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MY GOD TO THEE"

Captain Smith Was Seen Standing on the

Bridge as the Titanic Was

Going Down.

HEROIC CREW GIVE UP THEIR LIVES

Colonel Astor, Henry B, Harris, Jacques

Futrelle and Other Notables Go to Their

Death With Equal Heroism.

New ïork. April is.—seventeen hun

dred and twenty-six lives were lost on

the Titanic which struck an Iceberg

at 11:45 P. M. Sunday and were at

the ocean's bottom two hours and thir

ty-flve minutes after. Of the Titanic'»

341 first cabin passengers 212 were

saved; l.">4 of them were women and

children, and of the 262 second cabin

passengers 115 were saved. 102 of them

were women and children.

Of the third-class, 800 in number, 136

were saved, S3 of whom were women

und children. Of 085 officers and crew,

49 'J. including 22 women, were rescued.

No survivors can question tne cour

age of the crew, hundreds of whom

gave their lives with a heroism which

equaled, but could not exceed, that of

John Jacob Astor, Henry K. Harris,

Jacques Futrelle and others in the long

lfet of lirst cabin passengers.

The bulk head system, though prob

ably working, prevailed only to delay

the ship's sinking.

EXPLOSIONS BREAK SHIP IN TWO

The position of the ship's wound on 1

the starboard quarter admitted icy

water which caused the boilers to ex

plode and those explosions broke the

ship in two.

Tin- crash against the iceberg, which

bad been sighted at only a quarter of

a nsi>. came almost simultaneously !

with ihe c 1 : 'k oi the levers operated

from the bridge which stopped the en

gines and closed the air-tight doors.

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THE TITANIC, LARGEST VESSEL EVER BUILT, WAS SUNK ON HER MAIDEN TRIP.

CAPTAiN OHDEHS LIFE BOATS

LOWERED.

Captain Smith was on the bridge a

moment iattr. He summoned all on

board to put on life preservers and or

dered the lifeboats lowered. The tirst

boat had more male passengers as triey

Were the tirst to reach the deck.

ENFORCE "WOMEN FIRST" RULE

WITH DRAWN REVOLVERS.

When the rush of frightened men

and women and crying children to the

decks began the "women first" rule

was rigidly enforced. Officers drew re

volvers, but in most cases there was

bo use for them.

Revolver shots were heard shortly

before the Titanic went down, caused

many rumors, one that Captain Smith

had shot himself, another that First

Officer Murdock had ended his life,

but members of the crew discredit

these reports.

CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE BRIDGE

AS BOAT GOES DOWN.

Captain Smith was last seen on the

bridge just before the ship sank, leap

ing only after the decks had washed

away.

What became of the men with life

preservers was the question asked by

many since the dis-aster. Many of

those with life preservers were seen to

go down, despite the preservers, and

dead bodies Iloated on the surface aa

the last boats moved away.

it is stated positively the ship's

string band gathered in the saloon near

the end and played "Nearer My God to

Thee.''

Mrs. Isador Straus refused to leave

her husband s side and both perished

together.

Harold i'otton, the marine operator

of the Carpathia, did not go to bed

at his usual time Sunday night, and

as a result caught the first message of

the Titanic's plight. He had been re

laying messages to th® Titanic on Sun

day night, and shortly after 11 o'clock

bade the Titanic good night.

Just as he was about to take the

receiver off his head the C. Q. D. call

sounded. ^ This was followed by the

words "We've hit something; come at

once."

( otton at once communicated with

the Carpathia's officers and her course

was at once changed in the direction of

the Titanic at full speed of eighteen

knots for the full distance of sixty

miles intervening between the two

ships.

"I'M AFRAID WE ARE GONE."

Before Cotton could make reply to

the C. Q. 1). the Titanic's "I'm afraid

we are gone," Cotton sent word of the

coming of the Carpathia. No further

communication was had with the

doomed ship.

I he Titanic's speed of twenty-three

knots an hour was never slackened,

and she «as going at that speed when

she struck.

S. V. Silverthorne of St. Louis was

one of the three or four saloon pas

sengers on the 1 itanic who saw the

deadly iceberg just after the collision.

NONE WAS ALARMED AT FIRST.

"I was in the smoking room reading

near a bridge whist game at one of

the tables. When the crash came I

said, "We've hit something," and went

an the stanboard side to look. None

of us was alarmed It occurred to me

that we might have bumped some

small craft.

