The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1912, Page 1

20 BERGS | IN WILD DASH T0 AID Te WEATHER-—Fair to-night an@ Saturday. [FINAL] Tbe “ @eculation Boo Booke ke Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. “courdng SPLN MR Ras NEW YORK, FR FRIDAY, ‘APRIL 19, 1912. 28 PAGES beeen 4“ Circulation Books Open to All,’ ene a TITAN'S 1,476 DEAD FAST OFFER OF TITANG THRILLING STORY OF RESCUE a ANFUL SACRIFICE TQ SHOT HIMSELF ON BRDSE = TOLD BY CARPATHIA’S SKIPPER 24. Murdock, WhoConned Liner to Her Destruction, Little French Children Thrown Capt. Rostrom Describes B i ; f f i efore Sen: 4 Killed Himself After All Boats Got Off and Ves- By Father From Liner to Safety ¥ Investigators Daring Dash in a | sel Settled for Two Mile Plunge to Bottom. Spite of Peril in Response to ¥ ( Titanic’s Call for Help. ISMAY MAKES DENIAL OF ALL RESPONSIBILITY: Mr. Rayner Bitterly Arraigns Man- ! aging Director in a Speech Before | the Senate in Washington. 4 TR Aa hc PP ey eT e. WASHINGTON, April 19.—Senator Rayner of Maryland 4 in the Senate late to-day bitterly attacked J. Bruoe 18-7 may, Managing Director of the White Star Line. Me 4 said the captain of the Titanic undoubtedly acted under orders from Mr. Ismay, who, he declared, “risked the life of the entire ship to make a speedy passage across the sea. ” Senator Rayner asserted that Mr. Ismay should be held responsible for the disaster and declared that the civiized nations would applaud criminal prosecution ef + the management of the line. | | It was First Officer Murdock of the Titanic and not Cap- | ‘ | tain Smith who stood upon the bridge as the ice strewn waters | ‘Hurled Agaiont Iceberg at 23 Knots lapped ever higher over the ship’s sides and gathered in their: an Hour to Establish Reputa- hundreds of mpotent, struggling souls, and sent « leaden bullet| : ae’ t tion for New and Biggest j crashing through his brain, ; Liner H Quartermaster Moody, commanded to man one of the lifeboats ¥ while he stood beside Murdock on the tail bridging superstructure, saw | The loss of the: Titanic on her maiden voyage was caused by the Murdock’s figure outlined distinctly against the starry wall of the horizon speed mania that has gradually come to possess the management of [#8 he ng hin. a 2s res: Bing his pocket, deliberately ‘ eit ne e | Placed it to pul e fi ocean liners. ue Titanic, tushing Hie? eee an i seta ge ea } The young quartermaster, manning the tiller of his boat and ut- gerous iceberg territory in order to establish a reputation ot the ship an {tering commands to the men at the oars, looked back at the sinking ship | the White Star line, was sidewiped by a partially submerged iceberg. |just in time to witness the suicide. He saw it was the clean-shaven, A great hole was torn in the Titanic’s hull below. the’ waier-line, just | youngistt-looking Murdock, and nof the. bea skipper, who stood high forward of amidships, on her starboard side, her most“vulnetable point, | ¢st above the enveloped decks of the gigantic : hip. and chose instan- 4” Where there was no bulkhead protection. She struck the igeerg at 11.45 berks ibid be wake ringer 4 ant ra in 30 Se TS 1) 1 ur ol while before, and | o'clock Sunday night and sank into the Atiantic at, 2,20 o'slock Monday declares the first officer of the cloomed vessel never left the bridge, Capt morning... | Smith had been everywhere about the decks giving orders, and had left |. An explosion of steam in the boiler room of the Titante about half} Murdock on the bridge. If it had béen the venerable skipper’s plan to get | an hour after she came in contact with the iceberg, is believed to have| upon the bridge and go down with his command in pursuance of the | ‘been responsible for the loss of the ship. Survivors among the crew say | immemorial custom of the sea, he was defeated in his purpose, and died | “that but for this explosion the Titanic might have floated until the arrival | Pp pekacnb hers tee den: mre. of the Carpathia at daybreak. , The band had broken out the strains of “Nearer, My God, to Thee The explosion was caused by an inrush of icy salt water upon the! some minutes hefore Murdock lifted the revolver to his head, fired and superheated boilers. This created a mass of steam which, contined in the toppled over on his face. Moody saw all this in a vision that filled his | hviler rooms as in a cylinder, forced an opening for itself and blew a big ar as vend turet apa Daisy ech lite ge hs el J the United States Senate, who are at the Waldorf-Astoria investigating tl hole in the hull, The vessel was practicaly broken in {wo and the front | | caters: quckeet ties (AGN: cause of the wreck. It was told by Capi. Arthur Henry Rostrom, i ,portion sagged down and dragged the rest of the ship beneath the surface, captaist s . ‘i fee Wherever Murdock’s eye swept the water in that instant, before | aN) DUMP’ ann Lows G§ of the rescue ship Carpathia, who drove his