The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1912, Page 3

URVIVORS TELL HOW THEY ESCAPED FROM - TITANIC AFTER GRASH ew Realized Real Danger After First Jar and Many Went Back to Bed on Being Reassured * by the Officers. al Like simultaneous photographs of the same tragedy etched on the Qatos of seven hundred people, survivors of the Titanic tell of their ex- lences and what they saw in those pitifully few hours between the ship's impact on the iceberg and the appalling moment when she ppeared. a x a's gangplank last night they began to tell their stories, Many of wore disjoinied, fraguentary—a picture here, a frightful flash of ollection there; some bordered on hallucination, some were more con- ted, as of those who are only now beginning to realize the horror ugh which they came. A few, strangely enough, are calm and lucid, jut every ono thrills with some part of the awful truth as its narrator ww it. * Each tale te like another view of the same many-sfded shield. Some- they seem to contradict cach other, but that {s because those who fitness such scenes see them as individuals. There is not a survivor it has something new and startling and dramatio to tell. Taken alto- ther, their interviews are a composite picturo of seven hundred separat experiences, Doctor Tells How Rescue Ship Found the Survivors Dr. J. F. Kemp, former surgeon of the United States Army and now Yegistrar of the University of Manila, Phillippine Islands, wae on board the Carpathia, making @ tour of the world before returning to his duties in the Ortent. When the Carpathia picked up the sixteen lifeboats of the Titanic, Dr. Komp naturally offered his medical gorvices to the ship's doctors in caring for the women and children who suffered from exposure, During the four days that elapsed between the tme the first eurvivora Wore picked up ari the time the Carpath!a landed her unhappy survivors last Qighte Dr. Kemp had full opportunity of tatking to hundreds of them, Hla,army €né medical experience had siecied ¢ and he was adle to hear the! Moris calmly. Aw a result, the osiie story he told of the wreck and tneldents sur the rescue partie intercet, q was lying in my bunk reading about 11.3) o'clock Sunday night," he ead, “when I beard the engiaes of the Carpathla begin to slow down and finally atop. I knew immediately that something was wrong. As I was not undresse @ wént out on deck. There were only a few of us aware that anything Wnusual had happened and most of the Carpa few several officers running in the dircetion of the wireless room and nat Rewent there. It was then that I learned thar ou ip tho ‘S. O. 8.’ signals from the Tiante, Baiele ever heard that aigra!, “Our wireless operator, Harold Cotton, always wen! ond on this night had taken off his ear pieces preparato: ome roason—he ways he never will know what caused li—he decided to put on the ear pisces again and ‘Ilsten tn’ once before going to his bunk, As he eed the tiny receivers to Gis ears Cotton heard the ‘S. 0. 8.’ call from the tanic, He listened intently, at the same time ringing hs dell and cailing his @eward, whom he sent to notify Cap: Rostrom, It was then that the C stopped her engines. As soon as Capt, Romtrom loarned the Titanic's t position he turned his slp about and ordered full speed ahead to tho passengers had retire ally wireleas operator had picked it was only by a miracle that the ed about that hour, to going to bed, Fo: “None of the oMoers of the Carpathia went to bed that night. ‘They hov- @red about the wireless room, but fow messages came from the doomed liner. Wow of the Campathia’s passengers knew anything of the dlsvster until next morning. CARPATHIA SPED TO RESCUE. “Capt. Rostrom put on special lookouts for icebergs and imade as much as dared in the dangerous ice felis. It was just a iittle after 6 o'clock that wo “came upon the first boat from the Titante, it crowded with Women. ‘The lower cargo doors of the Carpath!a were opened and the women bnd children wore tenderly lfted tn, Thogo who wero unable to clamber in thomee!ves wore hoisted up on deck in bags. For the next three hours the Carpathia was busily engaged in picking up the sixteen lifeboats, Some men Were rescued from @ life roft, out they were picked up over the stern of the fesse] and I did not see them, “In only one boat did I notice en unusually large number of men, @ajority of the boats there were only one or two mon, but tn one of th Mfeboats there were forty men and only two or three women. Most of th en were etokers from the Titanic, and we later learned that they were in the rat boat that left the s It was th ng a Ufeboat thet first warned the passengers of the Titanic of ness of their Gtuation. “AM day Monday we cruised about in the flelds, eating around a circle, the about twenty mfles, qnd ty ected this circle, looking for oti: ors, We saw and picked up only bodies, Three of them @ere men and one was a little ba boy, All the men wore Life preservers, ou @nquestionsbly whey hed been frozen to death, Their bodies were tenderly Garried below, but were buried at sca next day. “At 8.80 o'clock Monday morning, after Capt. Rostrom was assured. there as little chance of saving ey of the other of tho passengers fro: the