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Show i .ja,Ll i u , - '''- ' I Ik Thrilling Details by Surviving Passengers Indescribable Inde-scribable Chorus of Supplication During I the Last Moments. ' SHIS BRINGS POT Mil HEROES jff Great Crowds Meet the Carpathia in New York i Steamer Docked Last Night All Customs Rules Waived and Landing Facilitated. y ' v New York. April 19,rScven hundred and forty-five per- sons, mostly women, sick in heart and body. wTOte into the i' v anna, of maritime history today the los of the biggest " steamship ever built by nfan. They were the survivors of ' - the White Star liner Titanic which s,ank,"bow foremost, with "" f .59.j souls aboard, her captain at the bridge, her eolors flying and her band playing "Nearer, MyGod, to Thee," off the banks of Newfoundland under a starlit sky at 2 a. in., Monday. Died That Others Might Live. "With one voice they told of the splendid heroism of those " who remained behind to find a watery grave that they might " live.' 'Captain Smith died, they said, as a gallant sailor ' should, after having placed all the women,--wKo -would go, -.&, aboard the lifeboats'. There were many who stayed behind ' to die in their husband's arms. , , U From their uarratives stand out in bold relief the fol- lowing facts: Striking Facts in Brief. , j - The Titanic was making twenty-one knots an hour vrijen ' " she struck the iceberg. . ' ,Jn. "" i No one at fii-st thought she would sink. ' She remained afloat more than two hours. ' i The iceberg ripped open her hull below the waterline. "" Instant panic was averted by Captain Smith's 'terse "" r appeal to his crew: ' ' Terse Appeal; "Be British, my men!" ' A small number of steerage pa&sengcrs tried to rush for the lifeboats and were held bapk by the crew and -other passengers. "" . The Tilanie turned her nose for the bottom when the last I' lifeboat was less than a hundred yards away, reared her 1 stern high in the air and trembled for a moment before seek- ing the bottom. ' " There were two explosions when the inrusliing waters reached her boilers. tk " Indescribable Chorus of Supplication. When she sank there was silence; a moment later the I erics and supplications of fifteen hundred dying men rose in I' f chorus indescribable over the spot where she went down. I -y For hours the survivors rowed in lifeboats over a calm sea in bitter cold until the Carpathia picked them up. - In the aftermath today of the disaster, the principal " developments Averc the testimony of J. Bruce Ismay. manag- "" ing director of the White Star line, before the senate inves- tigating committee, and the removal of surviving members " " of the Titanic "s crev aboard the Lapland. , ' " 1 i ' Cunard Lino Pier, New York, Anrjl I 119 Twenty-five thousand people standing In a drizzling rain, and restrained re-strained only by the efforts of 500 mounted and foot policemen, thronged throng-ed the streets leading to pier 53, Fourteenth Four-teenth street, last night waiting for the Cunard liner Carpathia to pull Into In-to her pior. Packing Fourteenth Btrcet, to Twelfth, and from the entrance of the pier, to Thirteenth street, which Is opposite the pier, was a densoly packed throng of Impatient, restless people, among them the relatives and friends of the dead and the survivorB of the Titanic, who, however, composed com-posed only a small part of the vast crowd. Hearses and Dead Wagons. The great hulk was made up of the morhldly curious Lined up at the curbs wero half a hundred ambulances ambu-lances with internes, physicians and nurses awaiting the call to the pier to remove to hospitals the sick and i Insnne among the survivors, ft Close to the pier were hearses and 1 r"Mbor dead wagons to take away 1 si who perished on shipboard. ,t ,i' ' nted Police Keep Back Crowd,' 8:40, five minutes before tl.-m tl.