Sinking of the Titanic - Chapters XII-XIV



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CHAPTER XII
THE TRAGIC HOME-COMING
THE CARPATHIA REACHES NEW YORK -- AN INTENSE AND DRAMATIC MOMENT -- 
HYSTERICAL REUNIONS AND CRUSHING DISAPPOINTMENTS AT THE DOCK -- CARING FOR 
THE SUFFERERS -- FINAL REALIZATION THAT ALL HOPE FOR OTHERS IS FUTILE -- 
LIST OF SURVIVORS -- ROLL OF THE DEAD 

   IT was a solemn moment when the Carpathia heaved in sight. There she 
rested on the water, a blur of black -- huge, mysterious, awe-inspiring -- 
and yet withal a thing to send thrills of pity and then of admiration 
through the beholder. 

   It was a few minutes after seven o'clock when she arrived at the 
entrance to Ambrose Channel. She was coming fast steaming at better than 
fifteen knots an hour, and she was sighted long before she was expected. 
Except for the usual side and masthead lights she was almost dark, only 
the upper cabins showing a glimmer here and there. 

   Then began a period of waiting, the suspense of which proved almost too 
much for the hundreds gathered there to greet friends and relatives or to 
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last that those for whom they watched would never come ashore. 

   There was almost complete silence on the pier. Doctors and nurses, 
members of the Women's Relief Committee, city and government officials, as 
well as officials of the line, moved nervously about. 

   Seated where they had been assigned beneath the big customs letters 
corresponding to the initials of the names of the survivors they came to 
meet, sat the mass of 2000 on the pier. 

   Women wept, but they wept quietly, not hysterically, and the sound of 
the sobs made many times less noise than the hum and bustle which is usual 
on the pier among those awaiting an incoming liner. 

   Slowly and majestically the ship slid through the water, still bearing 
the details of that secret of what happened and who perished when the 
Titanic met her fate. 

   Convoying the Carpathia was a fleet of tugs bearing men and women 
anxious to learn the latest news. The Cunarder had been as silent for days 
as though it, too, were a ship of the dead. A list of survivors had been 
given out from its wireless station and that was all. Even the approximate 
time of its arrival had been kept a secret.


NEARING PORT 
   There was no response to the hail from one tug, and as others closed 
in, the steamship quickened her speed a little and left them behind as she 
swung up the channel. 

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   There was an exploding of flashlights from some of the tugs, answered 
seemingly by sharp stabs of lightning in the northwest that served to 
accentuate the silence and absence of light aboard the rescue ship. Five 
or six persons, apparently members of the crew or the ship's officers, 
were seen along the rail; but otherwise the boat appeared to be deserted. 

   Off quarantine the Carpathia slowed down and, hailing the immigration 
inspection boat, asked if the health officer wished to board. She was told 
that he did, and came to a stop while Dr. O'Connell and two assistants 
climbed on board. Again the newspaper men asked for some word of the 
catastrophe to the Titanic, but there was no answer, and the Carpathia 
continued toward her pier. 

   As she passed the revenue cutter Mohawk and the derelict destroyer 
Seneca anchored off Tompkinsville the wireless on the Government vessels 
was seen to flash, but there was no answering spark from the Carpathia. 
Entering the North River she laid her course close to the New Jersey side 
in order to have room to swing into her pier. 

   By this time the rails were lined with men and women. They were very 
silent. There were a few requests for news from those on board and a few 
answers to questions shouted from the tugs. 

   The liner began to slacken her speed, and the tugboat soon was 
alongside. Up above the inky blackness of the hull figures could be made 
out, leaning over the port railing, as though peering eagerly at the 
little craft which was bearing down on the Carpathia. 

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   Some of them, perhaps, had passed through that inferno of the deep sea 
which sprang up to destroy the mightiest steamship afloat. 

   "Carpathia, ahoy!" was shouted through a megaphone. 

   There was an interval of a few seconds, and then, "Aye, aye," came the 
reply. 

   "Is there any assistance that can be rendered?" was the next question. 

   "Thank you, no," was the answer in a tone that carried emotion with it. 
Meantime the tugboat was getting nearer and nearer to the Carpathia, and 
soon the faces of those leaning over the railing could be distinguished.


TALK WITH SURVIVORS 
   More faces appeared, and still more. 

   A woman who called to a man on the tugboat was asked? "Are you one the 
Titanic survivors?" 

   "Yes," said the voice, hesitatingly. 

   "Do you need help?" 

   "No," after a pause. 

   "If there is anything you want done it will be attended to." 

   "Thank you. I have been informed that my relatives will meet me at the 
pier." 

   "Is it true that some of the life-boats sank with the Titanic?" 

   "Yes. There was some trouble in manning them. They were not far enough 
away from her." 

   All of this questioning and receiving replies was carried on with the 
greatest difficulty. The pounding of the liner's 

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engines, the washing of the sea, the tugboat's engines, made it hard to 
understand the woman's replies.


ALL CARED FOR ON BOARD 
   "Were the women properly cared for after the crash?" she was asked. 

   "Oh, yes," came the shrill reply. "The men were brave -- very brave." 
Here her voice broke and she turned and left the railing, to reappear a 
few moments later and cry: 

   "Please report me as saved." 

   "What name?" was asked. She shouted a name that could not be 
understood, and, apparently believing that it had been, turned away again 
and disappeared. 

   "Nearly all of us are very ill," cried another woman. Here several 
other tugboats appeared, and those standing at the railing were besieged 
with questions. 

   "Did the crash come without warning?" a voice on one of the smaller 
boats megaphoned. 

   "Yes," a woman answered. "Most of us had retired. We saved a few of our 
belongings." 

   "How long did it take the boat to sink?" asked the voice.


TITANIC CREW HEROES 
   "Not long," came the reply? "The crew and the men were very brave. Oh, 
it is dreadful -- dreadful to think of!" 

   "Is Mr. John Jacob Astor on board?" 

   "No." 

   "Did he remain on the Titanic after the collision?" 

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   "I do not know." 

   Questions of this kind were showered at the few survivors who stood at 
the railing, but they seemed too confused to answer them intelligibly, and 
after replying evasively to some they would disappear.


RUSHES ON TO DOCK 
   "Are you going to anchor for the night?" Captain Rostron was asked by 
megaphone as his boat approached Ambrose Light. It was then raining 
heavily. 

   "No," came the reply. "I am going into port. There are sick people on 
board." 

   "We tried to learn when she would dock," said Dr. Walter Kennedy, head 
of the big ambulance corps on the mist-shrouded pier, "and we were told it 
would not be before midnight and that most probably it would not be before 
dawn to-morrow. The childish deception that has been practiced for days by 
the people who are responsible for the Titanic has been carried up to the 
very moment of the landing of the survivors." 

   She proceeded past the Cunard pier, where 2000 persons were waiting 
her, and steamed to a spot opposite the White Star piers at Twenty-first 
Street. 

   The ports in the big inclosed pier of the Cunard Line were opened, and 
through them the waiting hundreds, almost frantic with anxiety over what 
the Carpathia might reveal, watched her as with nerve-destroying leisure 
she swung about in the river, dropping over the life-boats of the Titanic 
that they might be taken to the piers of the White Star Line.