vessel wii rout heed of danger During the two hours and thirty-five minutes the gigantic liner re- he drew his revolver, it looked upon veritable fields of ‘irowning men | oa epee ————_— - in response to the call for aid. j mained afloat she was a theatre upon which was enacted one of the most! and women, From below decks there must have come to him the With icy mountains towering on each side, he speeded his ship at sev: ‘ i ‘ A 4 enteen miles an hour—a tremendous speed for this ship. i as in history. Starting quietly and without particular appre-| shrieks and groans of the caged and drowning. He evidently never gave | thrilling “ cd his A bie ‘A aD ee vuickened as the danger |a thought to the possibilty of saving himsel, his mind freezing wih | | This story was told after J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of thd rend tod th pha came van with all the lifeboats away carrying | the horrors he beheld and having room for just one central idea—swift \ Whitg Star Line, made many denials on the witness stand of any responsi; increase ec came ¥ a bility for the wreck. Jess than one-third of the total ship's company, 1,476 human beings found | ¢xtinction. ' : f. ith death, Quartermaster Moody was on the bridge with Murdock when ane | To the committee, sitting in the East Room of the Waldorf-Astoria} themselves face to face with de: wlan: oes of the lookouts in the crow’s nest first gave the signal of danger ahead Mr, Ismay declared he did not get into a lifeboat until he saw that there A EROES pwr ehh >of pie A men and women; facing the| and then telephoned that there was a mammoth Iceberg looming scarcely | were no women about him. He denied he had issued any order on the A great majority o! by | ers on their Nps and fortitude in thelr hearts. Almost to|@ quarter mile ahead. voyage to Capt. Smith, He said the Titanic was not being rushed at full ms i tik ip’s orchestra, made up of stewards off duty, played on the Capt. Smith was in the chart room just aft of the wheel house and speed when she crashed into the iceberg that sent her 2,000 fathoms to Hoeenete deck, and the last air played was “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” | Moody darted in to tell him of the warning. Swift as the quartermaster of the Titantc when this man rushed to| the bottom of the North Atlantic. She was not making her full revolu- Ph A thrilling story of a d h through tanes of icebergs to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic disaster was told to-day to the members f But not all died bravely, From the bowels of the vessel swarmed) was, the hidden ice beneath the sea was swifter, and there came that dull| Cared For on Carpathia and ie rail and ahouled: rene yorhe Beeee tions and there was no great need to hurry. He did admit that she had hordes of men from the south of Burope, Laveiaben mae yh pi bagi shock, faint and fleeting like the thrust of a poniard, that spelled dis-! yi. Margaret Hays Has the boat understood that ne wished to/ made twenty-one knots an hour during the trip. g fell to fighting blindly w | Ss Ma s ' ing boats and Anding none, they ¢ he worid have ever borne. | jaend the bables to them, Mr. Ismay told the Senators how he had aided others in getting imto indly for the lfeboats, | aster to the greatest ship the waters of t : . | ‘ Lat ry RR a Overboard they went tn warms, Seley a ihe reat wad these iater|STUCK TO POST TO THE LAST. them at Her Home. ("yz me staat wr tn es tenons] ane bots. He didnot know that some of the tats were poorly manned; pee attoee eink dragged down Into the sea In the suction caused | Forty-six ihousand tons driven at express speed upon an irresistible | tr the Iagae Bey. Gat: and 58 that the women in them had to row about the ocean for more than shx Speyer the Titante. ledge of ice, Murdock and Capt. Smith read the ciory of that almost tietiltiie ont, TAs th |hours, He had given no orders in the contusion that followed the collision vy, the die on the decks or out In the waves, At the } ¢ in an instant, and almost while Moody was giving the warn- away the passengers Jand he declared he was a passenger only because he wanted to see how Nor did all the victims silent shock i stan giving cident happened, the parts of the boat which were given! ; — Smit! <I ven the | her hanging over the | the new boat worked. hour when the accide! PD ing Capt. Smith rushed out and asked Murdock if he had given the over to the crow and part of the third cabin passengers were bi bh cad warning to close the emergency doors and shut off the engines. ought Altogether Mr. Ismay did not seem to think it strange that he was ome * The she Hision was not severe an 4 . | t with sleeping people. THe i oc is mp peda tid ‘4 | From the bridge Murdock handled innumerabie levers that uttered i" | of the survivors of the great J lisaster, He was cool and complacent Be y of there slet bd * tee i" bey Linely len sae aftor the Titanic