| Show ICE BARRIER PREVENTED RESCUE OF passengers PASSENGER captain of steamer mount temple tells th the e senate committee of vain effort to reach the doomed ship washington failure to give her exact position a great field of floating ice that offered a rigid frigid barrier to hurrying to the ship and the ml alco of her captain of rushing at top speed through an ice covered sea combined to send teh titanic and her 1600 vic vie tiara to their watery graves tn in the north atlantic according to testimony on saturday before the senate juves ti gating committee captain james if moore foore of the steamer mount temple which was hurried to the titanic in response oneo to wireless calls for help ild ot of the great stretch of field ice which held hold him off within his view from the bridge bo he discerned he be said another strange steamer probably a tramp and a schooner which waa was making her way may out of the ice the lights of this schooner he thought probably were those keen by the anxious survivor of the litan lc and which they were fran trying to reach captain moore deaoun denounced ced as I 1 most unwise I 1 the action of the titanic om rom mander in rushing rire hing at 21 knots through the night hen he had bad been aa of at the proximity of ice the mount blount temple a s commander testified that he bad had spent twenty seven years in the north corth atlantic whenever ice was round he be said he doubled his bin watch atch ind and reduced speed and if he happened to get caught in an ice pack he topped stopped his hi engines and drifted until he be was clear the nees also was emphatic in his defloration that the poI position tion sent out by the titanic was brou he ile aid said the ship was eight miles farther eastward thin than its operators reported this he lie declared he proved by ob taken the first thing on the aly follo follower li the disaster di easter with nith what bat virtually was a fleet of steamers st camera within ft a radius of 0 uty fifty mile miles of the titanic the officer said that th this mistake in fixing accurately the ali position of the doomed ship was A fa ti tal one nith ith icebergs and floating float in ice covering the northern sea a ship MAJ THOMAS RHODES RHOADES ir M K major rhoades Is I 1 acting ai as military aid to president Pren dent taft temporarily fill ali ing the place left ft vacant by the death deal of major but butt of even the size of the titanic might mir well ho he overlooked through euch such a var variah jah J bruce lamay ismay in direct director of tho the international mercantile marl marine company wae as much cheered by th t testimony tc of the afternoon I 1 lie I 1 e tai i bened intently to the accounts counte ac of 0 his cotich at the lifeboats an told by the stewards and seamen ills eyes fair ly beamed when steward crawford told how lemay ismay had called for women to go in one of the boats and hid said to a woman who told him she he wan was only a stewardess steward ces you are a woman take your place in the boat lemay ismay listened intently too ae as steward bright that ho he had not left the ship until niter after all the large lifeboats had bad gone aud only one ont or two collapsible boats were left on dock after the anaston was over the cor if ir the senate building near the committee room was crowded ft ith Mix lou sailors of the titanic who have bed at the call of the committee min since the rescue ship carpathia brought them to new york they wore were a nor lit tt not being permitted to leave thy faced tho the prospect of a saturday night ami and sunday without funds I 1 if it is too late to got money for the Ball sall ormen mr ismay ismar declared 1 I can see that it la Is advanced 11 binally they wert escorted to the capitol in a bod and advanced wit ness feo lee money |
