The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1912, Page 5

” HOW SE VEN HEROES OF TITANIC DISASTER ACTED IN FACE OF DEATH might enter. years “ , his) wife when wg boat, for In danger” one the oficers: moe officer said.’ mie. from: the. iife tee” He opened hts We pardon, ‘sir? ree arma and had” seen are Lape threw her if Harrie satel? Re tie witeed kobbing, Into aceé. 4 eaide'T'lt Join you Bobi ‘smiled at iis soon,” though he Keka dts fd Ite and nteppe MR nd ng clasped when the wife and stepped 2S knew death was Ba lare cease mek to permit ‘ a at hand. seen, —$$$_- 50 PENNED IN DEATH TRAP S ARTIGHT DOORS CLOSED Steerage Passengers Never Had Chance for Lives, Says Sailor, Who Also Tells That Crew Didn’t Know How to Lower Lifeboats. That fifty or more steerage passengers of the Titanic were immured in ‘a steel prison from which escape was Impossible with the closing of the airtight compartment doors in the steerage deck forward of '‘midships, was the startling statement made to The Evening World to-day by a man who ‘was a member of the ship's crew and who himself verified the fact that escape had been shut off for these unfortunates, To have opened the doors which shut | teen ithe water elther bow or ster m the ‘ould have filled and been use! off these steerage passengers frot HO tar as he kaw an of the boats es decks and posstble escape would have! cope tie two collapsible cratt stowed been to shorten the life of the ship. he) on the boat deck high aloft near one of @eclared, and hurry disaster on all of | the stuck and boat No. 15 on the star- the hundreds crowded about the boat, board side, the one which capsized {n @avits high above. la got away from the sinking ship. ance | rf gfe ap oP orien eae ak wt | pThe Evening World's informant said that when the men y ho tended the lowering of the lifeboats be- | turned out at the tapas of the collision cause of the crew's Ignorance of a|they were ordered back to bed n. newly patented boat-fall mechanicism | There was no damage ‘ustained or no were given to The Evening World to-day | !™Minent danger, #0 they were told, Fifteen minutes later an officer came by one whose name ts kept from pub- | argund and told then to turn out with Neation for obvious reasons. He told 4; iife belts and take their station the straightforward story under question-| boats, He was one of nine members ing, which ts born out in many detaiis | of the crew that pulled an oar in his by other facts attested to oy various | boat. : passengers. je quartermaster who was at the wheel when the Titanic struck stayed NEVER HAD EVEN A CHANCE! by his el until Capt, Smith told FOR LIFE. him to save himself, But the faithful “IT know that fifty or more steerage quartermaster went down with his sue lor. passengers whose quarters were on the | ° @ame deck with the glory-hole used by | SWATS BURGLAR AT" HOME PLATE” because I nearly got caught myself by the closing of the watertight doors lead- ing from the working alley which opened from the forward deck through to all the fore part of the ship. “At the first shock all of the stew- ards in my glory-hole, forty all told,| tumbled from thelr bunks and went ovt | through the working alley to sce wh: the trouble war, I heard sume one | am order, ‘Look out for the water-( theht doors. A minute later I star.ed to go back to the glory-hole to get al Noted Pitche: i life belt, the order having been pi ea} Noted Pitcher, Awakened by out to all members of the crew to equip cin Finds ok. cee with these belts, I could not | Barking, Finds Dog Attack- back through the alley to the glory- * + ing Thief. hole because the wart nt door had @lammed tight across the passageway. Ther» was no way around it. There mo. ¥ for those on the other up In the forepeak of the ship, to g: out to open air, ‘"Lknow that none of the pe opie. from; the steerage sleeping quirters b ty that water-tlght door got out before it| “! was shut, because 'y would have had} to pass me !n the alloy and none of then! reiars never did meet the appro ayn! Diteher ani yany @ contest on the bi, levque diamonds. Cy has always sald und a durglar snooping s home it would make him basobath did, 1 spoke to one of the petty officers an apartment house at No. @sout the door being ehut and atl those | . in the Bronx. He poople in there, and he sald: wiaat | door, because he will ny burgling, whether the right In or uze a jimmy, ch dog which has ine to bark Joud and bite thieves ean