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OF ITAMC WRE
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Over 1 600 Persons Went Down to Death in
the Awful Catastrophe.
Women iefused to Leave Husbands -Band
layed "Nearer, My God, To Thee."
SUMMARY OF CATASTROPHE.
The latest figures given out in connection with the Titanic disaster
are:
eaved-5.45 passengers and 210 orew. Total, 746. Lost, 1,601.
New York Despatcht—The outstatulino ferituree' of the foundering of
the Titanic anti the great loss of life may be somivarizecl In the fol.
lowing paragraphs:
That the ship was steaming at 21 knots in hour cr more at the time
of the dieaster.
That the part of berg one struck Wils submerged,
Thnt she was opened up like a cardine can for half her length be-
low the water line.
That the supports of the wetertight bulkheads were Interfered with.
That accordingly they could not be elosed, the water having un-
checked ingress into the liner.
That the officers from the captain down at first scoffed contemptto
ously At the Idea of the Titanic sinking.
That when the time came to disabu.,e people of this idea the wo-
men refused to enter the boats, arguing that the Titanic was safe.
That valuable epaee in the life boats, therefore, went unoccupied,
That there were not enough life boats for one.third of the ship's
compliment or. passengers and crew.
Report tivat Capt. Butt, aide of President Taft, had shot down Col,
Astor, Mr. Strauss and others because they trled to go in boats with
the women was said by the Associated Press to be unoonfIrmed.
‘Aihlte Star Line will weleotne, an Investigation.
New York do:leo-010 The flueet suer y
of the wreck le teat by Paul Chevre,
the Parielan ertiet, who was eomiug out
on the Titanic. with a bust of Sir
frid Laurier. veltieh wee to bo placed in
the Chateau Laurier at Ottawa. Mr.
Chevre had hie mcseage translated to
the group of newspaper men who im-
mediately slathered around him when
they feenuf he was willing- and able to
talk, by Mr. Simon Senieal, a Montreal,
svhose cabin on the Carpathia lie S1iar9d.
Mr. Chevre said that he was playing
bridge in the emoking room when the
eollision with the iceberg happened. He
pointed out that probably it was a ettb.
merged berg .the vessel struok, as he
saw no Piga of it afterwards, though
the water svae (awned with floating ice.
The veesel shivered and tilted and he
heard the tremeendons vibration caused
by the Plm'ew..; revo.Iving out of the wa-
ter, Ile Thought that they had (erne
over a big wave and paid no attention
to the ehnek for a moment, Indeed, it
made no difference in the game of cards
which wes continued until some one
burst in with the neNVS that the Titanic
had struck a berg and WL S sinking.
Even then the members of Ins card
party laughed and proceeded with the
game. The first alarm was followed by
a:e'er:11 othere. and then a general panic
took plaee. Everybede ,n the smoking
room rushed upstairs, to be met by nn
()favor of the fillip, who assured then'
thnt there was no eitURe for alarm and
that they could return downstairs.
Arr. clievre said that he had got half
way downstairs when he noticed that
the veesel had a tilt and he made his
way on to the dock ataain,
After a wait, during wide!' a number
of the offieere on the captainbridge
were seen to be holding a coneultation,
le message wee rushed to the room of
the NVireless operator,
A short while after this an order was
given te :ewer the boats and get the
womee and children into them.
The stewards of the boat were in-
strueted to rued' through the cabin and
spread the alarm assuring the women
at the same time that tnere was 110
need for hurry.
Another int erVal elapsed and then
the wemen of the first elass section be-
gan to flesh out on deck asking what:
wee the. matter. OVieere said that the
boat had collided with an iceberg and
as a preeautionary Measure 1 waS
thought advisable to put the female
portion of the passengers into the life
boats.
Then staid Mr. Chevre, came the most
diffieult patt of the affair, Previostely
the ecomen h;o1 'icon told after the firet
nlerm thet the 'I'itanie wee uneinkeble.
and that thee need net worry.
When teeked to get into the small
craft the women simply refueed and
urged an explanetion that the 'filmic
(ontd not 14iik.
Finally one of the officers turned to
Mr. CheVre. who Was standing by. nna
esked him to eet an example. This he
did, and \\%14 then followed by five or
eix girls, two of whom he believee were
the...aliseee Fortune of :Winnipeg.
Before the boat svae anywhere near
eapaeity R wee drop•ped into the
water end beeen to drift vay. It did
Lot waved ety far. and front it Mr,
Chavre wee able to eel! nun+ of what
10110Wod &4 rac. Night \MA very clear
end the light.; on the Titanie Were
fof °Vor hri hour.
le wee plein, ea'el, that th':, FLip
wo .4 going down •lossie- by the head.
The hied WaS playing. ragtime Ino4t
of the time, and this led several of the
ladiee to eomplain that everything must
be all right on that account, Ae a mat-
ter of fact, Mr. Cheyre said, the captain
got the band back to the big dining.
room to play when the Titanie struck.
