INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. ders that neither she or her maid for this overconfldence. The boats boat, and as she took her place Colonel should be permitted to talk about the were undermanned. My husband helped Astor requested permission of the Titanic, and this rule was strictly observed. to a row- lifeboat Captain Smith second officer to go with her for her Nevertheless, before'the order to stuck the bridge like a hero. The own protection. had been given, she had to!d Vincent of behavior the entire crew was perfect. 'No. sir,' replied th? officer, not a Astor some of her memories. She It was a most beautiful uight. man shall go on boat un.ii ihe wom­ a thought she recalled seeing Colonei The vessel was surrounded by icebergs. en are all off.' Astor then Colonel Astor by her side, just before she goi Some of the passengers were inquired the number die boat, which of into one of the boats. She imagined on the deck of the great liner, enjoying was being lowered and then away. he was safe, too, it oul\ and was the strange and beautiful scene, turned to the work of clearing the when she was on the Carpathia th.:t when the crash came." other boats and in reassuring the she realized he was not among the frightened and nervous women." Went Down, but Was Saved. rescued. Says Fishing Boats Were Near. Colonel Archibald Gracie, U. S. A., the Like most of the survivors. Mrs. Astor Mrs. D. W. Marvin, who was on a last man saved, went down with the was too stunned at first to recall honeymoon trip with her husband, vessel, but was picked up. Colonel Gracie any of the incidents of the sinking was prostrated when she reached the told a remarkable story of personal ship. Other passengers said that Mrs pier, as her husband was lost. She hardship and denied emphatically the Astor displayed remarkable courage said: reports that there had been any panic during the days on the Carpathia. "He grabbed me in his arms and on board. He praised in the highest walking about the decks and trying to knocked down men to get me in the terms the behavior of both the pas- cheer up other survivors whose sorrow boat. As I was put in the boat he seemed beyond relief. cried: 'It's all right, little girl! You Astor Made Light of Danger. go, and I'll stay a little while. I'll •*w* "Colonel Astor was walking the dock *s put on a life preserver and jump off at the time the Titani.t struck the ice S Jb'\ and follow you.' The boat started off, berg." said William David, assistant vt* and he threw a kiss at me. A saloon steward on board the Carpa NEVER "There were fishing boats about the thia. in riviting incidents which had sorrows of survivors and of the rela boat, and I think others must have peration to get into the lifeboats that in maritime history has been lohl t: iiim by'survivors. tives and friends of those who per been saved. Dan and I saw them before the Officers shot them and their bodies there bee a sadder scene approached by a franti v. :s ished. The Titanic was the last word we went to our room. The men than was witnessed Thursday fell into the ocean. They said also that v.as told, and urged to put r. 1 In shipbuilding. Every regulation prescribed whom I saw were brave, for they they saw John Jacob Astor and Major night when the Cunard The waiter had several •I !'. r. by the British board of trade pushed aside others when the cowards' Butt standing together on the Titanic's Bteamer Carpathia came to her dock at ••.-ii-s his hand. Colonel Astor had been strictly complied with. The made for the boats before the women." her pier in New York bearing the survivors deck and that they must have gone to •j !s:.-i way. master, officers and crew were the God's of the passengers and crew of death together. Mrs. isidor Straus refused "For Sake, Go!" I:e said, 'this is nothing! most experienced and skillful in the the lost Titanic. Of these there were to leave her husband, they said ueed of life belts." And Jacques Futrelle, the author, was one British service. I am informed that a but a pitiful 062 left, or less than onethird Many passengers agreed in the statement -.v. last seen of Colonei As- of the first cabin passengers who parted committee of the United States senate of those aboard the world's great that 668 were rescued and that with his wife and steadfastly refused est "unsinkable" floating palace. Many fo*ir died in the lifeboats and two died was appointed to investigate the cir .. Piayed "Nearer, My God, to Thee." a to accept a chance to enter of the survivors were ill, some of them cumstances of the accident. I heartily on board the Carpathia. One of the Dick, who was save:! lifeboat when he knew that the Titanic A A welcome the most complete and exhaustive dangerously so, others were in a state steerage passengers was buried at sea. wiih Luir husband, told the following was sinking under him. The of nervous collapse from the shock, Stories of all agreed that the Titanic inquiry, and any aid that I or story: story of how her husband went to his and still others were reported on the my associates, our builders or navigators, struck the Iceberg at 11:45 o'clock, that "The boats lay in the vicinity of the death was told thus by Mrs. Futrelle: verge of insanity. Among theiu were can render is at the service of she sank at 2:25 and that they