tne ————
Terrific Explosions as the
New York-—-With
list of the Titanic
roster of her officers and crew
bottom of the sea, the ose
saved Is ¢ ly placed at 706 by W
W. Jeffries, ral passenger agent
of the White Star Line, although
latest revised
list of susvivor
the official pas
senger and the
at the
total of th
ficial
ger
counts for 7456 persons
“There are undoubtedly
cated
the
account
names i:
sSurviy
struck
was laid
ard and a
he forecastle
he sank gs!
ine.room
ally
stant
ere taken
i no seri
shed “to
ard the i
» unsinkable
distressing
t the
in
their
gtorioa
are |
f
experiences of the
lifeboats. These 31
suffering,
ve the harrowing details of how t
great hulk Titanic
two, the after part sinking
a series of explosions, fol
d by the the forward
hig awful spec
the groups of
they plainly
they had
from the
own but
hey
aw of the
break
first
lowe
part
tacle
sinking of
ghip. As t
witnessed by
in
of
behind
decks the
J. Bruce lsmay,
ternational
of the
was
Bury tl boats
fawn
tint
1
IVOrs 16
those whom
leaping
water
many
left
into
president of the In
Mercantile Marine, own
among the seventy-odd men saved, P
A. 8B. Franklin, vice-president of the
White Star Line, and
BLOW WAS EQUAL TO 30 GUNS,
Revenue Cutter Chief Compares Force
Of Contact.
Washington.—A graphic comparison
of the probable impact of the Titanle
against the iceberg that destroyed her
with the projectile force of the guns
on a modern battleship, was made by
Captain Charles A. McAllister, engl
neer-in-chief of the Revenue Cutter
Service. Captain McAllister sald:
“The Impact of the Titanic against
Big Liner Seitled Down.
Senator Willlam Alden Smith, chalr-
man of the Senate Investigating Com
mitt held a aboard the
Carpathia soon passengers
8g, conference
after the
+ ashore
rival
mile
mul
had
ia brought
the
vast
blocks
f the Carpath
{tude of
They
¥
overtfiowing for
people 1
filled
Q
docks the
and
tho
pier sheds
crowded nearby streets
™h 10} ’ all } ral 11
Through it all the rain fell
adding al aspect to
Say 2,340 Persons Were Aboard
and 745 Saved.
Approx
ertificate
for
ourteen + lifeboats, two small
four
pregervers
or
boats
ana
boat
Life
apparently
board
“The approxi
sengers carried
collaps ible
were accessible
n sufficient nu
on
mate number of pas
at the time of collision
First-class, 330; second-class, 320:
1,400, Officers
2.340
the
third.-claas
and
“Of the
ing
Carpathia
“First 210:
third-class, 200:
750: total,
Total,
foregoing about
by the
crew, 540
follow
steamship
were rescued
naa, secondclasa,
officers, 4;
firemen,
crew. The
was about 80 per cent
seamen,
v1; total,
total—778
of the
19 sites
rda, 96:
the
“We feel It our duty to call the at-
the lecberg was probably equivalent
to the simultaneous fire of thirty
twelveinch projectiles, or the concen
trated fire of three such dreadnoughts
as the Florida.
“The fire of ten twelvedinch guns
posed to be sufficient to put any bat
tieship afloat out of business, if the
projectiles should strike simultaneous
ly. The force of the Titanle striking
the jceberg must have been approxi
mately 1,000,000 foottons, equivalent
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COLLISION
“COLLISION:
2 BULK
4 HBAD
ACCORDING
TAINED HERE
TO
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it we con
: Be
¥ J iiie
far re
y
CRAZED BY TITANIC STORIES,
THE
OF THE
DAMAGE
END
SUS.
[HE GARPATHIA'S
His Eager Race on His Errand
of Mercy.
GOT NO MESSAGE FROM TAFT
ceived, All
He Says
Have Been
Goes Violently Insane
arrestee
He
nsane
CAPT. SMITH'S WIDOW.
| Her Pathetic Message To Mer Fellow
Sufferers.
