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The bo?.crs blew up a few inimit?s before she sank.
The bow went first, and the stern reared high in the* air, ?*n
the great ship plunged into the sea.
.Tust before she sank several of the mm on board jump?
into the sea, and those were, for the most part, the men survivo
brought by the Carpathia.
The eleetrie lights erf the Titanic burned until the l>oile
?Mew up.
The lifeboat, earning the women waited a milt from tl
ship until she sank and then drew in and picked up th?* ni<
found floating in the sea.
Some of the passengers said Captain K. .1. Smith and tl
chief engineer committed suicide on the bridge of the Titan
just before the ship sank.
Four of those saved died as the result of exposure befo
tbe Carpathia reached New York.
Others were sadly maimed.
Others were temporarily insane.
Many had to be taken to hospitals, while private **ml?i
lances and physicians met many more.
The Carpathia arrived <>n the scene at 8 a. m. Mond*
and picked up the lifeboats.
One lifeboat was tilled with stokers.
It was five minutes after the Carpathia tied up al her pie
at 9:8.r> o'clock last night, before the first of the survivors i
the Titanic came ashore.
Two men walked out first, one in oil skins and one ill
raincoat. They looked around in a dazed manner at the grei
crowd-waiting. There was a faint cheer, and the two jump?
over the rail holding back the crowd.
A man and a woman came next. There seemed to lie i
one to meet them.
??. Bruce Ismay remained closeted with V. A. S. Franklii
vice-president of the White S.tar Fine, on board the Carpathi
until 11 :?V- o'clock, and when the two came ashore Mr. Isma
gave out a statement saying that the Whit?' Star Line woul
do everything possiUe to alleviate the sufferings of the sin
vivons; that the ship bad complied with all regulations, and thi
.in inquiry by the Senate committee would be welcomed.
PASSENGERS HAD AGREED KOT TO TALK.
The customs officers on the pier opened up a lane throng
the crowd, and then the survivors of the Titanic came stragglin
| out. They seemed only anxious to get away, and few wer
willing to talk. Those first to come said thai the passengei
bad agreed not to talk, but that the line would issue a statt
ment. As the number of those who came ashore grew large)
* however, some were found who would tell the story of the lo?
of tbe great liner.
Lawrence Beesley, twenty-five years old? whose name di
not appear among the list of survivors transmitted by the Car
pathia. was one of those who would tell the tale.
"it was soon after half past eleven ?Sunday night that w
struck the ice." he said. "All day we had been steaming at fu
speed through a clear and beautiful sea. We had seen no ic
that day and none the day before. The weather had beet
fine and clear ever since we left Liverpool.
"Many of the passengers had walked the deck after dinnc
Sunday night, but at that hour most of them were in bed. ( )nl;
a few men were in the smoking room. Captain Smith wa
not on the bridge, but the ship was in charge of the first office*
who was on the bridge.
"It was not the force of the collision that aroused me. bu
the stopping of the engines, and T went out on deck to see wha
was the matter.
the collision that aroused me, but the stopping of the engines
And I went out on deck to see what was the matter.
"? found some men there who hail been in the smokin?.
room, and they told me that we had rammed a low iceberg. Thi*;
said it stood only fifty or a hundred feet out of' the water, aiH
they did not think it was a berg, but a small floe.
"When I reached the deck, the ice was not to be seen, ant
tbe men told me that they had rushed out of the smoking ?roon
immediately, and had barely been able to distinguish the ice
?which disappeared from view in less than ten minutes ftftei
we struck it.
? "We struck it on the starboard bow and ripped a great
hole in the side of tbe vessel. The vessel did not seem to begin
to sink or settle, and there seemed no danger.
% SHIP WAS r\SIXKABLK. OFFICERS SAID.
"I think most of the passengers were asleep, and few of
them knew that we had been in collision until the officers went
through the ship and aroused the passengers and told them t.
put on life preservers and come on deck. Even then there was
HO fear that the ship would sink. We were told by the officen
that there was no danger. We were told that the Titanic was
unsinkable and that we had nothing to fear.
"Of course, there was some nervousness. Bui there was ne
panic, and no real fear, because we were so sure that the Ti?
tanic could not sink.
"Half an hour Inter the officers ordered us into the life?
boats, and then there began to be signs of fear, but still no
panic in the first or second cabin. There was the beginning of
a panic, at least, in the steerage. Some of the men from tbe
steerag? tried to rush the lifeboats and I -heard several shots
fired. I was told that half a dozen fell and that Major Archibald
Butt had killed them. I was told, also, that he had stood in the
? passage with an iron bar and saved th;* women of the first and
second cabins, and the steerage too. from the mad rush of the
men of the steerage.