They had ,finished their evening pro.
gramme samt? time before,
Mr. Ohevre said that the lowering of
the boattook a Iong time, the people
on the enip apparently not apartviating
the danger they were in.
Suddenly the giant steemer getve
lureh over on its side, and the light
went out, Then a frightful series of cries
end screams were heard above the mueie,
which chategned to "Nearer, My OM, to
Thee," at the Lest, and a -mad rush was
made to the boats, which were dropped
into the water crowded with a etruge
gling heap of women, whe had Leen
pushed into them.
The Titanic, said Mr, Chevre, seemed
to hint to settle gradually though his
little croft was out of sight when the
little craft was out of sight when the
veeael had foundered by the giant waves
that reached them, these waves evident-
ly being caused by the upheaval of the
water as the vessel sank below the sur-
face.
Mr. Chevre then said that lie heard
from others who left the boat a few
few minutee before she went down that
Captain Smith cried ont:
"My luck Inte turned!" find then shot
himself with a revolver he has been
holding, presumably to use in case the
men attempted to storm the boats be-
fore the women and ehildren got away
'safely.
Mr, Chevre Fiaid that a munber of peo-
ple jumped or mile flung to a raft,
which began to go down. Several then
fell off into the water and were drown-
ed, The remainder on the raft were pick-
ed up by the Carpathia, which came
along four or five houre afterwards.
Mr. Ohevre, queetioned as to what he
thought caused the leviathan to go down
said ,that the plates, in her bottom were
ripped eta and the water -tight Com-
partMents refused to net.
FORMAL R[PORT
etruelc an ieeberg which bad 'been re-
porte1 to the bridge) by lookouts, but
not early enoogh to avoid collision.
SI ('p were thieve to tie:certain the dam-
age and seVe pasaengere klnd FhLp. Or -
deo.: 'were given te put on lifo telte
and the }mate were iowered, The ship
•.0.11k at about 2.2.0 a.m. Monday, and
the ueual disteeee signals were sent out
by wirelees and roultets fired, at inter-
vals from the ehip,
"Fortunately the wireleas meeeage woes
reoeived lay the Cunard 8. Carpathia
at abuut i ohdoele mideight, and she
artived ou the :one of the disaeter at
about 4 a.T11. Menday.
"The offieere and only (V the eteam.
Sill& Garpathia had been preparing all
night for the reseue and comfort of the
SUIvivor$, and t.lie laet mentioned were
reeeived on board with the moist touch-
ing care and kinduese, every attention
being given to all irreepeetive ofdam.
The passongere, officers and crew gave
na glad1y etatererons; elotiting and
comforts of our benefit, 111 honor to
them. •
'Me Englieh Board of Trade pa,seen-
gers' certificate on board the Titan'
allowed for a total of appiereimately
3X00. The eame certificate called ler
lifeboat accommodation for ripproximate-
ly 950. in the following boats: Fourteen
large lifeboats, two emeller boats, and
four collapeible boats. Life preservers
were. aeceesible and appareutly in euffi.
dent munber for all on board.
"We feel it our duty to call the at-
tention of the publie to what we eon.
eider the inadequate supply of life-
saving appliances provided for on mod-
ern paseenger eteamships, and recom-
mend that immediate steps be taken to
compel passenger steamor eto carry
sufficient boats to aecommodate the
maximum number of people carried on
board. The following fact F.; were obeerv.
ed, and should be considered ifl fide con-
nection: The insufficiency of lifeboat,
rafts, etc., lack of trained seamen to
man same (stokers. stewards, etc., nre
not efficient boathandlers), not en•
ough officers to carry out emergency
orders on the bridge and superintend
the launching rind entitle)1 of lifeboale,
abseuee of searchlights.
"The Board of Trade Tithes allow for
entirely too many people in each boot
to permit the same to be properly hand-
led. On the Titanic the boat deck was
about 75 feet above water, and eon -
sequently the passengers were required
to embark before lowering boats, thus
endangering the operation and prevent-
ing the taking on of the maximum num-
ber the boats would hold .Boate nt all
timeto be properly equipped with pro-
visions, water, lamps, compaseee,
ete, Life-saving boat drills should be
more frequent and thoroughly Carried
out, and officers (should be armed at
boat drills. Greater reduetion in speed
in„ fog and he, as damage, if collision
(lethally oeeurs, is liable to be less.
"In ennelusion, we suggest that an
international conference be ealled to
recommend the passage of 'identical
laws providing for the safety of ail
at 'sea, and we urge the United States
Government to take the initiative ae
soon rie possible."
The 6tatement was signed by Samuel
Goldenberg, Chairman, and a committee
BOITIe twenty-five passengers..
HOW IT HAPPENED
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Revised List of Canadians
Committee of Survivors Lost and Saved.
Make Statement.
On board the Titanic 2,340
Saved:
First elass passengers 210
Second ela.Ssi pas.Sengera 125
Third elass passengers 104
Officers 4
Seattlell 30
Stewards • • • • 94
Firemen 71
Total haved 730
Total lost 1,601
((anadian Press Despatch.)
