearly an hour, Senator Smith said h had no.authority
to subpoena witnesses at this time, but would begin an inve>tiga
Hotel to-morrow night. He announced that Mr. Ismay had con?
sented to appear and that Mr. Franklin and the four surviving of?
ficers of the Titanic would appear for examination before the Sen?
ate committee. He said the course the investigation woidd follow
ivould be determined after the preliminarv hearing,
'.ion into the cause of the loss of the. Titanic at the Waldorf-Astoria
Senator Smith -was questioned as to the speed the. Titanic, was'
eroceeding ^thc time when, sli crashd into the icberg, He sai?^.