"We soon found that the lifeboats would hold less than
one-third of the passengers and crew, and at once, without
orders from any one. the men stood back to make way for
the women.
"There were the most painful and pitiful scenes then.
IMany of the women refused to go without their 'husbands, anil
some of* them climbed back to the deck of the Titaiiic and re?
fused to ?be saved. The lifeboats went away with only about
three-fourths of those they could carry lnvause the women re?
fused to lie saved and leave the men to drown?
"Jt was about quarter after twelve wnen the passengers
were told to get into the lifeboats, and fifteen minutes later they
bad been lowered to flu sea and were pulling away from the
ship.
"The men stood on the decks and watched the lifeboats go
and cheered the women.
MI think iew of the passengers, even then, realized what had hap
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CAPTAIN E. J. SMITH.
Commander of th?*? Titanic, who um! down with thf linking lm?-r. at'trr fr,rt
tlir.T year? of ?r.i lervicf.
?Pholoniiij.li by II ill Ham Xetb.l
pened. I think few of them knew that as those small boats drew aw?
| from the side of the great liner they were leaving fifteen hundred sou
? to perish in the sea.
"The men on the ship did not realize, unless it was those fe
?; panicstricken souls in the steerage.
"They stood on the decks and crowded to the rail and cheered ar
waved farewell to the r.mall hoats. I think most of them had the fee
ing that they were safer where they were on the great ship than in tt
tiny lifeboats, and their fears were not for themselves, but for tho.
who had put out on that perilous journey in the tiny boats, with r
power but the muscles of the men who pulled it the oars.
"We wondered how the women in the lifeboat?, were getting alon
We thought of the cold and their cramped positions. Most of thei
were warmly dressed. There had been no excitement that brought me
and women to the decks half dressed. All or nearly all got into it.
lifeboats warmly clad.
"But we realized then that they were in a far worse position tha
we were, or so it seemed to us. For they, at least, must look on ot
position as a dangerous one. They must think they had given us u
to our doom.
SHE SEEMED TO RE SETTLING SLOWLY.
"It was then that we began to think that, perhaps, wr were not t
have such a joyful reunion in the morning. We began to notice th
settling of the ship. Even then, to us. she seemed to be settling slowl
?so slowly that, in our minds, it was certain she would sink only so fa
and then remain helpless, perhaps, but safe.
"The lights were burning. The engines l?,id stopprrl, !.nt so fa
as we knew they hzfd stopped while the damage was repaired Mo*
of us thought that with the fires still in the boilers and the lights 0
there could be no real danger.
"It was about 2 o'clock that the vessel began to sink ^o rapidly tha
there could be no more doubt in the minds of any <">f us that she w.i. loa.
"The hand was called out and began to play 'Nearer, My Gor!
to Thee.'
"Some of the men in a desperate effort for life, as they knew at las
that there was no hope for them on the ship, threw themselves Into th?*
sea It was only a few minute-, more, and but few of the swimmer
had time to get away from the Miction of the ship when the boilct:
exploded, the decks amidships were torn apart, the lights went out. am
in less than five minutes more the bow of the Titanic sank tapidly, ih<
stern rose in the air, and with the band still playing "Nearer, My God
to Thee,' the ship sank.
"Just before she sank there was a desperate effort to force Captait
Smith into one of the collapsible boats Once he was in the boat, bu
he struggled back again to the biidgc, and as the Titanii tont dowr
Captain Smith and the chief engineer took their lives on the bridge."
Miss Cornelia B. Andrews, one of the ?woman survivors, ??'so pul
the blame on the attempt to make a recorr? voyage.
"We were going at full speed." she said, "though they had promised
the passengers not to try to make a record this voyage. It was a clear
and starlight night. We had seen no ice before that day. and they were
not using the searchlights, though we. were in such dangerous territory.
"The iceberg we struck did not stand out of the water more than
fifty feet, and. you know, ice cannot be seen at night. It is so near the
color of the water, and in the starlight a small berg like that could
not be seen.
"The heroism of the men was wonderful. There was no panic and
no attempt to force the way into the boats. All the men stood back
and left the boats to the women. Some men from the steerage tried to
rush the boats, but some of them were shot, and there was no more of
that trouble. That was the only sign of a panic there was at any luve.
"We might all have been saved if there had been lifeboats enough.
