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Show IS EIEHBIG 10 fidffl RECORD TITANIC WAS RUNNING AT FULL SPEED WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH ICEBERG. Was Ripped From Stem to Engine-room Engine-room by Great Mass of Ice, Her Side Being Laid Open as if by Gigantic Can Opener. New York. How the White Star liner Titanic, which was the largest ship afloat, sank '.after colliding with an Iceberg on April 14, while on her maiden trip, carrying to their death 1,601 of the 2,340 persons aboard, was told to the world in its awful detail for the first time with the arrival ar-rival at New York Thursday of the Cunard liner Carpathia, 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 thei stricken vessel. Of the great facts that stand out from the chaotic account of the tragedy, the most salient are that the list of prominent people lost stands as previously pre-viously reported. Practically every woman and child, with the exception of those women who refused to leave their husbands, were saved. Six persons per-sons died after being rescued. Among the women lost was Mrs. Isadore Straus. Survivors on the lifeboats ! saw the lights on the stricken vessel glimmer to the last, heard the band playing and saw the doomed hundreds on the decks and heard their groans and cries when the vessel sank, being powerless to aid them. Among the people of world-wide prominence who met death on the ill-fated ill-fated Titanic were men like John Jacob Astor, master of scores of mil lions; Benjamin Guggenheim of the famous family of bankers; Isador Strauss, a merchant prince; William T. Stead, veteran journalist: Major Archibald W. Butt, soldier; Washington Washing-ton Roebling, noted engineer; Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railway; F. D. Millet, the noted artist; Henry B. 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 Arcnibald Butt. John Jacob Astor and Henry B. Harris. Mr. Harris insisted that his wife get into a boat. She refused and was forced into the boat. The men, she declares, worked desperately to get the women and children safely on to I the boats. J 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 the 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 night of the disaster. He said the ship was making twenty-one knots an hour and the officers of-ficers were 'trying to live up to the orders to smash the record. "It was close to midnight," said Moody, "and I was on the bridge with the second officer, who was in command. com-mand. Suddenly he shouted 'Port your helm.' I did so, but it was too late. We struck the submerged portion por-tion of the berg." Ripped from stem to engineroo-m by the great mass of ice she struck amidships, the Titanic's side was laid open as if by a gigantic can opener. She quickly listed to starboard and a shower of ice fell on the forecastle deck. Shortly before she sank she broke in two, abaft the engineroom, and as she disappeared beneath the w-ater the expulsion of air caused two explosions which were heard plainly by the survivors adriff. 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 Gracie, U. S. A., the last man saved, went down with the vessel, but was picked up. Colonel Gracie told a remarkable story of personal hardships and denied de-nied emphatically the reports that there had been any panic or board. He praised in the highest terms the behavior of both passengers and the crew, and paid a high tribute to the heroism of the women passengers. "The conduct of Colonel John Jacob Astor was deserving the highest praise," Colonel Gracie declared. "The millionaire New Yorker," he said, "devoted all his energies to sav- TITANIC IMMEDIATELY AFTER LAUNCHING mmmtimsgmmmmmimmim llllllf k ; ; -'-.Pl'. H- - '' v v s-s-JS -- Wr-V;'' Sf!-:;!.;;:',', .,.';. v't e' m,1' 'A :- :.yik:Ji MAJESTIC VESSEL THAT A FEW DAYS AGO WAS THE PRIDE OF THE WHITE STAR LINE. ing his young bride, nee Miss Force of New York, who was in delicate health. Colonel Gracie 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 matter. 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 1, however, soon found the vessel MONSTER ICE FLOE OFF NEWFOUNDLAND r'5,?,,u,f!!r? '-' 'I'Ji '" ::' J .'te f .' " -i v.-r-.!'5-" V:.--;' - : :'. " ' ; IT WAS SUCH A GIGANTIC MASS OF ICE AS THIS THAT CRUSHED THE FAMOUS TITANIC. iDiOloTBELiT INJURY SERIOUS PASSENGERS AT FIRST LAUGH AND JOKE WHEN CREW MAKE LIGHT OF ACCIDENT. i I Panic Soon Followed, However, and Words Fail to Paint Horror of Scene Men of National Prominence Promi-nence Die Like Heroes, Giving Their Lives to Save Women. I j w-as listing heavily. A few minutes ; later the officers ordered men and women to don life-preservers." One of the last women seen by Colonel Gracie, he said, was Miss Evans Ev-ans of New York, who virtually refused re-fused to be rescued because, according accord-ing to the army officer, "she had been told by a fortune teller in London Lon-don that she would meet her death on the water." The most distressing stories are those giving the experiences of the passengers in lifeboats. These tell not only of their own suffering, but give the harrowing details of how they saw the great hulk of the Titanic stand on end stern uppermost for many minutes before plunging to the bottom. As this awful spectacle wa3; witnessed by the groups of survivors in the boats they plainly saw many of those whom they had just left behind be-hind leaping from the decks into the water. Physicians and nurses went aboard the Carpathia before anyone was allowed al-lowed to go down the gangway, but soon after the first cabin passengers, women predominating, began descending des-cending the incline. Some walked unaided. Some were assisted by friends, relatives and nurses and some were on stretchers. T,he two hundred and more steerage passengers did not leave the ship until un-til 11 o'clock. They were in a sad condition. The women were without wraps, and the few men there wore very little clothing. Among men of nation-wide promi: nence who went to their death on board the ill-fated Titanic, after proving prov-ing their heroism, was Henry B. Harris, Har-ris, who was one of the best known, and probably the most, successful, theatrical producers in the United States. Mrs. Harris, who was returning re-turning from England with her husband, hus-band, is one of the survivors on board the Carpathia. J. Bruce Ismay, one of the survivors surviv-ors of the Titanic wreck, is head ol the White Star line and is said to control the steamship combination. Pitiful tales were related by some of the steerage passengers of the Titanic Ti-tanic as they came off the Carpathia. Few of the passengers were met by relatives or friends, and a majority were taken in charge by charitable persons. The chief steerage steward of the Titanic, who came on the Carpathia, says he saw John Jacob Astor standing stand-ing by the life ladder as the passengers passen-gers were being embarked. His wife was beside him, the steward said. The colonel left her to go to the purser's pur-ser's office for a moment and that was the last seen of him. One of the passengers saved, a woman, says that she saw one of the lifeboats and made for it. In it were four men from the steerage. They were ordered out by an officer and refused re-fused to leave. Then one of the officers of-ficers jumped into the boat, and, d: awing a revolver, shot the four men dead. Their bodies were picked out from the bottom of the boat and thrown into the ocean. Captain Smith of the lost Titanic stuck to his ship to the hist and then went (l:iwn with her. His heroic action ac-tion in the hour of peril was witnessed witness-ed by G A. Drayton of Los Angeles, one of the survivors. |