Ttante, ere wae @ burial service on boan! the Carpath!a for those who were lost. aus want to witness sugh another scene In my Ufe, The hundreds of women Who were saved were gathered tn the saloon, clad for the mos: part in their hight clothing and nondescript coats furnished them by the women voyagers on the Carpathia, Every one stood with bowed heads the preacher read the burial service of the Church. The women who hat #avo* eromed firmly to betleve that chefr loved ones would be saved. WOMEN DIDN’T REALIZE LOSS. VP siVhy, there ane more than thirty widows o do not potieve a single one of them hae yet co: a » hysterteat to underetand it all, several of to sea their husbands on the pier to-ntght. They thought the Rusbands had beon picked up by other vessels dto-of them. She dia not know Col. Astor was on the Baltic, told me that the {mpact when the ‘Mtantc struck ond slid teebergs was ao trifling It did not disturb or. fri@hten them th Ge deginnins. Tho men in the first cabin, did not want to send thelr wives away in the life boats when the ofMeors ordered them sent over the wide, They Bid to the officers: ‘This ship cannot sink. Why, then, should we put the women firto ja mall boat on a night Ike this?” When the men were assured that there was danger they reluctantiy:rent the womon over the aide, kissing them goodby, but telling them they would be picked up tn an hour, as soon as a complete exam- nation of the damage had shown the imer was not badly hurt. Few of the men o.Kiased their wives goodby belloved ft was thetr final meeting. “1 understand that Mrs, Isidore Straus could have been eaved easily. The tried to put her into tho life boats, but she Jerked from them and ran to her and'a side. She threw ber arms about his neck, ‘If you have to stay,’ she hed, ‘I will stay, too, You cannot die alone, dear.’ As the lifeboats pulled avay, the sailors told me, they could see Mr. and Mrs. Straus standing on the Gock in the full glare of the lights, kissing each other, They died in each others Mrs. Astor, I understand, ts lost. She §hinks Ge was picked “The firet vessel to come up was the Californian. In @ short time the Burmah, @ Russian tramp steamer, came up. The Californian had been guampmaned by the pruveieio calls, but the Burmah had no wireless and was amply in the track of ‘As the survivors came, half fainting, half hysterical, down’ the Car-! ee. % Died With Her Husband Rather aoLhan Be Saved Without Him the vessels, so that the passengers who were saved would have been picked up by that vessel, even had there been no wireless to summon aid, LEFT TWO SHIPS TO SEARCH. “Wheh we left, the Burmah and Californian were still on the scene, having signalled and wirelessed that they would remain to search for bodies and other possible survivors, It was about 2.80 o'clock Monday afternoon that we gave uD the search and put back for New York. During the run in on Monday, four per- sons who had sustained injuries during the transfer to the lifeboats, or had been 4 up out of the water by the lifeboats after the Titanic went down, died. 4 eight bodies on board, the four who had died and the four bodies which ticked up. All were buried at » ‘During our trips through the ice flels we came upon what the ship's officers believe was the loeberg that sent the Titanic to her doom. The portion of the berg ehowing above the water was about four hundred feet square and about ninety feet above the water. As only a amall portion of an iceberg shows above the level of the sea, you can appreciate the terribleness of this great frozen mon- ater. . “The. passengers tel! me the Titanic: did not strike her head on, Instead, she seemed to slkle over a submerged portion of the berg, along her starboard side, aring out her very vitels and permitting the water to flow Into every compart- ment, Then the Titante slipped from the bers, broke clean in two and went down. “There were a large number of the passengers who reported to me that Capt. Smith shot himself in the head as the liner went down. T could not confirm that report, nor could I get an absolute denial of it. The story, however, was not credited by the majority. “1 do not believe that more than 670 survivors were picked up on the Car pathla, though some of the reports say that as many as 706 were saved. From what I got from the passengers, there 1s no doubt tn the world that every man, woman and child on the Titanfe could havé been saved had there been adequa ufeboats and lferafts, There was no pante and there was ample time to have sent them all away tn the boats, had there been enough. ‘A large number of the survivors who reached the Carpathia were suffering from frost bites, though only a few of them were in what we doctors would cell @ serfous condition, It {s not true that Mrs, Astor wore only a night dress and coat when she came over the side. She seemed to me to have been com- pletely dressed, and I was very close to her when she was picked up. She went immediately to a stateroom and was attended by the ship's doctor. None of the other physicians saw her, ° “I am wurprised to hear that there had been comment over the fact that Bruco Ismay was saved. Nono of the survivors seemed to notice that fact on the Carpathia, We heard