There were lifeboats for only about one-third of those who were on
the ship. There were a few collapsible boats, and some of the men
were saved in these.
"The lifeboat? rarrying the women drew away about a mile from
the ship and waited there. We could see her plainly and sec the pas?
sengers and crew crowded on her decks. Just before she sank there
was an explosion. The boilers blew up and the decks burst Then we
saw some of the men leap into the sea. We could see them jump, and
a few minutes later the bow of the ship began to sink. Then the stern
rose into the air and the ship plunged out of sight.
"We could only sit in the boats and watch while fifteen hundred of
our fellow passengers went to their deaths.
"After the ship j.ank the lifeboats returned to the spot and picked up
the men they found floating in the water. These were practically the
only men saved, except the members of the crew who manned the boats.
"We floated all night in the vicinity of the wreck, and at 8 o'clock
in the morning, eight hours after we had taken to the lifeboats, the
Carpathia came and picked us up."
The last lifeboat was aboard the Carpathia at 8:30 o'clock on
Monday morning. Most of the Titanic survivors, according to the
passengers of the Carpathia, were well and warmly clad, and though the
clothing of some seemed to be light, a physician passenger on the Car?
pathia said that it was sufficient for protection from exposure.
All were in fairly good condition, according to this doctor, and were
able to reach their quarters without assistance. Mr. John Jacob Astor
walked to her cabin unaided. She remained in her cabin during the
voyage, but nothing was said about her needing medical attention.
SICKNESS AND nDEATH ON VOYAGE!
In the course of the Carpathian voyage to New York sickness de- '
veloped among the steerage passengers and crew, but little among the
first and second cabin passengers. The sickness was chiefly pneumonia '
and frostbites, and the ship's surgeons did not at any time call for help
from the other physicians on board
Four of the survivors died. It was understood that they were
members of the Titanic's crew.
There were thirty widows on. the Carpathia, and these constantly?
clung to the hope that when they reached port some word would be
received from their husband??.
The approach of the Carpathia to New York was in the midst of a
heavy storm. Her progress was watched through the bulletins with
interest and anxiety that increased each hour. Long before the news
of her anival at Sandy Hook was announced the crowds had begun to
gather at the White Star dock, and by 8:30 o'clock, when she appeared
?off the pier, more than fifteen hundred persons were waiting on the
passenger floor of the pier, while the police lines in the street held back
thousands more, who stood in the drenching rain to cheer those who
had r-o narrowly escapee1 death.
it took more than an hour to v/arp her into her dock against the
strong flood tide. The Carpathian crew had to cut away the Titanic's
lifeboats which were strung to the starboard davits, that the vessel
mipht warp into the dock. During the entire hour she was off the pier
many well known people surged obout the openings through which the
first and second class gangplanks were put.
Twenty-six hospital ambulances waited on the ground floor of the
pier, and a relief station was fitted up in one of the upper rooms.
There was a momentary outburst of hysteria from the women, but
they were scon calmed down and attended by physicians on the pier.
Shortly after midnight everybody was off the ship and the police lines
were withdrawn.
The Carpathia will ,-ai! again this afternoon on her interrupted
voyage to the Mediterranean.
MEN CALM AND WOMEN
BRAVE AS TITANIC SANK
A great preponderance of coolness on the part of the men and much more
nerve than is usually expected of women in such a crisis was heyond all doubt
the most striking feature of the sinking of the Titanic so far as the people on
board were concerned.
Of course here and there when the vessel tore over the great submerged
shelf of the gigantic iceberg, and later when those on board heard the prophetic
cry of the officers to make ready the lifeboats, there was hysteria. It took a
long time for those on board to realize that-sinking was inevitable, but by the
time they had grasped it there war? a sad but resolute feeling of resignation
?mong the majori?y.
Mr. and Mrs. Istdor Straus, who went down together, furnished a striking
example of the courage that gripped the travellers when it came time to separate.
There was no occasion for a mad rush, for the Titanic sank slowly and steadily.
So gradual was her dropping 'o the depths that hundreds of those who lie with
her were loath to get away. Surely, the warning of Captain Smith and his
officers, who knew the ship better than any one else, was worth believing, but
with many it was not within their power to believe.
The lifeboats were swung with superb discipline. The survivors told of it
last night on the Cunard pier, and from what they said England may well be
prour of those fearless sailormen who performed their duty with the calm that
?mends a boat drill.
Some of the women had provided themselves with ample clothing for the
lifeboats. Others were roused from their daze by more cool sisters and went
h;?rk to their rooms for apparel.