we do about it now? ward compartments hold in them will keep us NONE CAME FROM STEERAGE BEFORE DOOR CLOSED. The Evening World's informant added that he spoke to other members of the crew about the fate of t) ge | sengers walled up behind the steel do and that they agreed with him that ¢ had not seen any of the steerage pe coming out of their quarters before the | ing to ha order closing the only avenue of escape/ this hour to beat for them was given, burgiar.” In the matter of the mechanism oper-| But, as Cy for- o'clock this morning Cy wy the Way the dog was barking 1] animal was biting a burglar e top. So Cy, clad his striped pa wot out of knew the fat just above the sb only in . pish! he sald, “it is very annoys » to get out of a coy bed at the stung out of a strode to where the dog ating the boat davits and falir The was gnawing the burgtar's shinbone gs World's informant spoke with) !* desan to get angry, and when he authority, for he was ordered to his sta-| caught sight of the burglar he was dion at one of the boats on the stur-|anary clean through Doard alde and he saw his own boat drop| Cy hammered and pounded and kicked askew when filled with women and chil-/the man, The dog stood to one gide, ‘sen just because of the ignorance of |apparently lost in ra of the way Aimaelf and the other members of the {his master was whipping the burglar, It Was no place for a dog when a ina Doat’s crew of the mechanism control+ ling the falls. with two fists and two hefty feet, was One boat on the starboard side, when | at work it was being lowered Milod with men,| “? thia the rest of the night women and children, turned comple Cy finally remarked, “but over vefore It struck the water, 5 go ba nebody and everyone in it all a. vol have this fost. Another had to be Person removed from my apartment.” ied e | FPoliceman Brady of the Higit Bridge cut away from the davits because the| | P* sailors assigned to lowering It away | Maton cane could not control the mechanism a the ropes became jammed, ovtunately the lifeboat landed right wlde up oa the in a (ew mina su to Rim, At the * ed, brulsed and waves; otherwive it wou. haye boon |torn barsiar s Adolph usele: | Biowel, that 14, haa not beon y boat and that he © at No. 3 West Gne Hundse asked a) and Saxtec et. When ths ent into his occupation he sald he Grille since the Titantic commisat: said this momber of rdasher. the ship's crew. ‘Mone of theorew = The police told Cy that it would be know anything about the newly (necessary for hin to appear in court patented device for dropping the *#Ainst Siegel, n caused a look of boats, which had been installed on | AM0Vance to flit over the votoran bali Uke Fitanic first of all the White [Py cFs cunt Mika neal Gen as Grer ships, 3 believe. % for exe finar T would just have thrown the fel- |low out of my third story window and ) Was @ green hand at the were [tet ft go at that.” ample, davits. Yet pposed to Get the boats away quickly. ONLY LUCK THAT BOAT LAND. ! ED SQUARE, | ‘Tinie Clinger says that ee » Our own boat would have Ailed if it |satisiied. Bho left hadn't been for the greatest good Ii boarding house bec Because we could not control the lo so small she had #Ull not onable wom th ‘and then by the stern and a: room so large ~ MAb had pve to tt with ev. TOBE WITH SON JON JACOR rstDoR sTRAUS py aston “placed begged his wife ‘Well, ony art his wife to enter a boat. pak RE boat, kissed her “We have been y td and asked If he tometier for forty HABBIS, thea and 200 LIVES LOST AS FLOOD SWEEPS MISSISSIPPI TOWNS Hundreds of Others in Peril by Rush of ‘Water That Covers Wide Area. JACKBON, Miss., April 20.—A report reached hete to-day that two hundred persons were drowned in Bolivar Coun- ty, Miss, by the flood that ewapt through that section when the river levees broke near Beulah. Bolivar Coun: ty ts covered wtih water and it ts dif- tteult to verify the story. According to the report many white persons were swept away by the delug although, it is sald, the majority of the ivictiins were negroes who failed to reach high ground in time to get out of the flood's path. Gov. Earl Brewer has been notified t there are 6,000 refugees in camp at | Cleveland and that the food supply wil! | last less ti twenty-four hou Rescue forces in boats have gone to the ald of hundreds by the sudden rush of waters and who are in grave pertl. GREENVILLE, Miss, April 20.