absolutely no word about him from the survivors, I am not, therefore, in a pdsition to discuss Mr. Ismay's action tn entering one of the Hfeboats, for we heard nothing about it from those who were saved. They all scemed too glad to be saved thomrelves to criticize some one else.” Woman Forced Husband ' To Climb Into Liteboat Mrs, Elmer Taylor, who, with her husband, was saved fn one of the first boats lowered, tofd a graphic story of the tragedy. “Mr, Taylor and I were standing on the promenade deck,” she sald. “when we felt’ what at first appeared to be a slight crashing scnsation, as if the ship were ploughing through a field of tce floes, Naturally we were a ttle startled, but soon afterward one of the ship's officers appeared and told us not to be alarmed, as no serious damage had been done. A ‘Score or more of other passengers grouped about us and another officer came up and advised us to go below and get our life belts. “Some of the ladies were frightened; but there was not eny eign of a pantc. In fact, none of us felt that the Titanic could possibly atnk, “Finally, word came to lower the lifeboats, and then !t wae that we al! felt more or less uneasy, although the officers continued to sasure us that all was well and the boats were simply being lowered as a precaution, They told us that no matter what happened it would be tmposstble for the slip to eink tn less than forty-elght hours.” “T refused to go Into the Ufeboat without my husband, sald there would be no objection to his solng, too. in t he boat, and even so it was not crowded. “Not until we had been lowered into the water and had @rifted some distance away from the Titanle did we realize how terrible the accident was, Almost within @ stone's throw of us was the outline of the mammoth Iceberg, which towered many feet higher than the Titanic, ‘Then the great ehip seemed to draw away from it, and as {t did there was @ low, rumbling sound, which told us only nd one of the officers ‘There were several other men too plainly there had been a very serious accident, “On we drifted, and when about a mile distant from the Ntante there came the most s! ng eries of distress from those left behind us, The night was very clear and the stars were all out, #0 that we could see the passengers on the big ship apparently rcrambling on the decks, Many of them seemed to be jumping from the side of the ship into the wa “It was not long a this tha: to sink, She was backing away slowly from the towering e, . three rows of lights disapp from vlew, and then all we could see was the great black outline of the ship slowly going down. The band played on, but now and then above the strains of the music came the heart-rending cries of the doomed passengers, It was @ night I shal} nover forget, and only God knows how thankful I am tha { MARCON! SOARS AGAIN. | 17] ONaT continued on. the curb yesterday, the price Jumping from 170 to 249. | SHAVING STICK > For Tender Faces to an effort of\some of the insiders to pourage heavy subs ns to new stock, The etock holder wpany approved) yesterday in City a Indispensable for those subject to red. hess, roughness, 4 other irritations of the skin, Ashaving luxury. No mug . RO gerins, NO waste of proposition to Increase the capital stock no soggy soap, time ormoney. 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Bvew when the order was brought to us to put on life preservers and come om deck we will failed to realize the situation. Mfedoats being ewung overboard the seriousness of the matter began te dawe, on us Then came the command: “Women and children first.’ “*- “OmMicere and members of the crew went adout repeating the 4 ‘women and children first.’ Many women had to be forced into the some thinking It was « joke and others refusing ¢4e Be parted from a husbands fathere or brothers. “When the passengers saw the serioveness with which the offlcers as crew of the Titanic went about their business they began te realise that : thing terrible had happened and began to make ther way towards the life boats. “Col. Astor and Mra, Astor were standing near us, When the men ef the Titanic came to her and told her to get into @ lifeboat whe refueed to leave her husband's side, Then I wae asked te enter one of the boats. My husband toki me to go but I did not want to leave He reassured me, saying danger was not serious and that he would follow after me in a Btill I could not believe that everything wae as he eatd. I felt that if f lett tm something terrible would happen. The officers told me I would 10 ot into @ lifeboat. My husband told me to and faally I was led te the side and lowered into @ boat . “Mra, Astor had left her husband and hed been placed tn ancther Aa I waa being lowered over the side I eaw my husband and Col. Astor tng together. Jacques Futrelie was standing near them. My husband his hand. That was the last I saw of him. “Forjhoure we eat freezing in the lifeboat, Then we saw the and the men began to row tn her direction. Then the Carpathia stopped ropes were thrown to ue and we were pulled against her side, Then rope - Gera and ewinge were lowered and I was placed in a awing and pulled up the deck. I stood watohing the boats ae they arrived and th came ‘on deck thinking