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THE TITANIC LIFE-BOATS 
   It was dark in the river, but the lowering away of the life-boats could 
be seen from the Carpathia's pier, and a deep sigh arose from the 
multitude there as they caught this first glance of anything associated 
with the Titanic. 

   Then the Carpathia started for her own pier. As she approached it the 
ports on the north side of pier 54 were closed that the Carpathia might 
land there, but through the two left open to accommodate the forward and 
after gangplanks of the big liner the watchers could see her looming 
larger and larger in the darkness till finally she was directly alongside 
the pier. 

   As the boats were towed away the picture taking and shouting of 
questions began again. John Badenoch, a buyer for Macy & Co., called down 
to a representative of the firm that neither Mr. nor Mrs. Isidor Straus 
were among the rescued on board the Carpathia. An officer of the Carpathia 
called down that 710 of the Titanic's passengers were on board, but 
refused to reply to other questions. 

   The heavy hawsers were made fast without the customary shouting of 
ship's officers and pier hands. From the crowd on the pier came a long, 
shuddering murmur. In it were blended sighs and hundreds of whispers. The 
burden of it all was: "Here they come."


ANXIOUS MEN AND WOMEN 
   About each gangplank a portable fence had been put in place, marking 
off some fifty feet of the pier, within which 

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stood one hundred or more customs officials. Next to the fence, crowded 
close against it, were anxious men and women, their gaze strained for a 
glance of the first from the ship, their mouths opened to draw their 
breaths in spasmodic, quivering gasps, their very bodies shaking with 
suppressed excitement, excitement which only the suspense itself was 
keeping in subjection. 

   These were the husbands and wives, children, parents, sweethearts and 
friends of those who had sailed upon the Titanic on its maiden voyage. 

   They pressed to the head of the pier, marking the boats of the wrecked 
ship as they dangled at the side of the Carpathia and were revealed in the 
sudden flashes of the photographers upon the tugs. They spoke in whispers, 
each group intent upon its own sad business. Newspaper writers, with pier 
passes showing in their hat bands, were everywhere. 

   A sailor hurried outside the fence and disappeared, apparently on a 
mission for his company. There was a deep-drawn sigh as he walked away, 
shaking his head toward those who peered eagerly at him. Then came a man 
and woman of the Carpathia's own passengers, as their orderly dress showed 
them to be. 

   Again a sigh like a sob swept over the crowd, and again they turned 
back to the canopied gangplank.


THE FIRST SURVIVORS 
   Several minutes passed and then out of the first cabin gangway; 
tunneled by a somber awning, streamed the first 

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survivors. A young woman, hatless, her light brown hair disordered and the 
leaden weight of crushing sorrow heavy upon eyes and sensitive mouth, was 
in the van. She stopped, perplexed, almost ready to drop with terror and 
exhaustion, and was caught by a customs official. 

   "A survivor?" he questioned rapidly, and a nod of the head answering 
him, he demanded: 

   "Your name." 

   The answer given, he started to lead her toward that section of the 
pier where her friends would be waiting. 

   When she stepped from the gangplank there was quiet on the pier. The 
answers of the woman could almost be heard by those fifty feet away, but 
as she staggered, rather than walked, toward the waiting throng outside 
the fence, a low wailing sound arose from the crowd. 

   "Dorothy, Dorothy!" cried a man from the number. He broke through the 
double line of customs inspectors as though it was composed of wooden toys 
and caught the woman to his breast. She opened her lips inarticulately, 
weakly raised her arms and would have pitched forward upon her face had 
she not been supported. Her fair head fell weakly to one side as the man 
picked her up in his arms, and, with tears streaming down his face, 
stalked down the long avenue of the pier and down the long stairway to a 
waiting taxicab. 

   The wailing of the crowd -- its cadences, wild and weird -- grew 
steadily louder and louder till they culminated in a mighty shriek, which 
swept the whole big pier as though at the direction of some master hand.

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RUMORS AFLOAT 
   The arrival of the Carpathia was the signal for the most sensational 
rumors to circulate through the crowd on the pier. 

   First, Mrs. John Jacob Astor was reported to have died at 8.06 o'clock, 
when the Carpathia was on her way up the harbor. 

   Captain Smith and the first engineer were reported to have shot 
themselves when they found that the Titanic was doomed to sink. Afterward 
it was learned that Captain Smith and the engineer went down with their 
ship in perfect courage and coolness. 

   Major Archibald Butt, President Taft's military aide, was said to have 
entered into an agreement with George D. Widener, Colonel John Jacob Astor 
and Isidor Straus to kill them first and then shoot himself before the 
boat sank. It was said that this agreement had been carried out. Later it 
was shown that, like many other men on the ship, they had gone down 
without the exhibition of a sign of fear.


MRS. CORNELL SAFE 
   Magistrate Cornell's wife and her two sisters were among the first to 
leave the ship. They were met at the first cabin pier entrance by 
Magistrate Cornell and a party of friends. None of the three women had 
hats. One of those who met them was Magistrate Cornell's son. One of Mrs. 
Cornell's sisters was overheard to remark that "it would be a dreadful 
thing when the ship began really to unload." 

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   The three women appeared to be in a very nervous state. Their hair was 
more or less dishevelled. They were apparently fully dressed save for 
their hats. Clothing had been supplied them in their need and everything 
had been done to make them comfortable. One of the party said that the 
collision occurred at 9.45. 

   Following closely the Cornell party was H. J. Allison of Montreal, who 
came to meet his family. One of the party, who was weeping bitterly as he 
left the pier, explained that the only one of the family that was rescued 
was the young brother.


MRS. ASTOR APPEARED 
   In a few minutes young Mrs. Astor with her maid appeared. She came down 
the gangplank unassisted. She was wearing a white sweater. Vincent Astor 
and William Dobbyn, Colonel Astor's secretary, greeted her and hurried her 
to a waiting limousine which contained clothing and other necessaries of 
which it was thought she might be in need. The young woman was white-faced 
and silent. Nobody cared to intrude upon her thoughts. Her stepson said 
little to her. He did not feel like questioning her at such a time, he 
said.


LAST SEEN OF COLONEL ASTOR 
   Walter M. Clark, a nephew of the senator, said that he had seen Colonel 
Astor put his wife in a boat, after assuring her that he would soon follow 
her in another. Mr. Clark and others said that Colonel and Mrs. Astor were 
in their 

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suite when the crash came, and that they appeared quietly on deck a few 
minutes afterward. 

   Here and there among the passengers of the Carpathia and from the 
survivors of the Titanic the story was gleaned of the rescue. Nothing in 
life will ever approach the joy felt by the hundreds who were waiting in 
little boats on the spot where the Titanic foundered when the lights of 
the Carpathia were first distinguished. That was at 4 o'clock on Monday 
morning.


DR. FRAUENTHAL WELCOMED 
   Efforts were made to learn from Dr. Henry Franenthal [sic: Frauenthal] 
something about the details of how he was rescued. Just then, or as he was 
leaving the pier, beaming with evident delight, he was surrounded by a big 
crowd of his friends. 

