| Show Scenes of Terror When Titanic Was Sinking Are Described in Message From Steamer C Carpathia I I By International News Service NEW EW YORK April 18 From From his wireless wire wire- le less lesi R tower at nt Wellfleet Mass Maae the correspondent cor correspondent cor cor- respondent of ot the he International News Service an e experienced wireless operator late to yesterday talked across the seas fleas with the operator on the steamer teamer and secured from him full tun confirmation n not of ot the disaster tr an and s. s h few rew scant cant details as could b be transmitted before they w were re Interrupted by hy the rough weather wrather The only onh survivors of ot the wreck are those who were DIcke lck up lip by th the Car Cart Beyond that list there Is n no hope The Carpathia found no other ships hips on the scene Fishing craft cratt ma may my have havo ar arrived arrived rived later r and searched Marched tim tho waters but they were too late to find an any living Inc thine The crew and nd passengers of ot th Cai lining the Iho rails ralls saw sow a a. desolate deso deso- late lato expanse of water broken only onh b by the floating bodies of ot half a a. dozen victims victims vic vic- tims time and what wreckage had come to the surface Far enough away to have havo escaped th the suction auction of ot the tho sinking liner Uner drifted t ty lifeboats filled with agonized women and children and a 0 few rew men passengers besides some members of ot the crew cre who had been lowered away to man the boats Many of ot these women were attired In evening pawns gowns which they wore at A feathering feathering- r of or the fashionables In the main salon Balon of the great at liner linor as she struck the Iceberg Oth Others r of the women and all of ot the children were In their night clothing and but few of them had hart over over- wraps of or any description Tonight ns All the tho Carpathia Is plowing the Atlantic on her way to New York many man of these theo women are under tho the care of In a pitiable state of or mental and physical physical cal cat exhaustion Suffered From Prom Cold How v many hours these people had drifted about In the bitter cold and among mong the floating fragments of ot Ice ler the International International International Inter Inter- national News Service corre correspondentS correspondent could not learn The Tho operator operator opera opera- tor able however to report that practically all of ot the survivors with the exception of or the members member of ot the tho crew were wr n a serious rIou condition Man Many of or the women were hysterical and some In a state MatI of or mental collapse Conditions aboard the Carpathia wore described A as 11 those which would be bo un unbearable unbearable nfl un- bearable under any an oth other r circumstances The ships ship's medical supplies were Inadequate made made- quate for the treatment t of ot more Imore than ate a afew few te of ot the most moat serious eases cases There were not enough clothes to go round and the survivors were suffering Buttering from the cold From the few fw details which the th Carpathia's CarpathIa's Car- Car operator was walt able to tran transmit the sea ifa was perfectly calm when the accident hap happened ened On every ery side stretched a great expanse of broken Ice and arid It was through this mass that the Titanic steamed to her doom From the estimates of ot the survivors the op operator conjectured d that hat the vessel was steaming at th the rate of f ten miles an hour COn Considering the ships ship's equipments this was waa approximately approximate at it the rate of half bait her full tull speed This I that although Q pt Captain ln Smith was A as hoping to establish a a. record on the vessels vessel's maiden en trip he had confined his efforts at spurting to unobstructed water A reentrant nf of er which the captain of ot the French liner Lorraine I warned named him It also Indicates that as usual the great bulk of or the tho Iceberg was wae below the sur face ace Members Members' of ot Crew Crushed Crashed The Tho night was dark and and anda a a. low hue haze spread over J the ocean making It Impossible Im Im- possible to discern objects ahead How Hoc many Icebergs II were shrouded In thu this thle ml mist inlet t will never be known But It Is h certain that the greatest of ot them and andI of the kind that mariners call a blue bluebird bluebird blue I bird stood directly In tho the path th of ot tnt the TI Titanic tan Ie Of ot exactly what orders order were ere giver given I en I from the bridge there I Is Ia no report But the Carpathia operators said uld that th the survivors had only onit words of praise for foi forthe the conduct of or Captain Smith and his hh crew Captain Smith It la Is believed was wai wason wason I on the tho bridge with the lookout when the vessel struck There was Wl no need to tc sound a R. muster call CAli for or tho the crew The cra crash h brought every Ver man manto to tho the deck dock Neither was 88 there thero any cause causo for the enforcement en en- en- en of ot the law of the sea that thai when men disregard the tho rule of or women womer and children ren first thc they shall be bt i clubbed back The et t dispatches confirm the I supposition that a large number of or the crew peacefully sleeping In the forecastle head were wore Instantly crushed to death But how man many perished In this manner mannai Is Js a secret of ot the s spa sea a. a More than a a. hundred hun bun dred were wore killed d by the Impact and th the ripping ripping- open of ot the esse vessel Survivors stated that after they pulled i awa away from the vessel essel In the I and looked b back ck only the black outline of ot the Titanic was Wu visible through th the fog AH An the lights had been extinguished I when hen the Inrush of ot water ater reached the tu dynamo room Last Appeal for Help The wireless operator mana managed d to utter ut Ut- ut- ut ter tor his cry for tor help before the electric power gave out This explains the tho abrupt abrupt abrupt ab ab- ab- ab rupt ending of or his message S O. 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S Titanic sinking by the head Rush Rust assistance Th The Tho last lut voI of his miA message only bare barely agitated the on the In Instruments In- In instruments of or the vessels which picked up the calls caBs Th The lifeboats escaped the sinking ship only y to fight tight another life lire battle against I the floating Ice Whether all of them escaped d destruction while drifting among amons the no floes s Is not known The number of life Ure boats baRts picked up by the tho Carpathia is Ic not definitely known Neither 1 is It ft known whether hether an any ani of ot the floating bodies bodle were picked up by the Carpathia At midnight tonight ht the Carpathia Is estimated to be miles from New York She is exp expected to rea reach h this city lat late ate tomorrow night Proceeding toward her under full fun steam ar are aro the United States cruls cruisers rs Chester and Salem and the International News Service SenJe press boat Mary Mao ScuD Scully The commanders of the both ft the Chester and the Salem within wireless radius IV of ot the tho rescuing r Carpathia Car- Car asked Jt it shE were In need of or I ProM proVisions Pro- Pro Visions was WaR but were toM told M that the supply The weather at Rt midnight ht alon along the New ew England coast 1 is reported favorable to 10 the me pu passage age A h heavy y v a rain fell feU during the In places but many the sea Is smooth and Ia north northeast ast only wind prevail |