were foundering vessel for about an hour "When the Titanic hit the iceberg newly made widows, while many, perhaps picked up by the Carpathia at 4:30. the public and the governments of the No one believed she could go down. there was the most appalling excitement," a majority, had beeu torn from United States and Great Britain. And Four Lifeboats Drawn Down. We had beeu assured to this effect by said Mrs. Futrelle, "and who, loved ones in the last black hour before under these circumstances 1 must respectfully William Jones, a Titanic stoker, who the captain. But as she began to set after they have passed through such the gigantic liner had gone down. defer making any statement manned one of the lifeboats, said he tie it was soon seen that she was an experience, could blame those poor at this hour." was 700 yards away when the vessel Mrs. Candee's Graphic Story. about to go to the bottom, and if we people for the panic that overwhelmed sank and that he saw four lifeboats Major Butt a Hero. stayed near we would be drawn down some of them Mrs. Churchill Candee of Washington filled with women drawn down. Two One survivor asserts he saw Major with her in the vortex. "I do not doubt that my husband is gave the following account of the Butt, aid to President Taft, play a women in his boat died of exposure. "The marine band on board did its disaster: dead, but even that knowledge cannot Margaret Hayes of New York city hero's part before he died. best to cheer up the waning hopes of make me suffer more. There could be "I retired to my cabin shortly after said: "When I was put into a lifeboat "An hour after the boat sank I hung the passengers. One or two airs were nothing worse than the mental anguish 11 and had barely entered it when 1 found a two-year-old baby girl on to a collapsible lifeboat for two struck up. It was a spectacle that no through wrhich I have passed since we there were two terrific shocks, one immedintely hours and a half. Then I was picked In my arms. I do not know who placed one will ever forget. were rescued. following the other. I was it there, nor who its mother is. I have up," said this man. "Suddenly the band stopped. The thrown to the floor and as soon as pos "Jacques is dead, but he died like a "The last thing I saw was a mai» been taking care of it ever since." leader moved his batou. In slow, solemn Bible rau out into the companionway hero: that I know. Three or four times Daniel T. Bailey, who lives at the they say was Major Butt standing on tones the air, 'Nearer, My God. to after the crash I rushed up to him and There 1 met some passengers and went Marlborough hotel in New York city, the forward deck that was already un Thee,' was wafted across the water to up to the main deck. As we were passing clasped him in my arms and begged said: "I was adrift alone on a raft for der water. our ears. through the saloon a passenger ran him to get into one of the lifeboats. six hours. I saw a woman in night "He was holding back men who were "The band played the hymn continuously through with a cake of ice and called 'For God's sake, go!' he fairly clothing near by, swam to her side fighting to get into boats that were until their instruments were out, 'Ice—ice from the iceberg!" There screamed at me, as he tried to push me putting off with women." and dragged her to the raft. She was choked off by the swirling water that was absolutely no excitement, and the away, and I could see how he suffered. unconscious and slipped off into the First Woman Off Titanic. closed about their heads as they went matter was not regarded seriously, although 'It's your last chance—go!' Then one water and was drowned." Mrs. Dickinson Bishop of Detroit. to a hero's grave." steam was escaping from one of the ship's officers forced me into a Mich., said: "I was the first woman in Mrs. Regina Steinert of New York Steerage Passenger's Experience. of the smokestacks, the others apparently lifeboat, and I gave up all hope that 1912, by American Press Association. city, who was a passenger on the Carpathia. the first boat. I was in the boat four being silent. A Swede named Osq^r Johansen was he could be saved." said that when the Carpathia hours before being picked up by the a steerage passenger on the Titanic. ''The night was clear and cold, and it CAPTAIN KOSTBOM OF THE CARPATHIA. Calls Captain Smith a Hero. Carpathia. I was in bed at the time reached the scene of the disaster sixteen He said he was awakened in his steerage Beemed incredible that anything serious sengers and crew and paid a high tribute "Captain Smith was the biggest hero lifeboats filled with survivors were the crash came and got up and dress had happened. However, the or bunk by a sort of grinding, tearing to the heroism of the women pus I ever saw. He stood on the bridge found floating in the sea of ice. All ed. I went back to bed upon being der soon came to go down and put ou thump at the moment the Titanic sengers. and shouted through a megaphone, trying were taken on board and passengers assured that there was no danger. On struck the iceberg. He ran for the deck, heavy wraps and life preservers and to make himself heard. The crew the deck, when I reached it, there "I jumped with the sea," said he vied with the crew in rendering aid. return to the deck. We learned then but when he