   "There's Harry! There he is!" they yelled and made a rush for him. 

   All the doctor's face that wasn't covered with red beard was aglow with 
smiles as his friends hugged him and slapped him on the back. They rushed 
him off bodily through the crowd and he too was whirled home.


A SAD STORY 
   How others followed -- how heartrending stories of partings and of 
thrilling rescues were poured out in an amazing stream -- this has all 
been told over and over again in the news that for days amazed, saddened 
and angered the entire world. 

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It is the story of a disaster that nations, it is hoped, will make 
impossible in the years to come. 

   In the stream of survivors were a peer of the realm, Sir Cosmo Duff 
Gordon, and his secretary, side by side with plain Jack Jones, of 
Birmingham, able seaman, millionaires and paupers, women with bags of 
jewels and others with nightgowns their only property.


MORE THAN SEVENTY WIDOWS 
   More than seventy widows were in the weeping company. The only large 
family that was saved in its entirety was that of the Carters, of 
Philadelphia. Contrasting with this remarkable salvage of wealthy 
Pennsylvanians was the sleeping eleven-months-old baby of the Allisons, 
whose father, mother and sister went down to death after it and its nurse 
had been placed in a life-boat. 

   Millionaire and pauper, titled grandee and weeping immigrant, Ismay, 
the head of the White Star Company, and Jack Jones from the stoke hole 
were surrounded instantly. Some would gladly have escaped observation. 
Every man among the survivors acted as though it were first necessary to 
explain how he came to be in a life-boat. Some of the stories smacked of 
Munchausen. Others were as plain and unvarnished as a pike staff. Those 
that were most sincere and trustworthy had to be fairly pulled from those 
who gave their sad testimony. 

   Far into the night the recitals were made. They were told in the rooms 
of hotels, in the wards of hospitals and upon trains that sped toward 
saddened homes. It was a symposium 

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of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the 
civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.


STEERAGE PASSENGERS 
   The two hundred and more steerage passengers did not leave the ship 
until 11 o'clock. They were in a sad condition. The women were without 
wraps and the few men there were wore very little clothing. A poor Syrian 
woman who said she was Mrs. Habush, bound for Youngstown, Ohio, carried in 
her arms a six-year-old baby girl. This woman had lost her husband and 
three brothers. "I lost four of my men folks," she cried.


TWO LITTLE BOYS 
   Among the survivors who elicited a large measure of sympathy were two 
little French boys who were dropped, almost naked, from the deck of the 
sinking Titanic into a life-boat. From what place in France did they come 
and to what place in the New World were they bound? There was not one iota 
of information to be had as to the identity of the waifs of the deep, the 
orphans of the Titanic. 

   The two baby boys, two and four years old, respectively, were in charge 
of Miss Margaret Hays, who is a fluent speaker of French, and she had 
tried vainly to get from the lisping lips of the two little ones some 
information that would lead to the finding of their relatives. 

   Miss Hays, also a survivor of the Titanic, took charge of the almost 
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warmly attached to the two boys, who unconcernedly played about, not 
understanding the great tragedy that had come into their lives. 

   The two little curly-heads did not understand it all. Had not their 
pretty nineteen-year-old foster mother provided them with pretty suits and 
little white shoes and playthings a-plenty? Then, too, Miss Hays had a Pom 
dog that she brought with her from Paris and which she carried in her arms 
when she left the Titanic and held to her bosom through the long night in 
the life-boat, and to which the children became warmly attached. All three 
became aliens on an alien shore. 

   Miss Hays, unable to learn the names of the little fellows, had dubbed 
the older Louis and the younger "Lump." "Lump" was all that his name 
implies, for he weighed almost as much as his brother. They were dark-eyed 
and brown curly-haired children, who knew how to smile as only French 
children can. 

   On the fateful night of the Titanic disaster and just as the last boats 
were pulling away with their human freight, a man rushed to the rail 
holding the babes under his arms. He cried to the passengers in one of the 
boats and held the children aloft. Three or four sailors and passengers 
held up their arms. The father dropped the older boy. He was safely 
caught. Then he dropped the little fellow and saw him folded in the arms 
of a sailor. Then the boat pulled away. 

   The last seen of the father, whose last living act was 

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to save his babes, he was waving his hand in a final parting. Then the 
Titanic plunged to the ocean's bed.


BABY TRAVERS 
   Still more pitiable in one way was the lot of the baby survivor, eleven-
months-old Travers Allison, the only member of a family of four to survive 
the wreck. His father, H. J. Allison, and mother and Lorraine, a child of 
three, were victims of the catastrophe. Baby Travers, in the excitement 
following the crash, was separated from the rest of the family just before 
the Titanic went down. With the party were two nurses and a maid. 

   Major Arthur Peuchen, of Montreal, one of the survivors, standing near 
the little fellow, who, swathed in blankets, lay blinking at his nurse, 
described the death of Mrs. Allison. She had gone to the deck without her 
husband, and, frantically seeking him, was directed by an officer to the 
other side of the ship. 

   She failed to find Mr. Allison and was quickly hustled into one of the 
collapsible life-boats, and when last seen by Major Peuchen she was 
toppling out of the half-swamped boat. J. W. Allison, a cousin of H. J. 
Allison, was at the pier to care for Baby Travers and his nurse. They were 
taken to the Manhattan Hotel. 

   Describing the details of the perishing of the Allison family, the 
rescued nurse said they were all in bed when the Titanic hit the berg. 

   "We did not get up immediately," said she, "for we had 

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not thought of danger. Later we were told to get up, and I hurriedly 
dressed the baby. We hastened up on deck, and confusion was all about. 
With other women and children we clambered to the life-boats, just as a 
matter of precaution, believing that there was no immediate danger. In 
about an hour there was an explosion and the ship appeared to fall apart. 
We were in the life-boat about six hours before we were picked up."


THE RYERSON FAMILY 
   Probably few deaths have caused more tears than Arthur Ryerson's, in 
view of the sad circumstances which called him home from a lengthy tour in 
Europe. Mr. Ryerson's eldest son, Arthur Larned Ryerson, a Yale student, 
was killed in an automobile accident Easter Monday, 1912. 

   A cablegram announcing the death plunged the Ryerson family into 
mourning and they boarded the first steamship for this country. If [sic: 
It] happened to be the Titanic, and the death note came near being the 
cause of the blotting out of the entire family. 

   The children who accompanied them were Miss Susan P. Ryerson, Miss 
Emily B. Ryerson and John Ryerson. The latter is 12 years old. 

   They did not know their son intended to spend the Easter holidays at 
their home at Haverford, Pa. until they were informed of his death. John 
Lewis Hoffman, also of Haverford and a student of Yale, was killed with 
young Ryerson. 

   The two were hurrying to Philadelphia to escort a fellow-student 

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to his train. In turning out of the road to pass a cart the motor car 
crashed into a pole in front of the entrance to the estate of Mrs. B. 
Frank Clyde. The college men were picked up unconscious and died in the 
Bryn Mawr Hospital. 