-m ' ' i ithia was due a.t the pier, U- - - was spoiled every minute by rn -I "z thousands of ppople. .1. nl with the greatest difTiculti did H mounted po'icoraen, by rjdlng u;i IH i ' down the, roped approach to thp Wh at a fuflou.8 pice. ) ent t'-jr IK. ss of curious humanity fnmb' -' SB through and stampeding io the HA tt plank of the veesol. UHLrv Wireless Calls for Do:tors. HMj Tre wireless from the ship had ' 'f'led fifty doctors Twice that num. Iff I ber were awaiting the vessel's arrival mm at 8 o'clock. The brief wireless dls- iR.r patches Indicated that pneumonia wag MM prevalent among the rescued and MM further showed that manv had gone Bl insane. Some of the most notable RB mew and women on board were re-' ported among those who had lost thqir minds. The police arrangements for the reception re-ception of ,the liner wore on a scale never before seen in the metropolis. '' WRITTEN INTO HISTORY. New York, April 19 -The Titanic disaster, as written into history by many of the survivors' accounts for the Ions of 1.595 persons at aea off the Newfoundland banks early Monday Mon-day morning, and the subsequent death of si persons who had been roscuod, bringing the total of lives lost to 1,601. These official figures greatly mng-nify mng-nify estimates which had come by wireloss and tho stories which survivors sur-vivors toll make certain what has already al-ready boon judged from the meager wireless reports, that the disaster Is the greatest that ocean trael has ever known. Sixteen Hundred Lost.. The bjg facts whicb came lo ths surface in the flood of narratives aro that 1.C01 .persons met their death; that there ds ha dlv the shadow of a ' ' i that t n ' Ual v.-ill be cur- ifVUed by a! single ' ' it! m, sir vivo t ot several ' eu of tvV ' . ' . i wide prominence aro si'' ng: t:ose w"o POi ued; liiaL pracuca ly tHo on' worsen wbo we'e not saved w" . thbeo w):o chose to d. e in 't'.e'r h s ''an - v, 7cc. that t ' 'a svnior8 sw the T it.n ni- !"! hrri ihe bnd i '.' ' 1 tr, .iy to Tlvqo'' yid tlie sh li ! a of figs-whom figs-whom tho sea claimed. The vessc sank in 2,000 fathoms, ' Iceberg Ninety Feet High. The Titaiiic struck an Iceberg about 90 feet high which ripped the llncr'n sides open' and made the watertight oompartnionla uwjless, and, while the vessel was gradually sinking, the icy water reached hor steaming boilers, causing an explosion which sent her to. the bottom. Among the hundieds on her decks to the last were Colonel John JaCob Astor and Major Archibald Butt, President Pres-ident Talt's military aide; Benjamin Guggeuheim, Jacques Futrelle, George Widener, Henr B Harris and scores of other well kiiown persons. Isidor Straus was among them also with Mrs, Straus, who relused to leave her husband behind when she had tho opportunity op-portunity to save herself Major Butt in Heroic Role, Major Butt is repbitcd to have been one of the heroes. With an Iron bar in his hand, he is said to havo stood at the steerage passago and dofended the women and children from the maddened, panic-stricken men in that part of tho ship. Colonel Astor is said to have met his fate bravely, after seeing his bride to a lifeboat, drawing aside to watch other women step to safety and awaiting his own fate. It was only because the maximum capacity of the steamer's lifeboats was hardly a third the complement of the ship in crew and passengers that hundreds of despairing passengers had to be left to their fate. First to Get Into Boat. J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star line, who was ono of the few prominent men who escaped es-caped with their lives, Is said by some of the passengers to have been one of the first to get into tho lifeboats, but this is denied by Mi Ismay himself. Stunned by the immensity of the tragedy, trag-edy, he had little to say except that he had heard of tho investigation which the United States senate had begun and to express his full willingness will-ingness to assist the senate committee commit-tee in its inquiry. He agreed to appear ap-pear before tho committee in this city today Going at Usual Rate of Speed. The surviving passengers are unanimous unan-imous that the "unbelievablo" happened. hap-pened. Tho voyage had been pleat,-ant pleat,-ant and uneventful except for tho fact that it was being made on the largest vessel that ever sailed and for the keen interest -which tho passengers took in the daily bulletins of the speed. Tho Titanic had--bcen making --good time and all accounts agree that on (he night of the disaster she was apparently ap-parently going at her usual rate from 21 to 25 knots an hour Quartermaster Moody, who was at the helm, said that the ship was making mak-ing 21 knots and that the officers wore under orders at the time to keep nn speed in the hope of making a record passage Titanic Had Sent Warning to Amerlka These orders were being carried out in uit: iacc Ji Kiiuwieuc iuai iuu steamer was in the vicinity of great Icebergs sweeping down from the north. That very afternoon, according accord-ing to the record of the hydrography office, the Titanic had relayed ashore a wireless