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Show cpt for the bitter cold for any one who had to be out In the middle of the Atlantic ocean In an open boat, Hnd if ever there was a time when such a night was needed, surely It was now,' with hundreds of people, mostly women and children, afloat hundreds of" miles from land. "The captain-stoker told us that he had been at sea twenty-six years and had never yet seen such a calm night on the Atlantic. As we rowed away from the Titanic we looked back from time to time to watch her, and a more striking spectacle It was not possible for any one to see. "In the distance she looked an enormous enor-mous length, her great bulk outlined in black against the starry sky, every port-hole and saloon blazing with light It was impossible to think anything any-thing could be wrong with such a leviathan were it not for that ominous tilt downward In the bows, where the water was by now up to the lowest row of portholes. Presently about 2 a. m., as near as I can remember, we observed her settling very rapidly, with th bows and the bridge corn- to obey the order. When they were afloat and had the oars at work the condition of the rapidly settling boat was so much more a sight for alarm for those in the boats than those on board that in common prudence the sailors saw they could do nothing but row from the sinking ship to save, at any rate, some lives. They no doubt anticipated that suction from such an enorr-ous vessel would be more than usually dangerous to a crowded boat filled with women. New York, April 19. The following account of the sinking of the Titanic and the rescue of 745 of Its passengers passen-gers and crew was given by Mr. Beasley of London, one of the passengers pas-sengers on the ill-fated steamer: "The voyage from Queenstown had been quite uneventful; very fine weather was experienced and the sea was quite calm. The wind had been westerly to southwesterly the whole way, but very cold, particularly the last day; in fact, after dinner on Sunday Sun-day evening it was almost too cold to be out on deck at all. I had been In my berth for about ten minutes, when, "All this time there was no trace of any disorder or panic or rush to the boats and no scenes of women sobbing hysterically such as one generally gen-erally pictures as happening at such times; every one seemed to realize so slowly that there was Imminent danger. When It was realized that we might all be presently In the sea with nothing but our life belts to support sup-port us until we were picked up by passing steamers It was extraordinary how calm every one was and how completely self-controlled. "One by one the boats were filled with women and children, lowered and rowed away into the night. Presently the word went round among the men, 'The men are to be put in boats on the starboard side.' I was on the port side and most of the men walked across the deck to see If this was so. I remained where I was and presently heard the call: "'Any more ladies?' Looking over the side of the ship, I saw the boat, No. 13, swinging level with B deck, half full of ladies. Again the call was repeated: 'Any more ladies?' "I saw none come on, and then one of the crew looked up and said: 'Any ladles on your deck, sir?' " 'No,' I replied. ' "'Then you had better jump.' WOMEN HEAVED INTO BOAT. "I dropped in and fell in the bottom bot-tom as they cried: 'Lower away.' As the boat began to descend two ladies . were pushed hurriedly through the crowd on B deck and heaved over into the boat, and a baby of ten months passed down after them. Down we went, the crew calling to those lowering lower-ing oQrh oiirl tr Ironn hpr Iavpl 'flft ' at about 11:15 p. m., I felt a slight jar, and then, soon after, a second one, but not sufficiently large to cause any anxiety to any one, however nervous nerv-ous they may have been. However, the engines stopped immediately afterwards, aft-erwards, and my first thought was 'She has lost a propeller.' I went up on the top (boat) deck in a dressing gown and found only a few people there, who had come up similarly to inquire why we had stopped, but there was no sort of anxiety in the minds of any one. -,r- CARD PLAYERS SAW ICEBERG. "We saw through the smoking-room window a game of cards going on and went in to inquire if they knew anything; any-thing; it seems they felt more of the jar, and looking through the window had seen a huge Iceberg go by close to the side of the boat. They thought we had just grazed it with a glancing blow and the engines had been stopped to see if any damage had been done. No one, of course, had any conception that she had been pierced below by part of the submerged iceberg. ice-berg. The game went on without any thought of disaster, and I retired to my cabin to read until we went on again. I never saw any of the players or the onlookers again. A little later, hearing people going upstairs, I went out