   G. Heide Norris of Philadelphia, who went to New York to meet the 
surviving members of the Ryerson family, told of a happy incident at the 
last moment as the Carpathia swung close to the pier. There had been no 
positive information that young "Jack" Ryerson was among those saved -- 
indeed, it was feared that he had gone down with the Titanic, like his 
father, Arthur Ryerson. 

   Mr. Norris spoke of the feeling of relief that came over him as, 
watching from the pier, he saw "Jack" Ryerson come from a cabin and stand 
at the railing. The name of the boy was missing from some of the lists and 
for two days it was reported that he had perished.


CAPTAIN ROSTRON'S REPORT 
   Less than 24 hours after the Cunard Line steamship Carpathia came in as 
a rescue ship with survivors of the Titanic disaster, she sailed again for 
the Mediterranean cruise which she originally started upon last week. Just 
before the liner sailed, H. S. Bride, the second Marconi wireless operator 
of the Titanic, who had both of his legs crushed on a life-boat, was 
carried off on the shoulders of the ship's officers to St. Vincent's 
Hospital. 

   Captain A. H. Rostron, of the Carpathia, addressed an official report, 
giving his account of the Carpathia's rescue 

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work, to the general manager of the Cunard Line, Liverpool. The report 
read: "I beg to report that at 12.35 A. M. Monday 18th inst. I was 
informed of urgent message from Titanic with her position. I immediately 
ordered ship turned around and put her in course for that position, we 
being then 58 miles S. 52 -- E. 'T' from her; had heads of all departments 
called and issued what I considered the necessary orders, to be in 
preparation for any emergency. 

   "At 2.40 A. M. saw flare half a point on port bow. Taking this for 
granted to be ship, shortly after we sighted our first iceberg. I had 
previously had lookouts doubled, knowing that Titanic had struck ice, and 
so took every care and precaution. We soon found ourselves in a field of 
bergs, and had to alter course several times to clear bergs; weather fine, 
and clear, light air on sea, beautifully clear night, though dark. 

   "We stopped at 4 A. M., thus doing distance in three hours and a half, 
picking up the first boat at 4.10 A. M.; boat in charge of officer, and he 
reported that Titanic had foundered. At 8.30 A. M. last boat picked up. 
All survivors aboard and all boats accounted for, viz., fifteen life-
boats, one boat abandoned, two Berthon boats alongside (saw one floating 
upwards among wreckage), and according to second officer (senior officer 
saved) one Berthon boat had not been launched, it having got jammed, 
making sixteen life-boats and four Berthon boats accounted for. By the 
time we had cleared first boat it was breaking day, and I could see all 
within area of four miles. We also saw that we were surrounded by 
icebergs, large and small, huge field of drift ice with large and small 
bergs in it, 

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the ice field trending from N. W. round W. and S. to S. E., as far as we 
could see either way. 

   "At 8 A. M. the Leyland S. S. California came up. I gave him the 
principal news and asked him to search and I would proceed to New York; at 
8.50 proceeded full speed while researching over vicinity of disaster, and 
while we were getting people aboard I gave orders to get spare hands along 
and swing in all our boats, disconnect the fall and hoist up as many 
Titanic boats as possible in our davits; also get some on forecastle heads 
by derricks. We got thirteen lifeboats, six on forward deck and seven in 
davits. After getting all survivors aboard and while searching I got a 
clergyman to offer a short prayer of thankfulness for those saved, and 
also a short burial service for their loss, in saloon. 

   "Before deciding definitely where to make for, I conferred with Mr. 
Ismay, and as he told me to do what I thought best, I informed him, I 
considered New York best. I knew we should require clean blankets, 
provisions and clean linen, even if we went to the Azores, as most of the 
passsengers [sic: passengers] saved were women and children, and they 
hysterical, not knowing what medical attention they might require. I 
thought it best to go to New York. I also thought it would be better for 
Mr. Ismay to go to New York or England as soon as possible, and knowing I 
should be out of wireless communication very soon if I proceeded to 
Azores, it left Halifax, Boston and New York, so I chose the latter. 

   "Again, the passengers were all hysterical about ice, and I pointed out 
to Mr. Ismay the possibilities of seeing ice if I 

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went to Halifax. Then I knew it would be best to keep in touch with land 
stations as best I could. We have experienced great difficulty in 
transmitting news, also names of survivors. Our wireless is very poor, and 
again we have had so many interruptions from other ships and also messages 
from shore (principally press, which we ignored). I gave instructions to 
send first all official messages, then names of passengers, then 
survivors' private messages. We had haze early Tuesday morning for several 
hours; again more or less all Wednesday from 5.30 A. M. to 5 P. M.; strong 
south-southwesterly winds and clear weather Thursday, with moderate rough 
sea. 

   "I am pleased to say that all survivors have been very plucky. The 
majority of women, first, second and third class, lost their husbands, 
and, considering all, have been wonderfully well. Tuesday our doctor 
reported all survivors physically well. Our first class passengers have 
behaved splendidly, given up their cabins voluntarily and supplied the 
ladies with clothes, etc. We all turned out of our cabins and gave them to 
survivors -- saloon, smoking room, library, etc., also being used for 
sleeping accommodation. Our crew, also turned out to let the crew of the 
Titanic take their quarters. I am pleased to state that owing to 
preparations made for the comfort of survivors, none were the worse for 
exposure, etc. I beg to specially mention how willing and cheerful the 
whole of the ship's company behaved, receiving the highest praise from 
everybody. And I can assure you I am very proud to have such a company 
under my command.

"A. H. ROSTRON." 


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LIST OF SURVIVORS 
   The following list of the survivors and dead contains the latest 
revisions and corrections of the White Star Line officials, and was 
furnished by them exclusively for this book.

FIRST CABIN 

ANDERSON, HARRY.

ANTOINETTE, MISS.

APPIERANELT, MISS.

APPLETON. MRS. E. D.

ABBOTT, MRS. ROSE.

ALLISON, MASTER, and nurse.

ANDREWS, MISS CORNELIA I.

ALLEN, MISS. E. W.

ASTOR, MRS. JOHN JACOB, and maid.

AUBEART, MME. N., and maid.

BARRATT, KARL B.

BESETTE, MISS.

BARKWORTH, A. H.

BUCKNELL, MRS. W.

BOWERMAN, MISS E.

BROWN, MRS. J. J.

BURNS, MISS C. M.

BISHOP, MR. AND MRS. D. H.

BLANK, H.

BESSINA, MISS A.

BAXTER, MRS. JAMES.

BRAYTON, GEORGE.

BONNELL, MISS LILY.

BROWN, MRS. J. M.

BOWEN, MISS G. C.

BECKWITH, MR. AND MRS. R. L.

BISLEY, MR. AND MRS.

BONNELL, MISS C.

CASSEBEER, MRS. H. A.

CARDEZA, MRS. J. W.

CANDELL, MRS. CHURCHILL.

CASE, HOWARD B.

CAMARION, KENARD.

CASSEBORO, MISS D. D.

CLARK, MRS. W. M.

CHIBINACE, MRS. B. C.

