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Iff i VOL. XXXII MOUtfl AIRY, JV0RTI1 CAROLINA, THURSDAY. APRIL 25, 1912 JYO. 42 Ship's Band Plays God to Thee" Nearer My as Titanic Sinks Survivors Aboard the Rescue Ship Carpathia tell How they Stood by in Life Boats and Heard the Music Mingled with Groans of the Hun dreds Awaiting Awful Death on the Decks of the IU-Fated Liner Death list reaches 1,601 after reaching our deck bodies were hurried in the 5 o'clock that afternoon. None of the rescued had anv clothing, Astor, Hutt; (.uggenhein', Straus Among Prominent t managed to grasp the brass rail ing on the deck above, and I hung on by might and main. When the ship plunged down I was forced to let go and I was swirled around and around for what seemed to be an inter minable time. Eventually I came to the surface, to find the sea a mass of tangled wreckage. "Luckily I was unhurt and c-asting about managed to seize a wooden grating floating near- -their by. When I had recovered my sen at breath I discovered a larger can vass and cork life raft which had floated up. A man, whose name I did nt loarn, was strug- Orders from General Offices, was Tearing Through the Ice Fields at Tremendous Speed Pascners Say there were not Sufficient life-boats. New York, April 18. How the lifeboats lowered. White Star liner Titanic, the "The first boats had more male 1 largest ship afloat, sank off the passengers as the men were the (irand Hanks of New Foundland ' first to reach the deck. When juccKs negan, me women i I rule was rigidly forced. hut - - . the first time tonight with the ( in most cases there was no us,' arrival in New York of the C'uu-1 for them. Kevolvcr sh..ts heard urA I'm..!- (an.ntlu!. h.-urinu. , slrtlv before except what thev had on. and a was formed and!gling toward it fiom some wreck contributed e- are to which he had clung. I ALLENS ABRIVE IN HUfi VILLE. Group of Mounted Detective. Armed With Gum Escort the Prowiers. At Break of Dawn. relief committee Onoa tvfin Vi nt limvn with sri in. 1 if v rur ITiuirr our iasicMrcrs ' iioiiL'ii lor their liiiiiiet i ire necis ' cast oil am ncineu in in 10 trei 1 was told by survivors that when onto the raft and we then began the Titanic 's life-boats pushed the work of rescuing those vlr awav from tin- steamer, she was had jumped into the sea and. brilliantly lighted, the band was were floundering in the water. playing and the captain was standing on the bridge Lrivin" dir ections. The bow was well sub-j "When dawn broke there were j their steadv the keel rose high thirty ot us on the ratt, standing Snddenlv the I knee deet in the icv water and on Monday monLnrg last, carrv- ,He run frightened men and boat seemed to break in two. afraid to move lest the creaky , . i , ,f t' 1 women and crying children to the The next moment, everything ! craft be overturned. Several un , , , decks began, -the women first .disappeared. 1 lie survivors were foortiuiates, benumbed persons awaru, was torn xo vue ule was rigkv f,,,.. S() ,.laS(1 t t)l(l t.i :.. ..11 : t.. .1. t....: . ..... ' . ...... onu hi ul aiui unu iui 'ot'ticers drew revo vers, hut , thai they learei would b drawn into There were preparations for a the Titanic, went i brilliant party to be given on Th,.t a,.rvivnw nf tW ojitiia-1 ,,owl1 caused many rumors, one ! oaru te next evening ,.,v. w v..v ... ,ti,,;f I,,,..,,-, V.l i I huh ainiii iiuiiii iwm siiu iiou- merged, and above the water. First JMurdock had ended his lif trojhe. Of the great facU that staikl out from tbe chaotic ac count of tbe tragedy, these are , members of the the moit silent : The death list has - Aeen in- uitiecr e, but crew discmut this rumor. "Caitaiu Kmith was last seen ou tlie bridge, just before On our wav back to New York we steiuned along the edge of a field of ice which seemed limitless, As far as the eye could see to the north there was no blue vat?r. At one time I counted thirteen icebergs," . . u me uruitre. iusl oeiore int deriks had been washed awav. 1 w WHiat became of