Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 19, 1912, Page 1

2T = T AT e s e e {5 LIV_NO. 96 NORWICH, CONN. FRIDAY, - ————— PRICE TWO CENTS APRI gt 19, 4189120 7 The Bulletin's Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circuiation is the Larg Popa‘xrlaruon : BAND PLAYED A HYMN AS TITANIC SANK| 2 SGAED STAEMENT OF RVIOR EE U B | Assertion That the Titanic Was Inddequately Equipped | about 16 miles from Ghent, where they left many relatives who are very anx- ious as to the m the scene | i 28 | afterwards, and my first theught was | ed hard to get away | the T t | e et Lo | STOKERS AND STEWARDS TO MAN THE BOATS s . ° 5 s - s l lf I rl d t() Had No Thought of Disaster. | 9f these sounds would be one of the | tuguess senate. tiis e With Life Saving Appliances. | “I went up on the top (boat) deck | thils the rescued will find it aif- | tnanimously expres | I 'a ‘dressing. go . ¢ | cult to efface from memory. We are | the symmathy ment and JPRBTO ) MO Bt e bl :,‘j“i.',]f:n:?fi_ | all trying hard not to think of it | Peoble of Portugal with the vietims of Drown Out Heart-rending Cries of Unfortunates in the Water minds of anyone, We @AW |sovoral times it was shouted ~ that | Italian fiecl coesisin ril 18 —An | the emoking room window a |steamers lghts were seen, but they | was sighted here today 1 i | e S i cards golng on and went in | tyrned out to be either a light from | directio here today bound in the | > o they knew anything: 1t | gther boats or a 0 of Seddul Behr at the en v o T o 3 low down on the | trance hey felt more of the jar, and | porizon. About 3 a. m. We saw g through ihe window had seen |jightg showing on the sky, and ¢ erg go by ciose to the side - ¥ and the Darduneiies, Seadul i | Sufficient Life Preservers For All, But Lifeboat Accommo- | dations For Only 950—Greater Reduction in Speed in faint | is the 1l re- | straics, joiced to see what we expected w They thought we had just | the eoming dawn, but after wrorch g e ” .l < . E = _vith a glancing blow, and | for Tiat ak unr I Sestng ny b e s i 4 3 ogines "oiopred 10 50 |in the intensity of the light, reallzed it o e e Fog and Ice and an International Conference to Recom- d v I | was the northern lights R an P Death List Increased to 1601, But 745 of the 2340 Aboard nception that | " ““pregently low down on the horizon ¢ s mend Identical Maritime Laws Is Suggested low Dy we light which slc resolved ; o e £t The game | jig to a double ligh — - Being Rescued—Six Died After Rescue—Mrs. Isador Straus » IOUERED 1k | et T CoMDIo LEnL, ST X my O B i e b e sl New York, April 18.—The was about 80 . 4 i 0 | would separate and so prove to be only PR o 6t e A rniags, ximoms Refused to Leave Husband and Went Down to Death With ‘ ain. 1 never | two of our boats, or whether they statement issued by a com capacity of the lifeb the onlook~ | Would remain together, In Which case | the surviving passengers was ziven (e | Inadequate Life-Saving Appliances. D il i lei aring Peo- | we would expect them to be the mast- ) | Press on the ar e Carpathia e v ol = Him—Men Professed False Ability to Row in Order to AN | T Tty St a Gk Meht beigw of o | “we, th ViR | (qutte, feel 1t our duty to call e at- 1 four € v , . ke oW of & passengers from the steamship Titanic don of publ what w o ; ing steamer : sider r - B i i ngines 1 { n order any sensational or | S€0 e . Obtain Seats in Lifeboat—Quartermaster Says Titanic w PRt | Benaiaon Chssrad™ut BIGhE of Chbph: | exaggerated statements, deem it our | S piaaces provised (or on mod= Under Orders to Make Best Speed Possible—Pathetic and t man T pERAL Y Sale e Ets SHoh s T« ST ps be taken (o ¥ by the sudde | “To our joy they moved as one, and | ledge and which wé beliéve to bé. e v’rl pa e ners o CATFY - g 2 ew Lo | vibration to w they had De und we swung the boat and headed | ~ — e sufficient boa nmodate the Startling Stories of Survvors—Prominent Men Drowned. i accustome ring the f The steersman shouted :Now, | dating sor | lceberg Not Reported Soon Enough. | maximum 1 o carried om Total 3 2340 cen on board. O sing, and first time the | AAUNE Some sieerage passenger On Sunday, April 14, 1912, It ing £ were et~ 3 : L 8 Sing, . 