Ne w York des o a telt : The following
statement issued by a committee of the
surviving passengers w 15 givel the picas
on the arrival of the Carpathia:
the undersigned surviving pas-
sengerfrom the f,;. Titanie, in order
to forestall any sensatienal or t• aaagce-
ated statements, deem it our duty to
give to the Frees a Stat:0 neat oi 5:1tts
whieh have come to our knowledge, and
Which we believe to *.a. true:
"on Sunday, April 14, 1912, at about
11,40 item, on a eold, starlit alight, in a
emooth Si1, aud with no ninon, the ship
*ow
New York despatch: From the stor-
ies told by the survivors of the Titanic
(Minster who arrived on 'the Carpathia
lat night it is now possible to recoil-
struet the tragedy. It woeid appear
bat the liner rusaed upon ft submerged
iceberg on a elear night about, eleven.
thirty on Sunda:. last, The shock was
eo slight that people playing ear& in
the smoking room continued their game
without paying any heed to the jar,
thinking a. largo wave had been paesed
A few In01/1011t.61 ]ttrer the boat began
to settle, her bottom having been ripped
out, and triformation team brought to
the captain that water wao rushing in-
to the engine rooms. The eaptained or.
dered the doeing of the watertight
compartments, which are said not to
have acted, the electrical equipment!
ixhieh operates them, having been dis-
turbed by the eollirsion.
While an investigation WaR taking
ranee, Captain Smith pereonally
ed paesengers that there was alesolutely
no need for fear and advised Howie WO -
Wen who lind get up out of bed to re.
turn.
Ile also ordered the liners band to
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appoared Moro her thrilling crash with a stthruerged iceberg tit .sett.
btart playing and it eontinued to do
tide as the liner took her last plunge,
one survivor, testifying to the horror
of hearing ragtime and the shrieks of
human beings combined as the leviath-
Ian went down.
Once the women had been oesured
that there was no danger, the greatest
difficulty Was fOnnd in getting them in
to the boate, when it woe finally dis-
eovered that the liner was doomed.
Many had to be thrown overboard, on
to the overloaded boats, and rafts, and
loss of life ensuing, while in other eneses
boats were lowered half empty.
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Several sensational stories were told
by sort.' 'ort. One was tho t at tile end
Captain Smith teemed the revolver he
had been brandishing to keep order upon
himself and was dead before the waves
idoetel over his ship.
S. quaint toueh to the night of horrors
is lout by the performance of the itifant
ehild of two Montreal people who were
drowned, whieh slept peat:eft-Illy in its
nurse's arms througoou t the entire
night.
'VIVO of the steerage paesengere who
eseaped died from expoein.e before they
were picked tip by the Carpathin.
The Carpathia carried 745' survivora,
the total &nth roll amounting to
1.505.
The Canadians lost ai.e:
Charles M. Hays, Montreal.
'1'hurnton Davidson, Montreal,
Quigley Baxter, Montreal,
J. Hudson Allieon, tts, Allieon and
daughter, Montreal.
IT. Marldand lfoleon, Montreal,
Vivien Payne, Montrenk
it. Levy, 'Montreal.
Dr, Pain, Itemilton.
Hugo floss, Toronto and Winnipeg.
Mark Fortune, Winnipeg.
The CalladiallS saved are:
A[is. (. AL Hayes, Montrenl.
Aire, Thornton 1a,vidson„ Montreal.
Maater Allison, Montreal.
Aire. (Dr.) Dongloe, Montreal.
Mrs, Samos Baxter, Montreal,
Afiee Alice Bowerman, Mont on].
Mre, lloagbin, Toronto,
Major Ai hur Perichen, Toronto.
Miss Lucille Fortune, Winnipeg,
'Ann Alice Fortune, Winnipeg,
Miss Mabel Fortune, Winnipeg.
Moe, Mirk Fortune, 'Winnipeg.
THE INVESTIGATION
Committee Investivatingat
Washington.
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Wnit
81 tingtou, April 22.---2he Senate in-
vestigation of the Titanic disaster, be-
gun in Nov York last week, upon the
arrival of the Carpathia with the sur-
vivors of the wreck, was resumed here
Lo -day with 3. Bruce Dimity, president
of tile International Mercantile Marine
Co.; P, A, S. Franklin, -vice.president
of the White Star Line; IL T. Cottams
wireless operator; four officers and 28
sailors of the Titania's crew, waiting to
be called as witneseas.
The hearings are being eundueted lit
the caucus room, the splendidly fitted
"show room" of the Senate office build-
ing. Although Chairman William Al.
den Smith and Senator Newlands were
the only members of the sub -committee
of the Senate commerce committee pres-
ent when the preliminnry testimony was
taken in New York, the full sub -com-
mittee will be in attendance at all the
hearings here. The other members are
Senators Perkins of Otlifornia, Button
of Ohio, Bourne on. Tregon, Simmons of
North Carolina aria Fletcher of Florida,
Many of the Tititnic's surviving pas-
sengers,. will be called to give evidence
before the committee. It is understood
that among the notables will be Moo
John ,faeob Astor, Mr.s 3 B. Thayer
and Col. Archibald Gracie.
