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Show 745-"0UT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH"-745 n rr gentle shock and supposed then nothing noth-ing out of the ordinary bad happened. They were both dretised and came on deck leisurely. It wns uot until the ship began to take a heavy list to starboard that a tremor of fear pervaded It. Launch Boats Safely. The crew had been called to clear away the lifeboats of which there wore 20, of which four were collapsible. collaps-ible. The boats that were lowered on the port side of the ship touched the water without capsizing. Some of the others lowered to starboard, Including one collapsible, were capalzcd. All hands on ttie collapsible boats that practically went to pieces were rescued res-cued by the other boats. Sixteen boats In a4xot awiy safely. It was even then the general Impression Impres-sion that the ship was all right and there Is no doubt that that was the belief be-lief of even some of the officers. At the lowering of the boats the officers superintending it mere armed with revolvers, but there was no ue eessity for using them as there wn nothing In the nature of a panic and no man made an effort to gel into a boat while the women and children were being put aboard. As the ship began to settle to starboard, heeling at an angle of nearly near-ly 45 degrees, those who had believed it was all right to stick by the ship began to have doubt and a few Jumped Into the sea. These were followed fol-lowed immediately by others and In a few minutes there were scores swimming around. Nearly all of them wore life preservers. One man who bad a 1'omeranlan dog leaped overboard with It and striking a piece of wreckage was badly bad-ly stunned. He recovered after a few minutes and swam toward one of the llfeboa't and was taken aboard. Most of the men who were aboard the Car-pathla, Car-pathla, barring the members of the crew who had manned the boats, had Jumped l..to the sea is the Titanic was settling. Ship Brinks In Two. Under instructions from officers and men In charge of lifeboats were rowed row-ed a considerable distance from the ship herself In order to get away from the possible suction that would follow the foundering. The marvelous thing about the dlHappea-ance was so Utile Ut-ile suction as to oe hardly appreciable from the point where the boats were floating. There was ample time to launch all boats before the Titanic went down, as It was two hours and twenty minutes ?oCOTifl(lent i. ere all n"aaIs that she had m sustained a mortal wound thai it was not until 12:15 a. m., or 35 in In utes after the berg was encountered that the boats were lowered. Hun dreds of the ere- and a large ma Joiity of the officers, including Capt Smith, stuck to the ship to the last. It was evident after there wer- eev-er; eev-er; explosions, which doubtless wer the boilers blowing up. that she bad but a few minutes more of life. The ship broke In half arniiMilp and almost simultaneously the after hall and the forward half sank, the for ware half vanishing bow first and th other half stern first John Jacob Astor stou- 00 deck and , fought off man after man until hli wife was In a lifeboat. Then be re malned on the deck to the last. Many of the survivors assert post ( lively that not a woman was to b seen on any of the 'docks at the tlmt the officers of the Tltanli gave th word for the men to enter the life boats. It Is therefore believed man of those who lost their l.ves must have been killed In their cabins, as th survivors also any that everv one hat! ample time to dress. rw ' 1 Survivors ofWreck'bf Titanic Ti-tanic Are Landed in New York. TELL TALE OF AWFUL TRAGEDY Passengers and Crew Display Marked Heroism in Hour of . Great Trial. MONSTER SHIP TORN ASUNDER i Strains of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" Are Last Sounds Heard by Passengers Passen-gers Awaiting Doom Ripped by Iceberg, Icy Flood Explodes Liner's Boilers and Tears Ship In Two-Harrowing Two-Harrowing 8cenes as Wives Are Torn From Husbands and Forced Into Lifeboats Only One Person Taken From Wreck Dies on Way to New York. dened hearts of the many who had been bereaved. 80 cleanly were the police arrangements arrange-ments at the pier carried out that there was'no surging of crowds, no bustling and baiting of the Tltanic's survivors. The pier was crowded with representatives repre-sentatives of relief organizations with ambulances, surgeons from the hospitals, hos-pitals, with sisters of charity, nurses, doctors all those who could be of help In allevlutlng distress or suffering. suffer-ing. Presently the Cunarder was laid alongside and the gangplanks lowered, and then there came In an Incessant streams the hundreds who had come alive from the most awful disaster iu marine history. Tell Tale of Horror. From . score of passengers came the story of their awful experience. The great liner was plunging through HT" lucratively placid sea on the surface of f. hlch there was, much musUr Ice and here axl thr f 'tier of coropaifcfTflfyTiaiTuless looking floes. The nlgTiw was clear and stars visible. Chief vmtv .Murdoch was In charge of the bridge. The first intimation of. tbe presence of the Iceberg that be receled was from the lookout in the crow's nV They were so close upon the berg at this moment that It was practically Impossible to, avoid a collision with It. The first officer did what other un-startled un-startled and alert commanters would have done under similar circumstancesthat circum-stancesthat Is. he made an effort by going full speed ahead on his starboard star-board propeller and reversing his port propeller, simultaneously throwing throw-ing his helm over, to make a rapid turn and clear the berg. Rips Bottom Open. These maneuvers were not successful. success-ful. He succeeded In preventing his bow from crashing Into the Ice cliff, but nearly the entire length of the great ship on the starbosid aide was ripped. The speed of the Titanic, estimated to be at least 21 knots, was so terrific that the knifelike edge of the iceberg's spur protruding under the sea cut through her like a can opener. The shock was almost imperceptible. The first officer did not apparently realize that the great ship had received re-ceived Its death wound and none of the passengers it Is believed had the slightest suspicion that anything more than a usual minor accident bad happened. hap-pened. Hundreds who had gone to their berths and were asleep were not awakened by the vibration. Return to Card Came. To illustrate the placidity with which practically all the men regarded regard-ed the accident It Is related that four were in the smoking room playing bridge, calmly got up from the table, and after walking on deck and looking 1 over the rail, returned to their game. One of them had left his cigar on the 1 card table, and while the three others 1 were gazing out on the sea he re- I marked that he couldn't afford to lose bis smoke, returned for bis cigar, and came out again. 