Show WAS ENDEAVORING TO BREAK RECORD TITANIC WAS RUNNING AT FULL SPEED WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH ICEBERG Was Ripped From Stem to Engine- Engine room by Great Mass of Ice Her Side Being Laid Open as If by Gigantic Can Opener New York How York How the White Star liner Titanic which was the largest ship afloat sank after colliding with an iceberg on April 14 while 14 while on her maiden trip carrying to their death 1601 of the 2310 persons aboard was told to the world in its awful detail for the first time with the arrival arrival ar ar- ar rival at New York Thursday of the Cunard liner Carpathia bearing the exhausted survivors of the phe The report of the survivors forces the abandonment of all hope hop for those who remained on the stricken vessel Of the great facts that stand out from the chaotic account of the tragedy the most salient are that the list of prominent people lost stands as prevIously previously pre pre- previously pre pre- reported Practically every woman and child with the exception of those women who vho refused to leave their husbands husbands were saved Six persons persons per per- sons died after being rescued Among the women lost was Mrs l Isadore Straus Survivors on the lifeboats saw the lights on the stricken vessel glimmer to the last heard the band playing and saw the doomed hundreds on an the decks and heard their groans and cries when the vessel sank being powerless to aid them Among the people of or world-wide world prominence nce who met death on the ill ill- fated Titanic were men like John Jacob Astor master of scores of millions millions millions mil mil- lions Benjamin Guggenheim of the famous family of of bankers Isador Strauss a merchant prince William Wllliam T. T Stead veteran Journalist Major Archibald W W. Butt soldier Washington Washing Washing- ton Roebling noted engineer Charles M. M Hays pre president Ident of or the Grand Gran Grano Trunk railway F. F D. D Millet fillet the noted artist Henry B B. B Harris theatrical manager Jacques Futrelle and many others of lesser note in the worlds world's affairs The combined wealth of those above named named is over half a a. billion bUllon dollars Mrs Churchill Candee of ton one of those rescued ed declared j that the action of the men on the Titanic Titanic Ti Ti- Ti-I Ti was nobl noble They stood back in every Instance that she noticed and gave the women and children the first chance to get away safely Particularly Particularly heroic was the conduct of Isador Strauss Major Archibald Butt John Jacob Astor and Henry B. B B B. Harris Mr Harris insisted that his wife get Into a boat She refused and was forced into the boat The men she declares worked desperately to get the women and children safely on to the boats Not only was the Titanic tearing through the April night to her doom with every ounce of steam on but she was under orders from the general general gen gen- eral officers of the line Une to make all the speed of which she was capable This was the thc statement by J. J P. P L L. L Moody Mood a quartermaster of the vessel vessel ves ves- sel and helmsman on all the night of the disaster He said the ship was making twenty-one twenty knots an hour and the officers officers officers of of- were trying to live up to the orders to smash the record It was close to midnight said sald Moody and I was on the bridge with the second officer who was in com corn mand wand Suddenly Suddenly he shouted Port your helm I did so but but It was late We struck the submerged portion portion por por- tion of the berg Ripped from from stem to by the great mass of ice she struck amidships the Titanic's side was laid open as as' If by a gigantic can opener She quickly listed to starboard and anda a shower of ice fell on the forecastle deck Shortly before she sank she broke in two abaft the and as she disappeared beneath the water the tho expulsion of air caused two explosions which were Heard plainly by the survivors adrift A moment more and the Titanic had gone to her doom with the fated hundreds grouped on the after deck To the survivors they were visible to the last and their cries and moans were pitiable Colonel Archibald Gracie Grade U. U S S. S Athe A A. the last man saved went down with the vessel but was picked up Colonel Gracie Grade told a remarkable story of personal hardships and denied denied de dej nied emphatically the reports that there had been any panic on board He praised in the highest terms the behavior of both passengers and the crew and paid a high tribute to the heroism of the women passengers The conduct of Colonel John Jacob Astor was deserving the highest praise Colonel Gracie Grade declared The millionaire