again and found every one wanting want-ing to know why the engines had stopped. No doubt many were awakened awak-ened from sleep by the sudden stopping stop-ping of a vibration to which they had become accustomed during the four days we had been on board. Natural- ly. with such powerful engines as the pletely under water, and concluded it was now only a question of minutes before she went; and so it proved. She slowly tilted straight on end. with the stern vertically upward, and as she did the lights in the cabins and saloons, which had not flickered for a moment sine we left, died" out, came on again for a Bingle flash and finally went out altogether. At the same time the machinery roared down through the vessel with a rattle and a groaning that could be heard for miles, the weirdest sound surely that could be heard in the middle of the ocean, a thousand miles away from land. But this was not yet quite the end. "To our amazement she remained in that upright position for a time, which I estimated as five minutes; others in the boat say less, but It certainly was some minutes, while we watched at least 150 feet of the Titanic Titan-ic towering above the level of the sea and looming back against the sky. "Then with a quiet slanting dive she disappeared beneath the waters, and- our eyes had looked for the last time on the gigantic vessel we, had set out on from Southampton last Wednesday. And there was left to us the gentle heaving sea. the boat filled to standing room with men and women wom-en in every conceivable condition of dress and undress, above the perfect sky of brilliant stars with not a cloud, all tempered with a bitter cold that made us ail long to be one of the crew who toiled away with the oars and kent themselves warm thereby a 'stern,' 'both together' until we were some ten feet from the water, and here occurred the only anxious moment mo-ment we had during the whole of our experience from leaving the deck to reaching the Carpathia. "Immediately below our boat was the exhaust of the condensers, a huge stream of water pouring all the time from the ship's side just above the water line. It was plain we ought to be smart away from this not to be swamped by it when we touched water. wa-ter. We had no officer aboard, nor petty officer or member of the crew to take charge. So one of the stokers shouted: 'Some one find the pin which releases the boat from the ropes and pull it up.' No one knew where it was. We felt as well as we could on the floor and sides, but found nothing, and it was hard to move among so many people we had sixty or seventy on board. "Down we went and presently floated, float-ed, with our rones still holding us, the exhaust washing ua away from the side of the vessel and the swell of the sea urging us back against the side again. The resultant of all these forces was an impetus which carried us parallel to the ship's side and directly di-rectly under boat 14, which had. filled rapidly with men and was coming down on us In a way that threatened to submerge our boat. Titanic carried, the vibration was very noticeable all the time, and the sudden sud-den stopping had something the same effect as the stopping of a loud ticking tick-ing grandfather's clock In a room. "On going on deck again I saw that there was an undoubted list downwards down-wards from stern to bows, but, knowing know-ing nothing of what had happened, concluded some of the front compartments compart-ments had filled and weighed her down. I went down again to put on warmer clothing and aa I dressed heard an order shouted: LIFEBOATS ORDERED." " 'All passengers on deck with life belts on.' "We all walked slowly up with them tied on over our clothing, but even then presumed this was a wise precaution pre-caution the captain was taking, and that we should return in a short time and retire to bed. There was a total absence of any panic or any expressions expres-sions of alarm, and I suppose this can be accounted for by the exceedingly exceed-ingly calm night and the absence of any signs of the accident. The ship was absolutely still and except for a " gentle tilt downward, which I don't think one person In ten would have noticed at that time, no signs of the approaching disaster were visible. She lay Just as if she were waiting the order to go on again, when some trifling matter had been adjusted. But in a few moments we saw the curious, deadening bitter cold unlike anything we had felt before. CRIES ARE UNANSWERED. "And then, with all these there fell on the ear the most appalling noise that human being ever listened to the cries of hundreds of our fel low beings struggling in the icy cold water, crying for help with a cry that we knew could not be answered We longed to return and pick up soma of those swimming, but this would have meant swamping our boat and further loss of the lives of all of ua. "Wre tried to sing to keep the women wom-en from hearing the