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Vol. 1, No. 175 Chicago Thursday, April 18, 1912 One tent
RELATIVES OF SfEERAGE VICTIMS.OF TITANIC
REFUSED PASSES TO PIER
.
Survivors Half Insane from Grief and Exposure; Car
pathia Dufr-Tonight, and All New York
, ., JBowed in Horror. ,J u?
New York, April 18.--The Car
pathia, carrying the 705 sur
vivors of the Wreck of the Titanic,
is steaming" slowly toward this
port through a dense fog-. It
probably will not be docked until
late tonight.
At the White Star pffices, and
at the Cunard pier where thp Car
pathia will be moored, men and
women are breaking down under
the strain of the last hours of
waiting to learn the fate of their
loved ones.
Strong men are weeping and
cursing alternately. White-faced
women are sobbing quietly or
breaking into awful, hysterical
shrieks.
Every hospital in kew York
has offered its services toward
caring - for the survivors. The
1 pien of the Cunard linetonight
Wij be crowded with ambu
lances. The attitude of General Nelson
H. Henry, Surveyor of the Port,
is not helping matters out.
Henry is in change of all "ar
rangements forVeceiying the Car-
pathia. He is the only mar who j
can grant passes to relatives of
victims of the tragedy. ,
Henry already has. given out
passes to relatives of cabin pas
sengers. He has refused them to
relatives of the steerage passen
gers. - 4
When asked why he was dis
criminating against the more
lowly victims of the steerage, he
said that a local committee of
women had been named to care
for steerage survivors at the dock
and until they were taken either
to the municipal lodging house or
returned to Ellis Inland.
This is quite true, but does not
quite7 give Henry an excuse for
refusing the weepfng relatives of
the poorer survivbrsa chance to
embrace their loved ones.
The scenes tonighfrare going to
be beyond all description. It is
only necessary to'look once upon
thejfaces of 'the long lines of those
awaiting the ship of horror and
grief to realize this.
They are face lined deep with
anguish, worn from lack of sleep,
dull with aching pain.
--Afld-it is knownnow in what
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