When Third °Nicer Boxhall entered
the room Senator Smith asked hiiu to
step aside and called P. A, S. Franklin,
viee-president of the International Mer-
cantile Marine Co. He began to ques-
tion Mr. Franklin a$ to the companies
eomprising the corporation, its connee-
tion and its capitalization.
1117. Franklin described the business
operations and the extent of the Inter-
national Mercantile Marine.
"What is the capitalization?" asked
Senator Smith.
"Otte hundred. million 111 common and
preferred shares, $52.000,000 in 41/4 per
cent. bonds; $10,000,000 in 5 per cent.
bonds, and about 87,000,000 in underlying
bonds,"
"Can you give the names of the direc-
tors of the various steamship compan-
ies?" asked Senator Smith.
"I cannot," said Mr. Franklin, "but
shell gladly give you the names of the
officers and directors of the Interna-
tional Marine. The other companies,
many of them, are located abroad."
After Mr. Franklin had rend a list of
the officials and directors of the inter.
national Mereantile Marine, Senator
Smith, said:
"Nou are the real representative in
this eonntry of the White Star Line?"
"Yes, sir."
"Dove any one share the responsibil-
ity with you?"
"I am mainly reeponeible," said Mr.
Franklin. "There are directors in this
eqouel
tniittg.,,
and meetings are held fre-
"Did you know Captain Smith .of the
Titanic?" Senator Smith enquired.
"Ever since 1898," said the witnees,
adding that Captem Smith had
mended the 'Majesties Adriatie, Bartle,
olympie and the_ Titanic.
"So far as, you know, did you order
any of your subordinates to have, any
eommunieation with Captain Smith on
Lie laet voyage"
"None at all. We aia not liner limn
him in any way ov shapi;,"
Air. Franklin. said he had eeeeived no
ernitnnnication frOni isMay exeepi
On4.4 by eable been Southeroptreo This,
he wee merely a ee1:1eer:1m an
notteeing, the Polnpb te
T:t wait trip and the fav.)rable
pictqloci. of a -.t1ptoe:431h voyaOre
This is the mile' at temet at eeeinottn,
e: then :del so far lie yon know tiny at -
t. mot Nem eftieers. erew paseengers
to eionmindeate with yeat after they left
..teettemitoi.o?" the e1 eetee. emitinied.
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e..neter Sinith then tieesed -alr, Frank
:in tiro trdcArtrin ro,:1.0.1 by Congrees-
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Asked when he firmt knew that the
Titanie had sunk. Franklin 6aid he first
knew it at 8.'27 pan. on Monday.
Mr. Franklin then produced a thiek
package of telegrams which he had re-
eeived on Sunday in relation to the
agter.
"About 20 minutes of two on Monday
morning," eahl he. "I was awakened by
it 'phone bell. 1 was called by ft reporter
for Rome paper, who informed me that
the Titanic. had met with an tweident
and wee sinking. I nsked him whore
Ile got the information, lie told, me
that it had come by wireleee from the
steamehip Virginian, which had been
appealed to by the Titauie for aid,"
Mr. Franklin eat(' 11.0 called up the
White Star (looks, but they had _no in-
formation, and he then appealed to the
Assoriated Press, nd there wag read to
hitu a deepateh from Cape Race advieing
of the aevident,
"I asked the Aseoeiattel Pre.," said
my. Franklin, "1101.. to svoii pot the de-
spatch until WP had More detaihel in for
:nation in order to avoid eausing on*
necessary alarm. I was told, liowevec
that the story already had been seat.'
"How did ;mu aeeertain the e glint
of the Olympic, Baltic and others?" ask-
ed. Senator Smith.
''We worked them out on onr eharts.
We had no direet emumuniettion froin
any of the eldps. Our firAt endeavor to
communicate with MIT big Rhips WaS a
meesage sent on April 15 itt 3 il'eloek
a.m. This message read ao toll As's:
"'Haddock, Olymplee-Atake (very eri.
deavor to eommunieate with Titanie,and
advise position and time. Itenlv within
1. ho hour.'
"'that was the •first ineeteaoe, We fol-
ltwed it with ptheri'rapidly
"Monday morning We Weio endeavoe-
ing to get information from Montreal
and Cape Rath,.
"Between noon and 1 oselock on the
lOth the following nieseage was reeeived
from the (Olympic,: 'Parisian reports Car -
pa till a, in at tenda ee ; pie k e d up t went y
boats with )aseeugers, ant Baltie return-
ing, Posi eion not giveu.- -Haddock,
Olympic.'
The reassuring statements .:,ent out by
the line in. the early hours of the die.
ae•teliirr:s.
next were Made. the 50 -deject of
0.11 ci
"Tell the committee on What roubasea
those statemente," directed Senator
Smith,
"We baeed them on reports and ru
mors recedved at Cape Race by individ-
uals and by the newspaPers. They were
minors, and we could not place aux fiuger
on anything authentic."