the mea with life preservers was a question askc by many since the disaster. Sii persona died after beixijf res cued. The lint of prominent jversons lost; staiuli aa previol- report- 0,1. rraetiejilly every woman aiul child, uith the exception of those women who refused to leave their de.s"piti husbands, were saved. Tho survivors ou the life-boat haw the lights on the stricken her land playing and saw the doomed hundreds on her deck and heard their groans and cries when the vessel sank. How The Titanic Sank. How the Titanic sank is told by CWles F. Hurd, a staff c i rejtpondent of the Evening World, Dead Bodies Floated. 'Many of these, with life pre servers, were seen to tro down. the preservers, and dead bodies floated on the surface, as the life-boats moved away from the sinking Titanic. "Mrs. Lsidor Straus refused to leave her husband's tide, and both perished together. Survivor's Flight. A passenger on the Carpathia, which rescued the Titanic s sur vivors, made the following state ment : "I was Awakened at about half-past, twelve :it iiicrl,t 1... who was a passenger on the Oar-j commotion on the decks, which patliia, and who tonight furniiJied seemed unusual, but there wuh m that newspaper with his account, j excitement. As the boat was He gives the number, of lives ; moving, 1 jwiid little attention to lost as l,7lH). He nraises Inihlv it. ami u-..nt t,i el. i. , , - j' iuui. aiMiin the courage of the crew, hundreds -i o'clock again I wakened I of whom gave their lives with n noticed that the boat had stoi heroism whicl: c(ualled, but could lcd. I went to the deck. The not exceed, the account s-'hk Carojithin J,mw.u.i . Life-boats were sighted and be gan to arrive and soon, one by one, they drew up to our side. "There were 16 in all and the transferring of the passengers was most pititul. The adult ami half sinking steamer ! dead, besought us to save them the lifeboats ! and one or two made an effort to the vortex. I reach us but we had to warn them away'. Had we made any effort to save them we aTT miglit have perished. "The hours that elapsed before we were picked up by tbe Car pathia were the longest and most terrible that I ever spent. Prac tically without any sensation of feeling, because of the icy water, we were almost dropping from around to look to see whether we were seen by passincr craft officer to go with her for her own protection. " 'No, sir,' replied the officer, 'Not a man shall go on a boat until th; women are all off.' Col onel Astor then inquired the num ber of the boat which was beinjr lowered away, and turned to the Hills' ille. Va., AprM 22. r; work of clearing the other boats kinsmen, members of the Allen and in reaurin the frightened ,.j.in whUh ror yfan u,rror. and nervous women. . ., , . , , . , , . , lZ('d the country side were Jiy this time the thip began , ... . . w , to list frightfullv to port This bought here tonight from Iloa- becaHie so dangerous that the ""kp' "nt . for !,,on' l.,ian a second officer ordered every one !",.,lt 1 h-v 'v- been pr.s. nen,, to rash to starboard. This we df ",Uvt"1 fo,r, the hv In and we found the crew trving to ( 'V 1 " get a boat off in that quarter. h,'re A string of mud cover, d Here I saw the last of .John It. "n"y- K"rrt by a group Thayer, second vice president of of h'''" r'"il rifbij the Fennslvania Kailroad, ami I, arrived at nightfall (Jeorge P, Widener, a capitalist cf'aftor 1,,".,1n,,c l,lnve fr,,,n. fh" Fhiladelphia." n-'arest railroad station, g.v.ng ... . ,, . ... , llillsville a thrill cf excitement Colonel Grueie said that, desj-it . tomorrow FloV(1 AU,lK aIul hij the warnings of icebergs, no two 8lns (.,amJi; amj Vi(.t( aml slowing down of speed was or- his IU,)lu.WS( sidna Edwards, dered by the commander ot the yM A1(.n ani, M;(i( n u; litamc. 1 lure were other 'warn-,,,,, fonnalv arraigned and per mgs too, he saul. 