The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1912, Page 3

{ i U NEW THRIL HEROIC WOMEN IN BOATS D> AT OARS ALL NIGHT LONG: -SEAMAN TELLS THE STORY McGaugh, Who Saw Captain and Chier Officer Go to Death, Gives Vivid Recital of Last Moments of the Great Sea Tragedy. Here Is the story of the wreck of the Titanic told by one of the men the'sea.. ‘It Is the narrative of an able seaman of twenty-five years’ lemperience. ‘He thas sailed in ships which are mere memories to the pres /many ‘Victories has he scoted over death by storm and wreck. It was the boast of the White Star line that the best crew obtainable on the other side was shipped for the maiden voyage of the Titanic. That is why George McGaugh was-shipped from Southampton to make the record span from England's shores to Sandy Hook. “4m all my years on the sea, in all the dangers through which 1 have passed,” said the old salt, 4 never saw a braver crowd of men. I never helped a crowd of more*courageous women than the passengers of the Titanic, God bless them!” And maybe !t was the memory of these awful hours on the icy with women and children in his charge caused the brine to flow from his weather beaten ey And maybe it Was the thought of @ patient and loving wife in Southampton. McGaugh hed Gene hie duty. That fs all he knows. If vou should call him a hero he ‘wealdn’t know what you meant. What was there to be done but stand by and obey ordera—the orders of Captain Smith and Junior Chief Officer Mur- aeck? MoGeugh te a simple sailor and he told his story in a simple narrative. Avross the oosan his wife knows not whether he went down with the many oF was rescued with the few. MoGaugh has no money to cable h je and his raates who the men, women am@_ children of the Titanic were not permitted to come ashore the night the Carpathia landed. They were told that they would be sent back to England on the Lapland, esoheduled to sail to-day. ‘They were virtually prisoners on the wteamer on Thursday night. The thanks of @ mighty company to jant crew! It was down in Father MoGrath's Catholic Mission that the sailor man told his story to the Evening World re- porter to-day. Father McGrath, who has done much for the amelioration of the condition of Jack and s0 were a number of his constitu- ents as well as many sailors who lis- tened with breathless attention to the most graphic features of MoGaugh's narrative. “It was fortunate,” began McGaugh, “that the accident happened when it did. It was just at the change of watch an@ every man on deck, either coming on or going off duty. You know how whe struck, It lacked twenty minut of eight bells, just before midnight. I was on lity; my relief was ready to come up. I heard Capt. Smith ordering carpenter to make the soundings. I heard the report of ‘Chips,’ who sald: , degrees list to starboard.’ “ ‘My God!’ cried the captain, ‘Bos'n, pipe all hands on deck,’ COULON’T SEE THE BERG BE- CAUSE_IT WAS BLUE. “Junor Chief Officer Murdock as on the bridge. The captain was in the chart houge when she struck. The look- out in the crows mest couldn't the teeberg because it was blue, the same cotor as the water. The captain held ‘the bridge and held it to the last. Mur- dock came to the deck and oried to the firemen, who were Just reporting, to go below and keep the fires going. Keegan, iu charge, shouted: ‘Down be- low, men!’ and the crew followed him down to their death. They never were seen tterward, “Phe collision was an awful bump forward, but owing to the great sise of the Titanic wae hardly felt aft. In a twinkling Murdock had all the men at thetr statons by the lifeboats. When eight belle sounded two of the boats hha@ been lowered from the davits to the rail, A number of the ladies who {had been asleep came up on deck in "goamt dress, The stewardesses had or- dere to make them put on life belte, Gome of them had time to clothe them- selves more fully; others went Into the Wfeboate in thelr night dresses, “Mr, Murdock sueprvised the hand- Hing of the lifeboats and his cry w ‘Ladies, this way!’ A quartermaster and a pallor manned each boat. The fret boats had men placed in them for the reagon that there were not women gné@ chitdren enough to fill them, It + was a matter of getting off the greatest number of boats ahd seving the great- gat @umber of passengers. “The port boats were lowered first and then those on ‘the starboard side. (Te iem't true that when the water-tight ‘éompartments were closed the steer- ‘3ge passengers were sealed down. ‘The women In th equa chance with those in cabin. It was Only necessary to woman to have the right of way sailors were #o busy lowering and xet- ‘way the boats that the latter had Manned by the stewards, tunDock SHOOTS STEWARD WHO CROWDS IN BOAT. *©t was only toward the last that the q@meerage passengers got to rushing the steerage were given Orat ‘Pests. Murdock stood with « elx shoot. |* or @rawn and shouted that he would sbeee fret man who attempted to Cy wag inte the beats. A orasy stewerd was warned back, but -he Jumped {nto one of the boats at the rail, trampling down a woman and her child, I think that it was in Mrs. Astor’e boat ind it was overloaded then. Murdock shot him through the Jaw au@ he was yanked back on the deck. “Murdock calmed the passengers, tell- ing them there was no occasion for ex- citement, that the boats were all com- ing back, and or 14 them to go on the poop. Even then, the doom of the Titanio was sealed and the officers and the crow knew it. There was no panic, but the passengers were bewildered, They would start for the poop, then follow some excited individual who had started forward, “A lot of women ran down between desks to get into the boats there, think. ing that the drop to the water trom there would be leas dangerous. They had to come back up again to embark. All the Ilfeboats had to be swung from the davits before the collapsible boate could be used. But everything was got off except one of the collapsible boats, which burst in the bows. getting afoul of the falls, This was afterwards used as a lifebdat and thirty men were saved on ite bottom, “Mr, Murdock ordered Bos'n Nichols to go down to the working alleyway and bring up the big gangplank, ca- pable of holding forty people. The bos'n and ten men obeyed the order, going to what they bel! certain death. They were never seen again. I got off in charge of the second to last lifeboat lowered before the collapsibles were used, and, acting on orders, stood off afty yards from the Titanic. Forty women and children and some men were in the boat. GOT OFF ALL THE COLLAPSIBLE |’ BOATS BUT ONE. “Murdock, with Chief Officer Wella and Second OmMoer Lightoller, went to attend to manning of the collapsible boats. They got them all off but one, as I have said. This is the one which was capsized and which now lay on the deck. Mr. Murdock had overlooked nothing that could help save the pas when the final moment came. a doors, chairs, chests erything on board that would float to be thrown into the sea. “In this way he saved not less than sixty Ives, for that number of le ‘Were picked up clinging to these i le Cr Smith was on the veryehng, his orders which were obeyed without @ murmur and without hesitation, Seo- ond Engineer Far and his brave crew of engineers and firemen were below shutting down the valves and working the imps. Farley fell and broke both lege and was carried to the ump room. From there he weat to js death, “The water was nearing the bridge when the first explosion came. mnute lowed. The water had reached the boll- ers and that settled the fate of the ahip. The Titanic was split in two, All the passengers left were on the poop deck. The capsized lifeboat was Row adrift on the deck and men crowd- 4 upon it “Both Capt. Smith and Junior Chief Murdook were now together on the the, water being up to the t I saw of Capt. Smith which was Second Officer Lightolier jast. Ho and the si down and Murdock-God help m ask me what I saw! “Then men on the poop plunged nto the sea as the great craft went dow: both by the ra. The m on the lif ere carried hith and thither across the width of the ship by the currents formed between the two big funnels, The raft with its load was directly over the ship when the closed above !t, and the miracle of it all is that she kept