"Had you heard from the Cerpalibia
at that thne?"
"No, sir,"
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64 BODIES
ererrn•
Picked up by MacKay -Ben-
nett Cable Ship.
New yolk, April
by wIrelese from the eable ship Mae -
Kay -Bennett, which bee been .searehing
in the 'vicinity of the Titanic dieneter
and has reported the reeovery of sixty-
four bodies, Wa9, eagerly awaited litre
to -day as the cable ship is under hi -
et rUetioni: to send forward immediately
identifications of the dead and any
other information obtainable.
The White Star line offiehtle said that
any information from the AfacKayellen-
nett, which is under orders to remain in
the vicinity of the wreek for a week, will
be made publie un receipt, Only tleose
bodies that have been identified or
admit of being identified wig be brought
back by the Alei.c.ay•Bennett. Sonic of
the victims have undoubtedly been mutil-
ated by ice, so tiutt ideatifieation is im-
possible.
The eteamer Rhein reported to the
White Star line by wireleee that wreck-
age and bodies were passed in 12.01 lath
hide 40.13 longitude, and that the Mac-
Ke'ey-Bennet•t was heading for that poi.
tion, This meeeage indicatee that the
gulf stream is carrying the bodiei and
wreckage over fifty miles east of where
the Titanic sank. Only those bodies, it
is egeurally believed will be recovered
that are 'buoyed up by life preAervers,
which were fastened on before the Ti-
tanic paesed beneath the waves,
The survivors, who Wen" taken to hoi-
pitale on their arrival here 011 the Car.
pa t hitt, aro now pra et ice Illy all recov-
ered, and many of them have left for
their homes, Relief P,oeleties have gath-
ered funda aggregating over a quarter of
a million dollars anethe relief commit-
tees have been swamped -with clothing.
Not only that, buteauntlese letters were
received from rieh and Poor, grown-ups.
and children, all 'offering asslAtnnee
evtry sort. Some offered the nee of
their homes and others tendered their
servicee after their daily work wag done,
PLANS CHANGED.
London, ,April 22.-11 f understood
that the plans of the White Star "Gigan-
tic," which is now being built at Belfast,
and which wile to have been 1,000 feet
in length, will be modified. It is prole
able that the pew plans will pee:vide for
L double cellular bottom and sides, such
as the _Mauretania and Lusitanift have,
as a stipulated condition of reeeiving the
Government subsidy.
The Olympic has been provided with
forty collapsible boats and will carry
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ter cathedral wee thronged. A eata. Tile Heroes Who Played
Bourne otteeated and gave abeedutien.
liartford, Conn., April 22.- -The '0.
TITANIC INSIIIANCE. cabin and 4.1.re,ed my,e1 and htio. 1 "
time (-nougat to
11114t011"1.11,v1:::: that I went inele te rus
prshably 141.44 ‘.1 huteiteliy, Litt ittook
pi 1,11, no oteeeesery to Thlap," whpn all the boats had .ceame.
and who Were playing °Nearer, Aly (hal,
Ulan- Whit went doWn in the Titanie,
New- 1 tali, .April :11. -The eight inns -
Their Own Dirge.
. falque draped with purple had been "You will tuelteet.ted hela ewe ea - - - . _ . . .
erected before the high altar. Cardinal erybely wee teking, Vie eituat'.on 'n hen
Lurie disaster will eoet insurance cone
elothiuge '1 hen 1 0 :IRV vu (leek a-gon. Were Under the le tilep.;bip .01' Atildnia,v•
pallieS of Hartford nearly $1,000M00, me
"1).V thie time the ex...efonne,l't 119•1 ter Bartley. who wee transferred from
oording to esiiinades by officials of Op
eompanive. The toes will fall ehiefly, it
11;1}:it,;i'vall1148.N.1if;l'itili:i.11.111-.111,114'il'illli:i:i:l'1.2::::.;t:nir,,,(1;!;',,,:a.te:117, :,.(t,littirtj',11,,,3:111111)..likt..o.'131;ital ett'Lijet t.iltiii7 117 titlii; .c111"Ilti!!:::
aceident busineem, While the 1.01119alliV4
IS Stated. 011 tilOhe eompanies whieh do
the beat', eleeka 1:fet 1 414 ,(Alle IFJP• John Hume, violinist ; II, 1 '1,1 -
,. 114 er 11s 4 1 1:.41,..(;plicr Wier,tr_i
l'isnill,t4 only lite polides Will haVe email
ealty in walkilig. 0 101., pianist; Fred Clark, base viol; Geo„,
1.1.1145,, '
"1111 1' 11010' ef the men were etruoeling duty. I don't euppoise he waited to
"Men were niiiihte. *4(1 foi. r's' 11-1,1111 11 W0041Wartli 'cellist, and Alesers. Bradley.
to hurry. 'Any more women?' o'er), 14aid, Krim., and 11'1.14.4)11x, who played, %own
FALSE REPORTS
; 'I eame “Ver to rl ' "•:-ttl* ef the hied the othere Were off duty.
