The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 19, 1912, Page 1

In Spite of the Denial of Diree- 5 ; ; tor Ismay of the White Star Titanic’s Ship Band, Which Line, That He Wasn't Try- Played “Nearer My God to ing to Break Speed Record, Thee” as Ship Went Down, Won Deathless Fame as No One Envies Ismay Today. ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE They Died, VOL. 14 NO. 42. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1912. ONE CENT QN EUAING AND HOME EDITION NEWS STANDS Be (PEED MANIA CAUSES DEATH HARVEST | TORY OF MIGHTY ICEBERG ARM IN ARM, ARCHIE BUTT TITANIC STANDING ON END 1 THAT CRUMPLED TITANIC | AND COL. ASTOR GO TO DEATH (po es | Long, long before man came to jearth, that giant iceberg was form: (By United Press Leased Wire. ee perce ee aa ae | f NEW YORK, April 19.—That the wreck of the Titanic was the direct result | fand’s theustaines and with the| 2 2m attempt to make a new speed record across the Atlantic is the unanimous | | passing of ages the weight of the Opinion of the survivors of the disaster here today. The latest figures show that| upaer layers turned the lower lay'|745 were saved and that 1,595 perished. ers into ice. And so glaciers were made, Of th issi . 1 ; This glacier moved down the val lage and 730 officers — bate first cabin passengers, 195 second cabin, 550 steer- _ Of those saved 210 were first class, 125 second class, 200 steerage and 210 \officers and crew. Benjamin Guggenheim is among the missing. None of the survivors was |able to tell how he met death, as none remembered having seen him after the first shock was felt. NEW YORK, April 19.—“Archie” Butt died a hero's death. | | precntentonn. ie the ice wash that swept over the bridge of the Titanic, the last view survivors caught of The * : military was hie soldiertly figure, erect beside a fellow-soldier—Col. John Jacob Astor. fede A — oe a Carpathia said that Maj. Butt, Col. Astor and Howard Case were the conspicuous | br © world's greatest sea disaster, it was Maj. Butt who lined up the panic-stricken women, met) Des renzy of despair with the cool judgment of a soldier and was swept into the Valley of the Shadow of eath, unafraid | at His last good-bye was smilingly sald to Mise Marie Young, formerly # music teacher to some of the) oosevelt child Miss Young had frequently met Maj. Butt at the White House. She was on the last! peerrye > to leave the stricken leviathan. | “Maj. Butt escorted me to a seat in the boat,” she said today. ‘ite helped me find a space, arranged my clothing about tood erect, doffed his hat, smiled and| said ‘Good-bye,’ and then jepped back t© the deck, already awash. As we rowed away, | looked back | and the last | saw of him he was smiling and waving his hand to me.” Or. Weetion pn. Dodge of San Frangelico thinks he saw the iast of Maj. Butt sithouetted against the leky. He saw M.@ Butt and Col. Asto is erect, their arms apparently around each others’ shoulders, | standing on the bridge of the Titanic Stricken ship lurched into the cold, black waters, Butt an | Astor were together throughout the panic, Dr. Dodge said. j | Maj. tt took charge of one section of the ship, forced those with the fear of death in their hearts to/ \* gg Pan he meer Ra ol and embarked ail the women the boats would hold. | ae SEN z | rman Lioyd line officials here id th |. But Y y Ye OF Ick a£Re TUE | ot their siow beste heme ton hake Mae Wore today said ¥ at Maj, Butt had planned originally to take one| BELOW WATER LINE eetee wn gs vy pA TODAY. . aa Scr ee i | Special exclusive stories on feeberg expands thousands of feet under water—What it means when a ship strikes head on. MUSIC CHANGED 0 [the greatest marine disaster moved a few in history are in ‘The rto the sea, and, with a roar indeser ‘Nearer My God to Thee VORS p, a plece broke off at the NEW YORK, Aprit nic went down. Page V A 4 i! 19-—-Speed madness and an ex train ; DREAM TO SUR | ine and floated away. And schedule for ocean liners caused the Titanic eregney:. Dashing - al piece was an iceberg rate of 20 knots an hour through lge-fitied ocean, th Story of wireless operator YORK, April 19-—When the Carpathia docked last night, a