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Show HOW THE TITANIC STRUCK ICEBERG THAT SENT HER , M TO THE BOTTOM AND RESCUE SHIP CARPATHIA AT El HER PIER IN NEW YORK AT END OF TRIP OF MERCY M New orlr, April '1.1. History does i not record another trip lilJe that ot the Cunard liner Carpathla. She left New York Thursday. April ll, i0t Mediteiranenn polls with a largo party par-ty of tourists and a week later was hack in Now York with 700 suivlvors of the most dluastrons shipwreck Jn human expeileneo. Ab tho passenger "'who hud just left tho countiy couhl not.bilnK nuy diitiahlo articles, anil as those rescued from tho Titanic had no pemohal effects, many being scantily scan-tily f-Iad, they could not posslblf smuggle in auj goods, so thorn was not even a curtoiy examination by the i cubtoms officers. AH those on boaul , wore freo to leave the pier without being questioned by Uncle Sam s busy agents, and nB soon as sho could be coaled and provisioned again tho Car-pathia Car-pathia resumed her interrupted joj-ace joj-ace A few of the tomlste decided not' to make tho trip -some because of Illness and others bocausc they wanted their nerves to rocovor from the btaock of tho oxperlencos. thoy had had, Stories of surMvors of tho wreck of the Titanic vary considerably in detail, but they ngrcc on ijo oWitiaI polrts. There scorns no doubt that tho Titanic, the largest and finest vessel over built, "vas proceeding at her usual us-ual speed of 22 or 23 knots an hour at Ji. 15 Sunday night, whon a gigantic gigan-tic iceberg was soen but a few. hundred hun-dred feet ahead. Tho ongtnea wore stopped and an effort was mndo by the man at tho wheel to turn to one aide, hut tho essel veered but sllgh-iy sllgh-iy and within fiftoon or twenty seconds sec-onds crashed against the berg. Thoro war, not a tromondous shook Indeed, lunqy pnssensers who wore asleep wore not a wakened. It wne a clear, starlit night, and the spa was smooth Immediately after the collision the Titanic listed beavll, and an hour or, Iso later thoro was a sones of cxplo- ! IiEm sions of tho boilers, which bioko tho, liflml vessel In two, and sho quickly sank'. t . , lefl In the meantlmo tho lifeboats, entire- lIlnfl ly Inndequato to handle the pasSon- w ft 'fjfifl gers and crew, had been filled and g jfKM lowered. Ono sank almost Immedl- '' K?S)I ately because the plugs had not been f mKjI fitted in tho holes In tho bottom, nnd I fKSM two others were sucked under whon . 4 f HHI tho Titanic made her i)luuge into her . . ' F JK9 last resting place. The 700 survivors F'llHI suffered sovoroly fiom the cold and A B aevornl died of exposure before the( ll Carpathla, summoned oy wireless, ar-' aWI rived to take them aboard. 1 'ffffl r rXc WIS |