2 ¥ H . said who had tumbled a boat e . a i - ; e | #8ain I saw there was an undoubted | boat broke into song with Row for the o imbeq 1140 p. m., on a cold Starlig nd sidered in this ; 1 from stern to bow, but, | shore and for the frst time tears | was brepared for launching. | in"a gmooth sea and wit on: Tt How the White | e resculng steamer nothing of what had hap- |came to the eyes of us as we realized | e U | the ship struck an iceberg w . ? t Sta r Titanic, the largest ship the harrowing stories which ) | yencd. concluded some the front was at hand. The song eeoteds Sut B next | poen reported to th A man s sfloat, sank off the Grand Banks of ght ba 200 1ad filled and were t it was a very poor imi- urned to the deck. There | OUtS: Dt arly enough 3 : - st e Motatiy. iosiog Mrs: Astor Mot by 613 down again to put f the real thing, for quavering 3 em s o collision. Steps were taken to ascer- | Ot &h offic s ¢ e bW AR | 54 2 = ng and as I dressed ke poor sof er was tain the damage and save passengers | KON " 6 an the 2,340 persons aboard, was told to igaon . : s« ; A with it ik et el o DIED ARM IN ARM R IRt Al Toe Tt mer o i the world in all its awful details for " . ts on 2oy uer showed 1 EE The ship sa . m. | Boats Did Not Carry Maxi o the first time tonight with the arrival e 3 S e . Isidor Straus Positively Refused | Monday ang. the | signals Hibamero, in New York of the Cunard liner Car- 1 g E e ilcln et Gt i o to Leave Husband. | were sent out by wireless rock ‘ pathia bearing the exhausted surviv ne wa L sias: o : . : y with them amer. % = fired i b g thii it or- | . The b allow for s g t g sy : emen : i on our clothing, but even |” “Tre steamer we , ‘reach was| New York, April 18—Amc rst | tunaetly ressage was re- | T . b boat ors of the catastrophe he grea s 2 = r med this was a wise Bl foebergs, and we | PASSengers oIT the Car irs. | coived by the Cunard S patkin 4 perm : properly facts that stand out from the chaotic g5 Tota o P ion the captain was o e v her. for | Paul“Schabert of Derby, She | about 12 o'clock midr W e boat deek most salient Vincent s I Total number perished 1595 There was Ve Towad b 1 /the. Carpathiy | Port side Saro ey (gt consequently | sengers were re- The death list has been increased T = T d assenger Y v panie o 430 a. m., and were hoisted or | Crother e abert sai Well Treated on Carpa | A M=o . wing S5 rather than decreased. rove to s z ssen 8ol e e ibed up the ship’s sides with ver vas saved becaus pestipv el e p i s e e Six persons died after being rescued WO, Dynted i ec 335 bipdte s e it eful hearts F : (r<. | ship Carpathia ecn | . hoats would The list of prominent persons lost Yl w i S0 k the Mnok - Gratitude to the Carpathia. ks by | night for the e and com Il tim®s to be properly stands as previously reported. fgray | g engers lost 315 | geox or B We were received with a welcome NNlon aod weht:c survivors, and the las water, |Amps, Practically every woman and child, et saftaa) - 5 The men ail stood away and At was overwhelming in its warmth was very little ex received on hoard witi i} \fo-saving with the exception of those women | wore very little clothing. A S5 r te silcence lean! 1 should like to say here that ther s we om: from | ing care and kindnes ¢ | more frequent Who refushd to leave. their hushands, | ¥oman. wh shg was Ha- |} _ e end ra f the de not a member of: Titanic on t being