—Fit- teen persons are known to have been drowned last night noar Benoit in the flood that came from the levee break between Benoit and Beulah. Unverified reports of oth © and heavier loss of Mfe at different points are boing received here to-dey. Because of the extent of vane prant flood rivr observers express ! the opinion that the lose of dife in this section of the Delta will reach 200, ROSEDALE, Miss., April 20.—Rescue lwork continued’ to-day with an. in-| creased force of workers, boats going further inland and bringing out many residents who Were marooned by the break in the Sfississipp! ievee at Beu- lah, Miss, ‘The crevasse is now over 2,00 feet wide with the ends still cav- ing. Many refugees from the intertor have been taken to the levees and from there will be transferred to other points by Doat, The water from the break 1s rapidly approaching this place, pindiacsalie. Rhy VINCENT ASTOR'S MOTHER IS COMING London Has Raised $400,000 tor the Benefit of the Titanic Sufferers. LONDON, April 20,—Mra, Ava Will- ing Astor, the mother of Vincent As- tor, has decided to proceed to New York to be with her son, She will sail at the earliest possible moment. ‘The varlous relief funds for the as- sistance of sufferers by the Titanic disaster now amount to upward of $400,000, The fund at the Mansion House alone at noon to-day amounted to $300,000, Among to-day’s subserip- tlons to this latter fund are $10,000 from W. W. Astor and $5,000 from Lord Strathcon: The Prince of Wales to-day contributed $1,250 to the fund from his personal funds, ee SENATE TAKE TEPS FOR ALL-NATION PLAN OF SAFETY ON SHIPS, WASHINGTOD Committee on Foreig: agreed to recommend to adoption of the amended The Sonate avy 5 ne Lurtine reso: | tons + lution looking to an intesnatlonal eo- ration In regulation of vcean 1, advises the President the! would es with the maritime powers Ung speed, | routes and lifess and wirelese! Were eapect- on Start. TRENTON, N Woodrow Wilson, who !® campaigning for the Presidency in the South and West, called his office in the State! House this morning on the long distance telephone and issued a call for sub- seriptions to the Titre relief fun. He suggested that Je nd thelr contributions t othe pective Mayors Roosevelt Aske Abo: WASHINGTON, April 20.—Capt, Me- Coy of the general staff of the army, to- | day received @ telegram from Col. | Roorevelt, a8 follows "Am deeply | in 1 and grieved about poor Archte | But i 1 ‘s any news about him | McCoy pra was} dent, rical manager, to | Protect Ylorurtolf -|300 DEPUTIES OF DEFUNGT BANK JAM BUILDING Federal Marshals Have Hard ‘Job Handling Crowd of Men and Women. United Sttaes Marshal Henkel and his deputies at 11 o'clock to-day were called upon to handle three thousand men, wo- men and children in the Federal bulld- ing. The carridors of the third floor were choked. Every deputy marshall in the building ‘wa shastily summoned and the people— creditors of the private banking house of M, Rossett—were steered into the court room. The corridors were cleared with considerable diMoulty, but there was no disorder or rioting. Tme men and women had come to the Federal Building to attend a cred itors’ meeting, the object of wich was to clect @ trustee to take charge of the assets of the banking concern, which wax thrown into bankruptey,on March 4 last. BoRons. WEDBESR, heir to millions and already owner of many, helped his wife and child tn @ Hfeboat. ‘Then he turned to as- sist the other women. ‘The last seen of him w standing band in the din- ing saloon, ROOSEVELT WINS NEBRASKA; ALSO TAKES OREGON Pewee vee Champ Clark and Woodrow Wilson Democratic Choice in the Respective States. LINCOLN, Neb., April £0.~The iatest returna in yesterday's Presidential pri- mary olection show that Col. Roosevelt has a big lead over President Taft and} Senator La Follette, and that Speaker Champ Clark beats Wilson and Harmon in the Democratic race. The Roosevelt men say the Colonel leads his rivals by 20,000, and that he will have @ #ol!d dele- ation from Nebraska to the Chic: Convention. | Straus and her husband when the elderly though herote woman brushed MAJOR ARCK- IBALD suTT Med ike a aol. Smith when the dier, though not commander Fe on a battleneld. fused to permit He helped women him to enter a into boats and Ifebvoat after hits gallant, arrang- wife was in, Hoe ed thelr shaw patted the C Aw the bouts tain on the back, drew oway Ui bowed gallant), survivors ” to his wife a him standing rie- ppeared fo ‘ily at “atten under