"I went back in the smoking room

with the others. One of the brldgo

players had not left the smoking room

at all and was waiting impatiently for

the others to come back arid resume

the game. They returned and took up

their hands and we were all about to

fettle down when an officer ordered us

on deck and told us to get into the

boats."

NOT ENOUGH WOMEN TO FILL

THE FIRST BOAT.

"There not being enough women on

deck to fill the tirst ones, we did not

like tiie idea of leaving the ship then,

but did as we were told. Had we been

n our rooms we would have had to

stand aside as other men did then."'

MR. HURD'S STORY.

New York, April 18.—The Morning

World tomorrow will publish Mr.

Hurd's story in detail. In addi

tion to the foregoing Mr. Hurd says in

part;

"Facta which I have established by

inquiries on the Carpathia, as posi

tively as they could be established,

in view of the silence of the few sur

viving officers, are;

OFFICERS KNEW ICEBERGS

WERE NEAR.

That the Titanic'# officers knew,

several hours before the crash, of th?

possible nearness of the icebergs.

"That the Titanic's speed, nearly 23

knots an hour, was not slackened.

"That the number of the life boats

on the Titanic was Insufficient to ac

comodate more than a third of the

Passengers to say nothing of the afew.

Most i^embers of the crew say there

were sixteen life boats and two col

■apslbles; none say there were more

khan twenty boats in all.

The 700 who escaped filled most of

the sixteen lifeboats and the one col

lapsible, which got away, to the limit

of their capacity.

"Had the ship struck the iceberg

headon at whatever speed and with

whatever resulting shock, the bulk

head system of watertight compart

ments would probably have saved the

vessel. As one man expressed It, it

■was the impossible that happened

when, with a shock unbelievably light,

the ship's side was torn for a length

which made the bulkhead system inef

fective.

WAS SPEEDING FOR RECORD.

"The Titanic was 1,799 miles from

Vjueenstown and 1,191 miles from New

ïork, speeding for a maiden voyage

record. The night was starlight, the

sea glassy. Light were out In most of

the state rooms, and only two or three

congenial groups remained in the pub

lic rooms.

"In the crows' nest, or lookout, and

on the bridge, officers and members of

the crew were at their places, await

ing relief at midnight from their two

hours' watch.

"At 11:40 o'clock came the sudden

sound of two guns, a warning of im

mediate danger.

"The crash against the iceberg,

which had been sighted at only a

quarter of a mile came almost simul

taneously with the click of the levers

operated by those on the bridge, which

stopped the engines and closed the

Water tight doors.

"Captain Smith was on the bridge a

moment later, giving orders for the*

summoning of all on board and for the

putting on of life preservers and tho

lowering of tho life boats.

"The first boats lowered contained

more than passengers than th e later

ones, as the men were on deck tirst,

and not enough women were there to

till them.

CREW DIDN'T HAVE TO USE RE

VOLVERS.

"When a moment later, the rush of

frightened women and crying children

to the deck began, enforcement of the

women first rule became rigid. Officers

loading the boats drew revolvers but;

in most of the cases the men, both

passengers and crew, behaved in a

ivay that called for no such restraint.

RUMORED THAT CAPTAIN SHOT

HIMSELF.

"Revolver shots, heard by many per

sons shortly before the end of the Ti

tanic, caused many rumors. One was

that Captain Smith shot himself, an

other was that First Officer Murjock

had "ended his iif •=*. Smith, Mur flock

and Sixth Officer Moody are known to

have been lost. The surviving officers,

Lightoller, Pittman, Bothall and Lowe,

have made no statement.

CAPTAIN JERKED AWAY FROM

WOULD-BE RESCUERS.

"Members of the crew discredit all

reports of suicide and say Captain

Smith remained on the bridge until

just before the ship sank, leaping only

after those on the deck had been

washed away. It is also related that

when a cook later sought to pull him

aboard a lifeboat he exclaimed: 'Let

me go," and, Jerking away, went down.

DEAD BODIES ON SURFACE.

"What became of the men with life

preservers Is a question asked since

the disaster by many persons. Dead

bodies floated on the surface as th<j

last boats moved away.

'T'o relate that the ship's string band

gathered into the saloon, near the end,

and played 'Nearer My God to Thee'

sounds like an attempt to give an

added solemn color to a scene which:

was in itself the climax of solemnity.

