Show IIIC WTTOIfSG a warning of Immediate gongs ' The crash against the Iceberg which had been sighted at only a quarter of a mile came almost simultaneously with the click of the levers operated by those on the bridge which stopped the engines and closed the watertight doors Captain Smith was on the bridge a moment later giving orders for the and for of all on board summoning and the putting on of the lowering of lifeboats Many Men In First Boats The first boats lowered contained more men than the latter ones as the men were on deck first and not enough women to fill them When a moment later the rush of women and crying chifrightened ldren to the deck began enforcement of the “women first” rule became rigid boats Officers loading some of the but In most cases the drew revolvers men both passengers and crew haved In a way that called for no such two Graphic By 1726 Description Given a Reporter Live Lost in This Most Appalling of All Sea Tragedies —Boat Strikes Berg and Then Boilers Explode— Brave Men and Women Meet Death With Undaunted Courage BY CARTER P HURD World who arIf Staff Reporter rived ea the Carpathla ISIS hr Polltaer Pobllh- (Copyright all righto reeerved laff Compaari of thlo copyright will Jim f vtolatioa prooecated by the M ho vtgoroaoly Y World 19— Seventeen York New April hundred live— the figures will hardly vary In either direction by more than In the sinking —were lost a few dosen of the Titanic which struck an Iceberg at 11:45 p m Sunday andand was 35 hours at the ocean's bottom t minutes fter The’ printed rolls of first and second cabins compared with the list of the survivors on the Carpathla show passengers 212 that of 341 were saved 154 of them women and and that of 262 children 102 115 were saved passengers of the of tljgm women and children passengers 800 In number 136 survive of whom 83 are women and children Of 985 officers and crew 199 including 22 women reached the Carpathla A few In each class doubtless on the Carpaenumeration escaped thla For 1688 Are Unaccounted CarAccepting the estimate of the pathian officers that 700 survivors reached the ship comparison with the total 2388 shows that 1688 are unfor accounted Thejje la but the faintest hope that any of these reached any other ship Reports that the California A cattle ship may have rescued a few persons have given merciful respite from utter despair to soma of the women Cause responsibility and similar nq mi danger restraint Report Captain 8hot Self shots heard Revolver by many persons shortly before the end of the One caused many rumors Titanic was that Captain Smith shot himself another was that First Officer Murdock ended his life Smith Murdock and Sixth Officer Moody sue known to have been lost Ths surviving ficers Llgh toller Pitman Bothall and Lowe have made no statement Members of the crew discredit all of suicide and say Captain reports on the Smith remained bridge until Just before the ship sank leaping only after those on the decks had been Is also related that It washed away when a cook later sought to puli him aboard a lifeboat be exclaimed: “Let me go!" and Jerking away went’ down Effective What became of the men with is a question asked since The by many persons the disaster Remarkable Heroism Dis- played by All the Rule “Women Enforcement of First” Sunders Forever— Famous Family Ties Americans Show Elements of Strong in Lifeboats — Watch Great Steamer Sink i hpve a chilly halt houjr and might later be laughed af It was such a feeling as this froijn all accounts which caused John Jacob Astor and his wife to refuse the places offered them in the first boat Ik and to retire to the gymnasium the same way H J Allison Montreal and banker laughed at the warning his wife reassured by him took her time about dressing' They and their daughter did not reach the Carpathla Their son less than two years old was carried Into a lifeboat by his nurse and was taken In charge by Maj Arthur Peuchen The admiration felt by passengers and crew for the matchlesely appointIn those ed vessel was translated first few moments into a confidence which for some proved deadly boats would below Lifeboats Are Lacking In the loading of the first boat restrictions of sex were not made and it seemed to the men who piled In beside the women that there would be boats enough for all But the ship’s officers knew better than this and as the spreading fear caused an earnest advance toward the suspended craft the order “Women first!” was heard and the men were pushed aside To the scenes of the next two hours regarding the PUBl'Yaken J0 stupendous up in time by No authorities shown by any Ssen the courage of saved of whom hundreds gave their own lives with but could which equaled not exceed that of John Jacob Astot" Henry B Harris Jacques Futrelle and others In the long list of the first cabin missing Officers Knew Icebergs Were Near Facts which I have established by as posion the Carpathla Inquiries tively as they could be established In view of the silence of the few survivofficers are: ing That the Titanic’s officers knew several hours before the crash of the possible nearness of icebergs That the Titanic’s speed nearly 23 knots an hour was not slackened That the number of lifeboats on the Titanic was Insufficient to accommoof the date much more than of the passengers to say nothing of the crew crew Most members say there were 16 lifeboats and two none say there were collapslbles more than 20 boats in all The 700 who escaped filled most of the 16 lifewhich boats and the one collapsible got away to the limit of their capac- the crew others and a heroism GKXvnnsD MOST DREADED PART preservers did their work of supporting their wearers In the water until