Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 19, 1912, Page 1

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAR PAGk THREB ELAND, FLA., APRIL 19, 1912, e — HE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM Published in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. oL 1 I.AKELAND FLORIDA, IR IDAY, APRIL 19, 1912. fILE BAND PLAYED ND DOOMED SANG, SHIP WENT DOWN aphic Account of the Greatest Maritime Disaster of Modern Times \SSENGERS AND CREW DIED AS HEROES SHOULD (3ER SHADOWS OF MIGHTY TRAGEDY ILLUMINED BY STORIES | oF BRAVERY, SELF-SACR:FICE AND DEVOTION TO LOVE AND DUTY. . April 19.—The Titanic the berg ny of the 745 survivors’ {otails the loss of 1,589 per- .4 off the New Foundland Monday morning, and wnt deaths of persons! een rescued, making the v of lives lost 1,545, || figures magnify great- - which had come by wire- ke certain that the di sreatest ocean travel has the ship, “All pu with life belts on. Capt. Smith took charge of situation in a manner which the pas- sengers praise and was calm and res- olute to the last Boats were and children Many, refused to their Joved ones, As fast as the boats filled with women lowered and rowed away, ieft sengers on lowered and placed women were however, were they with thos: behind cheering on the deck of the giant steamer “Nearer, My God. to Thee.” Those in the boats heard the band | Playing “Neaver My lly any hope that a ) 't lives floating on or clinging to a life pre- picked up by a fishing ves- God to Thee, vorld-wide prominence are victims, Died With Husbands. Iy the only women those who chose to die’ hands' arms, ‘ Isang, Suddenly, and with @ mighty the ship, alveady half buckled and broke in two, roar, not | submerged, rn hoisted in air, she sank a1l the survivors saw the With the last hope p 2o down with the band [Toved ones in, many of the wer My God to Thee,” fen i the lifehoats seemed of those whom the sea ent whether ng as the vessel went[Two thousand miles from shore, ‘o thousand fathoms of |did not Ispeeding to them, [ st ol seving indifte:r they were saved or no they know the Carpathia was| and their sixteen into a forlorn entered Loats formed fipped Ship Open. 1 struck an e, which ripped her made the watertight | nseless, and, while the which upon terrible iceber. 5y ars of suspense Carpathia Arrival. AL dawn a steamer was sed nocom king, the icy wate lers, which caused hich sent her to th "lio Went Down. dreds on deck wer Taft; Jacques Futrell re Strat who A NO MONEY REDRLSS ave himg Henry B B. Widener, and weil For Loss of Life in Sca Disasters, Says G rs almost as Major Butt a Hero. i< reported as one of | Vith an iron bar he is st0od before the steer-| r« and defended the| April 19 -Relatives o passengers who lost their lives in the wreck of the be unable to collect a single dollar in ildren from the mad-|damag according to Charles W uts Greenfield, of Kremer & Greenfield admiralty attorne If the White precedent, it will settle without legal dispute for the loss of property, but, managing director |as this was insure d, the company . Star Line, is said by will lose nothing on that score. been one of the first| lifeboats, but this is may himself. rs, still suffering from were landed by the New York last night. nanimous verdict that were able happenmed.” Non2|lack of any creat ship could go| “Suits for loss of | s ldom follow dis “The steamship had been making go[)d.l:~'m”}‘ covered by insurance, maiden voyage, in lhv",”"‘ past all generally nz a record. That \'ery‘“'”h“” going 1o known that fce was jn| M7 Greenfield adde it speed was not slack- it closed, it being conld be dodged. % the Crash Came. rash came there was| lgored ‘citement and pas-| ired were little per- cors on the v learned the ship . some ice.” i eared nothing d. A group continued their| ver finished. of the engines was ' son. han the impact with dan - — Titanic will met his fate bravely, voung bride in a life- pping aside while other 1 out. <may, Star Line follows bility for loss of life on the high seas,” “About ten vears ago several suits here, but of the liability filed in the Federal Court they hecause : fixing dimissed property ters of this kind ‘n2 to Make Record. and i have crtled court.’ come states and liability fo money, se- no The passengers thou ght ; a % o s \\xmcu into history ‘"'Inmlnnu Whtil the call Fang tlnnuum:h‘ streets and alleys adjacent there- 0 deck, | aboard. | leave | 3 healthy and beautiful. were | oot s et e v ot PROBABLE ENGINEERS WILL STRIKE and with i their won- | "u-n of Railway General Managers to- proces- | | | 3 ; - ¢ | uemore “There is no law which fixes lia-| <aid Attorney Greenfield today. | tor loss of life on the high seas were| companies are |nacles MAYOR NAMES CLEAN-UP DAYS { 'FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MAY 10 AND 11, TO BE DEVOTED TO | A CLEANER CITY. | The recently organized for the purpose of | lnm ing about Letter sanitary lnc.l's—[ Woman's Club, of Lakeland,® | ask | |tiu- co-operation and help of our city mw and beautifying our city, [otticials and citizens. And, Whercas, it is deemed advis-| |able and for the welfare of all our Hnupl. that certain days be set apart {for the purpose of cleaning up and beautifying our city, and that during said days all persons remove tin cans, manure, rubbish and all unsightly ithings from their premises and from Now, therefore, 1, 8. L. A Clonts, | wayor of the city of Lakeland, ||«l: by proclaim and set apart Fri-| aay and Saturday, May 10 and 11, as days, and respectfully re- [uest all persons to remove all un- | sightly things aforesaid on or before| and their every en- make our city clean, [ said days, use ‘du:n'nr to In testimony whercof 1 have here- unto aflixed my official signature this the 19th day of April, A, D, 1912, S, L. A CLONTS, Mayor. | | | [ | Press.) Grand Chief (By Associated New York, April 19 | Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomo ‘1 ve Engineers, notified the Associa- ISMAY EXPLAINS | gers saved, said in almost a whisper, | Democratic leral of them pro and one or two con, ‘\\'t)lull'n\\' Wilson, but fortunately, is CARPATHIA ARRIVED IN NEW YORK PORT WITH l\‘d ¥ before the Senate committee H : u\\:fl gating llhv Titanic lli\‘:s:\" A, |Weary and HeartSle W"nesses Te" S(Ol'y of Titanic’s Loss Bruce lsmay, president of the White in explaining how he came men passen- “One of the boats were being filled. R[‘IISEI) n[“l“ Roll NUMB[RS l,595 P[RsoNs The officers called out to know if | —— }l}‘:"‘ were any wore :"‘"‘“" to g0.| MANY WOMEN REFUSED TO FORSAKE THEIR HUSBANDS, RE- erc were none. NO passengers! were on deck. As the boat 'wm& being | MAINING ON THE DOOMED VESSEL TO GO DOWN TO DEATH icaded, 1 got into it.” | WITH LOVED ONES. He denied that the Titanic was go- | ling at top speed. | IS SURVIVAL DECLARES AI.L WOMEN HAD SEEN PLACED ON BOAT BE- FORE HE LEFT THE SHIP. | | i | star Line, to be among the few The Carpathia landed last night in utes longitude, 50 degrees 08-—Ti- New York bringing the survivors of tanic (Br. 85" the ill-fated Titanic, The hydro, Titanic’s Ler A GOOD MAN TO ELECT. aphic figures give the position when struck mortal wound as latitude 11 de- longitude 50 de- The New York who gave their, Bditor Wayne Thomas of the Plant stories of the weli tives of the I immediately to r-»prt-sn-nlul she A bul-| Telegram ity Courier, is another Associated Press, known men aspiring sceve as delegate to the convention at hustler, : es A6 minutes, 10 1.tin to the Evening (lm 1" national s morning brought the report that| ]|.p.1¢| fig o lati \ i Baltimore. ‘"_ : : | s figures are latitude 41 de & wide [Capt: Smith had shot himselt on the!srees 16 minutes, longitude 50 de- f 8- | A | L minutes, 1t will be noted that in the latitude alone does a dif- terence s, oand that, be it said, but a small one, Warned the Titanic. The Amerika sighted the icebergs and relayed by wircless the