But various passengers and survivors«

of the crew agree in the declaration

that they heard the music:

" 'So by my woes I'll be

Nearer my God to thee.

Nearer to thee.'

"WOMEN FIRST" WAS ORDER.

"In the loading of the first boat re

strictions of sex were not made, and

it seemed to the men who filled In be

Bide the women that thero would be

boats enough for all. But the ship's

officers knew better than this, and aa

the spreading fear caused an advanca

towards the suspended craft the order

'Women first' was heard and the men

were pushed aside.

COURAGE OF MEN ASSERTED.

To the scene of the next two hours

on those decks and in the waters he

low. such adjectives as "dramatic"

nnd "tragic" do but poor Justice. With

the knowledge of deadly peril .gaining

greater power each tndmefU those

men and women, the courage of the

greater part of the men, both among

cabin passengets, "officers, crew and

steerage, asserted Itself.

M»R8. STRAUS REFUSED TO LEAVE

husband.

Isidor StntuÄ supporting his wife on

her way fe boat, was held back

by an Inexorable guard. Another of

ficer strove,to help her to a seat of

safety, bht she brushed away his arm

and clung to her husband, crying, "I

will not go without you."

Another woman took her place and

Mrs. Straus, clinging to her husband,

became part of a picture now drawn

indelllbly in many minds.

ASTOR AND HARRIS SIDE BY

SIDE.

Colonel Astor, holding his young

wife's arm, stood decorously aside as

the officers spoke to htm and Mrs. As

tor and her maid were ushered to

seats. Mrs. Henry B. Harris, parted

in like manner from her husband, saw

him last at the rail, beside Colonel As

tor.

Walter M. Clark of Los Angeles,

nephew of the Montana senator, Joined

the line of men as his young wife,,

sobbing, was placed in one of the

craft.

"Let him come. There Is room,"

cried Mrs. Emil Taussig, as the mem

of the White Star motioned to her

husband to leave her. It was with!

great difficulty that he released her

hold to permit her to bo led to her

place.

George D. Wtdener. who had been tri

Captain Smith's company a few mo

ments after the crash, wa® another

whose wife was parted from him and

lowered, a moment later to the surface

of the dilm sea.

SAW NOTHING OF DUTT OR

STEAD.

Of Major Archie Butt, a favorite

wit h his fellow tourists; of Charles M.

Hays, president of the Grand Trunk;

of Benjamin Guggenheim or of Will

iam T. Stead no one seems to know

whether they tarried too long in their

state rooms or whether they forebore

to approach the fast filling boats; none

of them was in the throng which,

weary hours afterward, reached the

Carpathia.

CHECK RUSH OF STEERAGE MEN.

As they reached the water, those in

the boats saw what those on the dec.ka

could not see—that the Titanic was

listing rapidly to starboard and that

her stern was rising at a portentous

angle. A rush of men steerage pas

sengers toward the boats was checked

by officers with revolvers In hand.

NO PROVISIONS IN BOAT.

Som e of the boats, crowded too full,

drifted for a time. None had provi

sions or water, there was lack of

clothing, and the only lights were the

Mill undimmed arcs and Incandescent»

of the settling ship.

STEWARD'S GREEN LIGHT KEPT

THEM TOGETHER.

On one of the boats a steward, who

explained to the passengers that he

had been shipwrecked twice before,

appeared carrying- three oranges and a

green light. That green light, many of

the survivors say, was to the ship

wrecked hundreds as the pillar of lire

by night. Long after the ship had dis

appeared, and while confusing false

lights danced about the boats, the

green lantern kept them together on

the course which led them to the Car

pathia.

PASSENGERS AND SAILORS LEAP

OVERBOARD.

As thp end of the Titanic became

manifestly but a matter of moments,

the oarsmen pulled their boats away

and the chilling waters began to echo

: splash after splash as passengers and

sailors in life preservers leaped over

board and started swimming away ti»

escape the expected suction.

Only the hardiest constitution could

endure for more than a few moments;

such a numbing bath. The first vigor

ous strokes gave way to heartbreaking

cries of "Help, help," and stiffened

forms were seen floating, relaxed in

deaih.

Revolver shots were heard in the

ship's last moments. The report spread

among the boats was that Captain

Smith had ended his Ilia with a bullet.

SAY CAPTAIN JUMPED AT LAST

MOMENT.

Then It was said that a mate had,

shot a steward who had tried to push

his way into a boat against orders.