'Im the JI j ha t,M.ir' tri:,js h,m m tl, Hours run, ending the 11th, he s;uu bllll(..t,seam d court,, n, said, the ships r,u. was o IC ! w,,(ip ()n Mar,h , a ) ail ( f nuhs, and we were to.d that the ; : fs lls.s:lssill.lt,a tllo offi,ors uf next 21 hour would see even a tll( (.am(U (.,njntv (u.t better record posted. ;o dimm-j ToIllorrow )l0Wi,r a,.tijli: sh-r-' " " 0f !iI,t;t' was "Hinted m ifC YAw!irtU u.iU Sl,in.l al . running. n.-n . th , f- . t- -4j ,, .,.... Sund ay evening came we all ntic , C;lrroll (.outlty ullrt wiU ed the increased cold which gave; bOSsiou wiUl(-lt Ulvl(t ()- plan, warning that the ship was , Ut, hu f,.om hi k. in eW proximity to icebergs or eU or trous,.r ,(dts ice fields. The officers 1 am Kxce for the Haldwin Felts credibly informed, had been al-j (1et,.rtivi,Sf (lt.tail(.( ,)V (!ovPrnor viseil lA' wireless lrom otiier ships j r ... ' ., ... ... ' lAmiii iti viiiLni iin iiimm i'r (ill of the presence of icebcrtrs and dangerous floes in that vicinity. I he sea was as smooth as glavs, one will be permitted in the court room with arms on Ins person. interest centered tonight on ,, ., , . imeresi ceiuereu tonigni or ana i weather clear, so that it tho lroiiabl proceedings of th seems that t.. -e was no occasion Morrow, especially, a to wheth for fear. er a change of venue will be No Indication of ,?nic I granted. Neither the defense iM'v. iL , j. .,a L consisting of live attorneys, n N her. the vessel stA1. tytn ' ; , continued, "the passenger; . it. i ,) hp ui i iniiuieipiua, one j j........ vut of the survivors, jiun.ed into theiam WM(ln some one was facing sea just tbree minutes before the astt'rn Ikass'l tm wont that some- that f .lohn Jacob Astor TI,.nrv Harris, .lasques Futrelle and otners in the long list of first cabin passengers. It was the explosion of the boilers, according to Mr. Htird's aec-oiuit, which finally finished were assisted in climl.i,,,, i, r. the Titanic s career. The bulk- j ladders by rop adjusted to their hem system, though proUbly waists. The little children and working prevailed only to delay babies were hoisted to the deck the slup g smkuig. The posi-1 in bags. Some of the boats were t on of the shl h un 1ie er(nvae1) u fe,.wt.re not j jj. slarboani quarter, adnntted icy half full.. ThV I could not un wa er, aeeordmg to 1 hml's story, dersUu.d. Some people were in nil r;;'1 ,ril-rh V 1. drew oUie were in lode and these explosions broke their nht clothes and were the ship in two. j -,.,,,! ; i.illv.lfu ti,,... ; immigrants in all sort of shapes , "in- Miniini into i ne saloon on l)e Miips striup )iSm, gather-; the Carpathia, indiscriminately "i in the salo.ui near the end, l'r breakfast. Thev had been the narrative says, and plaved 1 in the open boats four and five Nearer My Ood to Thee." The hours in the most biting air I nn- .uiii continues: , "The crash against the iceberg which had been sighted at only quarter mile distance, came "al most simultaneously with the Hick of the l. yers operated from the bridge which stomd the ,n gmes ana dosed the water tight seemed to be stunned. aoors. laptain .Smith wa on; "Immediately after breakfast, tlie br.dge a moment late r, mm-' Divine s. rvi.-.. ua I,. .1.1 ;.. o,.. .. . I '"114 411 llll,- monea all on board to put on life preservers and ordered the 1. IV 1 ooat sans, lie tola a graphic stoiy as he came form the Car pathia. "I was eating when the Ti tanic struck the iceberg." he said. 'There was an awful shock that made the boat trembb Ktem to stern. 1 did not realize for some time what had hapjM-n- ii. .o one seemed 10 Know the extent of the a told that an u'ehenr iSU ),.,, n KtrucJi by the shi. Ifelt the boat I rise and it seemed to me that she I was riding over tlie ice. I ran! out on deck and then I could see' ice. It was a veritable sea of ice I and the boat was rocking overi t I should say that jvirts of the iceberg were M) feet high, but it i Iwid been broken into sections! probably by our ship. j "I jumped into the ocean audi was picked un lv mi,. .1.,. '. loats. I never exnected to i land airain 1 -,io.l 1 .i ; smashed the boat imtil the lights w.mt ...it I l"'-tion It seemed to me that the discip line on board was wonderful." thing that looked like a steamer was coming1 up one of the men U'eaine hysterical under the strain. The rest of us, too, were bearing the breaking point." Col. Oraeie denied with em- 1 . 