given to all irres; e and th ghly carried out; and of v Among the latter was | Push, bound Youngstown, O. 1 2 or pacing slowly up and down. The board who feels capable of expressing x he pissen sthicers and cre ers sic ; cat arills, B .0 e ner ey er ar ix year t T were swung C nd lowered | in adequate terms his gratitude for t f W up giadly their staier hing | Greater redgction in speed in fog and Mre, isidor Straus, wife of the New e : I skl S Hentibiu ishoverad uge %y the had that th a2 somforts for ; nor | i damige it co actaally o ork millionaire merchant § barefoots b . s g > w N& Biia " 2 aptain, officers, crew and passen ent back te- | em E be oman had lost h ey & f anic or Hysterics. on board the Carpathia. They were nd ssed and then as - Enough Life Preservers for A International Conference Suggestedl. Saw Vessel Sink, Heard Groans and rothers. » ' e ke “ slde one Saw |cglled upon suddenly in mid-ocean to the deck I T The Eng le pass In cor est that an la- e % e L oats - recelve, they thought, 3,000 passengers hat women m gers' certificate s Titar ternational conference be called to gace Cries Reports of Captain's an u b w y away into | and crew, and although this was not t and br rs refus S ea tor £ : Niend: the Deatess. of Lisati i " ifeboa. Sulsides . 1 f 1 be, they gement for brothe inally he was | 3,500 The sam viding for th oty of il at sen T s ard her ban One le mos . 1 ator | : prder; 1o panic o | berths were prov Bereaved Bride Aimost Prostrated. | mately 950 on the foll ment to ative us s0on nd s > ndre et e Gan @ was one = . nd no scenes of | came on board Isidor Str i Fourteen I Boat smaller | possible k their groans and | that Captain Si t st office 7 o 5 s was supplied indiv T ar m thin 1 boats and fo: lapsib! 8 thaf sives we t Queens s fr . one seex who @Jépt ¢ cumstance 1 sufficient numt n | to. ‘Maka Speed 10 : £ e ol ‘id ind. Titanic the shi g Saved riie : it - el S0kl | Teard thers Was com : . , and B e e JUMPED INTO SEA. | ! % & s ’ r were Sinced aboare . ; re & : %6 the | £, 7, Taylor of Philadelphia Never Ex- £ : e t she was Lapland ht. .1 b : 5 + gz 70 P as on the | pected to See Land Again. was or " ( n hou e ere | EARER, MY GOD, TO THE R | 3 i . el tde heve ¢ thir L 3 co! shipp + smasi a i Titanic’s String Band Played Hymn in = 5 | L ; bbed me e cr I 1 ‘ d s »f Iceberg Face of Death, ¢ e 1. shipiy | Bpenck 3 & S il e i - o | corresponde " Eve 5 i | o - r A8 o et ) i g iy ake | > 10 furnished x ; | i T | Ti % rther Sausl Mat Bisakly ducie !’ e CC 4 e = | i > thaice NOMAN ROWED BOAT. frightfully to por s be ich ¢ d t 1 pang m | 5 i . Men Lied About Their Rowing Ability | dercs 4 . e | the 1ong list o cabin r | “Dhe & ; e b feet | I g Moment B » 1 Titanic's Boilers Exploded # the b i wan plok fred R. Kenyor : B. W losion » ne ex- | € n « 1 . hat the A ] ~ Bever [ arbor_ and wa and ¥ 0% e | The Last Man Saved il s 1 her M Baw Fellow Passengers Leap Into Sea | £ W LR proked v X w n t for the woi he m a wi saw ma whom ad ) s ¢ T resc 23 ar as | 3 T L = . s u 0. f n e decks o redi ttling | " LONDON WAKES UP - e B P decks | fatr : d d e i Her Husband Made Way for Women r in their akaging Directer lomay Savell.c | Too5e & Moment ) : i ar P n p- | Board of Trade Drafts a New Sched ¥ o & i toF n life p 1 1 betore t E e on r q of min- | Y¢ L B O v " b R tion: S y s a ing r}\, the lifeboats io o i Bt oo % g g & : . ule of Regulations. o . : al Mercantile com Nomen First” Rule Enforced. ed away clated t ight on end nd dr ! e 1 April row s . 