Clear as glass, the liner, the acme of luxury and the la hero. 7) ran down the gangway and into the arma of a gray-haired H | maval architecture, hurled madly againét an immovable mountain of " aptain jo en pe Las and for a little while they mingled their tears hysterically. and 2 hours and 25 minutes later had disappeared from sight for- | they were calmer, the mother questioned the «irl, who au . . ever. oken Hearts.” Page eight broken!y Down With Ship} A MATCHLESS NIGHT | nm, “The Doom of the @at know. * * * Lean't remember. * * * Ob, mother Every survivor whe landed from the rescue ship Carpathia tast | Deep. Se ve ten — rei Tell me—tell me it didn't really happen! Tell ¥ night a that speed had not been reduced. All ead that the night) p See page te 4 ‘ c was perfect—wonderfully so, the brililant ra ef the moon bringin: ime the Impression that the survivors of the Panagod bei out in starting distinctness the great mountains of ice that dotted the men who went down with een to ue ge ho he nn lag ots phantom vor * a fod hp ae banks of Newfoundiand, where the tragedy occurred. |f Titanic. On page six. Lane Magia cage trormy ‘ ¢@ band. of the great vease! was playing soft music in thi aloon, | y all tell the same story, paint the same dream-picture, Griet Many of the passengers had pA sr ng ty the great saloon have not touched them yet. They are doxzed. They pass pase ee Anis en —_ RETR MI over their eyes—their staring, lacklustre eyes—as if to - va Our 4 | them of the mists of dream-troubled sleep. They have not wak thers were on deck, watching thé majestic ocean. Still others | sat carelessly in the various cabins, some smoking, others quietly talk. | oa. ore bl pt wer pe ing. Then came a grinding crash. BOY i$ FOUND e The floating hote! staggered, seemed to recover, plunged fi rd "A painted sh jinted ocean.” The newest and largest ae 1 + plunged forwa: : leer on male op hirer Dinner had been served. There fell om the forward part, crushing to| The mystery of the disappear ‘music and dancing. An impromptu conce r ngers and members of the crew stationed there. | ance of John Beartoult, aged 7, who wae nil A pale moon swung high. Sea and air were still . @ moment or two things were quiet Then came shouts of alarm. jiert his home Wednesday, was font upon the snip, for it was sleeptime. ‘The only sound was rom their cabins rushed men and women in the flimsiest of night at-| Bs a ur at the bows as the great ship rushed westward, and the tire. Some of them were panicetricken, but the alarm did not iast.|°le#red this morning when a mes Tumbling throb of the engines, which was like a jullaby The Titanic was “unsinkable. |#age Was received at police head: Then a jar—ever so slight. The sleepers stirred in their berths, fi WOUNDED TO DEATH quarters from Capt. A. J. Verbeek slept again ’ All had been assuered of that fact.) Most of the men and women|at Rainier Beach, telling that the “All passengers on deck, with belts on on aboard believed this statement, made by the liner's officials and own. | body of the boy had been found ? HOW CAN THERE BE DANGER? lers. A few of the stronger-minded went back to bed. But within five |near the shore of Lake Washington The encines had stopped. But there was no danger. Not the | minutes Capt. Smith realized that his great charge wat wounded unto | yesterday evening. The coroner danger. The Titanic was “unsinkable.” She was too big death. was notified of the find. as too stoutly built, There had, perhaps, been o slight accident ;: | 3 FRANTIC APPEAL FOR HELP . ict captain Was overcautious. Still, overcaution at sea is an excellent | The water «as rushing into the hull from many wounds, as Wire less Ope ator ha Allipe 08 orders trees bg har bgt pressed down his They dressed carefully, letsurely. It would not do to appear on «reat key, and from the wireless far a went the frantic appeal. idressed, with hair tousled Come quickly, we have strock an Meeberg and are sinking,” was ble \.urely they left their state rooms and came up on deck. The flaxhing through the air. Deck steward® rushed through the corridors ed when th et friends In the passageways. It had been a . |rapping frantically