afloat. There wasn't a bit of suction from the sinking of the big hip, and that's what beats me yet. “The men who had jumped into the sea found resting places on the chairs, hatches, chests of drawers and doors which had been thrown overboard by Mr, Murdock. Everything was now dark, The lights on the Titanic had gone out section by section, and there was just an electric arc left to ight the noble ship down. “Four firemen were seen on the poop just before the veasel sank. ‘They were Matty Black, Mason, Denny Corcoran and John Bannon. One of the boys named Dillon said to Bannon: ‘Johnny, there’e @ light over there; I'm going te out for it. Are you coming?” ‘Not just yet awhile,’ said a “Dillon went over the side in the reotion of the light on the lifebost and ‘Cah ninked up. The fremen tock went » don't LI Tater the second explosion fol- | °™ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NG STORIES OF AWFUL DISASTER | APRIL 20, 1913. * Titanic Lifeboats as They Were Brought In, Showing *, ana * How Survivors Kept Afloat and Lifebelts 7 hey Wore thelr shoes and were on a piece of Grating when the final plunge came. @AILORS IN BOATS SHARED CLOTHING WITH WOMEN. “Through all this I never heard a murmur from one of the women, either on the ship or on the boats, It was cold, and tMit was all any of them said. We made them pull on the oars every once in awhile to keep up their Circulation. The sailors on the Sifeboats gave up their socks, their coats and whatever they had to keep the women ‘wovered. They cut up their sails to spread over them and keep them warm a8 possible. “All through the night the fleet of \feboats rowed around in a circle. We rowed through wreckage and through lanes of bodies of the living and the dead. The living were pulled into the boats, We would row for half an hour and lay on our oars for the next half hour, and then begin the work of cir- culation again, We had word that the ympic was coming to our rescue. “Poor Phillips, the wireless operator who had saved all our lives by getting in touch with the outer world, died a death. He went overboard at ‘heroe’ t on, and he just hung to the raft died from exposure. They didn’t to push him over, ‘The water on the raft was up to the waist, and when Phillips became ex- hausted he just fell and was washed into the sea. May God have mercy on hia woul. He saved the life of every man, woman and child who was brought into port by the Carpathia. WOMEN IN THE BOATS DIS PLAYED FORTITUDE. “It was a long night. It was a try- ing night on the women, but never a| complaint. If the men who gave up their lives for the women and chikdren of the Titanic were heroes, those brave women who spent that night and morn- ing in the lifeboats were God's own an- gels. They were worth the sacrifice of brave men. “All they sald was, now and then, that they were cold, and God knows, although the sea wai mooth and the aky was bright and fair, it was cold. We were threading our way through fields of ice and we were in the shadow of & tt iceberg whch had sunk amer. “It was 6.90 in the morning that we saw the Carpathia. It w o'clock before we were alongside. Th e: wee bearing down on us with her life- doate swung in the davits ready for action. It took three hours to get us all on board. “The best they could do to get us on board was to put down Jacob's ladders. ly yw of the men who jo up that straight rope lad and they had toe lower bes'n's chairs to take the women and children up to the Geck. They opened up the hatohes be- tween raf] and water to make the work more easy. “The work of hoisting us on board on at four afferent places on of the ship. As the last boat- hauled up the steamer Call- ve in sight. She had no pas- were treated ‘fine on thi Ey body did the survivors, The two took opposite courses and cir around the scene of the wreck for radius of twenty miles before proceed. ing. Too much praise can't given to the officers and men of the Carpathia for the they handled the entire crowd of us castay pe SE SAW NO TRACE OF WRECK. HALIFAX, N. 8., April 2.