news o the Titanie, which in turn shot the m salong o a short station in whenee it was passed to the chiel hydrographic oflice in Washington, The fact that the Ti- tanic was then but @ short distance, comparatively speaking trom the met her fate possesses newspaper minutes. Nr. Thomas is a ‘.l\\.llu' man, and some of the papers lare discussing him quite freely, sev- bridge of the ship, but later reports, are to the effect that he was brave to : § apped his death the last, going down to He openly avows his preference for g0 ship wore - shots lett the There Dheard after the survivors floxible enongh to go with the m jority for whomsoever they mav choose. Fort Myers Press il PRESIDENT MOURNS .., FOR MAJOR BUTT (By Associated P'ress.) Woshington, April 19 President Taft today showed plainly his grio Bere at 980 night, death of Major (L The dred and forty-five ship, but it will never be known who wis that sought death in that, this country, SURVIVORS TELL OF VESSEL'S DESTRUCTION. (By Associated Press.) New York, April 1w pot Where she APFINVIDS [ vt seven hun eniicance, last However, the ey Titanic's captain, al- lover the persons, mostly aleid of his record, and anx- fous o set a o mark tor s tlirst wait from I« iy that the engineers would {until May N for further e railroads to their demand for in- If no reply is fortheom-| reply creased pay g then, he said, [Teave the city spike on fifty eastern railvoads may the committee witl and an engineers Lo expected any time, TRIBUTE TO COL. ROQUEMORE. in receipt of o letu I lames R Williford, o I'he editor i 1 it ident o followin great river of de atter moving to Lakeland it Soon the coof 1olo, 1 met Col. Rogue advise me con-| matters, My wore, and had him corning some business first impressions of him were that ol whose veracity could not be questioned; a Christian gentleman o the highest type, a man whose chat- wcter was above reproach, a man who by his gentle and never chang- ing demeanor toward his fellow men | was well worth emulation. The long- ¢r 1 knew him the stronger these i|n~' pressions became. 1 shall always ro- vere and love the memory of Col. Ro-| a man “I do sincerely sympathize with| vou and the citizens of Lakeland in he loss of this good man and especi- ally do 1 offer my sympathy to his | bereaved family. He is gone. Why We should not question, but ‘some day, somehow we will understand.’ SIZE OF ICEBERGS. New York, April 19 —The drift of! jce this been farther Vessels have re-| | spring has south than for years ed ice fields extending far 414.\\'..f track, skip-| being shut in by, every the southern and told of r as they could see on side of the horizon { have varies he size of the bergs hich encountered recently atly, but according to reliabl ports ber reaching from 60 to 100 op of its walls, extending to a feet to th and spires 250 feet or not t of more, have unusual. some of depth Below the water giant bergs extend 1o {nrobably $00 or 1,000 foct | New |aboard the | Mrs. | | growers I berry, ‘vf new friends daily, and when the |Congress State at with pin- carly morning his character,” de- women, sick in heart and body, wrot “was his loy- into the and his the loss of the fmilt by teip through a chief - trait of “ciared the Ay to his ideals, annals of maritime history {y, finest steamship ever oy They were the sar vivors of the White Liner, Ti I diias Dkt tanic, which, with 1,000 Ouilat of a racing antomobile, Loard, her colors flying, and her band “Nearer, My Thee, | foreiiont, {ANOTHER STORY OF [ WAY THE END CAME. tward, Kept up and although ahicad, the with the speed awiare ol the ice president, his cloth, triends, i pach boat sped forward Almighty's Sl specd bt God Senator He was one of declared souls ith Carolina entlomen,” L, ot playing God, to ik bow in two thousa ~HARRISON FISHER GIRL." banks tarin fathoms of water, ol the New o Foundiand ander the One of the Most Beautiful of Models, Rescued from Titanie, kit York, N 1o \Nong