The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1912, Page 1

~ BREAKING _AFTERS Weather—Clearing to-night: Friday probably fair. FINA «+ Cbe | “ Circulation Books Open to All,” | Fi Copsriaht, Co. x PRICE ONE CE 1912, by The Press (The New York Wor Publishing dd. CBOILERSBLEWUP NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912. ING BERG EXTRANO.3)_ Corld, “ Circulation Books Open to Al” | 18 PAGES PRICE ONE CERT. | — = oS eS SHIP G Col. John Jacob Astor, the Hero of the Terrible Sea Tragedy, Refused to Take to the Boats,--and-Was Backed by His Plucky Wife Until She Was Forced Into a Lifeboat. The Evening World, through a regular staff correspondent, Carlos F. Hurd, who arrived on the Carpathia to-night, furnishes the first actual details of the sinking of the Titanic. Seventeen hundred lives were lost in the sinking of the Titanic, which struck an iceberg at 11.45 p. m. Sunday and was at the ocean’s bottom two hours and 35 minutes later. Of the Titanic’s 341 first cabin passengers 212 were saved, 154 of them women and children; and of the 262 second cabin passengers since the disaster, 115 were saved, 102 of them women and children. Of the third class passengers, 800 in number, 136 were saved, 83 of whom were women and children. Of 985 officers and crew 199, includ- ing 22 women, were rescued. No survivors can question the courage of the crew hundred of whom gave their lives with a heroism which equalled, but could not exceed that of John Jacob Astor, Henry B. Harriss, Jaques Futrelle, and others in the long list of first cabin passengers. The bulkhead system, though probably working, prevailed only to delay the ship’s sinking. The position of the ship’s wound on the starboard quarter admitted icy water, which caused the boilers to explode, and these explosions broke the ship in two. The crash against the iceberg, which had been sighted at only a quarter of a mile, came alrhost simultaneously with the click of the levers operated from the bridge, which stopped the engines and closed! the watertight doors. Capt. Smith was on the bridge ai 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 they were the first) to reach the deck. When the rush of frightened men and women and | erying children to the decks began, the “women first”: rule was rigidly) enforced. ’ Officers drew revolvers, but in most case there was no use for them. ve é AFTER WARNING OF THE ICEBERGS © ‘A.rs. Isidor Straus Chose Death by’ Her _ Husband’s Side and Both Perished---Ship’s: Band Played-“Nearer,,My God, to Thee”” as the Mammoth Vessel Sank © Beneath the Waves. ‘Revolver shots heard shortly before the Titanic went down caused many rumors, one that Capt. Smith had shot himself, another that _ First Officer Murdock had ended his life, but members of the crew | ‘discredit these rumors. Capt. Smith was last seen on the bridge just before the ship sank, leaping only after the decks had been washed away. What became of the men with the life preservers was the question asked by many Many of those w the preservers, moved away. The snip’s string band gathered in the saloon ed “Nearer My God to Thee.” Mrs. Isidor Straus refused to leave her husband's side, and both perished toyether. Harold Cootton, Marconi operator of the Carpathia, did not go ‘to bed at his usual time Sunday night, and as a result caught the first imessage of the Titanic’s plight, which was responible for saving the cargo of rescued that landed in the harbor to-night. The Titanic was going 23 knots an hour when she banged into the iceberg, knowing she was in the zone of danger. This is testified to by several survivors. ith life preservers were seen to go down despite . e and dead bodies floated on the surface as the last boats , Near the end. and. play ' ‘SUFFERING ON RESCUE SHIP. | In compliance with the Mayor's hint, Coroners Feinberg and Hols | hauser and Coroner's Physician Weston arranged to go down the bay in 7 f aeaie a th itg| (Be Police boat Patrol and board the Carpathia. Coroner Helienstein Appalling as was the wreck of the Titanic itself, with it| nade arrangements to meet the boat at the unparalleled loss of life, the condition of the 705 survivors is such’ as to add even to the heart-sickening features of that tragedy. pier. Mayor Gaynor said that the presence of these official checkers of the dead might be of advantage to the quick settlement of problems that | The officers of the Titanlc among the survivors carry confirmation, | confront the steamship managers. The Coroners of New York Count If It be necessary, of the report that scores of members of the Titanlc’s| will be in authority over any bodies that may be brought from the Care crew, asleep in thelr quarters in the extreme forward end of the ship, were, pathia as soon as they are landed. hen the Titanic struck the iceberg, The quarters of The newly opened ward in St. Luke's Hospital, which can care for sengers, Immediately aft and below the quarters of the about sixty patients, was offered to the White Star Line to-day and the crew are also believed to have been Invaded by wreckage, Ice and water | offer was accepted by Vice-President Franklin, though when he accepted ag the Titanlc’s bulk ploughed into the obstruction in Its path, ‘ / i it he would not say whether or not he knew that there were many injured «|