~The White Star Uner Laurentic, enich will arcive here late to-day from Liverpool, will bring no tidings to encourage hopes that any bodies of victims of the Ti- tamic may be recovered. In @ Wireless message early to-day Capt. Mathias of tne Laurentic re- ported that he had kept a careful look- out while passing over tne Grand Banks ond seen neither bodies nor wreck- @ Laurentic came over prac- the came track as the Tania Car. it Lifeboat, Got Back Capt. Kdward J. Smith of the Titantic died a hero, indeed. As commander of the death ship it was within all tradi- tion of the sea that he should seck a final berth alongside his vessel at the bottom of the Atlantic. This to have been expected. But The Evening World to-day found five members of the Titantic's crew who witnessed a final act of self-sacrifice and devotion to dyty that should go far to erase and blot from the record of this veteran of the seas placed there by his responsi- bility supreme in control of his ship. to the swirling water when his bridge went awash through the settling the stricken vessel, Capt. Smith fou: llmself within arm's reach of @ woman passenger who clasped & baby in her arms. He eelsed the woman and child in one strong arm, held them partly above the surface and swam to the nearest lfeboat. There the baby was passed to the outstretched hands of the boat crew, the woman followed, and then, repulsing all efforts to drag him aboard, the old mariner pushed |himself from the side of the boat and struck out wearlly towefa his sinking ship. WANTED TO GO DOWN WITH HIS DOOMED SHIP. ‘That ho was determined to win his way once more to her reeling deoks and go down with her, standing on hi feet, was further evidenced by his re- fusal to be taken aboard an overturned Mfeboat that lay in his path to the euip. He was seized by some eall- ors, who had scrambled upon this and \ dragged aboard, but broke from thelr hold and plunged back into the sea. ‘Those men aw him win his way to the rail of the wip, clamber @board and tagwer along her deok, That was tho lust econ of him, @o far as te known, Cyril Handy, an able seaman of the Titanic, was washed from the forward boat deck at the same time that the captain wae swept from the bridge, He found himself awinming toward @ lite boat, Aw he drew 1 the bout he came upon @ struggling group. It was the captain, swimming with the woman and child. “We,came alongside the boat at the same time,” sald Handy to-day. “The captain asked me to give him a lift. I helped hold the woman while he rained the baby to the boat. Tien we both helped lift the woman aboard. “I put one hand under the captain shoulder and tried to boost him up, He shook boat caught him by th held on. The skipper struck at me sav- agely with his fist, ‘Get aboard, damn you,’ he yelled at me, ‘I'm going back to the ship.’ JERKEO LOOSE FROM RES CUER’@ HOLD UPON HIM, “With a Jerk he broke the hold of the man leaning over the gunwale and kktoked off from whe side of the boat payond our reach. I wae nearly ox, weusted and all I remember was CAPT. SMITHS LAST ACT SAVED WOMAN AND BABY Swept From Titanic, He Swam With Pain to Down Standing at His Post. with a patented bit. down, let other people awing into them. along the boat deck, the bow, near gers fighting to get to the ladder, to Liner and Went the women come up first. I iret mi | pistol, him shoot down three| sink or swim together, friend.’ {mon who came up ahead of women, "Side by side we clung to the crate, | “When Boat # was to be lowered |Kicking with our freesing lege, We | asa one pulling ine into the boat. I lay on | sundeck ordered a steward und myself | made slow headway through the wreck- her bottom more than an hour, nearly |to man her, We took on forty women | se Men were sinking all around us, unconscious, they say. When TC came tojand children and four men and then| 0d over an area af half a mile, it the Titanle had gone down." were lowered over the aide, seemed to me, there hovered « sound of aa ; | moaning impossible to desoribe. It came Handy's graphic story of the captain's| A. C. Home, a fireman from the TY} h from the lips of dying men too weak to nal act of explation was corroborated |tanic, declared ‘he was on the Mfe-raft | o"y ioud, by four