London
the
writter
pe
it
he widow of Capt
of
Smith,
the Titanie,
commander
ide the
wmied ou White Star offices
reads as follows
To my poor fellowsufferera: My
heart overflows with grief for you all
| and laden gorrow that
are weighed with this terrible
| burden that has been thrust upon us
{ May God be with us and comfort us
|
all
fa with
down
"Yours in deep sympathy,
"ELEANOR SMITH.”
| thirty such projectiles, It is a won.
{ der, in the light of such a comparison,
{that she floated so long. It is incon
‘celvable that the ingenuity of man
can ever devise a floating structure to
| withstand such a terrible collision.”
PUT WIFE IN BOAT.
{ Then Mr, Astor Gave Military Salute
and Turned Back To Death.
New York.—Passing his wife to
hearted
real
men
ized that
human
next
what
a few
the
all now oe
mind was wholly set upon
of the
just
{saving the live who
the be
gen
& people
crowded ata
“The
| scarcely
ice floes were
the North. In
# shimmercd
life!
was calm. There
a ripple upon its face
down
distance
was
Great
from
several
like mirrors. Why
oats were not crushed by the
floes 1 call luck
The sixteen boats seemed at first near
i 1y all women
“I remember that it occurred to me
{that the good God had stretched out
! His mighty hand and had checked fur
ther murder by his elements,
“We got aboard the Carpathia every
human being in the sixteen lifeboats
ot the Titanle. Every officer and
crunching
the
ice
member of our crew stood by Like the
brave and loyal lads they are and did
is full duty
“We tock aboard 7085
children who were alive,
them unconscious
{to the
{ members
| had
boats and
women
but some
We also
decks of the
of the
been tolled off
0 fou
Carpathia
Titanic's
were stark
! heen fr
rozen t
+ A
itched
horny fingers still cl
that
ing bi
graves from the deck of the Carpathia
“1 am d
| President
they been Aesperately
1
We i
iried these men In sallor
tol that it
Taft
{ of the scout
Vednesda
f the
Jacob
Lv
xi
President
Frank
{
and Is
name
John Astor
ence Wore dore
aboard his vessel
“1
1
less
is possible the Carpa
§
operator acknowledges
fused to answer mes
the President of the
ter midnight, as
his post more
14 }
ut 16
Grapt
ry
ineane, Men and women
fought, bit and scratched to be in line
for Iteboats, 1 got a black eye
snd a cut chin in the fight Then Cap
ith some order
passengers were sent to fore
ind aft on the big
There
the
tain Bm seemed to get
ina
boat
frightfu
hiro gt 1 nen t
thro nou men J
pounding
raying,
the rail
wae a
Women
room,
rORTeRE,
apparel
women
were
in one
Captala
trying
tin
iil
Was 8
None Dreamed Of Danger
t
Henry W. Fraud
Jacob Astor held his wife for a
moment in his arms, kissed her ten.
derly, passed her into a lifeboat, stood
erect and, with a military salute, turn:
ed back to take his place on the sink
ing Titanic.
This was the story told by a sur
vivor.
“1 did not see it myself, but they
told me about it. It was fine,” sald
Charles William Daniel, formerly of
Richmond, Va, as he came ashore
“They said that Astor stood up as the
boats went away with a military
! salute as he returned to die. He had
{ kissed his wife as she entered the life.
boat.
Howard Case a Mero,
“The men behaved bravely. Major
Butt took charge of one section of the
ship In placing the women in the life
boats. Howard B. Case, of London,
and whose wife was a resident of Lu
thervilie, Md., was another hero. He
installed a system to get the women
off, and he saw that the system was
followed. I think he was the big hero
of the disakter.”
Valuable Mail Lost.
New York—Of the 3.423 bags of
mail In the hold of the Titanic, about
200 bags contained registered matter.
Postmaster Morgan sald that those
sacks contained; on an average, about
8,000 letters each. He estimated that
approximately 1,600,000 registered let
ters and packages had gone to the
bottom. Three of the five postal
clerks aboard the Titanic, Postmaster
Morgan sald, were in the employ of
the United States Postal service.