STEWARDS WARN PASSENGERS TO PUT ON LIFEBELTS.
"Pu? on l'febclts, everybody!" cried the s?ew-"rds. "The lifeboats are being
ma?lc ready and ?he women will go first."
"Is it possible thnt this boat is sinking?" asked one woman of a steward.
"Vr-, ma'am, ?t\e is," he replied, "ard there is no mistake about it. Kindly
'.??? ready for ?he lifeboats."
Men did try to get into the lifeboats. But they did not do it in cowardice.
I? was merely the human promptings that they were unable to check for the
moment when they helped their dear ones of the other sex in. There was an
impulse to ?o with them; to rare for them: to be with them. That was all.
When the first boat ?jrai ready Mrs. [?{dot Straus was asked to go in it. but
she refired. Site stood on deck in the embrace of her husband, who she knew
ronld not go ?-/?th her, and cle<-trd ?o die with him. Those survivors who saw
them together on deck as the lifeboats went down the side felt last night that
they were most likely standing together near the same place u the "Atlantic
smothered the gr-rpt Titan'?-.
The great vessel went down with her band playing, and until her boilers
exploded and broke her hack her lights were ablaze. No one, perhaps,
knows what happened aboard when the Titanic went do?>yn. for the lifeboats,
with all those -aved. were th?n a mili away from the liner.
The music of the hand carried over to the lifeboats in the clear, crisp air,
and, according to some who heard i?. the music filled them with courage.
MRS. HARRIS DESCRIBES PARTING WITH HER HUSBAND.
Mrs Henry R. Harri*, who ai rived last night on the Carpathia, with a
broken arm, told how her husband and she parted company.
'Poor Harry'" she sobbed, a-, she sank into the arms of friends on the
pier. ' "Poor fellow' His first thought and last thought were for the welfare
<<f the women. I started to go to a lifeboat, and instinctively he walked with
me. He seemed dazed as I climbed in. and tried to get in with me. but they
pushed him hack. He din im? resist. He backed away, saying: Yes. that's right.
Th?* women must all he cared for.' We were rowed promptly away from the
ship. He came to the roil, and that was the last I saw of him."
Sometimes there w?s a suggestion of momentary confusion a*-* the women
parted from their loved ones, but if was thwarted instantly by the Titanic's
officer*!. Everything '(-ordering on panic was stopped, promptly but not harshly.
There was a ring ot kindness in their tones.. Some of them smiled as they
.-"?".sisted with almost the grace of a ballroom the white hands that were held out
to them.
One woman balked when a place was offered in the first boat. Her hesita?
tion and ultimate refusal saved the life of her brother. She was Mrs. Paul
Schabcrt. of Derby. Conn., and as one ot the men survivors expressed it, the
"gamest lady on the ship."
She was coolness itself la-.t night when she came ashore from the Carpathia
and told her story clearly and her facts were consistent.
"I had stateroom No. 28, on the port side," she said. "It was about midships.
I think I had just gone t<* sleep when I was awakened by a crunching noise.
I thought something lad gone wrong, so I went out on deck. Of course I had
P? dress, and by the time I got out on deck there was some excitement."
Mrs. Schabert was on deck pertiap-** ten or twelve minutes after the collision,
and as she left her room she heard the officers shouting: "Lifeboats are ready!
The hdies will go first!"
This lapse of time may give some idea of how badly the Titanic had been
ripped and how soon the master and his men were aware of her ultimate sinking.
Mort than this, it shows that Captain Smith and his splendidly trained men
were ready for the emergency, and it shows, too, that not a soul would have
been lost if the White Star Line had put enough lifeboats on the great boat deck
that they had heralded so extensively in their advertising literature.
"As I heard the cry," continued Mrs. Schabert, "a bedroom steward rushed
by mc. 'Steward,' I asked, are v/c sinking?' He stopped, and with perfect cool?
ness paid 'We are.' The way he said it ieft no room for doubt.
'When the women were assembled for the boats I was urged to get in with
the other women in one of the first boats. My brother Philip was with me. and
I wanted him to go along, too. but they said that was out of the question. 'Very
well, then, I will wait until the last boat,' I ??aid. I wanted to be near him as
long as I could. Then they called me for the last boat. They told me it was
my last chance, so I then ?lecided to go. Fortunately, there were no more women
left, and they let my brother go with me. 1 assure you, I am mighty glad I did
not go away on the first invitation."