None of these tales has been verified,

and many of the crew say the captain,

without a preserver leaped in at the

last and went down, refusing a cook's 1

offered aid.

Tho last of the boats, a collapsible,

was launched too late to get away and

was overturned by the ship sinking.

Some of those in it—all, say some wit

nesses—found safety on a raft or were

picked up by a lifeboat. In the Mar

coni tower, almost to the last, the clic!

of the sending Instrument was hear .

over the waters.

MUSIC OF ORCHESTRA GROWS

FAINTER.

As the screams In the water multi

piled, another sound was heard, strong

and clear at first, then fainter in thoi

distance. It was the melody of tho

hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee,"

played by the string orchestra In tht,

dining saloon. Some of those on the*

water started to sing the words bub

grew silent as they realised that for

tho men who played the music was a

sacrament soon to be consummated by

death. The strains of the hymn and

the frantic cries of the dying blended 1

in a symphony of sorrow.

TITANIC DISAPPEARS.

Led by the green light, tho boat*

drew away, and the bow, then thai

quarter, then the stacks and last the

stern of the marvel ship of a few days*

■before passed beneath the waters. The

great force of the ship sinking was

unaided by any violence of the ele-'

ments, and the suction, not so great

ns had been feared, rocked but mildly

the group of boats now a quarter oC

a mile distant from it.

WOMEN WEEP; MEN CHOKE

BACK TEARS.

Sixteen boats were In the procession

which entered on the terrible hours of

rowing, drifting and suspense. Women

wept for lost husbands and sons and

the men choked back tears and sought!

to comfort the widowed. They strove,

though nono too sure themselves, to

convince the women of the certainty

that a rescue ship would appear.

CARPATHIA'S SMOKESTACK AP

PEARS.

Early dawn brought no ship, but not

long after 5 o'clock the Carpathia, far

out of her path and making eighteen

knots Instead of he.r usual fifteen,

showed her single red and black smoke

"stack upon the horizon. In the Joy

of that sight griefs were forgotten for

the moment.

Soon afterward, Captain Rostron andl

Chief Steward Hughes were welcoming

chilled and bedraggled arrivals over

the Carpathia's side.

The silence of the Carpathia's en

g ines, the piercing cold, the clamor of

many voice« in the companion ways

had caused me to dress hurriedly and

awaken my wife at 6:40 A. M. Mon

day. Our steward, meeting me out

rtde, pointed to a wailing host in the

rear dining room and saiid, "Prom the

Tetanic. She's at the bottom of tho

x-ean."

WOMEN FALTER AS THEY ARE

HELPED ABOARD.

At the ship's side a moment later £

saw the last of the line of boats dis

charge their loads and saw women*

some with cheap shawls about their

heads, some with the costliest of fur

coats, ascending the ship's side. And

such joy as til»» lirst sight of our ship

iray have given them had disappeared

from their faces and there were tears

and signs of faltering as the w,vn

were helped up the ladders or hoisted

aboard in swings. For lack of room

to stow them, several of the Titanic's

boats were set adrift.

PART BRiDAL COUPLES

Only One of Ten Was Not Separated

Before Titanic Went

Down.

?pocial to the IMoneer Press.

New York. April 18.—There were ten

bridal couples aboard the Titanic, and

only one of them was not separated.

This fortunate young couple, in an in

terview given on the pier, said they

were the only ones who did not be

come separated, all of which, they

maintained, was due to tho fact that

there was no panic at first. The bride

groom, therefore, was allowed to enter

the boat with his bride. The lucky

couple got away from the pier shortly

after their experiences had been tolit

to the reporter by a man on the pier.

He eaid he believed they were Mr. ami

Mrs. George Harder.

"Tho groom," said tho reporter's in

formant. "related an incident to me of

a man less fortunate than himself.

This man, the groom told me, Just be

fore the panic set in was standing at

t"he gamrwav where the women were

being loaded into a boat and made a

move as though to enter the boat. An

officer approached and ordered the man

away. Not moving quickly enough to

satisfy the officer, tho latter walkecl to

the man and knocked him down. Thé

man. Instead of falling to the deck, fell

head first into the boat, and, though

stunned bv the fall, he soon revived!

and found himself still in the boat,

which by that time was being lowered.

The man was saved as a result.

His Creed a Selfish One.

The philosophy of the man in the

street is to get through life with a

minimum of self-sacrifice and a maxl

»um of self-indulgence.