every moment that my husband would appear. And t*en, when the boat had been emptied I began to realise that he had gone down with the Titanto which was nowhere tn sight. ay “Om, I can’t delieve that he te gone. They must have been enved—dhoss’ men who waited unt] the wemen and children haé been taken away in the” Mfedoata, 1 can't believe that they are lost.” Spring. Mixture ~~ Coats $ 5% Regular $8 Va!ues arrivals! Even though priced specially for to-morrow at $5.98 this wonderfully swagger long coat looks many times more costly. d All the smartest Spring coat features are attractively combined in this jaunty model. One Style Pictured Excellent quality, perfect cut_ and stunning appearance. The smartest Engiish stripec novel'y cloth in delightful tan and gray mix- i @idn't consent to my husband remaining on board and waiting for amother life ‘oat, as he wanted to do, but insisted on his coming with me.” Bride Tells How She Parted From Husband. Charles Dahl, a second class passenger who salle? from Australia by way of England, intending to make his home with his mother in North Dakota and carried everything he possessed in the world with him, sald: “I was in my bunk at the time the crash came and shook the ship. I looked at my watch and saw it was about 11.20. 2 jumped up without stop- ping to dress, rushed up on deck, and in some way, I don’t know how, found myself in the water. I must have jumped. “The sight wag terrible. Men were fighting with women to get in boats, I ‘neard several shots fred around me, All I could remember was that I went over- board and was picked up by one of the boats, I lost everything I possessed.” Mre, D. W. Marvin, who was on her bridal trip, said: “I was in bed at the time of the shock with my husband, At first the stew urda told us there was nothing to be alarmed over, Consequently we were late In getting on deck. When we did get there most all the boats had gone. I got In practically the last one. A sailor grabbed me and threw me in, wrenching me away from my husband, The last thing I heard Dan say was: ‘You go, I wil! stay and do what I can, and will come later if possible.’ “The sights were horrible, I saw a man shoot his way into one of the boats Then he was shot by the oMcer in charge of the boat and thrown out.* Emile Jongin, the firet baker, sald “I was in the kitchen at the time, I rushed up on deck and discovered every- thing In an indescribable panic. Men were all fighténg and striggiing in a seeth- ing masa and on the stern of the boat there seemed to be thousands as the bow was settling. Iran tnto this mags and in some way hung on to tho ailing over the side of the ship. Finally I could hold on no longer and aropped into the water, where I was, it seemed, two hours. I finally was picked up by one of the boats.” ‘Mr, and Mra, A. A, Dick of Calgary, Canada, first cabin passengers, left in the second boat. Said Mrs. Dick: + eee Newest DRIFTED IN BOAT WHILE THE MUSIC PLAYED. “It seemed as though the people were #o stunned and dased that the first few boats were filled indifferently. As we got into the boat and it waa guided away, the band was playing ‘Nearer My God to Thee’ and the lights were burning brightly. We drifted around in the boat, it seemed, about four hours until 4 a vefore we were picked up.” econd class passenger, of Boston, sald, w hip in the boat in charge of Fourth OMficer Louve, There were fifty-five women tn this boat. Men were on the point of Jumping into {t, which would have swamped It, and were only sturped by Officer Louve drawing a re- volver, After taking us out of range of the Titan‘c's suction, he transferred us to other boats etely filled and went back after more from cannot be given the ofMcer for hla work. We were in the boat for three or four hours and all around us were ice cakes and ergs and wo could hear the cries and groans of those who had ‘umped over- poard and were not rescued, and thore in other boats, Just at dawn the rescue ship appeared and we were saved from dying of exposure.’ Margaret Hays of No. 304 West Eighty-third stroet, a firat cabm passenger, anla: “When the crash came J rushefl on deck after being told by the stewaris to prepare for the worst. When I appeared on deck I ran into Mr, J. M. Tucker, one of the passengers, and we soon found ourselves tn the midet of a struggling, erying masa of humantty, We rushed to the port side, where they were filling ‘one of the boats, Some one, I dtd not know who at the time, was st the boat with @ man, It was a woman. She suddenly thrust a year-an vld boy into my arme and said: ‘Here, for sake take th of It!" I took the boy and a sullor threw us tnto the bo 1 for the child ever since, I believe it to bo the little son of Mrs. Allleon, who refused to eave her husband and died with him. If I do not find any relatives of the baby 1 shall keep tt and keep my promise to its dead mother." Miss Hays carried the baby as she came down the « jooking Httle chap. Mr. and Mra, Stengel, first-class passengers, who live in Newark, N. J., were among the saved, He said: “I was asleep at the time of the crash in my berth on the port tures, contrastingly serge tri d and cut on semi-fitting lincs. 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