warning from the steamer Amorika that an unusual field of pack ice and bergs menaced navigation oif the banks But it was a clear and ptarllt night," as all tho survivors described the weather and the great ship sped through the quiet seas with officers confident that even through an Iceberg Ice-berg should bo seen, the vessel could bo controlled In ample timo and the passengers rested In full confidence that their temporary quarters In, the largest and most magnificent vessel ever constructed wore as safe as their own firesides. Voyage Uneventful. "Tho voyage from Queenstown had been quite uneventful, as very flno weather was experienced and the sea was quite calm. Tho wind had been westerly to southwesterly the whole way, but very cold, particularly tho last day, in fact, after dinner on Sunday Sun-day evening it was almost too cold to be out on deck at all. "I had been in my porth for about ten minutes," said a passenger, "when at about 11:15 p. m. 1 felt a slight jar and then soon after a second one. but not sufficiently large to causo any anxiety to anyone, however nervous nerv-ous they may have been. However, the engine stopped Immediately afterwards after-wards and my first thought was 'she has lost a propeller.' Saw Men Playing Carde. "I went up on the top (boat) deck In a dressing gown and found only a few people there who had como up similarly clad to inquire why we had stopped, but there was no soft of anxiety anx-iety in the minds of anyone. We saw thiough the smoking room window a game of cards going on and wont In to Inquire If they know anything: It seems they felt moro of the jar and looking through the window bad seen a huge iceberg o by close to the side of tho boat. They thought we hud just grazed it with a glancing blow and the engines had been stopped stop-ped to see If any damage had been done, The Game Went On. "No one had any conception that she had been pierced below by part of the submerged iceberg. The gamo went on without any thought of disaster dis-aster and I retired to m5' cal1,n t0 road until we went on again. 1 peer saw any of the plavers or the onlookers onlook-ers again. A llttlo'later, hearing people peo-ple going upstairs, I went out and found everjouo waiting to know why the engines had stopped. No doubt many were awakened fiom sleep by the sudden stopping of a vibration to which they had become accustomed duilug the four chvj'3 we had been on board. , '- Noticed List Downwal-ds. "Naturally with stick powerful engines en-gines as tho, Titanic can-led, the vibration vi-bration ,was very perceptible all the time .and the sudden stopping had something of the effect of a loud tick-. tick-. Ing grandfather's clock in a room. .(Continued on Pago Eight.) STORY Of DISASTER (Continued From rage One.) ' , "On deck apaln, 1 saw that there was an undoubted list downwards fiom the stern to bows, but Knowing nothing of what had happened, concluded con-cluded some of the front compartments compart-ments had filled and weighed her down. I wont down again to put on wanner clothing and as I dressed heard an order shoutod: ' 'All passengers on deck with lifebelts life-belts on.' "We all walked slowly up with them and tied thorn on over our clothing, but even then presumed this was a precaution tho captain was taldng and that wo should leturn In a short time and retire to bed. There was a total absence of panic or any ex-prcsslpns ex-prcsslpns or alarm, and I suppose this can be accounted for by the exceedingly exceed-ingly calm night and the absenco of anv signs of the accident. Tho ship was quite still and except for a gentle gen-tle tilt downwatd, which I don't think one person in len would have noticed at that time, no signs of the approaching approach-ing disaster were visible. Boats Ordered Lowered. She lay just as If she wpre waiting tho order to go on again, when some trifling matter had been adjusted. But in a few moments wo saw the covors lifted from the boats and tho ciews alotted to them standing by and curling up the ropes which were to lower them by the pulley blocks Into the water ' "We besnn to realize- It was more serious than had been supposed and my llrst thought was to go down and get more clothing and some money, but soclng pcoplo pouring up the stairs decided it was better not to cause confusion to pcoplo coming up by so doing. Presently wo heard the older: "All Men Sand Away." " 'All men stand back away from the boats and all ladles and children retire to the next