The speed problem of the Titanic was hazy last night when the survivors
tried to tell of it. Dozens of persons spoke of as many degrees of speed, and
few could give any authority for their assertions. But. regardless of the dif?
ference:- of opinion on the Titanic's speed at the time of the collision, the con?
sensus was that "she was going mighty fast."
One man was positive that she was doing twenty-three knots, a speed
which she was never intended to develop. No passenger was qualified to say
what speed the Titanic was making. Only those on board having access to the
master's figures or the chart of the engine room could tell what speed the
Titanic was making when she hit the iceberg's bidden shelf.
COL. ASTOR DIED BRAVELY,
GIVING PLACE TO WOMAN
? i'iiiiiiiii-ii fr.ii.i n??i pagja.
William H. Force, it was made plain last night that they did not permit
any one to apprise Mrs. Astor of the truth regarding her husband.
"I hope he is alive somcwHere. Yes, I cannot think anything else,"
the youn?- bride said of her husband to her father as she left him to go
to the Astor home, according to those who heard her parting remarks.
The chief steerage steward oi the Titanic, who came in on the
Carpathia, said last night he saw Colonel Astor standing by the life
ladder as the passengers were being embarked. His wife was beside
him, the steward said. The colonel left her to go to the purser's office
for a moment, and that was the last seen of him, according to the
steward.
From H. B. Steft'anson came another story of the parting of the
Astors. which similarly shows Astor as a hero meeting death bravely
?nd with a smile on his lips.
"I first saw Astor helping to load some steerage women into the
lifeboats," said Steft'anson, "and i few minutes later, on an upper deck
I met Mrs. Astor. I raid to her: Why, Mrs. Astor, haven't you left
yet?' Then Colonel Astor came up and said io her:
"Tve been looking for you, dear; you must get into a lifeboat.'
The two of us helped her into a boat, and just then an officer called
out : 'Lower that lifeboat !' Aster put his hand on his wife's shoulder,
leaned ovet her for a moment, and .-;aid: 'Goodby, sweetheart ; don't
worry.' He kissed her, and then as the boat was lowered away he
smiled and waved hi-, hand to her." \
[BRUCE ISMAY^T?TEMENT
Remained Two Hours on Oar?,
pathia with Mr. Franklin.
J. ?Brae. Ismay did not )and from th.
Carpathia with the other survivor? of
] the Titanic'.. wre<*k. but P. A. S. Frank?
lin, vice-president of th? Whit? stir
Line, went on hoard, and h*? and Mr
Ismay had a consultation that lasted
until 11:1.. O'clock. The two c?ni?
ashore and went to the captain's offlr?
Ion the pier, when ),\r. Ismay made thl?
formal statement:
"In the presence and und-r the shadow
of n catastrophe so overwhelming my
feelings are too deep for expression In
words. I can only sav that the Whit?
Star Line. Its officers and employ? wt||
1 do everything humanly possible to al<
leviate the ?ufTerlng and sorrow of th?)
survivors and of the relatives and
friends of those who have perished.
"Tho Titanic was th* last word |n
shipbuilding. Every rognlatlon pre
?eribfd by the British Board of Trad*
bad been strictly ?-omplied with; th?
mast?!*, Ofllccn and the crew were tha
most experienced and skilful in th?. Brit?
ish 5?>?rvie.?
"I am Informed that a committee of
the 1'nited State? Senate lias be<?n ap?
pointed t?. investigate the 'irr umstaneei
if th?? ..ceident I heartllv vteicome the
most < omplete and exhaustive inquiry,
an?! any aid that I or my associates or
Mr builders or navigators fan render is
at tha service of the publi. and the gov?
ernments of b<?tb the United States and
(ireat Britain, t'nder the circum-tHiie es
I must rtOfMctfttlly defer making any
further statement at this tim??."
SYMPATHY FROM CANADA
Connaught Subscribes to Relief Fund
and Sends Message to President.
Ottawa. April 18. The Duke of ? nn.
naught, (Jovernor <i??nersl of ""snada. ai
iubscrlhert $.'A) to lh?? fund being ra:i#d In
Montreal for the survivors of th? Titanic
disaster. '
His royal hf?;hn?ss tods. i?nt log foi*
lowing message to President Taft at \?
il.gton:
I have delayed telegraphing to you In 1 -
hope that Major Ruft might still he arnoi.*
the saved, hut fear there is now no
Aerept the expression of my deepest sym?
pathy "ii this gallant officer s tragic end
and the loss to yourself of a devoted mem?
ber of .your staff.
1 ??Is?, take this opporfinlty of assuring
you of my heartfelt sympathy with the
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