1 ... from I IIiasls tiuit any men tired upon land declared mat onh- once was a revolver discharged. ' "This Was for the nmn-insn nf 1 iiii-ii 111 nnow me . . . 1 i-cident We were 1Mt imKlatanr some steerage pas- "H1 ' " nnio, nnu llitli ill Ill bled into aboat before it was prepared for launching. This sho was fired in the air, and when the foreigners were told the next would be directed at them they promptly returned to the deck. There was no confusion and no panic." Contrary to the general ex-M-ctation, there was no jarring iniwiet when the vessel struck, according to the army officer. He was in Ins berth when the vessel nor 'our specially appointed would admit ehane. ..... . . r t so m e alarmed that they jiu'at th;r -dwlrH a e ver. irufci'.vr. - mo , , v n r n -n'n r n 1 r, n .....J a. .1 1 1 - : ! 1 (iiitmif fni ...a iipjoHitiAn were on aeK eariy naa taKen , . , their time to derss properlv and I tItelar.pa Prt'SOIls friendly to or there was not the slightest' indi-1 Jerrned by the Aliens might cation of nanic. Some rvf th.. ; lulnf? tho Jur.v- The defense, for fraejmcnU of ice had fallen on , th; '"t part, expressed them the deoJc ami these were nieL-,..! 8oIv satisfied that a fair up and jwissed around by some of the facetious ones, who offered 1 upueia by Holding tlie trials Here and indications tonight are that trial could be obtained here 1 Many residents are anxious ; that the dignity of the law be ion. On the ikuI side a fiance M - r over the side failed to show any evidence of damage and the ves sel seemed to be on an even keel. James Clinch Smith and I, however, soon found the vessel was listing" heavily. A few min utes later the officers ordered men and women to don life ore- serve rs." One of the last women s.-en by Colonel (Jracie, he said, was Miss Fi vans of New York, who virtually refused to be rescued, 1 . . pecause, according to the army officer, "she had been told by a fortune teller in London that "she wi.uld meet her death on the wa-j ter. A youiu English woman, who Saved at Last Moment. Band Playing. ' Colonel Archibald Oracie, U. S. A., the last man saved, went down with the vessel but was Picked up. Colonel (Jnieie told a remarkable story of personal hardship and denied emphatically the reports that there had been any panic on board. He praised in the highest terms the behavior Or l)0th file TVI.aenrr;,o .,...1 .. r,.,vswi) mm crew i'd paid a high tribute to the neroism of the women passen gers. ( "Mrs. Isidor Straus," he said, "went to her death because slip j would not (iesfrt her husband, j Although he pl-aded with her to ! take !i. r place in the, boat she s'eidiasly refuted, and when the ... i i 01 inc Pcrir ami was arous.d by the jar. He looked at his watch, he said, and found it was just midnight. The ship sank with him at 2:22 a. m., for his watch stopped at that hour. "Hcfore I retired," said Col- j with Charles H. Hays, president i n'y I'i ui ine iirana inink liailroad. bie of the last things Mr. Hays aiu was this: 'Tlie White Star, the Cunard and the Ilambnrg Amerieiia lines arc d?voting their attention and ingenuity in vieing ui. iiii-iu iu uiHuiu suj)remcav in i this view will prevail. A first venire of 24 was drawn today, not one of whom lives three miles of here. i Counsel for the defense outlined their plans informally. It will be argued that Floyd Allen shot only j after he had been fired upon by j court officers and that his son, . Claude, and nephew, Friel Allen, 1 fired in the excitement of the I moment, but did not kill anyone. .Sidna Kdwanls, I'.ird Marion and I Victor Allen will deny having 'done any shooting. It was in timated bv the defense that cul- nabilitv for all five murders .would 1e shifted to Sidna Allen and his nephew, Wesley Kdwanls, ;the only two members of the i . . . II I i :m 4 i i ner experience in one of the col-Mim u tliUl Ml" 111 ii,rKe. lajsible lxKits which had been The prisoners were placed in I manned by eight of the crew I ,ne small brick jail near the court - from the Titanic. The boat was 'l0lls0' &"ard'd by a squad of in commnad of the fifth nfYieer t detectives. 