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Show Titanic Survivors Describe Horrors of Sea Tragedy STATISTICS SHOWING EXTENT OF DISASTER The following tabulation of passengers pas-sengers and crew on board the Titanic, Ti-tanic, together with those saved and lost, has been compiled from the figures in the statement Issued by the committee of passengers: Approximate number of passengers passen-gers aboard; First class, 3:10; second class, 32U; third class. 750; officers and crew, 940; total, 2,340. Number of passengers saved by Carpathian First class. 210; second I class, U'G; third class, 200; total passengers saved, D35. Members of crew saved: Officers, Offi-cers, 4; seamen. 39; stewards, 96; firemen, 71; total members of crew saved, 210. Total number perished, 1,695; succumbed later, 6. First and second cabin passengers, passen-gers, fi.'iO. First and second cabin passengers saved, 335. Total cabin passengers lost, 315. WAS EIElIT TO BBHK RECORD TITANIC WAS RUNNING AT FULL 8PEED WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH ICEBERG. I Was Ripped From Stem to Engine-room Engine-room by Great Mats of Ice, Her Side Being Laid Open as If by Gigantic Can Opener. New York. How the- White Star liner Titanic, which was the lurgest ship afloat, sank after colliding with an Iceberg on April 14, while on her maiden trip, carrying to their death 1,001 of the 2,340 persons aboard, was told to the world In its awful detail for tho lirst time with the arrival ar-rival st New York Thursday of the Cunnrd liner Carpal hla, bearing the exhausted survivors of the catastrophe. catastro-phe. The report of the survivors forces the abandonment of all hope for those who remained on the. stricken vessel. Of the great fads thut stand out from the chaotic account of the tragedy, the most salleut are that the list of prominent people lost stands as pre-tlously pre-tlously reported. Practically every woman and child, with the exception of those women who refused to leave their husbands, were sa.ed. Six persons per-sons died after being rescued. Amojig the women lost wns Mrs. Isadoro Straus. Survivors on the lifeboat saw the lights on the stricken vessel glimmer to the last, beard the bund playing and caw the doomed hundreds on the docks and heard their groans and cries when the vessel sank, being powerless to aid them. Among tho people of worid-wldo prominence who met death on the Ill-fated Ill-fated Titanic were men like John Jacob Astor, muster of scores of millions; mil-lions; P.cnjamln Guggenheim of the famous family of bankers; Isador Strauss, a merchant prince; William T. Stead, veteran journalist; Major Archibald W. Hutt, soldier; Wasw ton Hoebling. noted engineer; Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railway; F. I). Millet, the noted artist; Henry II. Harris, theatrical manager; Jacques Futrelle and many others of lesser note in the world's affairs. The combined wealth of those above named Is over half a billion dollars. Mrs. Churchill Candee of Washington, Washing-ton, one of those rescued, declared that the action of the -men on the Titanic Ti-tanic was noble. They stood back in every Instance that she noticed and gave the women and children the first chance to get away safely. Particularly Particu-larly heroic was the conduct of Isador Strauss, Major Arcnthald Putt. John Jacob Astor end Henry R. Harris. DID NOT BELIEVE INJUHYSERIOUS PASSENGERS AT FIRST LAUGH AND JOKE WHEN CREW MAKE LIGHT OF ACCIDENT. Panic Soon Followed, However, and Words Fall to Paint Horror of Scene Men of National Prominence Promi-nence Die Like Heroes, Giving Their Lives to Save Women. crew, and paid a high tribute to the heroism of the women passengers. Colonel Cracle said that despite the warning of Icebergs no slowing down of speed was ordered by the commander comman-der of the Titanic. There were other warnings, too, he said. "When the vessel struck," he continued, con-tinued, "the passengers were so little alarmed that they Joked over the mat-ter. mat-ter. The few that appeared on deck early had taken their time to dress properly, and there was not the