cries and rowed hard to get away from the scene ol the wreck, but I think the memory of those sounds will be one of th-e things the rescued will find It diffl cult to efface from memory. We are trying hard not to think of It. "We kept a lookout for lights and i several times it was shouted that ' steamers' lights were seen, but they j turned out to be either a light from j another boat or a star low down on ; the horizon. About 3 a. m. we saw j faint lights showing on the sky and I all rejoiced to see what we expected j was the coming dawn, but after watching for half an hour and seeing no change in the Intensity of the light, realized it was the northern lights. "Presently low down on the horizon we saw a light, which slowly resolved , itself into a double light, and we watcned eagerly to see if the two lights would separate and so prove to be only two of our boats or whether wheth-er they would remain together. In which case we should expect them tc be the masthead light and a deck light below of a rescuing steamer. CHEER SIGHT OF RESCUER. "To our joy they moved as one and and round we swung the boat and headed for her. The steersman shouted: 'Now, boys, sing,' and foi the first time the boat broke Into song with 'Row for the Shore, Boys,' and for the first time tears came to the eyes of us all as we realized that safety was at hand. The song was sung, but it was a very poor imitation imita-tion of the real thing, for quavering voices make poor songs. A cheer was given next, and that was better you keep in tune for a cheer." STOKER AVERTS GREATER LOSS. " 'Stop lowering 14,' our crew-shouted, crew-shouted, and the crew of No. 14, now only twenty feet above, shouted the same. But the distance to the top was some seventy feet, and the creaking creak-ing pulleys must have deadened all sound to those above, for down she came fifteen feet, ten feet, five feet and a stoker and I reached up and touched her swinging above our heads. The next drop would have brought her on our heads, but just before she dropped another stoker sprang to the ropes with his knife. "'One,' I heard him say; 'two,' as his knife cut through the pulley ropes and the next moment the exhaust stream had carried us clear, while boat 14 dropped into the water into the space we had the moment before occupied, our gunwales almost touching. touch-ing. "We drifted away easily as the oars were got out and headed directly away from the ship. The crew seemed to me to be mostly cooks In white jackets, two to an oar, with a stoker at the tiller. There was a certain amount of shouting from one end of the boat to the other, and discussion dis-cussion as to which way we should go. but finally It was decided to elect the stoker, who was steering, captain, and for all to obey his orders. He set to work at once to get into touch with the other boats, calling to them and getting as close as seemed wise, so that when the search boats came in the morning to look for us. there would be more chance for all to be SEA CALM AS A POND. "It was now about 1 a. m.; a beautiful beau-tiful starlight night, with no moon and so not very light. The sea was as calm as a pond. Just a gentle heave as the boat dipped up and down in the swell; an ideal night ex- covers lifted from the boats, and the crews allotted to them standing by nnd curling up the ropes which were y to lower them by the pulley blocks into the water. "We then began to realize It was more serious than had been supposed, nnd my first thought was to go down nnd get more clothing and some money, but seeing people pouring up the stairs decided It was better to cause no confusion to people coming up by doing so. Presently we heard WOMEN TORN FROM HUSBANDS. "'All men stand back away from the boats and all ladles retire to next deck below!" the smoking-room deck or B deck. The men all stood away and remained in absolute sl-Jg??( sl-Jg??( leaning against the end railings of the deck or pacing slowly up and down. The boats were swung out nnd lowered from A deck. When they were to (he level of B deck, where all the ladies were collected, the ladles got in quietly, with the exception of some who refused to leave their hus-' hus-' bands. In some esses they were torn . from them and pushed into the boats, ' but in many instances they were al- lowed to remain because there was no one to insist they should go. , "Looking over the side, one saw boats from aft already in the water, slipping quietly away into the darkness, dark-ness, Hnd presently the boats near to me were lowered and with much creaking as the new ropes slipped through the pulley blocks down the ninety feet which separated them from the water, An officer in uniform uni-form cam up as one boat went down and shouted: 'When you are afloat, row round to the companion ladder ' and stand by with the other boats for orders.' J "'Aye, aye. sir." came up the reply, " " but I tlo",'t think any boat was able I |