CHARLTON, W. M.

CROSBY, MRS E. G.

CARTER, MISS LUCILLE.

CALDERHEAD, E. P.

CHANDANSON, MISS VICTORINE.

CAVENDISH, MRS. TURRELL, and maid.

CHAFEE, MRS. H. I.

CARDEZA, MR. THOMAS.

CUMMINGS, MRS. J.

CHEVRE, PAUL.

CHERRY, MISS GLADYS.

CHAMBERS, MR. AND MRS. N. C.

CARTER, MR. AND MRS. W. E.

CARTER, MASTER WILLIAM.

COMPTON, MRS. A. T.

COMPTON, MISS S. R.

CROSBY, MRS. E. G.

CROSBY, MISS HARRIET.

CORNELL, MRS. R. C.

CHIBNALL, MRS. E.

DOUGLAS, MRS. FRED.

DE VILLIERS, MME.

DANIEL, MISS SARAH.

DANIEL, ROBERT W.

DAVIDSON, MR. AND MRS. THORNTON, and family.

DOUGLAS, MRS. WALTER, and maid.

DODGE, MISS SARAH.

DODGE, MRS. WASHINGTON, and son.

DICK, MR. AND MRS. A. A.

DANIELL, H. HAREN.

DRACHENSTED, A.

DALY, PETER D.

ENDRES, MISS CAROLINE.

ELLIS, MISS

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EARNSHAW, MRS. BOULTON.

EUSTIS, MISS E.

EMMOCK, PHILIP E.

FLAGENHEIM, MRS. ANTOINETTE.

FRANICATELLI, MISS.

FLYNN, J. I.

FORTUNE, MISS ALICE.

FORTUNE, MISS ETHEL.

FORTUNE, MRS. MARK.

FORTUNE, MISS MABEL.

FRAUENTHAL, DR. AND MRS. H. W.

FRAUENTHAL, MR. AND MRS. T. G

FROLICHER, MISS MARGARET.

FROLICHER, MAX AND MRS.

FROLICHER, MISS N.

FUTRELLE, MRS. JACQUES.

GRACIE, COLONEL ARCHIBALD.

GRAHAM, MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM.

GRAHAM, MISS M.

GORDON, SIR COSMO DUFF.

GORDON, LADY.

GIBSON, MISS DOROTHY.

GOLDENBERG, MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL.

GOLDENBERG, MISS ELLA.

GREENFIELD, MRS. L. P.

GREENFIELD, G. B.

GREENFIELD, WILLIAM.

GIBSON, MRS. LEONARD.

GOOGHT, JAMES.

HAVEN, MR. HENRY B.

HARRIS, MRS. H. B.

HOLVERSON, MRS. ALEX.

HOGEBOOM, MRS. J. C.

HAWKSFORD, W. J.

HARPER, HENRY, and man servant.

HARPER, MRS. H. S.

HOLD, MISS J. A.

HOPE, NINA.

HOYT, MR. AND MRS. FRED.

HORNER, HENRY R.

HARDER, MR. AND MRS. GEORGE.

HAYS, MRS. CHARLES M., and daughter.

HIPPACH, MISS JEAN.

HIPPACH, MRS. IDA S.

ISMAY, J. BRUCE.

JENASCO, MRS. J.

KIMBALL, MR. AND MRS. ED. N.

KENNYMAN, F. A.

KENCHEN, MISS EMILE.

LONGLEY, MISS G. F.

LEADER, MRS. A. F.

LEAHY, MISS NORA.

LAVORY, MISS BERTHA.

LINES, MRS. ERNEST.

LINES, MISS MARY.

LINDSTROM, MRS. SINGIRD.

LESNEUR, GUSTAVE, JR.

MADILL, MISS GEORGETTE A.

MAHAN, MRS.

MELICARD, MME.

MENDERSON, MISS LETTA.

MAIMY, MISS ROBERTA.

MARVIN, MRS. D. W.

MARECHELL, PIERRE.

MARONEY, MRS. R.

MEYER, MRS. E. I.

MOCK, MR. P. E.

MIDDLE, MME. M. OLIVE.

MINAHAN, MISS DAISY.

MINAHAN, MRS. W. E.

MCGOUGH, JAMES.

NEWELL, MISS ALICE.

NEWELL, MISS MADELINE.

NEWELL, WASHINGTON.

NEWSON, MISS HELEN.

O'CONNELL, MISS R.

OSTBY, E. C.

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OSTBY, MISS HELEN.

OMUND, FIEUNAM.

PANHART, MISS NINETTE.

PEARS, MRS. E.

POMROY, MISS ELLEN.

POTTER, MRS. THOMAS, JR.

PEUCHEN, MAJOR ARTHUR.

PEERCAULT, MISS A.

RYERSON, JOHN.

RENAGO, MRS. MAMAM.

RANELT, MISS APPIE.

ROTHSCHILD, MRS. LORD MARTIN.

ROSENBAUM, MISS EDITH.

RHEIMS, MR. AND MRS GEORGE.

ROSIBLE, MISS H.

ROTHES, COUNTESS.

ROBERT, MRS. EDNA.

ROLMANE, C.

RYERSON, MISS SUSAN P.

RYERSON, MISS EMILY.

RYERSON, MRS. ARTHUR, and maid.

STONE, MRS. GEORGE M.

SKELLER, MRS. WILLIAM.

SEGESSER, MISS EMMA.

SEWARD, FRED. K.

SHUTTER, MISS.

SLOPER, WILLIAM T.

SWIFT, MRS. F. JOEL.

SCHABERT, MRS. PAUL.

SHEDDEL, ROBERT DOUGLASS.

SNYDER, MR. AND MRS. JOHN.

SEREPECA, MISS AUGHSTA.

SILVERTHORN, R. SPENCER.

SAALFELD, ADOLF.

STAHELIN, MAX.

SIMOINUS, ALFONSIUS.

SMITH, MRS. LUCIEN P.

STEPHENSON, MRS. WALTER.

SOLOMON, ABRAHAM.

SILVEY, MRS. WILLIAM B.

STENMEL, MR. AND MRS. HELEERY

SPENCER, MRS. W. A., and maid.

SLAYTER, MISS HILDA.

SPEDDEN, MR. AND MRS. F. O., and child.

STEFFANSON, H. B.

STRAUS, MRS., maid of.

SCHABERT, MRS. EMMA.

SLINTER, MRS. E.

SIMMONS, A.

TAYLOR, MISS.

TUCKER, MRS., and maid.

THAYER, MRS. J. B.

THAYER, J. B., JR.

TAUSSIG, MISS RUTH.

TAUSSIG. MRS. E.

THOR, MISS ELLA.

THORNE, MRS. G.

TAYLOR, MR. AND MRS. E. Z.

TROUT, MISS JESSIE.

TUCKER, GILBERT.

WOOLNER, HUGH.

WARD, MISS ANNA.

WILLIAMS, RICHARD M., JR.

WARREN, MRS. F.

WILSON, MISS HELEN A.

WILLIARD, MISS C.

WICK, MISS MARY.

WICK, GEO.

WIDENER, valet of.