tin With cieers saved frome the M0 me Monday When the Titaric strack the moun New i told of the tadn of dee that nt her to the hot Lest cabin pa voice they plondid heroim ol thos Vi 1o o thin tour honr ter dhe im Dorothy Gibeon, th vined o end inoa water e wa P might | Fitani Mi bediind 1 Fisher Givl,” and oy that they Cap! N kot an houy e Tor American wtital models w with dicd, they said, ablant demioli h e ailon wnld, alter havin tirt Whith her I comprtnicd by her ol reoon March 17 Tor all the women, who would zo, hid leved nothin choard the Titchoat hors vacation trip abroad beliind to d hard, Furop mont wany wWho stayed <he had beon we ected 1o rking i o th hnshand s arms, ot LR, whil After th ripped open he ! Blow, et bowels below the icehery Tune Jun and bulhs wer Anoarg reached her water line, the " her sade plit cablegram Wb ttered 1 sine na husin tarned her nose to the hottom, an with the hammer S and when the Jast in obedience to its demand for her to oo, yavds away reirel hor cat short her vacation and return to il APk B iR moment before seeking the hottom 1 hurrled trip to Cherbourg, arriving As she sank there was profound si there just in time to get passage Titanic Both Miss Gibson and her mother, Leonard Gibson, were big liner went down. tanic in Genoe week, and y HE n ol Fitan from the how 1o a point Hor boats were lifehout was an tern almost amidship trembled for o of her 1 show- er of debris from her spars fell upon decks like giant hail. Though ship had struck the monster ob- her smashed to an and vessel Tisted heav- hizh in the air upper works and some and her mother made while splintered, Jence, broken a moment Later by the [y cries and supplications of fiften hun- e dred dying men, in melan- choly chorus over the spot where she went down. which rose struction head-on, as how clear of the unrecognizable mass ol shivered steel, the ily to port and almost turned turtle The Titanic had forced her bulk away ed shuar of the iceberg, is not infrequent saved i water, when the bent survivors rowed in before For hours the lifeboats the calm sea the Carpathia picked them up HON BRAXTON BEACHAM HERE. Hon. Braxton Beacham, candidate for Congressman State at large, came up from Tampa ut noon today, wher: he has been attending the citrus meeting, and spent several hours in the city, enroute to Mul- Bartow and Fort Meade, where he was going in a machine Mr. Beacham is making hundreds over piant up on a subme * KNEW OF APPROACHING DISASTER BUT RACED ON. a phenomenon which in the most dis Itrous collisions with these shost-like Bank In monnting jagged e :‘.‘unm-l.\ of the New York, Significant evidence tiat the aware April 19 to lizht upon the pur, and in liding back from her position, the <hip had torn out many of her from the midship se has coms showing | navigators of the bot- that iceber Titanic ! | were they were in the fiom plate tion vicinity of s osome time lasi ' forward to the bow April 30 5 eding \ un- down comes on of those leud final show ihe will be one Ger the in the 2 Sunday, =ome few hours pre coming a result ompartments from the time the ship received her death vlacial off wire bl amidship forwa vere speedily ow r K mo ‘. | pOmeistam % SRS | fooded took in water at a rate spring !“_” det effort The evider from an ahsola? of the pumps, HON. W. M. TOOMER HERE TOMORROW. ome | an to sertle by the head, 0nr tative to § nd roiling in 1 none oth 1 1" ‘ meh o } L Toomer, candidate Tor large, tomorrow Hon. W. M is expected Lersell and in the ape harr duaily disenzazed f the fes, to reach Lakeland morn- iwes-look report on file in ti npon ing and will pr vy make an ad- tomorrow, al- timore branch of 1 drograpin to the d-ess here some tim v charge of Licutenant Damp- ! demol mfu- though the exact hour and pla ive not vet n decided upon Later.— Mr stood, will Toomer, it under- keland on the 11 nddress the voters from tar rected in o Ame unn park at r.orning. tomorrow dio-ts e e - - ————