slightest slight-est Indication of panic. Some of the fragments of Ice had fallen on the deck and these were picked up and passed around by some of the facetious face-tious ones, who offered them as mementoes me-mentoes of the occasion. "On the port side a glance over the side failed to show any evidence of damage, and the vessel seemed to be on an even keel. James Clinch Smith and I, however, soon found the vessel was listing heavily. A few minutes later the officers ordered men and women to don llfe-pri-servers." One of the last women seen by Colonel Cracle, be said, was Miss Fv-ails Fv-ails of Nc x York, who virtually refused re-fused to bo rescued hecuust, according accord-ing to the army officer, ''she had been I old by a fortune teller In London Lon-don that she would meet her death on the water." The most, distressing stories are those giving tho experiences of the passengers In lifeboats. These tell ' not only of their own suffering, bill ! give the harrowing details of how they .-aw the great hulk of the Titanic ' stand on end stern uppermost for runny minutes before plunging to tb bottom. As this awful spectacle wsi witnessed by the groups of survivors In the boats they plainly saw many of those whom they had Just left be hind leaping from the decks into the water. One of the passengers saved, a woman, says that she saw one of th lifeboats and mad" for It. In It were four men from the stcerane. They were ordered out by an officer and re-fused re-fused to leave. Then one of the of ll'ers jumped Into the boat, and drawing a revolver, shot th four men dead. Their bodies were puked out from the bottom of the boat and thrown Into the ocean. Mr. Harris Insisted thnt his wife get Into a boat. She refused and was forced Into the boat. The men, she declares, worked desperately to get tho women and children safely on to the boats. Not only was the Titanic tearing through the April night to her doom with every ounce of steam on, but she was under orders from the general gen-eral officers of the line to make all tho speed of which she was capable. This was the statement by J. P. L. Moody, a quartermaster of the vessel ves-sel and helmsman on the ulgbt of tho disaster. Ho said the ship wns making twenty-one knots an hour and tho officers of-ficers were trying to live up to the orders to smash the record. "It wa close to midnight," raid Moody, "and I was on the bridge with the second officer, who was in command. com-mand. Suddenly ho shouted 'port your brim.' I did so, but It whs too late. We struck the tubmcrged portion por-tion of the berg." Ripped froin stem to englneroom by the great mass of Ice she struck i nmlduhlp-i, the Titanlc's side was laid open as If by a gigantic can opener. She quickly listed to starboard and a shower of Ice fell ottho forecastle d"t;k. Shortly before hc Mnk shi Wole la two, abaft th." englneroom and as she disappeared beneath tin water the expulsion of air causer two explosions which were beard plainly by the survivors adrift. A moment more and the Titanic had gone to her doom with the fated hundreds grouped on the after deck To the survivors they were visible to the last and their cries and moans were pitiable. Colonel Archibald Grade, U. 8. A., the last man saved, went down with the vessel, but was picked up. Colonel tirade told a remarkable story of personal hardships and denied de-nied emphatically tho reports that there had been any panic on board. He praised In the highest terms the behavior of both passengers and the VESSEL THAT BROUGHT THE TITANIC SURVIVORS r v . .." ;i .' ' ' i 7' ' .if 1 . , " . " '. ;"..-. i t i i e ! t , 4 Mr it ' . . jt.Jt I . .J 'fl i - t , - v , t 7 ir, rrt --"T ' ' i. - " ' ' "" ' ,.-.-,.- . - -- -r-.r . - , .:;'..-r, ...fT ' Nr'rr'.. y'r. j':r :.;-;...t... Vj . . - v ; v . . . - -- ' " . - . ' - , k tWi-'-jr :-rr-. . " . J' '- ' ' . t . - '' , .. .. . 'm M'a a . ' - . , .. . ... TDK Cunsrd liner Carpsthla. which r'eked op and brought to Nw York the survivors of the Titanic disaster. She was bound for th Mediterranean when she received the wireless distress roll of the White Star liner. |