the tion” convers with Col, Astor x BO AE eee aw HOW MRS. STRAUS CHOSE. TO DIE WITH HER HUSBAND) 202s ose: The story of how Mrs. Isidor Straus, wife of the New York merchant, met death with her husband on the Titanic rather than be separated from Straus, told how the self-sacrifice of Mrs, Straus made it possible for her to escape a watery grave. Miss Bird also supplied details of the appealing scones between Mi aside three opportunities to be saved, declaring to solicitous passedgers that death in her husband's arms was more to be desired than life with: out bim, Miss Bird's narrative was repeated by Sylvester Byrnes, General Manager of R. H. Macy @ Co; He said: “When the Titanic struck the iceberg Mr. and Mrs. Straus were walkin, arm in arm on the upper deck. Although assured by tho officers that there Omaha and the eastern counties, where the Democratic revolt against Bryan was strongest, have given Har- mon a big vote, but Clark is running so far ahead in the rural districts and | in the interior cities und towns that the Speaker's victory is assured by an Apparent margin of 5,00 to 6,000. The te main office of the private bank conte between Wilson and Harmon at No. 114 Liberty street, New!'s close.) York. Branches were operated at Jer-! Every Congressional district in the and Perth Amboy, N. it} State apparently has gone for s.00se- arre, Pa., and at Youngstown, |velt, giving him all of Nebraska's alx- a tors were of many NA-}:een votes. The complete count in the tonalities. The liabilities of the (con-|Sccond District (Omaha) may give cern when the bankruptcy proceedingt | ita:mon two votes, but the fourteen | were begun were about $050,000 and the assets about $400,000. The group in each addressed briefly b: court-room war reprerentatives of ul's office, Marsha and others and told that the: ‘all right” if they had fllec their claims, Then, in a prvfate room, a lawyer ca one ballot for Joseph M. Conklin, St Bank Examiner of New Jersey, for truy- tee, The lawyer represented 2,600 cred: tors of the banking concern, with claims totalling $490,000, This guve their clients & majority; and the single vote olected the trustee, The court rooms were emptied one at time and the crowds, excorted by marshals, were taken down the In the elevators, to the a Jepu stairs and streets. “T was somewhia: alarmed at first,” sald Mar al Henkel, “when I saw #0 in thetr of people. There ' ous accidents if We had not sepa the people and gotten them Into the court rooms."* ———_——— “(A MAN AMONG ME. GAYNOR’S TRIBUTE TO COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR. receipt of Vincent bution to the Titanic Mayor Gaynor In acknowledgin Astor's $10,000 contri Survivors’ Reliet Fund, 1d a splendid tribute to-day to the young man's father, Col. John Jaco Astor, declaring was 4 man men." The Mayor's letter follows: Dear Mr, Aator-Your generous contribution to the fund for the re- Uef of the survivors of the Titanic disaster and of the dependents of those who lost thelr lives, is at hand. Permit me to express to Mre, Astor and to the whole family through you my sympathy with you all In the t loss which you have sustained, My acquaintance with 5 father was a most agreeable one, and the oftener I met hm the more hs gener- ous, superior and democratic qual- {tles grew on Me as a man men herote way {n hich he met hit death, disrezard- ing himself and looking to the safety of others, is exactly what every one well acquainted with him knew to be the case even before authentic ac counts Were recelved, Sincerely yours, W. J. GAYNOR Mayor Gaynor, in Roosevelt's telegram of cc the suffer th to-day ad the former Veay Mr. oh c Mayor, dina Roosevelt-I thank you for your expression of thone who periied or the Titanic disaster. ‘The heir rellef and the reltef dependants Is growl: m y of their tiv Sincerely yours J. GAY Got the Original and Genaine ‘HORLICK’S MALTED MILK others will be for Clark, The combined vote of the Democratic progressives, dived between Clark and Wileon, indicates the election of W. J. Bryan and his three associates as jeiegates-at-large. Estimates based on returns already recelved indicate that ex-Gov, Shall- enberger is leading his three opponents in the race for the Democratte Senato- » George W. Morrin, ine | surgent leader of the House, and Mor- | rial nomination, ria Brown were for the Republica PORTLAND, Ore., running very closely Senatorial honors. April 20.