New Yorker he said devoted all his energies to sa sav sav- v- v ing his young bride nee Miss Force of J New York who was was' in delicate health Colonel Gracie Grade said that despite the slowing down do warning of icebergs no I of speed was ordered by the commander commander comman cornman der del of the Titanic There were other warnings too he said When the vessel struck he continued con COll- tinned the passengers were so little alarmed that they joked over ovel the mat mat- ter The few that appeared on deck early had tal taken en their time to dress properly and there was not the slightest slightest slight slight- est indication of panic Some of the fragments of ice had fallen on the deck and these were picked up and passed around by some of the facetious facetious facetious face face- ones who offered ed them as mementoes mementoes me me- of the occasion On the port vort side a glan glance e over oyer the side failed faile l to show an any evidence of I damage an and the esse vessel seemed to be beon beon beon on an all even en keel Janus 01 I 1 nth Smith I n nd end I however soon found t tle fe vessel was listing heavily A few minutes later the officers ordered mc men and women to don life Ufe One of the last women seen by l I Miss Evans Ev Lv Colonel Gracie Grade he lie said was was' ss ans of or New York who virtually refused re re- refused accordIng according accord accord- fused to be bo rescued because officer she had hind army officer Ing to to to- the army in London London London Lon Lon- fortune teller I been told by a don that she would meet her death on the water vater 1 The most distressing stor stories es are those giving the experiences experIences' of the passengers in lifeboats These tell not only of their own suffering but give the harrowing details of how they saw aw the the great hulk of the Titanic stand on end stern uppermost for many minutes before plunging to the bottom As this awful spectacle wad was wa witnessed by the groups of or survivors I in the boats they plainly saw many many of those whom whom they had just left behind be be- behind I hind leaping from the decks into the water Physicians and nurses went aboard the Carpathia before anyone was allowed allowed al al- aJ- aJ 11 lowed to go down the gangway but but soon after the first cabin passengers women predominating b began gan descending des des- the incline Some walked unaided Some were were yere assisted by byI I friends relatives an and nurses and some were on stretchers The two hundred and more steerage passengers did not leave the ship until un until un- un n- n til 11 oClo o'clock k They were in a a sad condition The rho women were without wraps and the the few men there wore very little clothing Among men of wide nation-wide prominence I nence who went to their death onboard on onboard I board the ill-fated ill Titanic after provIng prow provo I Ing their heroism was Henry B B. B Harris Har liar 1 ris who w was wa a one of the best known and probably the most successful theatrical producers In the United States Mrs Harris who was returning returning re reo turning from England with her husband bus hus- band is one of the survivors on board the Carpathia J. J Bruce ismay one of the survivors s ors of the Titanic wreck Is head of the White Star line and is said to to control the steamship combination Pitiful tales tales' were were related by some I of the steerage passengers of the Titanic Titanic Ti- Ti as they came off the Carpathia Few of the passengers were met by relatives or friends and a a majority were taken ken in charge by charitable persons The chief steerage steward of the Titanic who came on on the the the- C Carpathia says sars he saw John Jacob Ja Jacob oh Astor stand ing trig by the life ladder as the pa s n gem gera were bein being benig embarked His wife was beside him the steward said Tire The coon colonel l left h her r to g go to the pur pur- ors aers office for a a. a moment and that W way was B the last seen of him One of the passengers p saved a woman says that she saw one of at of the lifeboats and made for it In In it were four men from rem the steerage The They Y were ordered out by a an n officer and refused re le re- re fused Cased to leave Then one of the officers of of- jumped into the boat and drawing a revolver rc shot the four men men dead Their bodies were picked o out from the bottom of the boat and thrown into the ocean I Captain Sr Smith ith of the lost Titanic stuck to his ship to the last and thou then went down n with her His heroic I action ac ac- tion con in the troth hour of peril ed b by G G. G A A. A Drayton was witness of oC Los Les one of the survivors survivor s Angeles eone |