11. 1owe, whose actions she de ' SC smashed into the Kiilmierire! i rcquesteil that her name be omiitea, told a thrilling story of ribed as savinir the live of le. Uefore the life-boat was launched, he iWLHsed alonir the ort deck of the steamer, commanding the jHrople mt to jumj) in the !ats and otherwise restraining' them from swamping the craft. When the collapsible . i . i i was uunened, oiliecr liowe sue The cavalade of horsemen and carriages drew the attention of the entire mountainside, but no untoward accident occurred. Floyd Allen who was wounded during his pistol duel with Clerk Dexter Goad, the only court of ficer not killed, had to be carried into the jail from a buggy. His right knee was held rigid in a cast. Tears clistcned in his evee l'IXlirioi.4: i-lio ,.,,.1 ;.. 1.:.. -i e..le.l speed records. The time will sooi a- small sail. He collected tlu aa recopnizoa a mtmbor fo nc- i-oiiie wuen inis will be cnecked : "uu'r ooau together; in some ! i;'"' ny some appaning disaster. I'oor i rases the boats were short of ad- .. e i i . , I.. i. ii i- . . " jew nours later, he was i ejuiue crews and ne uireeiea an dead. Coiduct of Colonel Astor. "The were ever experienced. Then husbands witohut wives, w i es ! swept her. ' uves without husbands, parents without children and children without parents, lint there was Ui) demonstration. .o subs -seaietlv a Word sookiii Thev - eXCtUDWe III- whlell h miv ........ ...v.. line; i . . . f ucifuatt'.y iaiKuuiI. lit! threw! lit,. . ,,.inn,.t!.,.. 1. 1 ...1 . a i : a in i i wiiiii-r.i uiir i ii n iv t ( Olllli IW)( 1. ' f . 1... , 4l. 4 1 . ... ship si-tiled it the head the two' Ti I t ' g mer iwo oy two, ana all thus ,w ofu.n wee ,, f, , ' S!;1 ,,Asl"r MtS 'S:ni!1' t1":!"1 together. Later on he Weakness. r - .... ..... iiiiil 11.1:1 n i.r:i .r i iii nri.. i .. ...t..i 1......4 1.....1. 4,. 41 - 1. . -.1 txt.i.. 1. . M.. 11, 1 ,1 1 hi imia to me wrccK wmi Liiei',,,v 'Millie. Ill' III inti.nrn It wa the first in dication of emotion, as the cheer ful composure of none of the I group had hitherto been broken. The Danger After Grip in a run dow n system, nervousness, lack of nn energy ami ambition. irb m .1 i A i mirAr. ..I Ii4t Ll.ln.i a l ,xw , ' milium, un- icw crew 01 one ot tne boats n ml sue-, ..v. ..... i...i-u colonel (iracie told of how he : V oi'ker.'' he "il..v,.f ...1 !i .......1 .1 :.. ..:).: ' ,n Attack of this wretched , H ,l" S,,11, h,, tU fll,d was the l.nde. and Mis Fore- of NVwr and were swimming about. Onlooj j.ur.fur an.I r.-irula.or ot kun- s.le Minivor alter the wave that; Wk, who was in delieatJ his way back to the (aroathia he llVtr 211,1 Tto-winds swept her just before her final , health. CoUm,. Astor heljed us passed one of the c ollopsible , TU"l plunge luul passed. : n our effort t . .1 1 . 11 iluojis.wil M rem.'tt,en the m-rvf. buihl up the "I iumi.ed with tbe -1, ?ti,hlT 1,1 Uu; haU Whlch was 0,1 t,h I"t 'fy-uiu ana restore to health aoJ 1 jumpi a wnn the wave. , ooat. said ( .me llr.wie "i t ...:.v. 0,:.. ; . . .. . . , ..11 ,, . 1 1 .. . . . v r.iiimiiK nuu iiuriy 1 kiss eu it e rs 1 'I'mu m r hh ku,k nc nuui ., HIM OS 1 Olleli luive , llltea her lito t he ho.it n,u i. Kh at,,..-. I t :.. ',..' .1 M,"Je &..u ill tain fcakH.n. ()... w....,n., -i;...i :.. 11.4, ;. i -. -.i 41 . . ...!!.. . ,ULU4 us sue aooarii, most i lif. 1 ,t .1.. . . . jm uu. un- unaKers at me toot n( r place Ia one Astor re-'ncht clotliinc Thev were r.. hte-boat. tluce othera died soon seashore, lly great good fortune (quests plrmissiun of the second ( out!i juit inSe 0?." Cri.i If guff, rinj. try them. Onli I f-0 cer.tii. Sld and rfeet Batlhfac I tion (fuarntted by K. II. Ileiini I Drutf Co. 1