dock below' tho smoking room deck on B deck. The men all stood away and remained In absolute silence leaning against tho end railing of the deck or pacing slowly up and down. "When the boats woro swung out to the level of B deck, where all the ladles were collected, tho ladles got in quickly with the exception of some vho refused to loavc their husbands. In some cases they were torn from them and pushed into the boats, but in manj instances they wero allowed to remain because there was no one to insist they should go. Boats Slipping Away Adrift. "Once over the side I saw boats from aft already In tho water, slipping quietly away Into tho darkness and presently the boats near to me were lowered and with much creaking as the ncw ropes slipped through pulley-blocks pulley-blocks for the ninety feet which separated sep-arated them from the water. An officer offi-cer in uniform came up as one boat went down and shouted down: "'When you are afloat row around tc the companion ladder and stand by the other boats for orders.'' "'Aye, aye, sir!' came up the reply, but I don't think any boat was able to obey the orders when they were afroat and had the cars at work the condition of the rapidly settling boat was so much more a sight for alarm for those in the boats than those on "board tho Titanic. In common prudence pru-dence the sailors saw they could do nothing but row from the sinking ship to save, at any rate, some lives. They no doubt expected that suction from such an enormous vessel would bo more than usually dangerous to a ciowded boat mostly filled with women. wo-men. No Trace of Disorder. "All this time there was no trace of any disorder, panic or rush to tho boats and no scenes of women sobbing hysterically, such as one generally pictures as happening at such, times; everyone seemed to rcalizo so slowly that there was - imminent danger. When that was realized that wo might all be prosently In the sea with nothing but our lifebelts to support us until we wore picked up by passing pass-ing steamers it was extraordinary how calm everyone was and how completely self-controlled. Filled With Women and Children. "One by one the boats were filled with women and children, lowered and rowed away Into the night. Presently Present-ly the word came out: 'The men are to bo put in boats on the starboard side.' I was on the port side and most oT the men walked across the deck to see if this was so. 'I remembered where I was and presently heard the call: 'Any more ladles?' Looking oer the side of the fclilp I saw the boat number 13 swinging swing-ing level with B deck, half full of lcdics, A gain the call was repeated- " 'Any more ladies?' "I saw none conic and then ono of the crew looked up, said; 'Any ladles on your deck, sir?' Xo,' I replied. "Then you had better Jump ' ''You Hay Better Jump." "I dropped and fell In tho bottom as they cried 'lower away.' As tho boat began to descend two ladles were pushed hurriedly through the crowded 13 deck and heaved over Into the boat and a baby of ten months passed down after them. Down we went, the crew calling to those lowering each end to keep her level. 'Aft,' 'Stern,' 'both together,' until wc were some ten feet from tho water and here occurred the only anxious moment mo-ment we had during tho whole of our experience from leaving the deck to reaching the Carpathla. Water Pouring From Ship. Immediately below our boat was the oxhauBt of the condensers, a hugh stream of water pouring all the time from the ship's side Just above the water line It was ptn wo ought to bo smart away from this lot to be swamped by it when we touched water. We had no officer aboard, no petty officer or member of the prew to tako charge. So one of the stokers shouted, 'someone find the pin which releases tho boat from the ropcB and pull it up.' No ono knew where it was. Wo felt as well as we could on the flpor and sills, but found nothing noth-ing and It was hard to movo among bo many people we had sixty or seventy on board. Almost Submerged. "Down wc went and presently floated float-ed with our ropes still holding, the exhaust washing as awny from tho side of the vessel and the awellj-ofthe' nea urging us backagalnBt th'o side', again. The resultant of those forposj was uu .impetus which carried fis parallel par-allel to the ship's side and dirqctly under boat 14, whichlfad' tilled vad-Idly vad-Idly with moji and was coming down on us in a way that threatened to 311b-jncrse 311b-jncrse ua, 'Stojj lowering 14,' our 'crew-shouted and the crew of number' M now only twenty feet above; shouted shout-ed the samo 4 Lowering the Boat. ..