reached the saloon he obeyed his orders as well as could be "just as I often have jumped with th "The survivors were lying in the bottom was little or no panic." that the entire bottom had dropped found the band playing some popular expected," said Robert W. Daniel of breakers at the seashore. By grea' of the boats, all alive, but the majority out of the ship and the fires of at Told Ship Could Not Sink. air. "The officers of the ship were assuring good fortune I managed to grasp th.' Philadelphia. of them unconscious," she said. N. C. Chambers said that the Titanic' the people that there least three of the boilers had dropped was no "Five minutes after the crash everybody brass railing on the deck above, and "Many were suffering terribly from struck the iceberg head on. The pas Into the ocean. The order soon came danger," .said Johansen. "They told seemed to have gone insane. Men hung on by might and main. When sengers ran out, but being assured by to take to the lifeboats. I was in one the exposure, and many were already me to go back to the steerage and tell and women fought, bit and scratched the ship plunged down I was forced of the first that was lowered. There frozen. That afternoon about twenty the officers that the ship could not the people who knew my tongue that to be in line for the lifeboats. Look to let go and I was swirled around of the survivors died, and four were sink went back to their staterooms the accident was nothing. I went back, was no disorder or coufusion, and all at my black eye and cut chin. I got and around for what seemed to be an After about two hours the alarm was of the women and children passengers given burial at sea immediately." for the band kept on playing and the these in the fight. interminable time. Eventually I came in the first, second and third cabin sent out and the passengers started people in the saloon were leaving also Statement by Is may. "Then Captain Smith seemed to get to the surface to find the sea a mass were treated alike. to enter the lifeboats. Mr. Chambers for their beds. An hour after the boat J. Bruce ismay, president of the International some order, and the passengers were of tangled wreckage. said that there was nothing like a sank. I hung onto one of the collaps "The order was immediately given Mercantile Marine corn- sent to the fore and aft of the boat." "Luckily I was unhurt, and casting to launch the boats, and both on the about managed to seize a wooden grat Men Gave Garments to Women. port and starboard sides the ordei's ing floating near by. When I had re Tsvere carried out in an admirable manner. Miss Gretchen Longley, daughter of covered my breath 1 discovered Only one collapsible boat was former Judge Longley of Hudson. N. larger canvas and cork life raft which •broken, but otherwise all the other Y., told this story of her experiences: had floated up. A man whose name lifeboats were safely launched. By "When we got to the deck we found I did not learn was struggling toward the time the last boat cleared the ship a number of people gathering and it from some wreckage to which be she had sunk to the level of the second heard the order to lower the boats had clung. I cast off and helped hin. fleck. Only two hours had elapsed. given. Before we left another iceberg to get on to the raft and we then be "She w:is settling fast at this timebow came along and scraped the sides, gan the work of rescuing those who down. At the last she was poised forcing ice through the portholes. had jumped into the sea and were for ab'iut thirty seconds with her stem "I think that there were people on. floundering in the water. clear of the water, then slipped gradually board the ship when she sunk who died into oblivion. There was no suction Y* Had to Deny Succor to Others. j*.* whatever when she went down, "When dawn broke there were thirty although there were horrible sounds of of us on the raft, standing knee dee explosions, cries, etc. Up to this time in the icy water and afraid to move the action of the men had been very 4mt lest the cranky craft be overturned w* courageous. Several unfortunates, benumbed an! Last Seen of Colonel Astor. half dead, besought us to save them, •'Colonel Astor was last seen stand and one or two made qn effort to reach Ing on the top deck All women and us, but we had to warn them away children were taken off except those Had we made any effort to save them who refused to leave. Mrs Isidor we all might have perished. Straus refused to leave her husband "The hours that elapsed before we and went down. were picked up by the Carpathia were "The scenes after the boat went the longest and most terrible that 1 down were terrific. The people in the ever spent." water struggled and fought. Many Colonel Gracie denied with emphasis were picked up by the boats, although that any men were fired upon and de the boat I was in did not pick up any. clared that only once was a revolver The captain was seen hanging to a discharged. raft for some minutes and then slipped "This was for the purpose of intimi off. dating some of the steerage passengers." "The next morning we found we he said, "who had tumbled into were in an ice field that they say was a boat before it was prepared for from fifty to a hundred miles in launching. This shot was fired in the length. The iceberg we