Show I SAW r TITANIC'S SEAMAN STICKS TO CHARGES THAT CAPTAIN REFUSED TO AID STRICKEN VESSEL I Says Steamer Was Drifting With t tt Floe and There Was No Effort Made to Get Up Steam and Endeavor to I Save Doomed Doome Passengers I Washington Washington Ablaze Ablaze with light from tram herf hen saloon and cabins the Titanic dashed full speed to her lier destruction according to Ern Ernest st Gill Gm a donkey en- en gineman on the steamship Californian Californian Califor- Califor nian who testified on Friday before belore the tho senate committee Investigating I the disaster He said Captain St Stanley nley Lord of ot the Californian refused later to go to the aid of the Titanic the rockets from which could be bo plainly seen This Captain Lord denied but both I he and and his his wireless operator acknowledged acknowledged ac ac- ac having haYing seen rockets Their they said aid was fast In tho the ice Gill an affidavit to the committee and when sw sworn rn and put on the stand stuck to his charges against the captain of the Californian Ho said stid he lIe was standing on the deck late Sunday night when he sighted a great ship sweeping along at top speed about ten miles off He Het did not know it was the Titanic but he made out readily that it ft was not a freighter or a small boat because of the manner manner man man- ner ncr In Ia n w which it was illuminated d. d Some time later he lie saw distress rockets on the horizon He ire says the captain was apprised of these signals but made no effort to get up steam steam I and go t to the res rescue lie Th The Californian was drifting with the floe So indignant indignant indig indig- nant did he become said Gill that he endeavored to recruit a a committee of protest from among the crew but the men failed him Captain Lord entered a sweeping denial of Gills Gill's accusations and read I from the Californians Californian's log to support his bis contention Cyril Evans the Californians Californian's Californians Californian's Californians Californian's Cal- Cal wireless operator told of having heard much talk among the crew who criticised the capt captains captain's ns n's course Gill Gm he be said told him he ex expected X- X to get for his story when the ship reached Boston Evans told of df f hav having ng warned yarned the Titanic Ti TI- tank only a brief time before the great vessel crashed into the berg that the sea was crowded with Ice The TItanic's operators he said at atthe atthe atthe the time were working with the wireless wIreless wire wIre- less station at af Cape Race and they told him to Shut up and keep out |