- , "But the distance to the top.xwas soventy feet and tho creaking pulleys must have deadoncd all the sound to those above, for down she came fifteen fif-teen feet, ten feet, five feet and a stoker and I reached up and touched her swinging above our heads. -.The next drop would havo brought hor.. o) our heads, -but Just before she drojjped another stoker sprang to the r,opos with his knife. ' , ( "'One,' I heard him say, 'two.JJ as his knife went through the pulley lopes and tlio net momont tho ox-haust ox-haust stream carried us clear While boat 1 1 dropped into tho water in tho spaco ve had the moment before occupied, oc-cupied, our gunwales almost touching. touch-ing. Drifted Away Easily. "We drifted away easily as tho oars wero got out and headed directly a Way from the ship. The crow seemed to me to be mostly cooks In white Jackets, Jack-ets, two to an oar with a stoker at tho tiller. There was a certain amount of shouting from ono end of the boat to the other, and discussion as to which way wo should go, but finally it was deoided to elect the stoker who was steering, captain, and for all to obey his orders He set to work at once to got into touch with tho other boats, calling to thorn and gctting'as closo as scorned wise, so that when the search boats came in the morning to look for us, there would be more chanco mr all to bo rescued by keeping keep-ing together. Sea Calm as a Pond. ' "It was ahout 1 a. m.; a beautiful starlight night with no moon and so not very light The Ben was as calm as a pond, just a gontlo hcavo as the boat dipped up and down In tho swell, an Ideal night except for the blttqr cold, for any ono who had to bo out in the middle of the Atlantic ocean in an open boat and If ever thero was n time when such a night wns needed, surely it was now, with hundreds of people, mostly women and children, afloat hundrods of miles from shore. 'Tho captain-stoker told us lie had been nt sea twenty-six years and hnd never yet seen such a calm night on the Atlantic. An we rowed away from tho Titanic we looked back from tlmo to time to watch her, and a more striking spoctacle it was not possible foi any ono to see. Ship Looked Big at Distance. "In tho distance she looked an enormous length, hor great bulk outlined out-lined In black against the starry sky, etery porthole and saloon blazing with light. It was impossible to think anything any-thing could be wrong with such a leviathan le-viathan were it not for that ominous tilt downwards In the bows, whero the water was by now up to the lowest row of portholeB. Presently, about 2 a. ra., as near as I can romomber, wc observed her settling very rapidly by the bows and soon the bridge wns completely under water and concluded conclud-ed It was now only a question of a few minutes before she worn down and so It proved. nchlrtcry Rattled and Roared. "Sho slowly tilted, straight on ond with the stern vertical an the cabins and saloon lights, which had flickered flicker-ed for a moment since wo left, died out, came on again for a single flash and finally went out altogether. At the same tlmo the machinery roared down through the vessel with a rattlo and a moaning that could be heard for miles, tho wierdest sound surely that could bo heiird in the middle of the ocean, a thousand mile away from land. But this was not the ond. Remained Utirlaht for Five Minutes: "To our amazement Bhc remained In that upright position for a time, which I estimate as flvo minutes others in the boat say less but It was certainly some minutes while we watched at least 150 foot of the Titanic Ti-tanic towering above the lee of tho sea and looming against tho sky Then with a quiet, slanting dive sho disappeared beneath tho waters and"' our eyes bad looked for the last time on the gigantic vessel wo had set out on from Southampton last Wednesday. Wednes-day. An Appalling Noise. "And then with all these, there fell on tho car the rnoBt appalling nolso that human boing eor llstonod to tho cries of hundreds of our fellow beings be-ings struggling in the icy cold water, crying for help with a cry that we knew could not be answered. Wo longed to return and pick up some of thoso swimming, but this would have meant swamping our boat and further fur-ther loss of tho lives of all of ua. "We tried to sing to keep the women wom-en from hearing tho cries, and