0 was among id m s the men wer £ [aifeno: e go, | S 1 nd anl th ler- | and waited th o : v . « When 2 o ] § 1 £ e i S d further news ¢ ws- | ¢ dent g a R o TO oLt el p | Clung to Brass Deck Railing, e boat swung o 1 the i papers are printing extra ¢ fore D r Bgrears - was vigorously Sk g S geiher. he ven to t ¢ nothin 0 &, and | appealing ainst the failure As the T ¥ . o - el | eard shortly before t . ¢ 4 i g the b | e B > pull dually the small | board of trade in a maaner in ind stood in silence. A bomay Willing to Appear { Titanic went down caused man : A 6 rdest sound surely thac | : s wol from the Ti-|mere parliamentary consure coull|dark river, wp wh . etme f the cabir . had | Bimself, another Officer > th ¢ ® fca ) d es v nd. | he v irs. Kenyon s e sa According to the Daily News, was lt s phou e no authority to subpoena ses wt | Murdock had end ot di 1 s | r i s about 1 mile. The | hoard of trade has alrea fted a 'K, ks of tugs e g ed resent, but would begin an ctiza. | bers rew . oated on th s L e : mana t 0 a. m. § 1 new schedule of regulations which will | Places on shore, e od the largest < g g Iga- | move y Dis th Slanting Dive. | pbn e A c explos A the & beput in force at the carlicst date | flashiights posatole in an effort to caten Titanic at | J ; B T r amazement she rem hung on by migh which followed they saw- the body of | possibl the first pieture of the incoming line tomorrow g | . t r osition for the ship plunged d Enen ; the. brid gh in incident connected On up the river the Carpathia steam Ismay had consented to ap ol ‘ God, 1o which I estim; and 1 Then dar The sal was the communic ed, bearing out w description earing and 1 nk the 8 : 8lv s ir v 1 for wh d Mrs, Kenye ) e Bhissmareg given of her by the observers who saw nz off mbre col ne was ¢ i ble tin at ! e Titanic, who is|her as she crept past Quarantin ea A & v b AX ] surface, to fin in « A 'k The el e w t Ligatior y 1 : it Moy Roaaa i theds i A8 gud) gy Discovered a Life Raft. iy e et But fo ¢ be dete'mined a Py | : b Luckily T was unhurt and casting b : d have been aboard 3 " hearing 11 Sl be managed to selze a wooder Perfect Order Prevailed e ISMAY TO TESTIFY. ned as to h ) i | grating floating. When I had recover- Kenvon aid = nt te PERFECT ORDER AT DOCK. | o 8P B0 DHABte wal Srosss v 1 d : ad set out | &g Nt 1. doe et iover | much, and BT Drothand dtd ) e Will Appear Before Senats Committes r";:v RS i u §. H |in through the w “\_“"“ 2 s ‘E ":“1 canvas and cork liferaft which ad | not press her ars. | Agonized Wail, However, While Boat | at Hearing Today Bd 16 Bav o e o | D, by MY W Lilehe Feaingaas el e ed up. A man whose name I did | T had the ir she saic Was Being Warped Into Berth ST e N I Nearer, my God, to Thee, o 4 0 not learn was struggling toward it | that per ord 1 { R J. Brues Ts- , o YL i i i e o Tt M rom some wreckaze to h he had |boat W York, April 18,—The ¢ mised the senate come i e C £ Harold Cotton, Marconi o undress, a ng. T helped him to = | was oft the end pler | mittee which is to investigate the Ti- The arr f the ¢ rougnt | Hazold Cotton, haer SANG TO DROWN CRIE - on to we then hegan PRAISE FOR ASTOR. dock at five mir yelock. The | tanic disaster that he would testify a vas v ‘ 2 H ¥ who t of t 2 7 to assist | morrow at tha first hearing by th his usual tir \day nich | v, all te 5 pilot of 2b aged to assist | $OMOrrow t & by the ard a 1 A 4 i s s of Those g in the| S AL & e flounder- | Colonel Assisted His Wife and En-|in warping her In announced that she | committes at the Waldorf-Astoria. sheds an nics B Hioh: Was v Water Were Appalling > AR deavored to Calm Others. ould not dock until the lifeboats wera | Chalrman Smith and Senator New« cro Iils tor savios thb MAndesns & 'm broke there were 30 taken off. A large number of Sisters |lands, the two members of the ceme &t who were landed in New York tonight. | ¢, April _18.