ran into was air, and when the foreigners were clearly to be seen. It had two enormous told that the next would be directed peaks, and It Appeared to be verj at them they promptly returned to oe huge. The quartermaster, who was the deck. There was no confusion and the bridge at the time of the accident no panic." and who was at the helm of our life Contrary to the general expectation, boat, said they were making full speed, AbsAisUoo. there was no jarring impact when the Copyright, 1912, by American Press and, although the night was clear, they vessel struck, according to the army CARPATHIA AT HER DOCK LOWERING TITANIC'S LIFEBOATS. bad absolutely no Idea of any danger. officer. He was in his berth when the IFhe first they knew of the proximity vessel smashed Into the submerged of the Iceberg was when the crash pany, when lie left the Carpathia Went lble lifeboats for two hours and a half. panic at first, as all believed that there portion of the berg and was aroused came. They were under orders to to the office of the general agent on the Then I was picked Up." were plenty of lifeboats to go around by the jar. make 640 knots. Early the next morning pier. There he received the newspaper Mrs. Paul Shabert of Derby. Conn., "Before I retired," said Colonel Mr*. Astor Could Not Talk. representatives and. after a few preliminary we were taken up by the Carpathia." said that when the collision occurred Oracle, "I had a long chat with Charles Pale, trembling, and apparently ill. 1912, by American Press Association. remarks, gave out a typewritten she came out on deck and asked one M. Hays, president of the Grand Mrs. John Jacob Astor was one of the Saw No Evidence of Cowardioe. statement In which he said WTAHIO SUBVTVORS Ijsaving TH* CABPATHIA. of the stewards If there was any danger, Trunk railroad. One of the last things first survivors of the wreck to pass the that he was in last starboard collapsible and he said he was afraid there Mr. Hays said was this: 'The White "The crash came at 11:40," said one down the Carpathla's gangplank. She lifeboat when be left the ship. was. Shortly afterward one of the officers Star, the Cunard and the HamburgAmerican woman. "The lights of the Titanic Without knowing that she had struck stepped from the Carpathia wearing a He stated that he did not know what mw shouted. "Ladles first to the lines are devoting their attention wont out at 2:20 o'clock. I no evi­ and who did not realize anything was long black astrakhan coat, a small speed the Titanic was'going at when boats!" and Ingenuity In Vlelng one dences of cowardice." Wtong until the water rushed into their toque covered by a blue chiffon veil, she struck the Iceberg, but the collision Mrs. Henry Stengel of Newark, N. J.', with the other to attain the supremacy "Women and children, frightened by staterooms. and at her throat reposed a large diamond was one of a glancing blow, and on In luxurious ships and In making speed the prospect of being set adrift upon •aid that she witnessed terrible scenes, "The men behaved splendidly. We and pearl sunburst. Monday morning, between 10 and 11 records. The time will soon come the dark and ice strewn ocean, refused Chinese stokers hid in the bottom of were undressed In the bitter cold. The Mrs. Astor was completely broken o'clock, he claims to have sent a wireless irtien this will be checked by some appalling the lifeboats before they were launched men In the lifeboat gave us their garments to enter the lifeboats," said another of down by the harrowing experience she message. In his statement Mr. Ismay Men jumped, into boatloads of disaster.' Poor fellow, a few the'.rescued passengers. "Some of the to protect us." had passed through, and the loss oif said: hours later he was dead. women, injuring them. There were no boats were launched with only fifteen "My Husband Was a Brave Man." her husband, and when asked to say "In the presence and under the shadow lights and no provisions. The collision "The conduct of Colonel John Jacob or twenty on board them, although they B. Mrs. Henry Harris was hysterical something cried in heartbroken tones: of a catastrophe so overwhelming, was terrific, but nobody appeared Astor was deserving of the highest could have held seventy-five." met when she came on shore. She was "I can't! I can't! I am unspeakably my feelings are too deep for expression to realize how serious matters were praise," Colonel Grade declared. "Colonel fcgr a party of friends. She fell into the Passengers 8hot by Officers. 111!" ... .. in words. I can only say that the There appeared to be overconfldence. Astor," he said, "devoted all his "My arms of her brother-in-law, crying, Dodge of Mr. and Mrs. Washington White Star line, its officers and employees. •a it was thought that the Titanic was Mrs. Aster's mental suffering was energies to saving his young bride. 3od! Poor Harry! He wanted to gel at some San Francisco declared that will do everything humanly unsinkable. "I am sure that more terrible, though physically she was not He helped us In our efforts to get her back. ifito the llfeboats,.jbut he stepped with such des­ the passengers fought possible to alleviate the sufferings and orach harmed. Physicians gave or* might have been saved had it not been Into the boat I lifted her Into the was a brave man." He