on doors of the oceugled cabins, All were told that | hen they met friends fn P t crossing, and it is easy to make friends aboard ship. dar was imminent. Some heeded, abd, grasping the first clothing “I know I'm a perfect fright,” sald a woman, patting her hair they could find, they rushed on deck. Otiiers refused to come out. They | The man at her side insisted that she was, as always, In eve | would not believe that there was (some The crew were at their posts cha and they laughed together as they mounted the broad big lifeboats had been shoved aroun@ feady to be put over the side. eee. and ene gee pbab ht od ral a Women and children were picked up bodily and thrown Into them. The game inthe smoking saloon. A few. men 2, Reseed rule of the sea, "Women and children tinst,” was being enforced ayers greeted them bolsterously | Captain Smith stood on the THE EXCEPTIONISMAY one sald. “We just grazed an icebers. could | bridge of the Titanic ur the was one exception. J. Bruce Iamay, managing director of it from the window here. They've stopped to see If any a © | water washed the r «. Then be/the line, survivors alleged, Jumped into the third boat, been de We'll be going on presently, I fancy. It’s your deal, | jumped into the waves and dis I will man this boat,” he said, and there was no one who said him friend appeared, while survivors in -the| pay. One after the ot the boats went over the side. Then a cry And the game went on. a watched. | was raised. Phere are no more boats. ‘The shi " ting ever so slightly, from the ate ro downwards to | NO MORE BOATS Revs. A tussy. pompous tittle man explained it wisely } Consternation seized upon all that remained. They had believed ime bow compartments have filled. It-is@ small matter, There there would be room for all. Uncontroliable terror seized many. They Bo danger e i ; fought for the lifeboats. Some frantically tried to tear loose deck fit- ve lhe hurritan’ Gack, etfienn, Sere _seaiipine: Sve, terpeeline 66 99 | tings, hoping to make small rafts that would sustain them until help fom the lifeboats and standing by with coils of ropes in their hands. | 1S BO would come. But everything was bolted fast. Then, fearful that they boats were to be lowered by these ropes through pulley blocks. would be dragged to death in the whirling suction that would follow, idddddadd On page five tin the Drama of Pictures of world-famous vr = re ‘The passengers by now were pouring up the stairways—‘hatch- | the men began to leap into the ice-filled Ocean, Wy” is the nautical term—and the order was shouted | “C. D. Hillman, 42, agent.” “All men stand back away from the boats, and all ladies retire Almost in a whisper, Clarence deck 1.” | Hill lied t And it was then that they began to dream apron hg ln ed ; DID IT REALLY HAPPEN? with scores of the sutvivor y are all in th They jumped in groups, seemingly On an agreed signal, according to the stories of the survivors tonight, Some who jumped were saved, coming up near lifeboats and being dragged into them by the occupants. queries of the Gesx © sergeant THE TITANIC SINKS 12:20 this afternoon, when he was) Slowly, steadily and majestically the liner sank. One deck after the booked at the city jai) for safe| other was submerged. Whether the boilers exploded is a question. Rob. keeping by the United States mar-|ert W, Daniel, a Philadelphia banker, says that when the ice water |shal. He will be taken to Tacoma! poured into the boiler room two separate explosions followed that blew tomorrow morning, and then to the | the bowels from the-tiner, Others say they did not hear any explosions. . penitentiary at MecNeils Island Pistol shots were fired. Some #uryivors say. they were fi | “Don't yo a woman demanded with alr sant ine |The millionaire real estate man/|men who tried to force women and children from the way. No one who nee, “the Tit so big, #0 long and broad and deep! And |@@Ve his occupation as agent, | claimed to be an eye witness to the shooting could be located tonight Was all iron and steel! Don't you see? After the usual’ questions were CAPTAIN GOES DOWN Aman said: “Only that night | talked with William T. Stead. 