the ship went down Many of those the drawn Into the vortex despite “Women First” Rule Enforced That the “women first” rule ' In preservers did not oncome up againas the surface some cases was applied to the extent Dead bodies floated moved boats away the last of turning back men who were with Band Plays as Ship Sinks their families even though not enough women to fill the boats were at hand To relate that the ship’s string band on that particular part of the deck gathered In the saloon near the endto lowered were boats Clod thus Some few “Nearer and played My filled but Thee” Bounds like an attempt to give without being completely most of these were soon filled with a scene an added soltemn color to sailors and stewards picked up out which was in itself the climax of soh of the water who helped man them But various passengers and emnlty In the That the bulkhead system though survivors of the crew agree In the manner Inworking probably declaration that they heard the music availed only to delay the To some of the hearers with hustended ship’s sinking the position and length bands among the dying men In the of the ship’s wound (on the starboard water and at the ship’s rail the strain brought In thought the words: quarter) admitted Icy water which and caused the boilers to explode “So by my woes I’ll be these explosions practically broke the Nearer my God to thee shin In two Nearer to thee" ity Bulkheads Rendered Ineffective Had the ship struck the Iceberg at whatever speed and with whatever resultant shock the bulkhead system of compartments would probably have saved the It It As one man expressed vessel that happened was the "Impossible” mild when with a shock unbelievably the ship’s side was torn for a length which made the bulkhedd system Ineffective was 1799 miles from The Titanic from miles and 1191 Queenstown New York speeding for a maiden voyThe night was starlight age record Lights were out In the sea glassy and only two most of the staterooms or three congenial groups remained In the public rooms and In the crow’s rest or lookout officers and members on the bridge of the crew were at their places from relief at their midnight awaiting wo hours’ watch Danger Warning Sounded At 11:45 came the sudden sound of “Women and children first” was the order In the filling of the Titanic’s How well that order was lifeboats first and fulfilled the list of missing bears second cabin passengers “Mr” Is before almost quent witness every name Chose Death With Husbands Mrs Isldor Straus who cbose death rather than to leave her husband's side Mrs Allison who remained low with her husband and daughter and others who In various ways were kept from entering the line of those to be saved are striking examples of those who faced the disaster calmly To most of the passengers the micrash did not seem of terrific dnight force Bridge players In the smoking room kept on with their game' to Once on deck many hesitated The enter the twinging lifeboats glassy sea the starlit sky the sence in the first few minutes of Intense excitement gave them the feeling that there was only some slight mishap — that those who got into the OF ATLANTIC aj’Txrstrzifrjr OCEAN those decks and In the waters beas "dramatic such adjectives and “tragic” do but poor justice With the knowledge of deadly peril gaining moment over greater power each those men and women the nobility of the greater part both among cabin anc steer officers crew passengers age asserted Itself Straus Held Back by Guard Isldor Straus supporting his wife on her way to a lifeboat was held back by an Inexorable guard Another officer strove to help her to a seat of safety but she brushed away his arm and clung to her husband crying will not go without you” Another woman took her place and her form clinging to her husband’s became part of a picture now drawn Indelibly In many minds Neither wife nor husband so far as anyone knows reached a place of safety Astor and Wife Part Colonel Astor holding his wife’s arm stood decorously aside as the officers spoke to him and Mrs As and her maid were ushered to seals Mrs Henry Harris parted In lipe manner fronj her husband saw b last at the rail beside Colonel Astbr M Clark of Los Angelps Walter senator nephew of the Montana joined the line of men as bis young wife sobbing was placed in one jot the craft “Let him come! There Is room!” cried Mrs Emil Taussig as the mien to of the White Star line motioned her husband to leave her It was w tfi difficulty that bo released her hold to her to be to led her place permit George D Wldener who had bejon In Captain Smith’s company a f w moments after the crash was frmn whose wife was parted Ltm and lowered a momdht later to the surface of the calm sea Stead Lost Butt Hays and Of Major Archie Butt a favor te with his fellow tourists of Charles pi on low Hays president of the Grand Trunk and of Wilof benjamin Guggenheim liam T Stead no one aeems to know whether they tarried too long In their ataterooma or whether they forebore to approach the faat filling boats None of them was In the throng which weary hours afterward reached the Carpathla Pistola Check Steerage Men on the upper decks Simultaneously of the ship the ropes qreakvd with the lowering of boats and as they reached the water those in the boats saw not what those on the decks could see — that the Titanic was listing rap Idly to starboard and that her stern was rising at a portntlous angle A the rush of steerage jpen toward boats was checked by officers with revolvers in band Some of the boats crowded too full to give rowers a chance drifted for a None had provisions or water time there was a lack of covering from the Icy air and the only lights were the