' whore they MI P fillina the 'Olehoitt. John 5, Carr. 'eelliet on the Ceitie,
There were -crow& el men, paseengere who knew the members of the Titanic
CrraCe 1, t � Jumbling by Am -
and I b:14 11) Tnii„.‘i Inv we y through "Bandmaster Hartley wee a man
and clew. etenling alemt -the lifgbott, eaid to a reporter:
eat ur \Vireless Iden.
1 t h 4 In to !.tet to the boat. with the highest sort of a settee of
te get bite the brat eaemeelves, Ta,01,. be sent far, but 11 f ter finding how
New N.-ork, April 1).1,-e:rho Inonion eor•
reepondent or the Ncw York glutei tl,nt,
erpeatil te heve me le 11p. nlit•I' Minds (111111;111ygere011iliskat,I.1‘ ehiiiit11111:01 ItliottloZtahserhaoutipr7)1:.:
their '1'' 1'. rvie te etend by Hu'
ea hies the fallowing explanation to ae-
eount for the fake despatchee published
a week flea) toelay announeing thnt the ,1,1(4,7eill). tett!,,elneareatin;itrir (i 11'
t5N.:.trosin.,:ptnion1Tiill Agf ,:,:iii,11 ,,t1):1:1,ti:t:tiing):4.,,, , 711.11: oki,,nvatay,rr a tor! ,:i: titr il !::,,,,;(illiurti
to thhik of their mike heroiem!
foundeted Titanie 55 1" hemp; towed into on earth. Ile knew the v:due of the
4Trattilp, Op baAt, bed betn ['Willed in-
ILtlifax: -Everything pointe to the prob-
transit in inid-Atianti by anotterie or tie thie. ieeit the excitement had become %volume he hail, met I Oho; Ile pesteot
ability that Wirele, 1110:4A11...geq, tapped in
14:1)elTit",;'•Y,t;t 1 1,,,,t• :IV: .11.-e4„1,"it'llZe'll.a1:)';',qietef; hi'''''11.';(1)(i.nticrient that hite ine hardeet,"
meiltilltel operatore at Solna -11/1101nwn
point and then jumbled or wrongly mad
by them, W4.10 res1/011811PL! lit' the Nee
reporte of tlie Titienic'e safety, which %bout nniet Leve teethe :1 hew imminent
Were eh.culated throughout the world "9'4 i'llt4f dellitrer'
after the Titank, had gone down. "Otrist WM Oar 1.1st of .the lifelnats to
0;.1;11111111:101.: (p.)k7ot I 0411 till £(t81110
va.g..)s,t,i4ilelii.::: 1,11K:41..11a INfvfilleilitite:1;;N(‘15:0311(!*1-:::itti 1 II!. it f'ettiltilli 4,:d
the 1041t n'a far as pores'IOe with women.
Atwell's the In'aVO felow-A Were 011111112:
out, 'Any more women:" 'There WCTO 110
more eomintt, end the order Wa,4 OATH
to lower 11W0y.
"The exeitement lied new bevome
dreadful. hut there were stil 1 others
boot was going to 'rt!."
who did not 50011_1 te reelize that the
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TITANIC MUSICIANS
that the boet was not going to etand 1,m,uh`e :thy vi"1, "11
tup 1.01070., that awn otiratititt Lee 1,.01. ".114 th0 Liappy doek
1.1thno, \OW 011e of the violieiste.
Hume was the life of every ship he
(ler played on, and Wt1:1 beloved by
everyone, from cabin bop.; to eap•
thin., on the White Star Line. Ile
was a young Seotsmato not...over 21,
and vamp of a onesieal family,
father and his grandfather before
him had been viuliniete and makers
of meshed inatriunents, The name ia
well known in Scotland because of it.
Hie, real fitst name was John, but the
Seoteli nickname stuck to him, and
it Was as jock Huine that lie W1114
kfillaU:1.1r. to everyone on the White Stnr
Line, even when he redied ae hall 1.
EMPTY BOATS
"over minim, sootwo,
hapiwn kuow there ie a sweet young
girl hoping against. hope. Jock- Wa.:4 to
Some Half Filled ---Titanic have been married the next time that
he made the trip tteroee the ouean, He
Was Speeding. was a young man of exceptional "Intel -
cal ability, if he had lived believe he
New York, A Thai many of
would not )(nig ha•ve remained a Meal.
her (ri ShilAi ereheetra. Ite st114104.
-great deal, although he could pick up
without trouble diffieult compositione
which would have taken others long to
leans Hie muther Nom in Dumfriee.
to?':lnother thing of which we are all
talking is that Fred Ciark, the Intee
viol of the Titanie, should have gone
down on his first trip neroee the At-
lantie. Clark was well known in
concert in Scotland and had never
ped before, The White Stiu. people were
particularly anxious, to have good nuts -
ie on the first trip of the Titanic., and
:.fiered him geed pay le make just ono
trip, the wiutee «ineert At'ii.`;011 11.l1
elo,•1 he finally a iwptort. 110 wa‘t
thh.ty-four pore of ago and was not
married, hut had a whir:wed mother.
