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THE CAROLINA TN^ON FARMER
Page Eleven
Survivors of Titanic
Arrive in New York,
New York, April 18.—How the
White Star liner Titanic, the largest
ship afloat, sank off the Grand Banks
of New Poundland on Monday morn
ing last, carrying to their death 1,-
601 of the 2,340 persons aboard, was
told to the world in all its awful de
tails for the first time to-night with
the arrival in New York of the Cun-
nrd liner Carpathia, bearing the ex
hausted survivors of the catastrophe.
Of the great facts that stand out
from the chaotic account of the trag
edy, these are the mose salient:
The death list has been increased
rather than decreased. Six persons
died after being rescued.
The list of prominent persons lost
stands as previously reported.
Practically every woman and child,
^ith the exception of those women
^ho refused to leave their husbands,
""^ere saved. Among those lost was
^Irs. Isadore Straus,
The survivors on the life-boats saw
the lights on the stricken vessel glim
^er to the last, heard her band play
ing and saw the doomed hundreds on
her deck and heard their groans and
cries when the vessel sank.
Scenes at the Pier.
New York, April 18.—In a driz
zling rain, two hundred and fifty po
licemen gathered early to-night at the
Punard line piers at West Fourteenth
Street and North River, preparatory
to handling the crowds. Inspector
^cClusky was in charge of the
®Quad, and ropes, dotted with green
ights, were stretched for seventy-five
Js^rds in front of the piers to hold
®^ck the throngs. No one without a
special permit was allowed beyond
hese ropes. As early as 8 o’clock
^htomobiles, in which veiled women
silent men were seated, began ar-
'’ing and by 8:30 a small crowd had
ready entered the great steel and
^Chcrete structure which covers the
Piers.
be
■A small hotel across the way had
en converted into headquarters for
c newspapers and press agsocia-
Pns and a meeting place for those
Po had been bereaved or had rela-
aboard the Carpathia. Although
^ ®re was no rule for silence, every
talked in whispers. In this as-
^ Piblage there were those who hoped
Pinst hope that some dear one was
although the list of survivors
P failed to show their names.
Committee from the New York
■cck Exchange, headed by E. H.
St
Tjj — —
sh president, came to the pier
before the Carpathia arrived,
$20,000 in cash to be dis-
Q, Pted among those most in need
Assistance,
cha nioney was raised on the Ex-
by popular subscription and
Sur Pi®^ ip PP oblong box.
Of Henry assigned to the use
^cps^ ®®P^niittee the little Customs
on the pier.
R®d Cross nurses and a
Pier ^ physicians arrived upon the
PP(i two ambulances from St.
cpt’s Hospital stood outside.
^®nnsylvania Railroad Com-
p special train waiting at
^0(1 ^®fPtion at Thirty-Fourth Street
®Urvj PPPiber of taxicabs to convey
Phi^ desiring to go to Philadel-
At ° i^heir friends.
niinutes past nine there
^Cat Agonized wailing while the
being slowly warped into
^.P^erth.
fbe ship docked at 9:30 the
^^0 ^Ph was quickly lowered and
ctors and nurses went aboard.
How the Big Ship Sank.
New York, April 18.—How the Ti-
tantic sank is told by Charles F.
Hurd, a staff correspondent of The
Evening World, who was a passen
ger on the Carpathia, and who to
night furnished that newspaper with
his account.
He gives the number of lives lost
as 1,700. He praises highly the
courage of the crew, hundreds of
whom gave their lives with a heroism
which equalled, but could not exceed,
the account says, that of John Jacob
Astor, Henry B. Harris, Jacques Fu-
trelle. Major Butt, and others in the
long list of first cabin passengers.
It was the explosion of the boilers,
according to Mr. Hurd’s account,
which finally finished the Titanic’s
career. The bulkhead system, though
probably working, prevailed only to
delay the ship’s sinking. The posi
tion of the ship’s wound, on the star
board quarter, admitted icy water,
according to Hurd’s story, whi«ik
caused the boilers to explode and
these explosions browe the ship in
two.
Played “Nearer, My God,’’ to Thee.
The ship’s string band gathered in
the saloon near the end, th enarrative
says, and played “Nearer, My God, tc
Thee.” The account continues:
“The crash against the iceberg
which had been sighted at only a
quarter mile distance, came almost
simultaneously with the click of the
levers operated from the bridge
which stopped the engines and closed
the water-tight doors. Captain Smith
was on the bridge a moment later,
summoned all on board to put on
life preservers and ordered the life
boats lowered.
“The first boats had more male
passengers as the men were the first
to reach the deck. When the rush
of frightened men and women and
crying children to the decks began,
the ‘women first’ rule was rigidly
enforced.
“Officers drew revolvers, but in
most cases there was no use for .them.
Revolver shots heard shrotly before
the Titanic went down caused many
ropes adjusted to their waists. The
little children and babies were hoist
ed to the deck in bags. Some of the
boats were crowded, a few were not
half full. This I could not under
stand. Some people were in full even
ing dress, others were in their night
clothes and were wrapped in blank-
etc. Those, with immigrants in all
sorts of shapes, were hurried Into the
saloon on the Carpathia, indiscrimi
nately, for breakfast. They had been
in the open boats four and five hours
in the most biting air I ever experi
enced. There were husbands with
out wives, wives w’ithout husbands,
parents without childhen and chil
dren with parents. No sobs—scarcely
a word spoken. They seemed to be
stunned.
“Imediately after breakfast divine
service was held in the saloon. One
woman died in the life-boat, three
others died soon after reaching our
deck—their bodies were buried in the
sea at 5 o’clock that afternoon. None
of the rescued had any clothing, ex
cept what they had on, and a relief
committee was formed and our pas
sengers contributed enough for their
immediate needs. I was told by sur-
vors that when the Titantic’s life
boats pushed away from the steamer,
she was brilliantly lifted, the band
was playing and the captain was
standing on the bridge giving direc
tions. The bow was well submerged,
(Continued on page 15.)
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