still undimmed arcs and lncandescents of the settling ship save for pne of who There a steward the first boats explained to the passengers that he twice before bad been shipwrecked a and appeared carrying three oranges green light Green Lantern as 8avlor That green light many of the survivors say was to the shipwrecked hundreds aB the pillar of fire by night Long after the ship had disappeared false and while confusing lights danced about the boats the green lantern kept them together on the course which led them to the Carpathla became As the end of the Titanic manifestly hut a matter of moments the oarsmen pulled their boats away and the chilling waters began to echo and splash after splash as passengers sailors In life preservers leaped over to esand started swimming away cape the expected suction — HANS TUFT Proa A V HUISII Cashior liana Tuft W H Brown Lammorsdorf P C Scorup A V Hulah James Farrell CHAS LAMMERSDORF DIRECTORS-Uh- as gensen FirstState BANKf Salina: of Drafts' drawn on all the principal cities of the United States and Europe Banting in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits Icy Water Bring Death Only the hardiest of constitutions could endure for more than a few moments a numbing bath The such to first vigorous strokes gave way cries of "Help! Help!” heartbreaking and stiffened forms were seen the faces relaxed In death in the Revolver shots were heard ship's last moments The first report spread among the boats was that Captain Smith had ended his life with a Then It was said that a mate bullet had shot a steward who tried to push his- - way upon a boat against orders veriNone of these tales have been fied and many of the crew say the leaped captain without a preserver in at the last and went down refusing a cook’s offered aid Last Lifeboat Is Capsized The last of the boats a collapsible was launched too late to get away and was overturned by the ship’s Some of those In It — all say sinking on a some witnesses — found safety raft dr were picked up by lifeboats In the Marconi tower almost to the last the loud click of the sending Instrument was heard over the waters Who was receiving the message those In the boats did not know and they would least of all have supposed that a Mediterranean ship in the distant South Atlantic track would be their rescuer Music Was a Sacrament As the screams in the water multiE plied another sound was beard strong Ml at first then fainter in the distance It was the melody of the hymn "Nearer My God to Thee” played by the string orchestra In the dining Some of those on the water saloon started to sing the words but grew that for the silent as they realized men who played the music was a sacrament soon to be consummated by serene strains of the The death hymn and the frantic cries of the dysorrow of In a blended symphony ing Titanic Goes to Bottom Led by the green light under the drew light of thfc stars the boats away and the bow then the quarter then the stacks and at last the stern a of few marvel-shiof the days beThe fore passed beneath the waters great force of the ship’s sinking was unaided by any violence of the elements and the suction not so great as had been feared rocked but mildly the group of boats now a quarter of a mile distant from it boats were In the forlorn Sixteen procession which entered on the terrible hours of rowing drifting and susWomen wept for lost' huspense sobbed for Sailors bands and Bons the ship Ivhich had been their pride Men choked back tears and sought to comfort the widowed Perhaps they said other boats might have put off In the last another direction toward none too sure They strove though to convince the women of themselves the certainty that a rescue ship would SAUSAGE Fresh and Brings Joy Early dawn brought no ship but not long after 5 a m the Carpathla far out of her path and making 18 knots an hour Instead of her wonted 15 black red and showed her single In the smokestack upon the horizon moment the heaviest joy of that griefs were forgotten Kostron Soon atterward Captain ’and Chief Steward Hughes were weland bedraggled coming the chilled arrivals over the Carpathian side Mother Like Fine used make o of Choicest line and MEATS GROCERIES The White G W Front LONG m&tgm COFFINS and CASKETS and Burial Supplies- kept in stock at my store imported from leading deal-- j ers You can examine the goods and make seletion at any moment Call in and see my stock of burial goods § PFPETERSON Furniture Store § mss LUMBER LUMBER ' Nephi Plaster Portland Cement and a fine line of Builders Hardware Doors Windows Phone Moulding ! JOHN ARNESON appear Chris Jor- 6 Black LUMBER CO A 3SZ3C Why not say Hello to them? Carpathla Your friends all want to talk to you over the ’phone Better have it put in With s Sallna telephone In your borne yon can rnn errands go do business eo without leaving home Yon will enjoy the venience Wbv not- have It? Get eonneoted his coming week SAUNA The list of survivors given ouk after the Carpathla reached port did not contain the name of Arthur Ryerson although the formerly of Chicago were other members of his family Miss Elizabeth Isham Of Chisaved K cago Is not In the list of rescued G Lewy Chicago Jeweler was not on the Carpathla survivor says the crew acted with more great courage— but not with heroism than was shown by John Jacob Astor Jacques FutreMe nrt otl’ert h n perof the noted passengers ished A TELEPHONE m con- COMPANY 3E MM & Harness Leather Goods and Shoe Shop Store Harness Saddles Horse Blankets Tents and Wagon Covers and full line of Men’s and Boys’ Dress and Work Shoes We want your Our goods are the best and our price the lowest Drop in and look our line and be convinced a trade over |