1 janswered Hillman made -a herote | One story told in elreumstantial detail was that the captain and bis heard of him often, of course, but | had never met him. A won- [effort to look more cheerful He | first officer shot themselves, but Daniel and other passengers positively man. He had been everywhere, knew everybody worth know. |smiled when his pockets were | say they saw the wh arded, grizaidd face of the veteran mariner He told me yarn after yarn, and laughed like a gray-haired jsearched, and when that was|over the top of the ¢ just before the railing disappeared, They at his own jokes. And I'll never forget his hand—big, knotty | through he raised his derby laugh-| gay that not until then did he jump into the ocean to be drawn down for Veined and hairy, that gripped yours like a vice. By God, they |ingly to show that he had nothing | ever in the suction that marked the last plunge of the Titanic. ‘man’s hands—-fiesh and bone and sinew! And Stead is dead!” | concealed in it. In one of his pock BABY HEROES Anothe 1 saw John Jacob Astor, He bowed punctillously jets, Hillman carried a little | Daybreak found the little flotilla bounding and tossing on the sur. is yo » and motioned her to a boaty She | pamphlet entitled “A Catechism of| face of the ocean. It was not known whether help was coming. Panic ld back + wit motion of her slim, white hands. Christian Doctrines.” He had | seized some of the occupants. Some of the women tried to jump into uringly, and bowed again |about $40 in cash, three penctis,|the water and had to be forcibly restrained. The babies, little tots, just a od as | ltwo memorandum books, one foun-| old enough to realize their position, found themselves heroes. They now the man I have quoted does not jtain pen and a number of rubber | set an exaniple which moved their elders to tears as they told of it to- bands. He was accompanied ‘by | night. Some tried to comfort their stricken parents. “| was close to Isador Straus. His wife | jis brother, homer L. Hiliman “ACT OF GOD” she would not leave him. |! remember now I | who silicided him as far as possible | Tonight the White Star line, through its managing director, J. Bruce @ little atnoyed. 1 thought she was overdoing it. She died with |j;om ..c newspaper photographers, | Ismay, disclaimed responsibility, saying that it was “an act of God.” | they tel) me—in his arms.” lamay defended His action in taking to the lifeboats. He said that he| ® wkete . incides at night etched upon the took the last boat that left the ship. of the nr re they the stuff of whieh dreams are n OREGON PRIMARIES |‘? ea rig? Med Fs get Med age | Sot een |**PLL MEET YOU IN NEW YORK, th fart, (eaberistvmaryes | Sache DEAR,” WERE ASTOR’S LAST WORDS pomstins Eh ward thelr cathedral | iapme. the presidency of the Unites NEW YORK, April 19.—Mrs, John Jacob Astor, despite rumors Nitti sales: opin ‘angel {ake wabne he € constable] trae ghe was in a critical condition, gave the members of her family a Date cae te Grouaiiat oa remo | soyful surprise when she walked down the gangplank of the Carpathia, brightening sky. With a e on estimated at w her stern rise 146,000 largest on rec til her po n as almost vertical. She hung ord—an unp edented ve fa ex " minute pected to be polled today, ‘The polla Mrs f : ae eee toeey iningant| Fifth av, where an official statement was issued later by the family |. 0 . —o tent " . gpd OF cack Net ‘vas in as good Health as was to be expected under | Stciking Tlustration Shows Gigantic Size of Titanic, the Queen of the Ocean, as Compared With fle ! isi will remain open til 7 o'clock to-|phyai¢ian that she tdi ’s Hi 5 toh and biged!.. Vanteneeand. the’ reing: sun 453 : : ft circumstances. Hoge Building, Seattle's Highest Skyscraper. Xt ad ; iddddda are all asking elves the y happen? Was there ever a mon: those who perished—the office the ones we joked and ned with and blood? And, if so, are they really dead? g we ra “A [evr ercervrrerrrerevere Trrervyrvvrreyyry CE Bipc. dream Ho last night She said that the colonel’s last words to her were: “I will meet you in New York, dear.” Astor, was hurried, In a fast automobile, to the Astor home, on upon an empty ocean. night °