WIDENER, MRS. GEORGE D., and maid.

WHITE, MRS. J. STUART.

YOUNG, MISS MARIE.

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LIST OF SURVIVORS -- SECOND CABIN 

ABESSON, MRS. HANNA.

ABBOTT, MRS. R.

ARGENIA, MRS., and two children.

ANGEL, F.

ANGLE, WILLIAM.

BAUMTHORPE, MRS. L.

BALLS, MRS. ADA E.

BUSS, MISS. KATE.

BECKER, MRS. A. O., and three children

BEANE, EDWARD.

BEANE, MRS. ETHEL,

BRYHL, MISS. D.

BEESLEY, MR. L.

BROWN, MR. T. W. S.

BROWN, MISS. E.

BROWN, MRS.

BENTHAN, LILLIAN W.

BYSTRON, KAROLINA.

BRIGHT, DAGMAR.

BRIGHT, DAISY.

CLARKE, MRS. ADA.

CAMERON, MISS. C.

CALDWELL, ALBERT F.

CALDWELL, MRS. SYLVAN.

CALDWELL, ALDEN, infant.

CRISTY, MR. AND MRS.

COLLYER, MRS. CHARLOTTE.

COLLYER, MISS. MARJORIE.

CHRISTY, MRS. ALICE.

COLLET, STUART.

CHRISTA, MISS. DUCIA.

CHARLES, WILLIAM.

CROFT, MILLIE MALL.

DOLING, MRS. ELSIE.

DREW, MRS. LULU.

DAVIS, MRS. AGNES.

DAVIS, MISS. MARY.

DAVIS, JOHN M.

DUVAN, FLORENTINE.

DUVAN, MISS. A.

DAVIDSON, MISS. MARY.

DOLING, MISS. ADA.

DRISCOLL, MRS. B.

DEYSTROM, CAROLINE.

EMCARMACION, MRS. RINALDO.

FAUNTHORPE, MRS. LIZZIE.

FORMERY, MISS. ELLEN.

GARSIDE, ETHEL.

GERRECAI, MRS. MARCY.

GENOVESE, ANGERE.

HART, MRS. ESTHER.

HART, EVA.

HARRIS, GEORGE.

HEWLETT, MRS. MARY.

HEBBER, MISS. S.

HOFFMAN, LOLA.

HOFFMAN, LOUIS.

HARPER, NINA.

HOLD, STEPHEN.

HOLD, MRS. ANNA.

HOSONO, MASABUMI.

HOCKING, MR. AND MRS. GEORGE.

HOCKING, MISS. NELLIE.

HERMAN, MRS. JANE, 2 daughters

HEALY, NORA.

HANSON, JENNIE.

HAMATAINEN, W.

HAMATAINEN, ANNA.

HARNLIN, ANNA, and Child

ILETT, BERTHA.

JACKSON, MRS. AMY.

JULIET, LUWCHE.

JERWAN, MARY.

JUHON, PODRO.

JACOBSON, MRS.

KEANE, MISS. NORA H.

KELLY, MRS. F.

KANTAR, MRS. S.

LEITCH, JESSIE.

LAROCHE, MRS. AND MISS SIMMONE.

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LAROCHE, MISS. LOUISE.

LEHMAN, BERTHA.

LAUCH, MRS. ALEX.

LANIORE, AMELIA.

LYSTROM, MRS. C.

MELLINGER, ELIZABETH.

MELLINGER, child.

MARSHALL, MRS. KATE.

MALLETT, A.

MALLETT, MRS. and child.

MANGE, PAULA.

MARE, MRS. FLORENCE.

MELLOR, W. J.

McDEARMONT, MISS. LELA.

McGOWAN, ANNA.

NYE, ELIZABETH.

NASSER, MRS. DELIA.

NUSSA, MRS. A.

OXENHAM, PERCY J.

PHILLIPS, ALICE.

PALLAS, EMILIO.

PADRO, JULIAN.

PRINSKY, ROSA.

PORTALUPPI, EMILIO.

PARSH, MRS. L.

PLETT, B.

QUICK, MRS. JANE.

QUICK, MRS. VERA W.

QUICK, MISS. PHYLLIS.

REINARDO, MISS. E.

RIDSDALE, LUCY.

RENOUF, MRS. LILY.

RUGG, MISS. EMILY.

RICHARDS, M.

ROGERS, MISS. SELINA.

RICHARDS, MRS. EMILIA, two boys, and MR. RICHARDS, JR.

SIMPSON, MISS.

SINCOCK, MISS. MAUDE.

SINKKONNEN, ANNA.

SMITH, MISS. MARION.

SILVEN, LYLLE.

TRANT, MRS J.

TOOMEY, MISS. E.

TROUTT, MISS. E.

TROUTT, MISS. CECELIA.

WARE, MISS. H.

WATTER, MISS. N.

WILHELM, CHAS.

WAT, MRS. A., and two children.

WILLIAMS, RICHARD M., JR.

WEISZ, MATHILDE.

WEBBER, MISS. SUSIE.

WRIGHT, MISS. MARION.

WATT, MISS. BESSIE.

WATT, MISS. BERTHA.

WEST, MRS. E. A.

WEST, MISS. CONSTANCE.

WEST, MISS. BARBARA.

WELLS, ADDIE.

WELLS, MASTER.

WELLS, MISS.

   A list of surviving third cabin passengers and crew is omitted owing to 
the impossibility of obtaining the correct names of many.


ROLL OF THE DEAD 

FIRST CABIN 

ALLISON, H. J.

ALLISON, MRS., and maid.

ALLISON, MISS.

ANDREWS, THOMAS.

ARTAGAVEYTIA, MR. RAMON.

ASTOR, COL. J. J., and servant.

ANDERSON, WALKER.

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BEATTIE, T.

BRANDEIS, E.

BVCKNELL, MRS. WlLLIAM, maid of.

BAUMANN, J.

BAXTER, MR. AND MRS. QUIGG.

BJORNSTROM, H.

BIRNBAUM, JACOB.

BLACKWELL, S. W.

BOREBANK, J. J.

BOWEN, MISS.

BRADY, JOHN B.

BREWE, ARTHUR J.

BUTT, MAJOR A.

CLARK, WALTER M.

CLLFFORD, GEORGE Q.

COLLEY, E. P.

CARDEZA, T. D. M., servant of.

CARDEZA, MRS. J. W., maid of.

CARLSON, FRANK.

CORRAN, F. M.

CORRAN, J. P.

CHAFEE, MR. H. I.

CHISHOLM, ROBERT.

COMPTON, A. T.

CRAFTON, JOHN B.

CROSBY, EDWARD G.

CUMMINGS, JOHN BRADLEY.

DULLES, WILLIAM C.

DOUGLAS, W. D.

DOUGLAS, MASTER R., nurse of.

EVANS, MISS E.

FORTUNE, MARK.

FOREMAN, B. L.

FORTUNE, CHARLES.

FRANKLIN, T. P.

FUTRELLE, J.

GEE, ARTHUR.

GOLDENBERG, E. L.

GOLDSCHMIDT, G. B.

GIGLIO, VICTOR.