men who were In the crew of And saw Capt, Smith'a refusal to be)” we two men, battling in the soy water the Ifeboat ov were picked up by her, | #8ve4 for our lives, were fast It was boat No. 14, from the port aide, | We were right alongeld: [out the davits until the boats cleared the sides and then lower them away One man at each side of the davit could swing the boats We put in as many people as wo could on the boat deck, and then dropped the boats slowly to tue prom- enade deck, where we halted them and “Murdock seemed to be everywhere 1 was up toward the companion badder that leads to the steerago so the steer- Age passengers could climb to the boat deck in case of emergency. From be- low, IT could hear the steerage passen- “Murdock went to the ladder and core manded the men to step aaide and let ‘I'll kit the up,’ he shouted, and drew his the Titanic her say, together. FLUNG TO SURFACE BY PLOSION AFTER SINKING, I acd of his own escape, Col. Gracie “As I clung to the rail of the ridge deck the Titanic took her last plunge. Blowly me alld under the water, white & ohriek of mortal anguish arose which I fear will ever echo in Mhy ears. in another instant I wee under water, Gghting blindly, madly, for life, It seeme to me that I must have been drawn down by suction of the sinking hip fully twenty-five feet, I had given up hope; T had really surrendered to death; my mind was on my wife and Children, Suddenly an invisible force eeomed to throw me upward, Possibly & waa an explosion of come sort on the sinking vessel, “Be that as it may, I only know that T aroge to the eurface to find myself on ‘| mace of wreckage, eurrounded by men struggling almost slently im the frees- ing waters and moaaing end gaeping ‘If we must die we will dle aX en crate and 1 sejsed instant I let go eny bold, because in dim tight I could see that another was upon it. The man whe ww the grating wae far apent. The chill of the water was fast reaching his heart. “ ‘Friend,’ cried I, ‘may I hold on with you; wilt it hold two “To my dying day I shall never forget the reply that came to me in a hoarse whisper, a reply that told of the sort of courage that kuows no weakening, even in the presence of death. “Catech hold,” said the voloe; ‘we'll when right ahead we saw an overtumed one of the last to leave the whip, It had | Wen she broke tn tne.” he eae, [boat ith, a domn men erouching ‘on bout forty women and half a dosen leapt. Smith floated close to us, some the keel. ese men were all members men, Charles Collins, a steward, w man who took the baby from captain. “I was pulling an oar on the atar- board side,” he sald. “We had got only @ Uttle way from the ship and she was wolng down fast, hor forward part be- ing under water iback to the bridge and! ‘There was #0 boat the and tried to the he jerked away He didn’ want to be saved." —_ GOVERNOR AND MRS. DIX fi wel. her stern high tn the air. much crowding In the couldn't row well. “Some one shouted that a man and woman were swimming to us and we} stopped rowing. Figures drew near, and it Was the that we Return Trip of the Titanic, Dix, we saw captain, h Goy, John A, Joniwile 1 T thought sed up. It od. As T Was 4 bundle the captain was a child, about two y ifted it I thought that baby was dead, it wasn't, but it died a few minutes afterward and we buried {t during the night, when the women weren't looking. WOMAN KNEW NOTHING ABOUT | THE CHILD, | “The woman was uncon didn't revive until daybreak. learned that she was a second-class nger, She knew nothing about She said she was not married t remember pioking up a baby was washed overboard. She must have been half crazed with terror and snatched the baby {nstinctively,” Henry Jocklin, chief baker, jumped overboard and was picked up by Boat No. 14 just as she as pulling away ria, where they wil | returning dn June. I feel greatly tn ed of It. renew my expre: the sufferers of t | also to commend vflalor and chiv men who sacrified t en and children might be saved. highly of from the alle of the ship. He heiped| among other cabin passengers on the haul aboard the woman rescued by!yapland were Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Capt. Smith and saw his refusal of) peli jr,, Mr. and Mrs, James Fenimore rescue, Cooper, Mre, Seymour WL. Crowell, James Johnon and Harry Gunner of the Mfeboat's crew told the same story, None of the men knew the name of! the woman who was rescued, All| son, Sir Donald Mann, Loo and Simon Sake agreed that the baby died soon after it} ee we taken on board and was dropped | $20,000 TO FIGHT SOCIALISM stealthily into the fey sea during the nigne appeal to women “We couldn't keep tt aboard,” sald one of the seamen, “Tt would do no] pAL/iMORE, Aprtl 2.