"Herbert Taylor, the pianiet, Wft4 eon.
eidereil a master of hie inetrument. He
was a, man of an intelledUal turn of
mind, and with a thin, stndions face.
He wns married, and his home Was in
London. About Woodward, the 'cello, 1
tan tell you but little. His home was in
Leeds. The other three men—Braley.
Krim, and Breleoux—mnde up the trio
which played in the second cabin and in
the restaurant, They had been playing
together for some time, but neither
aCliityrrvo7argiTyself shipped with them on
"We a mistake front the technieaf
point of view to call a steamer'e orches-
tra a band," said Carr. "The term is
a snrvival of the days when they really
had a braes band on board. On all the
hig eteamshipe now the music is given
by men who are thorough masters of
their instrumento, The Titanic °relies.
tra was censidered one of the finest
which was ever boated when the ship
put out from the other side—and 1
t•hink the way the men finished un
showed that they had about as good
New York, April 22.—Up to ten stthiffAitiliasindteic.1,1is any who, went down in
o'clock to -day the officiak of the White
Star bine had not reeelved any word
from the cable &rip Maori:ay-Bennett,
which is reported tO haVe reeovored 04
bodiei of perione who lost their lives;
wnen the Titauie went down. They ex -
wet, however, to get some informotion
later in the day, and possibly the identi-
fication of the bodies. Same of the vie -
tins, it. k eaid, Were S1 badly crushed
by the iee that they were beyond iden-
tification, and have been buried at Bea.
safe?" was teansformed into an affirma-
tive statement , 'All Tit ante pit sseng.ere
eafe," To this was added juet irate -
meat: from a long meesage of the cap-
tain of the steaznship Asian to the Olym.
Pie wherein Ile said: "Towing oil tank
to 'Halifax." Omisaion of the words "oil
tank" from this message and the eom-
bivation of the .latter with the state.
merit about the passengers made the
troublesome deep -tell: "All Titanie pas.
eursters safe, Towing to 'Rainy."
In conjmietion with Mk a earre;TO71-
dont of the London Daily Express, who
was the only other 11eNViipaper eorre-
eroudent to board the Olympic nateide
Plemouth harbor, wrote to eapt. Had-
dock niter varioue other weever; had
proved unavailing, e. letter in -which we
pointed out that the "AN Titanic pee-
eengere safe" meesage had eaueed it drop
in the Thanie's reinettrance at Ilayd'e
from 00 gulneats to 20 guineas, and itek.
ing whether "You (Ifadeloele) ever re-
ceived such a meeeage, and if se if you
knew whole° it came?"
Capt. Haddock gave us his aseuranee
that no end' 'massage was ever eent or
received by the Nymph; and the Mar-
coni operatore corrobarated this.
••Inm•••••••••••••••
the lifeboats of the Titanic, were sent
away onl-y half filled and that if Orp-
tain Smith's orderer had been obeyed
many more livee oi the 1,000 who per-
ished at eea would have been 'raved,
has been disclosed by Peter LS Daly, of
Lima, Peru, a rivet eabin survivor. Daly
states that ho saw the veteran skipper
melt to the railing after the boats haet
put out from the einkiog ship and. call:
"Bring those boats heel:, they are mily
LONDON WOMAN 1u9.'ofilieleodu.rge," said Mr. Daly, "it is a
fact that many boats did get away only
half earl relate inerelv the in
• Tens of her Escape iror chlanit, ir„..1..). boat.
11 obeyed Oct Ptaiii*Os r4i0 ) teturn,
aln U.11."
John Thompson, a tiremah of the
tank, suffering with a broken arm at
portant, 't\altitecrv,i'litt'll''tess at the Senatoriel
Hospital may be ha.
oftnt !Op snmilatt:0) ntlieut: tN.N;roemek Ist,te 11.1\m.",nosihtilii\gat
lie
aseeroi that the Tiqniv wits out -to
beat all records oa maiden' tripe."
"From Queenetown out," Thompeon is
quoted as saying, "all the firemen halt
been talking of the ordere we had to
fh•e her up ae hard as We prieeibly
volild, We wore to make iv; quiet( pas.
Sago ae poseible the orders ran, and we
w•ere to beat all records on our maid-
efrnomtr.ip, .1 heard that these °Mere eame
Mole you, we men did not have time to
front the engineering department but,
talk about where those ordere came
"We were carrying full pressnre.
from the time we left Queenetown un-
til the moment of the shoek WO never
(Tased to make from 74 to 77 revolu-
tions, It never went below 74, and as
during that whole Sonday we had been
keeping up the 77, surely she must have
been making that speed then."
SOLEMN 11 1 1 H. MASS.
•••••••.••••••••••••• ye.
Titanic Wreck.