GUGGENHEIM, BENJAMIN,

HAYS, CHARLES M.

HAYS, MRS. CHARLES, maid of.

HEAD, CHRISTOPHER.

HILLIARD, H. H.

HIPKINS, W. E.

HOGENHEIM, MRS. A.

HARRIS, HENRY B.

HARP, MR. AND MRS. CHARLES M.

HARP, MISS MARGARET, and maid.

HOLVERSON, A. M.

ISHAM, MISS A. E.

ISMAY, J. BRUCE, servant of.

JULIAN, H. F.

JONES, C. C.

KENT, EDWARD A.

KENYON, MR. AND MRS. F. R.

KLABER, HERMAN.

LAMBERTH, WILLIAM, F. F.

LAWRENCE, ARTHUR.

LONG, MILTON.

LEWY, E. G.

LORING, J. H.

LINGREY, EDWARD.

MAGUIRE, J. E.

McCAFFRY, T.

McCAFFRY, T., JR.

McCARTHY, T.

MIDDLETON, J. C.

MILLET, FRANK D.

MINAHAN, DR.

MEYER, EDGAR J.

MOLSON, H. M.

MOORE, C., servant.

NATSCH, CHARLES.

NEWALL, MISS T.

NICHOLSON, A. S.

OVIES, S.

ORNOUT, ALFRED T.

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PARR, M. H. W.

PEARS, MR. AND MRS. THOMAS.

PENASCO, MR. AND MRS. VICTOR.

PARTNER, M. A.

PAYNE, V.

POND, FLORENCE, and maid.

PORTER, WALTER.

PUFFER, C. C.

REUCHLIN, J.

ROBERT, MRS. E., maid of.

ROEBLING, WASHINGTON A., 2d.

ROOD, HUGH R.

ROES, J. HUGO.

ROTHES, COUNTESS, maid of.

ROTHSCHILD, M.

ROWE, ARTHUR.

RYERSON, A.

SILVEY, WILLIAM B.

SPEDDEN, MRS. F. O., maid of.

SPENCER, W. A.

STEAD, W. T.

STEHLI, MR. AND MRS. MAX FROLICHER.

STONE, MRS. GEORGE, maid of.

STRAUS, MR. AND MRS. ISIDOR.

SUTTON, FREDERICK.

SMART, JOHN M.

SMITH, CLINCH.

SMITH, R. W.

SMITH, L. P.

TAUSSIG, EMIL.

THAYER, MRS., maid of.

THAYER, JOHN B.

THORNE, G.

VANDERHOOF, WYCKOFF.

WALKER, W. A.

WARREN, F. M.

WHITE, PERCIVAL A.

WHITE, RICHARD F.

WIDENER, G. D.

WIDENER, HARRY.

WOOD, MR. AND MRS. FRANK P.

WEIR, J.

WILLIAMS, DUANE.

WRIGHT, GEORGE.


SECOND CABIN 

ABELSON, SAMSON.

ANDREW, FRANK.

ASHBY, JOHN.

ALDWORTH, C.

ANDREW, EDGAR.

BRACKEN, JAMES H.

BROWN, MRS.

BANFIELD, FRED.

BRIGHT, NARL.

BRAILY, bandsman.

BREICOUX, bandsman.

BAILEY, PERCY.

BAINBRIDGE, C. R.

BYLES, THE REV. THOMAS.

BEAUCHAMP, H. J.

BERG, MISS E.

BENTHAN, I.

BATEMAN, ROBERT J.

BUTLER, REGINALD.

BOTSFORD, HULL.

BOWEENER, SOLOMON.

BERRIMAN, WILLIAM.

CLARKE, CHARLES.

CLARK, bandsman.

COREY, MRS. C. P.

CARTER, THE REV. ERNEST.

CARTER, MRS.

COLERIDGE, REGINALD,

CHAPMAN, CHARLES.

CUNNINGHAM, ALFRED.

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM.

COLLYER, HARVEY.

CORBETT, MRS. IRENE.

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CHAPMAN, JOHN H.

CHAPMAN, MRS. E.

COLANDER, ERIC.

COTTERILL, HARRY.

DEACON, PERCY.

DAVIS, CHARLES.

DIBBEN, WILLIAM.

DE BRITO, JOSE.

DENBORNY, H.

DREW, JAMES.

DREW, MASTER M.

DAVID, MASTER J. W.

DOUNTON, W. J.

DEL VARLO, S.

DEL VARLO, MRS.

ENANDER, INGVAR.

EITEMILLER, G. F.

FROST, A.

FYNNERY, MR.

FAUNTHORPE, H.

FILLBROOK, C.

FUNK, ANNIE.

FAHLSTROM, A.

FOX, STANLEY W.

GREENBERG, S.

GILES, RALPH.

GASKELL, ALFRED.

GILLESPIE, WILLIAM.

GILBERT, WILLIAM.

GALL, S.

GLLL, JOHN.

GILES, EDGAR.

GILES, FRED.

GALE, HARRY.

GALE, PHADRUCH.

GARVEY, LAWRENCE,

HICKMAN, LEONARD.

HICKMAN, LEWIS.

HUME, bandsman.

HICKMAN, STANLEY.

HOOD, AMBROSE,

HODGES, HENRY P.

HART, BENJAMIN.

HARRIS, WALTER.

HARPER, JOHN.

HARBECK, W. H.

HOFFMAN, MR.

HERMAN, MRS. S.

HOWARD, B.

HOWARD, MRS. E. T.

HALE, REGINALD.

HILTUNEN, M.

HUNT, GEORGE.

JACOBSON, MR.

JACOBSON, SYDNEY.

JEFFERY, CLIFFORD.

JEFFERY, ERNEST.

JENKIN, STEPHEN.

JARVIS, JOHN D.

KEANE, DANIEL.

KIRKLAND, REV. C.

KARNES, MRS. F. G.

KEYNALDO, MISS

KRILLNER, J. H.

KRINS, bandsman.

KARINES, MRS.

KANTAR, SELNA.

KNIGHT, R.

LENGAM, JOHN.

LEVY, R. J.

LAHTIMAN, WILLIAM.

LAUCH, CHARLES.

LEYSON, R. W. N.

LAROCHE, JOSEPH.

LAMB, J. J

McKANE, PETER.

MILLING, JACOB.

MANTOILA, JOSEPH.

MALACHARD, NOLL.

MORAWECK, DR.

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MANGIOVACCHI, E.

McCRAE, ARTHUR G.

McCRIE, JAMES M.

McKANE, PETER D.

MUDD, THOMAS.

MACK, MRS. MARY.

MARSHALL, HENRY.

MAYBERG, FRANK H.

MEYER, AUGUST.

MYLES, THOMAS.

MITCHELL, HENRY.

MATTHEWS, W. J.

NESSEN, ISRAEL.

NICHOLLS, JOSEPH C.

NORMAN, ROBERT D.

OTTER, RICHARD.

PHILLIPS, ROBERT.

PONESELL, MARTIN.

PAIN, DR. ALFRED.

PARKES, FRANK.

PENGELLY, F.

PERNOT, RENE.

