The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1912, Page 4

| ‘Her from Her Husband, Who Was Lost, with. Plenty of Room in Boat—Tells Graphic Story of Ocean Tragedy. Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, daughter of Congressman Hughes of West Vir- ride of a few weeks and now a widow, was helped down the Car- daithia’s gangplank and fell into the arms of her father and her uncle, Dr. a T. Vinson, of Huntington, W. Va. For twenty minutes she was inco- tierent, She finally calmed down sufictently with the ald of hot stimu- 4uts, which her father brought, to be led away. j Her story was teld to her father, uncle and an Evening World reporter | the Waldorf last night. Mrs. Smith's story is an amaging recital [MT was asleep when the Titanie struck,” she said. “The shock hardly more than half waken me. A few minutes later my husband came into #atercom. He told me to dies, but not to be in too great @ harry bad | 6 officers hao cesured him there was no immediate danger. On the way Vhovdeck he tuld me the accident occurred while Capt. @mith and Mr. iuney were ata banquet given by Mr. Ismay to tho chief officers, Two bonis had been launched when we reached the deck and there was | very little excitement. One of the boats had scarcly over a dozen people im her. 1 was told to enter th? thira boat, which jay in the davits. 1 turned fo Capt. Smith, who was standing by the port rail,and asked him to allow my busband to go with me, He sald; “/No, madam; under no circumstances will any man be permitted to we this boa!! THEY KILLED HIM--MY HUSBAND!” * “My husband reassured me—he tried to cheer me; he patted the Cap- fin on the back and exclaimed ‘Good boy!’” “’ Here Mra. Smith gave way to paroxyms of hysteria. She sobbed a0 vio- ently that her father picked her ug bodily and pressed her to his heart. le asked that she stop reciting the story. }“No father, dear; I must tell; oh, God help us; I must tell it all; my heart sas been heavy with the secret which I dared not speak aboard ship. They <ept him from me; they killed him—my husband! There was room—oh, mitch of it. “I was lifted into the third boat and lowered overside, In this boat re were only twenty-six people and ono of the sallors was drunk, ob, ‘oer papa, wasn’t it too, bad and they wouldn't let my Lucien in, There room; lots of it, but Captain Smith's orders of no man—it will forever hg in my ears. “The women had to row the boat. One of'théee women was the Countess , Who rowed four hours. We went three-quarters of a mile away, through the clear night I could see icebergs all around us. It was like AS die odhp-ordhaathpepa yp alae Bry oneg ., “ee time there confusion was beginaing. Thére was o sound as if of an explo- the gtigt? ‘was so light we could constantly mako out the loeberg which sank Ing over the side. BASE DON’T DISTURB” ON ISMAY’S DOOR. " “| WATCHED MR. ISMAY COME ON BOARD. HE WAS IN A IOODEN BOAT ANO WAS CARRIED TO A STATEROOM. OPPO. ITE HI® HOOM WERE TWENTY-EIGHT NEWLY-MADE wiDows. Ht CABIN DOOR WAS A NOTICE READING, ‘PLEASE DON’T 'URB! SURGEONS AND GTEWARDS WERE IN CONSTANT AT- DANCE UPON HIM. | GLEPT PART OF THE TIME IN A PASE JEWAY ON THE FLOOR. “I borrowed money to send Rever delivered, although J , Was relayed from Boston. * . Lucien P. Smith Says Capt. Smith Tore weird polar stage setting. I watched other boats launched from both sides that ‘wae order, wut J heard two shots right after that, Dow Girst slowly. After that we drifted, almost freesing to once did any of the saflors in our boat attempt to row and that) a the Carpathian was sighted. When I was rescued I sprained my| SAW LIGHTS GO OUT AND HEARD TERRIFIC ROAR, less messages which I am informed id for them. Only one message was|us away a mile and a halt from the sinking ehip. Ay we went we could hea ivered, that to Father Ryan in Cleveland, and this message, I am tn- wen ae “TRE BVENING W WORLD, FRIDAY, ¥raeos vo Oe wore ttm RIDAY apait Wu we | | x = SY MisS Sarn PALMER ‘AR CAR PATHIAY ‘Oa BY.WNDERW! even had the Carpathia missed the distress signal, as several vessels were headed for the wreck and two arrived shortly after the Carpathia. Besides Mrs. Isidor Straus the following women went to a watery ave with their husbands: Mrs. W. F. Hopkins, Mrs. Quigg Baxter, rs. Charles M. Hays, Mrs. Thomas Pears, Mrs. Max Stehlin and Mrs, Frank P. Wood. Survivors say that these women faced death Aimly, as though they esteemed it an honor to share the final danger with t f men who had been doomed by the laws of the sea to remain behind. Story of the Tragedy As Told by Survivors (Continued from Page 3.) @eck. The bowt gave a great lurch and seemed to stop. A dell sounded. I ran up on deck in my pajamas, ‘The stewards were rushing around, and one of them told mo to go back to bed, that everything was all right. We went back to bed, and in twenty minutes we dressod. Just as we Were finishing @ steward eame to our room and cried: ‘For God's sake got on deok and got your lifebelts on!’ Not stopping to co: dressing, wo rushed on deck and started for a boat, My wife wouldn't le me. They tried to tear-her away from me. After a while there was room both of us in a boat. “We went a mile and a half from the doomed ship, and as we went we cou: hear the and playing and sve the lights still glowing in the cating, This con | tinued for some time, while we drifted around among the ice cakes for wha seemed ike an interminable period, All of a sudden the ghts went out, ther wea a roar and all was atill, Thero was nothing visible where the hulk of th ship had been. We drifted eround until the rescue ship picked us up hour. laser." Miss Elisabeth Nye, @ Salvation Army Inesle coming to New York in regu lation uniform, was suved In boat No. 11, She said: “There were many deeds of heroism, also some of cowardice, which, perhap let us hope, can be traced to the frenzy of the moment. My whole training ha been never to fear death, and I gladly would have stayed if I could have helped I was put into the boat, together with about thirty other women, and they tool them singing and playing ‘Nearer, My God to Thee.’ “When we got out of the danger sone we drifted around and could see fro: the lights on the ship the desperate struggle that was going on among some t " save themselves, and’men jumping overboard at intervals, There were fight oO. oe of ot amine 2 pose alle ogc el ideypanine eg me of frantic men to get into the boats, Finally, after what seemed years, the light. there were boats enough for all, and that thelr husbands would ‘come @ later boat in case of danger. went out and we knew that with them went many lives, When dawn brok: the reacue ship came and the rest seems like a dream. I would have gladly dicc Mt Mt had served any god purpose, I did not once fear death. The herolc Action: “Capt. Smith assured us there was no possible chance, of the Titanic of many of the men showed they felt that way, too." sinking, at ‘Their fathers and mothers were left behind, “The most worful lack of proper attention was soen on the rescue ship | leaped overboard athia, I have not had a change of clothing since the disaster. Part o: ty clothing is still wet,” and Mrs. Smith demonstrated thig was true, EN NEGLECTED ON CARPATHIA, ‘for the passengers. the passengers were asked to sign an agreement to say nothin, of the others.” } facts as told by his daughter before the House cf Representatives an ‘fan investigation, + ’ IMEN BRAVELY FACED DEATH. El. Archibald Gracie, one of the survivors, was drawn down wit! she would be drowned. The wireless oj asleep ordinaril iP e when he caught the summons for aid. ‘ ast, not for two or three daya. Four babies were in our boat. “pus Carpathia rapidly became a horror ship. People died every day and overboard, Just y of them were buried at sea. I used to look at the dead every day} Mr. F. C, Dou if my husband was among them. After asalatin; Atte 48 much as I could in quioting th “dig the second day aboard the Carpathia when a general feeling | myseif near one of the boats. t % pita egy Pi -R, W. Daniel, who lost $3,000,000 in securities, was in our boat,| #4 none of th ai been picked up by us after he had been thrown overboard. He was|#/IM6 Until Analy the lights went out and she disappeared with @ roar,” ifgoren to death and had to be worked over two hours when rescued, ‘the mecident whed we reached shore, I signed the agreement as did MRS. WALTER M, CLARK SAW HER HUSBAND GO DOWN WITH THE TITANIC _ Mrs, Smith's father, Congressman Hughes, declares to-day he would take wreck, caught a grating when he returned to the surface, clambered ot boand‘an overturned collapsible lifeboat and eventually reached theCar- Court Ju * He was on the ship to the last, and says that a Miss Evans of ew refused to be rescued because she had been told by a fortune | tor of the Carpathia, Harold Cotton, would have when the call trom the Titanic reached him, He However, survivors would have been accomplished on Monday Ar Eleanor Danforth of Maine, one of the passengers on the Carpathia, sald: “Many stories were told by the survivons, some of them almost unbelievable One man, J. B. Thayerjr. of Philadelphia, stuck to the ship until the last, He before tho ship sank. He was not far enough away te ul suction and was drawn down twice, he sald. He finally yy one of the boats in an almost uncon: name will never be known, I wag told. men and children into the Hfeboats until the r@ NO more women to look out for he Jumped fter he jumped the boat sank. dle was sucked dow as of Montreal, one of the first-cabin passenge: “I was awakened and rushed on deck with the rest. Hverytht scribable, t| get out of thi came up, how sctous conditio had stuck to hi last boat was o 1d: inde- It was one of the last to be cast off from the pitt ees broke out against Mr. Ismay, It began when several women, | ship. There were few women tn sight. There was room in the boat, and I was hem myself, wanted the state room he occupied. Mra, Astor was pyeldilba ee that we got out of the danger zone, and the rest seemed like lescriptions of pandemonium, It was beyond the imagination, It seems like a motiation wp to noon the Arst day, but abe did not compiain.| sientmare, and I wonder how we lived through it. ‘Thees boats near us were fact, she said hardly anything. Forty stewards who were saved did overturned, and I believe many w: gling persons in the water were h Away in th lost from them. The cries of the strug- tending. Our boat was full, and we could ance we could hear the band on tho ship v1 RESCUED STEWARD FROZEN FROM LONG SUBMERSION IN SEA, a ‘Thomas Whitley, steward trom the a first man taken off th 8 1n #0 serious a tired the immediate lapsed when she Carpathia last night, and Is to-day der the care of w physician at the Motel | of phystet iis feet had been frozen Knickerbocker, from Jong submersion after tho liner | She san marriage of former | went down. He had to be eyrried up United States Wiham A. 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