Show ICE BARRIER PREVENTED RESCUE OF passengers captain of steamer mount temple tells the senate committee of vain Eff effort ortto to reach the doomed ship washington failure to give her exact position a great field of floating lee ice that offered a frigid barrier to hurrying to the ship and the mistake of her captain of rushing at top speed through an ice covered sea combined commuted to send teh titanic and her 1600 victims to their watery graves in the north atlantic according to testimony on saturday before the senate investigating ti committee captain james jamea 11 II moore ot of the steamer mount temple which was hurried to the titanic in response ill a to wireless calls for help told of the great stretch of field lee ice which held him off within ills his view from the bridge he discerned he said another strange steamer probably a tr tramp arap and a schooner which was making her hgr way out of the lea ice the lights of this schooner he thought probably those seen by the anxious of tho the titanic and which they were frantically trying to reach captain moore denounced as most unwise the action of the titanic commander in rushing at 21 knots through the night when ho he had been advised of the proximity of lee lea the mount temples commander testified that ho he had spent twenty seven years la in the north atlantic whenever ire ice was wag AL around round he sidd said he doubled hla his watch and reduced speed and it if he happened to get caught in an lee ice pack he stopped his engines and drifted until lie he was clear the witness also was em emphatic phalle in ilia his der declaration that the position sent out by the titanic was wrong lie jle said ald the ship was eight miles farther eastward than its operators reported this lie he declared he proved by observations ions taken the first thing on the lay the disaster with what virtually was a fleet of steamers within a badlu arad lu of fifty miles of the titanic alie the officer said that this mistake in fixing accurately the position of the doomed ship was a fatal one with icebergs and hooting floating ice covering the northern sea a ship MAJ THOMAS RHOADES X major rhoades Is acting as mill military tary aid id to president tat temporarily filling the place left vacant by the death of major butt of eves even the size of 0 tho the titanic might well he be overlooked through such a J bruce ismay managing director of the international mercantile marino marine company was much cheered by tho testimony ony of the afternoon lie iio listened intently to the acco accounts u ut S a os hla hil contact at tho the lifeboats as told bytho by tho stewards and seamen ills illi eyes fairly beamed when stoward steward crawford told how lemay ismay had called for women to go 50 in one of tho the boats and had said bald to a woman who told him she was only a stewardess doaa you are a woman take your place in the boats boat ismay listened intently too us its steward bright testified that he bo had bad not left the ship shil until after all the large lifeboats had bad gone and only out ont or two collapsible boats were ware left on an dock deck after the session was over tho the corridor in the senate building near tho the committee room was crowded with alous anxious bailors of the titanic bitani a who havo have be at the call ot at the committee since the rescue ship carpathia Carp athla brought thern them to new york they were a nor nervous lot not being permitted to leavo leave they faced tho the prospect of a saturday night and sunday without funds it if tt it la Is too late to got get money for tho the sal lormon mr lamay ismay declared 1 I can see that it la Is advanced finally they escorted to tho the capital in a n body and advanced wit nese nesa teo fee money |