struck the teoberg, the collision | vain signals to the drowned and drowning in the engine rooms, He |! | fore the committee saying that his company wished the Within a few nmittee he remained on the ship more ering abou, the t Hinge’ @ ejed by thetr bulkheads were automatically closed, ‘This put bulwarks of steel between | shouted through tubes and telephones io ears that did not hear, while |{Hem (Frew wuss *| fullest inquiry, H acores of persons in the third cabin and forecastle and safety. Whether | she commander of the ship hurried down to the decks and directed the | pen sa) nee erie VOLE teRa iw can re" | than an hour after the ¢ und almost until she sank A or not the doors were forced open later by water pressure is not known. lowering of the lifeboats and the disposition of the passengers. [ea the walfs ace grate " 1 PY ie yy| THRILLING STORY TOLD BY ROSTROM. if they remained loved, the hymans Deblnd the TASiiere. Wan: conn That smooth-shaven first officer never for a moment left his post | show ! wits cher omany Ielnees and RTL RAvacathed the uiaan| After Ismay left the stant Capt, Rostront tol a graphic story of Row aye ship tn ari bidet tbe 1 ee sh pled ate al on the superstructure, never abandoned his futile task of directing the | : N of the two Me prep ihe Ni pa 1 ie, |e learned of the distress of the Titanic and of driving at full speed toward Bs i seuld spring the hulk of the Titanic to the surface again, | mechanism of a sinking hulk, and when he saw at last that he was |boyw. one 7 ah he " Mm ey 5 her position with all around him. A modest man is this smaft for she is two miles down and no diver could reach her. |merely guiding the monster of the deep down to the bottom of the sea, | S41t"o ® that they were prob: | 1 ren have been brovgh: op faced and ruddy 1 English skipper. His story told in a mates Capt. Hinith, xedulously observing the traditions of the sea, went down wu while hundreds were perishing before his eyes or had perished below, he ably wocompaniet on the ‘Titan Sins they aragerttey abiasidea to neve | Of FACE WAY. Was. th details. To him it seemed almost a matter Riaahip, altagumh he was innit int when. she ran on ihe I yout bis \esetves the inspiratiop that made him the master of his own extermina. |Mieir father At the table of course of duty, but all his he were moved when he told of the ‘ ig Pepin and his oe the Titanio. ok dom (th Haye the story of the saving of the furnished w reading of the burial service over what he believed to be the ocean grave 4 ” u Mey a“ te t 1 “ erp ee % \ " By 10 fete to starboard after the explosion, Capt. Smith hurried f petty ee who had taken their places in the rigid dis: Ipline ot the abip |’ Capt, Rostrom denied that the Ca 1 had refused to take a wires es t tha ship would float, untlt @ shudder that vibrated | gnq were lowering the boats. Capt, Smith came up to blin on the bridge fc father less message from Cie Presi tthe United States, He had heard a ei Frat a commarinent wall ial giv) "ar Then ee veral times and then rushed down again. They spoke to one another only » alwoye ip Xa Many people want to aden them uestion as to Major Butt answered with the reply that he was net on ‘Continued on Second PH: ) in monosyllables, ee an some their relapives board Nak aL, | ‘The bearded admiral of the White Star Line fleet, with every life-saving | jing ther a wa) Se BLve Re ee The investigation is being or * boats were leaving ¢ | device launched from the decks, was returning tu the deck to perform the | the v ant tell the name ket Office moved from ¢ sink re Committee on Commerge—Sn mnducted by three members of the ith of Michigan, chairman, Bourne Ne Pa wed from | (ng T hix man Was seen «i «they come fron x ™m i verial Hotel 1 aes Bnaa, sacred office of going down with his ship when a wave sprang over the side th ae two eMAidten In hin Gecia Pi i Bia Ue >| Newlands. Madigan Sus Post. Oftkce, and tore him {rom the ladder. | eee were ae heled . Ss il fT fue complete an investigati lies tm tha He ee Geuernt da The Titanic was sinking rapidly by the head, with the twisting #ldelong | wnalier chap was th iis unddr ¢ Mties Hay ot This will be as full and comple’ e an investigation as fies , ? an nd | motion ghat was soon to alm her on her curse two miles down. Murdock |FATHER DROPPED THE CHIL. <intion fos lee ome ke ind ‘The committee's power,” said Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, ¥ Ait at mis, a sink sitin any’ other jaw the skipper swept out, but ald wot move, Capt. Smith wos nt one of al DREN INTO LIFERGAT, Hay par ka like a day nursery. | Chairman of the committee, before it went into session. “We have sums Their special price to-da: . | “It must have been one of the last of | —— uns | Liner, poem Oped Baturday night (Continued on Second Page.) y the lfebouts that Wae leaving the side FOR BASEBALL PAGE 21, | moned J. 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