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Show ICE BARRIER PREVENTED RESCUE OF PASSENGERS Captain of Steamer Mount Temple Tells the Senate Committee of Vain Effort to Reach the Doomed Ship. testimony of the afternoon. He listened lis-tened intently to the accounts of his conduct at the lifeboats as told by the stewards and seamen. His eyes fairly fair-ly beamed when Steward Crawford told how Ismay had called for women to go in one of the boats and had said to a woman who told him she was only a stewardess: "You are a woman; take your place in the boat." Ismay listened intently, too, as Steward Bright testified that he had not left the ship until after all the large lifeboats had gone and only on6 or two collapsible boats were left on deck. After the session was over, the corridor cor-ridor in the senate building near the committee room was crowded with anxious sailors of the Titanic who have been at the call of the committee since the rescue ship Carpathia brought Washington. Failure to give her exact position, a great field of floating ice that offered a frigid barrier to hurrying hur-rying to the ship, and the mistake of her captain of rushing at top speed through an ice-covered sea, combined steamers within a radius of fifty miles of the Titanic, the officer said that this mistake in fixing accurately the position of the doomed ship was a fatal fa-tal one. With icebergs and floating icej covering the northern sea, a ship them to New York. They were a nervous ner-vous lot. Not being permitted to leave, they faced the prospect of a Saturday night and Sunday without funds. "If it is too late to get money for the sailormen," Mr. Ismay declared, "I can see that it is advanced." Finally they were escorted to the capitol in a body and advanced witness wit-ness fee money. iu otjiiu lcu jiiauii. aiiu ilex victims vic-tims to their watery graves in the north Atlantic, according to testimony on Saturday before the senate investigating inves-tigating committee. Captain James H. Moore of the steamer Mount Temple, which was hurried to the Titanic in response to wireless calls for help, told of the great stretch of field ice, which held him off. Within his view from the bridge he discerned, he said, another strange steamer, probably a "tramp," and a schooner which was making her way out of the ice. The lights of this schooner, he thought, probably were those seen by the anxious survivors of the Titanic and which they were frantically fran-tically trying to reach. Captain Moore denounced as "most unwise" the action of the Titanic commander com-mander in rushing at 21 knots through the night when he had been aavised of the proximity of ice. The Mount Temple's commander testified that he I had spent twenty-seven years in the north Atlantic. Whenever ice was j around, he said, he doubled his watch and reduced speed, and if he happened to get caught in an ice pack he stopped his engines and drifted until he was clear. The witness also was emphatic in his declaration that the position sent out by the Titanic was wrong. He said the ship was eight miles farther eastward than its operators reported. This, he declared, he proved by observations ob-servations taken the first thing on the day following the disaster. With what virtually was a fleet of of even the size of the Titanic might well be overlooked through such a variance. J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine company, was much cheered by tin |