1 The four remained only a (ew moments on deck. They resumed their 1 game under the Impression that the ! ship had stepped for reasons best known to the commander and not involving in-volving any danger to her. The 1 tendency of the whole ship's company 1 except the men in the engine depart- uient, who were made aware of the danger by the Inrusbiug water, was to make light of It and In some Instances even to ridicule the thought of danger dan-ger to so substantial a fabric. Slow to Realiie Peril. Within a few minutes stewards and other members of the crew were sent round to arouse the people. Some utterly ut-terly refused to get up. The stewards bad almost to force the doors of the staterooms to make the somnolent appreciate their peril, Mr. and Mrs. Astor were In then room and saw the Ice vision fieaa by. They lad cot appreciably felt the New Vork, April 19. Lifted from the gates of death, the 745 survivors of tile Titanic were landed by the Cur-pat Cur-pat Ma, which rescued them two hours irid a half after the great While Star iteamer hurled Itself against an Iceberg Ice-berg last Sunday night. Disfigured by calamity and misery and oppressed by awful sorrow, the women and children and the few uieti who escaped from the world's greatest great-est sea disaster are In belter physical condition than the most optimistic tiad hoped for. Out of the great company that waited wait-ed for hours in bitter cold among the grinding burgs, many of them thinly tied, muuy bruised and hurt by the collision which destroyed their ship. I few needed the ministrations of pliy-I pliy-I llclans when they pul their feet on land In sight of the vast crowd thut bad been walling in almost uubear-lUn uubear-lUn uncertainty. Survivors Well In Body. Many, It is true, were weak and nervous and hysterical from an experience experi-ence thai had left the world void and amply for them. Uut and thousands thanked God for it as they watched the majority of the sad and bereaved company were wU In body. Only one of the Tltanic's survivors died while the Carpathla was driving through fogs and storms to this port. Four of the Tltanic's people bad perished per-ished trying to get aboard the Carpathla Car-pathla and another Titanic passenger lost his life by the overturning of a boat. One woman, a second cabin passenger pas-senger who was landed, was suffering suffer-ing Irom a broken arm. Thirty-Nine Women Widowed. The Carpathla reported that there were 710 saved out of a passenger list whic h the While Star line figured at 2,1 SO, making a loss of 1,470 lives. The Tltanic's passengers say there were 743 rescued out of a passenger list of 2.340. The list of names furnished on the Carpathla on Ha arrival show lhS first cla&s cabin passengers saved, 115 in the second cabin, 178 third class, and 106 of the crew, a totai of 687 saved. A woman passenger on the Carpathla heard from the ship's doctor that 4115 of the passengers and 210 of the crew bad beeu saved and that 39 women .oit their husbands. Six of these were brides. The world's annals has provided few more iutense and dramallc moments mo-ments than when all that was left of the great company that sailed so gay-ly gay-ly on the Titanio appeared on the Cuuard pier. Tragedy In Their Faces. The tragedy of the Tltauio wsa-wrtw teu on the faces of nearly all bf her survivors. Some, It Is true, who were saved with their families, could not rtpi ess the Joy and thankfulness that filled their hearts, but they were few compared to the number of the rescued. res-cued. These others bore the Impress of their time of darkness when their people passed in an accident that seemed like au Insane vision of the night. Their faces were swollen with weeping. They had drunk as deeply of sorrow as Is ever given to human kind. liut many, whose spirits were faint-lug faint-lug from despair, walked Urmly inough down the gang plank. Some walked unseeing In a kind of dreadful dread-ful soiiin.iiiibiihum of despair. Officers Shoot Men Down. It was with difficulty that the tongues of many were iaoHened to ipeak of the scenes of agony and fear that fell over the Tltanic's peaceful company when it became swltily mown that the ship must go down. Some told haltingly, with dread still trosen in their eyes, of men who itrove and struggled against women tor the lifeboats and of officers shoot-tig shoot-tig tbem down. One woman saw an officer offi-cer shoot two men, she said, and oilier oili-er passengers recalled how officers bad stood with drawn pistols while the women and children were being guided guid-ed into the boats. No one sctmed to know the eiact fate of the Tltanic's captain, E. J. vailth. There was a story that be had committed suicide, but the Tltanic's Tltan-ic's passengers did not kuow that was true. Many of them bad beard shots Bred. They believed some of tbe firing fir-ing was done to warn back steerage paaseugers. Praise for Tltanic's Crew. For tbe Tltanic's ofUcers and crew ibe rescued seemed to have nothing but praise. These men acted calmly ind coolly in the face of certain found-rtng, found-rtng, was tbe report brought here by the rescued. The unhappy company so marvel-usly marvel-usly torn from the grtp of the sea waa received solemnly and with remarkable re-markable quiet by tbe enormous ;rowd which gathered near the Cunard piers and by the few hundreds that penetrated by right of relation or friendship or merciful business to the Interior of the pier. There was no cheering, no upraising A voices in salute of tbe living, for the thought of tbe dead was In the minds of all onlookers. Tbe depree-iIob depree-iIob cf death waa on the walling men ui women. Quiet In Glad Greeting. Those who found tbelr gladdest hopes realised and looked through tbe press to make out the well known ace of husbands and fathers and sisters sis-ters and wives, could not conceal their tremendous elation through thankfulness that all suspense and llshearteniiig conjecture was over. Hut they gteeled their rescued omi Bule'ly. for the mokt pert, with a ti.git er preset! for tbe overbur- |