tho men lowed hard to get awaj from the Bcene of tho wreck, but lf think the memory of thoso sounds will bo one of the things the rescued will find it difficult to efface from memory We are all trying hard not to think of IL Kept a Lookout for LVghts. We kept a lookout for lighta and rcvcral times it was shouted that a steamer's lights wore seen, but this turned out to be oither a light from another boat of a stnr low down on tho horizon. About 15 a. m. wo saw faint lights showing on the sky and all rejoiced to see what we expected was tho coming dawn, but after wntching for half an hour and seeing no change in tho intensity of tho light, realized it was the northern lights. "Presently low down on tho horizon we saw a light which slowly resolved itself into a doublo light and wo watched eagerly to see if the two lights would separate and so prove to be only two of our boats, or whether they would remain together, in which caso we should expect them to be tho maBthead lights and tho deck-lights deck-lights below of a roscue steamer. Broke Into Song "To our jov thqy mocd as ono and as the boats headed for thom our steersman shouted: 'Now, loys, sing, and for the first time I he boat broke into song with 'pull for the shore, sailors' and for tho first time tears camo to the eyes of us all, as we realized that safotv was at hand. Tho song was sung, but it was a very poor imitation of tho real thing, for' quavering voices make poor songs. A cheer was given and that was better you keep in tuno for a cheer. "Our rescuer showed up Tapidly and as she swung around wo 6aw hor cabins all alight and knew sho must bo a large steamer. Sho was now motionless and wo had to row to her. Just then there broke a beautiful quiet dawn with fahU pink clouds Just above the horizon and a now moon whose crescent Just tquched the horizon. Boat 13 Not' Unlucky " 'Turn your money over, boys," said our cheery steersman, 'that Is if you have any.' "Wq laughed at him for his superstition at such a time, 'tj't he countered -very aptly by adding: add-ing: Well, I shall never say again that 13 Js an unluckv number, boat 13 has been the hoyt friends wc ever had. "Certainlv the 15'. superstition Is kind of memory of those who escaped from tho Titanic in boat 13, As wo neared the Carpathla wo saw In the dawning light what wo thought was n full rigged schooner standing up near her'and presently behind her another, an-other, nil sails set. and wo said: Icebergs for MHes Around " 'They aro fi6her boats from tho NTow Foundiand banks and havo seen 'ho steamer lying to and are standing by to holp ' Rut In another mlnuto tho light showed pink on them and we saw they wore icebergs towering many foot In the air, huge glistening masses, deadly white, still, and peaked peak-ed in a way that had suggested a schooner. "Wo noticed that nearor tho horizon thero wero others, as far as tho eyo could roach. The steamer wo had to roach was surrounded by them and wo had to make a detour to reach hor, for between her and us lay another an-other hugo berg. Taken Aboard Carpathla Wo rowed up to the Carpathl& about 1:30 a. m. and were hoisted or climbed up the ship's ropes with very grateful hearts. Wo were received with a welcome that was overwhelming overwhelm-ing In its warmth and I should like to say hero that thoro is not a mom-ber mom-ber of the Titanic on board who feels capable of expressing in adequate terms his gratitude for the attentions showered upon us by the Captain, officers, of-ficers, crow and passengers on board tho Carpathla. They were called upon up-on suddenly In mid-ocean to receive, they thought 3,000 passengers and crew and had thoy mado every arrangement ar-rangement for so doing Hot Meals Had Been Provided Hot meals, blankots and berths wero proided for each as wo camo on board. Clothing and monoj was supplied Individually by passengers. Berths were given up by men who slept on the smoking room floor, or anywhere clso that a corner could be found. "The ship has sent off hundreds of iUcrconlgrams to anxious relatives. Tho caterer arrangements in chargo of tho purser and stewards havo been so admirably organized that It would not bo posslblo to bo better served had wo been regular passengers aboard our own ship " 0o "Whydldn't you get a younger turkey9" tur-key9" demanded the husband. "I told the dealer I wns rather green." faltered tho young wlfci "so he advised me to take an old, experienced experi-enced bird," Louisllle Courier-Journal. |
