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Show AID REFUSED TITANIC I BY PASSING STEAMER Fourth Officer Boxhall Declares That Ship Five Miles Distant Ignored Distress Signals From Stricken Vessel. WaMilnrton. TVlf h succor ouly five miles away the Titanic slid Into Its watery grave, carrying with it mure than l.COO of Its passenger and crew, while an unidentified ateamer that might have failed or refused, to ace frantic signal of those on hoard, passed on out of alght. Thie tragic feature of the dlsnsier was brought out Monday before the aenate InveKtlKAtlng committee when J. D. Iloxhall. fourth officer of the Titanic, told of hia unaucceaaful at-tempta at-tempta to attract the atrangcr'a attention. atten-tion. Thin vettse), according to Iloxhall. Ilox-hall. could not have been more than five ml I en away and wa steaming toward the Titanic. So close was it that from the bridge Iloxhall plainly aaw lta masthead Hshl and sidelight, side-light, lloth with rocket and with the Morse electric slunal' did the young officer hail the stranger. Cup tain Smith and aeveral othera In the vicinity of the bridge declared at the time their belief wua that the ve-.se! had feen them and waa algnalln; In 'reply. Iloxhall failed to ace the replies, re-plies, however, and In any case the steamer kepi on lta course oldluilely pant the Titanic without extending aid. This and the declaration by P.. A. 8. Franklin, vice-president of the White Star line, that there were not enough lifeboat a aboard the Titanic to care for the ship's company at one time, were features of the hearing. The official was qultzed throughout the morn I a? session on the mcsHage exchanged between the t'arpathla and himself arter the nh'P had started for New York with the Titanic' survivor survi-vor aboard. Among the survivor wn J. liruee Imnay, managing director direc-tor of the line. Among the wireless telegrams read into the record waa one from Mr. Is-may Is-may urp ng that the steamuhlp Ce-drlc Ce-drlc be held tint il the Carputhla arrived ar-rived with Its aorry burden. He declared de-clared he believed it most desirable that the survivor of the Titanic' crew be niched out of the country as quickly as possible. He also, the message mes-sage fuld. would sail on tho t'edrlc and nuked that clothing be ready at the per for him when the Carpathla docked. The senate' Huhpena blocked tho plan. Mr. I'raiiklin denied that the While I Star company had any Intention to spirit away from the country any Titanic Ti-tanic crricciH or crew or that the plans in return the survivors of tint c:ew e.e prompted by rny desire to siii'preH.H the facts, lie sail that not it. In; that the officer or crew could i tell would affect wh.it m.ght be to.J by sunivlng pasenger. j |