-—With one-fourth of the votes counted ‘early to-day the indications were that Col. elt ca in the dential primary yestertay by about 6,-| 200 plurality. The :\co for second place | Is in doubt, Preside .t Taft and Senator La Follette running neck and neck, Gov, Woodrow Wilson 1s apparently the Democratic choice fur the Presiden- ; tlal nomination, i In the contest over the United States | Senatorship on the Republican ticket, Banjamin Selling of Portland ts leading Senator Jonathan Rourne Jr,, and baned | on the present ratio he should carry the | State by between 9,000 and 10,00, Dr, | Harry Lane, former Mayor of Portland, has won the Democratic nomination for | United States Senator, os ceoreaiaaeisecsa GOT $14,000 CASH PLUNDER. | nt ‘for Robbers Memenger and Blow safe, GRAND JUNCTION, Col., April %.—| Armed posses were sent out to-day to! pursue two musked rothers who entered | the local office of the Glohe Express} fompany at midnight and escaped with 311,000 In Ben Gilbert, the ex- press mesne ax bound and gagged) ny the bandita after he had been forced to open the safe, Nurs In ¢ Materials of Striped ¢ White Linene, citl without detachable co 32 to 38 bust. Also of Black Mohair, lation style, Bib Aprons, Lawn, emb Princess style.... Percale and Coveralls ...... Ginghan WE INVITE A CO ction with our enlarged negligée department, we carry an assortment of dresses and uniforms for nurses and maids, med, made round or square, some 50c. to 2.25 45c. to 98c Fifth Avenue at Thirty-Fifth Street 2 was no imimc tate cause for alarm, Mrs. Straus with her husband hurried to the stateroom of her maid, cautioning Miss Bird to dress hurriedly and as comfortably as she could, because the passengers might have to take to the |Mfeboats. Then Mr. and Mrs. Straus returned to the deck, where shortly \after they were joined by Miss Bird. \ “Mr. Straus stepped aside when the first hoat was being filled, ex- |plaining that he could not go until all the women and children had been given places. ‘Where you are, Papa, I shall be,’ spoke up Mra. Straus, re- Jecting all entreaties to enter tho boat. Mr. Straus vainly attempted to {persuade his wife to enter the second boat, assuring her that eventually be would find a place after all the women and children had been taken off. “Miss Bird, who was making her first trip across, having been engaged in London by Mrs. Straus, joined other passengers in urging Mrs. Straus to {enter the boat, but she clung closer to her husband and repented previous declarations that unless Mr. Straus accompanied her she would remain | behind. Mr, Straus only shook his head. “One after another the boats wero lowered, Finally that in which Mrs. John Jacob Astor was rescued was made ready. ‘Here Is a place for you, Mrs. Straus!’ cried Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Straus only shrank closér to her hus. band, Several pa: | force Mrs, Straus into the boat, but she cried out ageinet separation from her husband and ordered her mald, Miss Bird, to take tho place beside Mrs, Astor, ‘You go,’ sald Mrs. Str-us tothe maid. ‘I must stay with my husband.’ “Seeing it was useless to argue with Mrs, Straus, several men passcngers Nfted Miss Bird into the boat, which was lowered with all haste, As this boat and two others, comprising the last to leave the vessel, gilded across the waters into the black night the last glimpse caught of Mr. and Mrs. Straus showed them standing on the deck, clasped in each other's arms, weepin, B. Werh Sam te | Nit ret 2 Pi) Pt ry a tt % MA HQ — & ! P age abe 8 ii cae | mi or ¥ ty The list ruled falrly steady at the out- ak Rig set of xtock market trading to-day, but Ff % of i prices eventually began to yield to pro- nes He foaplonal realizing. At the end of the ta® 1% firet hour the market was fractionally a HN — fs Velow the closing of yesterday, with hs Wy = 8 very little interest manifested in. the he Bet 2 transactions by the trading element. |! ess? 1204) 1h ‘ alley ied jaa? 4 Pool activity in a number of specials | fy Kea. & tex Pe an ties culminated the early rising ten-| Mo” Bac. #” Ey 4 dency. Weatern Union, Central Le: PR 314 1a — and American Can were all ele N Ne? Hox 5 | about 1 point aoove thelr Initial figures, Hy Le | This improvement was only temporary, ied tat however, for late profit taking reduce Wy |e the Ist at closing fractionally below | ¢ . We - the finish of yesterday, ne iees Pity thunder"! a” 4. 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