—Cardinal Ost ood and it 14 baal luck: “Then, 100, we| sons, who is chancellor of the Cathote AT THE QUEEN QUALITY Boot thought the unconscious woman waa |*?M' hi a pe . University at Washington, was the Shop you find a ‘assort- its mother and we decided she'd carry iP n on terribly It whe came to and found |reciblont penser 8 OR 8 aE mest of Russia Lesther boots nad shoes her baby dead, but If she didn't find tt/for the 2. . she might think ft was saved in|wealthy Hebrew from the middle west and @ most aertnnHiad collection of another boat.” out inix name ts withheld. Te eid that Patent Leather novelties in pumps, ties FIRST OFFICER MURDOCK |! rekarded the Cathone Chuseh as the and dress boots, eat, butwark in the U HERO, TOO, SAYS SEAMAN, [Syne “bad features of Socialien end PRICES $3.50 to $5.00. Harry Thompmon, one of the sixty rea) sailors on the ‘Mtanic, told of the death of Mrst Officer Murdock who, he says, was the real hero of the occasion. d ordi Moved by ‘these considerations, wain called out ep below, that First Officer Mu lock ordered us to report to our post-|o* tions at the lifeboats. ‘The sallor were the only men supposed to kn, how to lowce the lifeboute. Wo firbs had to remove thelr coverings, swing expressed bis gratitude, to us, who were/a lectureship by means ‘ of the fellows caught him by the arme tm onto the raft, but ind swam back to the t winking forward part of the ves- SAIL ABROAD ON LAPLAND. They Had Passage Booked for First with Mrs, Dix, milod to-day on the Red Star liner Lap- land, which also took to England a ma- jority of the surviving members of the Titarde's crew. ‘The Governor and his wife were to have salled on the Titanic on her first return voyage. They go ret viet Mra, ister, Mrs, Curtis Douglas. Then will tour Holland and Germany, John A. Mason, Bec- y to the Governor, and Lieut-Com- Jer De Kay were at the ship to ff. hem off, “This Is my firat vacation since the campaign of 1910," ead Gov. Dix, ‘and I want to ne of sympathy for Titanic dteaster and as I can the Baron Oscar van Loo, Mies Alice Netl- Baroness von archy at for the upholding of lew offered the sum named, to be patd in "The instant the ship etruck a boat-|fivesannual instalments, efther to found of which 6o- clap" would be studied, analyzed and *, or five scholarships for stu- would pursue special investi- ung the mame lines. ‘The Card- accepted the scholarehtp offer and of the Titanic’s crew, and their leader officer, “Can you hetp wet I oned. “ Yes, we'll save you if we can,’ came the answer, “ad the music ef ® sank into my very eoul. Up to thet instant I had had no hope of rescue, ORAWN UPON CAPSIZED BOAT AMONG 30 CLUTCHING IT. “hewisted by Lightoller we were drawn up to the keel of the overturned of knowii dreased, he FYPLOSION FLUNG GRACE TO SURFACE AS HE SANK “We'll Sink or Swim Together,” Said Man on = Floating Crate Both Clutched Till Drawn on. . | Capsized Lifeboat Among Thirty. ‘a A cag UBRY WOM who wore a me re Fst ela i oneness chose this character not require especially small feet. THE WOMAN who wears OTHER WOMEN hesitate to wear leather shoes for the same reason, fearing that the polished leather will add to the prominence of their feet. THOSE WHO WEAR Queen Qual- ity Shoes have little anxiety of this kind. They have the pleasant consciousness ity’ Shoes distinctly they’ apr » ettes, Says Quartermaster. i : i I Hl i ry} E { ges it | | #1 4 t rf fi i ti hi i 8 i H 4 f i i i HELE i i ite i i i i F H 4 a! f thie country ‘Titanic tragedy. , over the because it did that their feet are well erhaps it is because Goose