—Following is|a c itter cold e e g e 0o 10 v York, April 18—“The conduct|of Charity from the var hospitals | mittee, who came from Weshington th The landing of the surviv. | 1L a8 1 to by seve | nt of Mr. Reasley of Len like ad felt before, § oot hel aeekiuiic ‘Q‘f"v‘“} € of John Jacol’ Astor was deserving of | weFe on the per | to New York to mee he Carpathis bus attended with Ciite Sarviv- | that the Titanic was going 2 | ge from Queenstown had | g Poptirniten. dbantmibed. ehd KEIE the highest praise,” Colonel Gracle| At 10 minutes past 8 there was an | at the dock, obtained this pramise - S Etosd excit hour when she dashed into the ice- |heen nd uneventf Very fine | Sang to Drown Cries of Those in| " k5o e and dead, | s: The Yorker,” | agonized wailing while the boat was | from the general manager of the In- men crowd stood in silence f | jory b sl e ) RL besought s to save {hem and one o energics. fo | being siowly warped into her herth. | teruational Mercantile Martne, Th e o e ip passed along. | “The Morning World tomorrow will | was quiet ond caln nd | g e Eii et e o o A AT P R Dol bt MMiss Forca| The scene at this time in and about | arrived at the dock from thalr tra g actvally began shortly | nublish Mr. Hurd's story in detail sl i P i 1 thieng Miend Sall had to warn them away. Hed we in delicate | the great pier was onc of great an s the Arst pnssengers were after 9 o'clock and the debarking of | ALy, Elung sastary. o dotall | In) Peen. [westerty »to-sov y ] ear the most appalling nois TR BTt o b R e T icat f great an X AT e AL L R B0 ! « ve all lonutton and’- enger . expectund ) . Forcing thalr way on beard the passengers was so quickly dls- | «HN]on the foregoing, Mr. Hurd whole way, kut ver t Fhint huan Shsne soer: HAEAat ight have perished i t last foupd ¥ u Soen as S0 auickly dis- | gyvy in part | the last day: in fact, ne | $he renient gt Hond of e . n our ef-| crowds had steadil zmentod, hut | th » thay ut last found Viee Pres« v ::rlx :‘.‘;m‘l ing ”.,',"‘ wat / ( Ifl,, e R e RSN BB ot i : ! L _‘v o 0 Nobody Was Fired Upon. said Col- } there was perfect order, an awelike air | fdent I'ranklin, At firet they were teld O oT T been fniny letlly, ex” |inquiries on the Carpathia as positive- | to be « teauiciat alle T g : : by sy 2 ‘The how at elapsed before we ed her into the bt | of waiting. / [ that Atr. Tenay was mnder & doatar Sialocks. The crowds' remained abou | Uy 5 they could be established in view in my bertH for about ten contd ot be amswased " W | were picked up by the Carpathia were touk her plice Colonel As- | | As the Carpathia was & into | cere, and not unil the semators el g about | ¢ tha silence of the few surviving offi- | when at aout 11.15 p. m. ~could not he anm longest and most terrible tha d perm n of the second | her slip she was surrounde e nfotmed Mr, Wrankiin what they e IR S W K Moitbge. e | - e MiEnoe of the few. suipivion off- | when st ahout ILIG 3. m longed Lo reiurn and pick up some of £ paLY th her for her bwn pead | paper hoats and there were frequent | sired (o ask were they admitted 8 r R several hours before the crash of the cange any anxlety to anyone, however | loss of llves To all of us. - o¥| sla that any men were fired upon and st replied. the omussr ot uch{QE SUD R 4SS ERcHS AR | Other news of the Titanic disaster | possille nearness of the icebergs. ‘ e & e Rt said that only once was a revoiver d man shall go on a boat until the wom- To Take More Southerly Course, | 3 ous they may have been., How- tanic's speed, nearly 23 ever, the engines stopped lmnie [ “We tried to sing to keep the we= charged. " |en are all off’ Col 14 will be found on Pages 2, 5, 6 and 8. m hearing the cries and row~ “That the " Sk nel Astor then in- | New York, April 15 The North Ger. | Other news of the Tianle This was for the purpose of intimi. ' quired the number of the boat, which | man Lioyd announced the information will be found.on Pages 2 5 hand 8, , tely A o S B SR e RN