London, Ont., April 2,2.----Mre. Jane •
Quick, a former resident of this city, and
who, with her husband and family, now
live in Detroit, was with her little chil-
dren on the liner Titanic. Mrs. Quick
and her plaeed in the first
Ato leave,
frs. Quick passed through the eity on
her way home on Saturday, in vompany
with her husband, who went to New
York to meet her. On the same train
Was Mrs. 5, Hamlyn, of 330 Clay street,
Detroit, who was also on board the Ti-
olltilliabaynt(llatlilgtteers. eAaPme(titidw N1%11110 s IV];
her was drowned.
Both women tell remarkable etories
of the wreck.
"Everything was confusion on the boat
in which we escaped," said Mrs. Quiele.
"It was overerowded and we saw many
people whom we might have picked up,
but could not on account of the danger
of swatn ping. Women were hysterical,
abn:iitileadis.,1:ing around, and the eXCit0-
ment one of my little girls waS badly
• Mrs. Quirk says that the majority of
the people thought the ship would not
go down, even after the lifeboats were
launehed.
In the lifeboats, she said, some women
were praying and others were sobbing,
and all the time they expected to be•
swamped by the huge cakes of lee float-
ing about,
The Quiek family resided in the city
until last May, Mr. Quick being employ-
ed at the .ear shops. Mrs. Quick had
liven on a visit to relativee in Eneland.
Moe. Ifemlyn, who was also on the Solemn high maseee of requiem wore
tt tsiftIV i a(-ittellr. stiliTegeSien tltlilliSti210110(1'4111LIT1ligt)1.1e Q11;111:117 olfn
tite
he had given the order, "All hande for more prominent members of the parte!'
lf:11:\iiilititei.,:liti.ie,Aaeti'an'ityliiniltailleahiemito;,.Lte.rti.n. she (aitfitgeotliertzlo.the,‘rtrix;iecodots.ute oSft, t
Handyn said there Wcre name tit!laui,elitr,iiiirliele?sarleefy tliN'TeraelteaLenytheitlie.
111011 Who tried to get into the lifebentt, rl'Iwn after changing hie re -d robe for a
but thev were quickly watned 'bark by black enrollee and wnite mitre, the ear -
woman of about 22 years of age. She dinal pronouneed the final blreeteng.
the officers. Mrs. Hamlyn is a young
had been -on a visit to Norway and SINT-
(1011.
"I do not believe that at thet time
eixteen additional lifeboats. nnyone on hoaril the fkip expeeted that
WESTMINSTER SERVICE. they were vinr to lose their hives'
London, April 1.2. ---In all the Catholic said Mrs. Minim -nose Whil Weri!
The youth gets together his mater-
ials to build a bridge to the moon, or,
perchance, a palace or temple on the
earth, and, at length the middle-ageil
man coneludeit -to bnild 8 woodshed
with them.----Hem.y D. Thoreau.
• VOA
fr.,1•V:WOM:ftir•ft,
• 011WM"ftWee ;•:5 ' •
OFFIOC18 1Ht V OKED TITANIC.
t'APT t 1 3.1MITi1l AND- SOMA: OF TIM CVVIIFIT nITICEIZA OF TIM LI LiT WM.:10,11M
MAW.
MAJOR—PEUCHEN
Going to Washington --He
Also Has Denial.
Toronto, April 22. ----Major Arthur 0.
Peuehen, looking bronzed by exposure to
the sun and wind, and still feeling fa-
tigued after his experiences in the
wreck of the great liner Titanic, arrived
in Toronto from New York on Saturday,
only to leave the following day for
Washington, D. C. He went to the lat-
ter city in response to a telegram from
Senator William Alden Smith, request-
ing his attendance at the enquiry being
made by a Congressional eornmittee in-
to the cause and incidents of the great
marine disaster of a week ago. He said
that he had not desired to leave To-
ronto again so soon, but that he did
wish to testify at the investigation,
which might result in hnprovements to
give greater security to ocean voyagers
in the future.
To his story of the loss of the Ti-
tanic. Major Peuehen bad little to add,
expressing the fear that he might be
thought to be talking too much. He
did wish, however, to -correct eNtilin
newspaper apeounts of interviewe with
himeelf. "1 have never," In, neeerted,
"spoken an unkind word of Captain
Edward J. Smiths or of the offieere."
The captain wae, he believed, a brave
man, and a likeable Man, and ILO and
1.13 effieets had worked hard a f ter the
1 itaule Arllek to get the boats away
iLliti the 341eeemg-t4 Into thenl, "1 lelVe
al%Napi spoked kinitly of the taptain and
the offieere." o -iterated the Major. He
;titled that he lied merely eepreeeed the
t iew that greater preealitions i‘1111111.1
baVe
1>. 11 taken for the eafette of the
eitip. in v kW of the fiet th:q Wa ening
Ihita bel n 3'4'('t')\ j',3 01. 1 he i-rresen:.y of he,
;owe. He thow....ht the wAtell 011 tho Tt.
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