PERUSCHITZ, REV.

PARKER, CLIFFORD.

PULBAUM, FRANK

RENOUF, PETER H.

ROGERS, HARRY.

REEVES, DAVID.

SLEMEN, R. J.

SOBEY, HAYDEN.

SLATTER, MISS H. M.

STANTON, WARD.

SWORD, HANS K.

STOKES, PHILIP J.

SHARP, PERCIVAL.

SEDGWICK, MR. F. W.

SMITH, AUGUSTUS.

SWEET, GEORGE.

SJOSTEDT, ERNST.

TAYLOR, bandsman.

TURPIN, WILLIAM J.

TURPIN, MRS. DOROTHY.

TURNER, JOHN H.

TROUPIANSKY, M.

TIRVAN, MRS. A.

VEALE, JAMES.

WATSON, E.

WOODWARD, bandsman.

WARE, WILLIAM J.

WEISZ, LEOPOLD.

WHEADON, EDWARD.

WARE, JOHN J.

WEST, E. ARTHUR.

WHEELER, EDWIN.

WERMAN, SAMUEL.

   The total death list was 1635. Third cabin passengers and crew are not 
included in the list here given owing to the impossibility of obtaining 
the exact names of many.



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CHAPTER XIII
THE STORY OF CHARLES F. HURD
HOW THE TITANIC SANK -- WATER STREWN WITH DEAD BODIES -- VICTIMS MET DEATH 
WITH HYMN ON THEIR LIPS 

   THE Story of how the Titanic sank is told by Charles F. Hurd, who was a 
passenger on the Carpathia. 

   He praised highly the courage of the crew, hundreds of whom gave their 
lives with a heroism which equaled but could not exceed that of John Jacob 
Astor, Henry B. Harris, Jacques Futrelle and others in the long list of 
first-cabin passengers. The account continues: 

   "The crash against the iceberg, which had been sighted at only a 
quarter mile distance, came almost simultaneously with the click of the 
levers operated from the bridge, which stopped the engines and closed the 
water-tight doors. Captain Smith was on the bridge a moment later, 
summoning all on board to put on life preservers and ordering the life-
boats lowered. 

   "The first boats had more male passengers, as the men were the first to 
reach the deck. When the rush of frightened men and women and crying 
children to the decks began, the 'women first' rule was rigidly enforced. 

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   "Officers drew revolvers, but in most cases there was no use for them. 
Revolver shots heard shortly before the Titanic went down caused many 
rumors, one that Captain Smith had shot himself, another that First 
Officer Murdock had ended his life, but members of the crew discredit 
these rumors. 

   "Captain Smith was last seen on the bridge just before the ship sank, 
leaping only after the decks had been washed away. 

   "What became of the men with the life-preservers was a question asked 
by many since the disaster. Many of these with life-preservers were seen 
to go down despite the preservers, and dead bodies floated on the surface 
as the boats moved away. 

   "Facts which I have established by inquiries on the Carpathia, as 
positively as they could be established in view of the silence of the few 
surviving officers, are: 

   "That the Titanic's officers knew, several hours before the crash, of 
the possible nearness of the icebergs. 

   "That the Titanic's speed, nearly 23 knots an hour, was not slackened. 

   "That the number of life-boats on the Titanic was insufficient to 
accommodate more than one-third of the passengers, to say nothing of the 
crew. Most members of the crew say there were sixteen life-boats and two 
collapsibles; none say there were more than twenty boats in all. The 700 
escaped filled most of the sixteen life-boats and the one collapsible 
which got away, to the limit of their capacity. 

   "Had the ship struck the iceberg head on at whatever 

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speed and with whatever resulting shock, the bulkhead system of water-
tight compartments would probably have saved the vessel. As one man 
expressed it, it was the impossible that happened when, with a shock 
unbelievably mild, the ship's side was torn for a length which made the 
bulkhead system ineffective." 

   After telling of the shock and the lowering of the boats the account 
continues: 

   "Some of the boats, crowded too full to give rowers a chance, drifted 
for a time. Few had provisions or water, there was lack of covering from 
the icy air, and the only lights were the still undimmed arcs and 
incandescents of the settling ship, save for one of the first boats. There 
a steward, who explained to the passengers that he had been shipwrecked 
twice before, appeared carrying three oranges and a green light. 

   "That green light, many of the survivors say, was to the shipwrecked 
hundreds as the pillar of fire by night. Long after the ship had 
disappeared, and while confusing false lights danced about the boats, the 
green lantern kept them together on the course which led them to the 
Carpathia. 

   "As the end of the Titanic became manifestly but a matter of moments, 
the oarsmen pulled their boats away, and the chilling waters began to echo 
splash after splash as passengers and sailors in life-preservers leaped 
over and started swimming away to escape the expected suction. 

   "Only the hardiest of constitutions could endure for more than a few 
moments such a numbing bath. The first vigorous 

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strokes gave way to heart-breaking cries of 'Help! Help!' and stiffened 
forms were seen floating on the water all around us. 

   "Led by the green light, under the light of the stars, the boats drew 
away, and the bow, then the quarter, then the stacks and at last the stern 
of the marvel-ship of a few days before, passed beneath the waters. The 
great force of the ship's sinking was unaided by any violence of the 
elements, and the suction, not so great as had been feared, rocked but 
mildly the group of boats now a quarter of a mile distant from it. 

   "Early dawn brought no ship, but not long after 5 A. M. the Carpathia, 
far out of her path and making eighteen knots, instead of her wonted 
fifteen, showed her single red and black smokestack upon the horizon. In 
the joy of that moment, the heaviest griefs were forgotten. 

   "Soon afterward Captain Rostron and Chief Steward Hughes were welcoming 
the chilled and bedraggled arrivals over the Carpathia's side. 

   "Terrible as were the San Francisco, Slocum and Iroquois disasters, 
they shrink to local events in comparison with this world-catastrophe. 

   "True, there were others of greater qualifications and longer 
experience than I nearer the tragedy -- but they, by every token of 
likelihood, have become a part of the tragedy. The honored -- must I say 
the lamented -- Stead, the adroit Jacques Futrelle, what might they not 
tell were their hands able to hold pencil? 

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   "The silence of the Carpathia's engines, the piercing cold, the clamor 
of many voices in the companionways, caused me to dress hurriedly and 
awaken my wife, at 5.40 A. M. Monday. Our stewardess, meeting me outside, 
pointed to a wailing host in the rear dining room and said. 'From the 
Titanic. She's at the bottom of the ocean.' 

   "At the ship's side, a moment later, I saw the last of the line of 
boats discharge their loads, and saw women, some with cheap shawls about 
their heads, some with the costliest of fur cloaks, ascending the ship's 
side. And such joy as the first sight of our ship may have given them had 
disappeared from their faces, and there were tears and signs of faltering 
as the women were helped up the ladders or hoisted aboard in swings. For 
lack of room to put them, several of the Titanic's boats, after unloading, 
were set adrift. 

   "At our north was a broad ice field, the length of hundreds of 
Carpathias. Around us on other sides were sharp and glistening peaks. One 
black berg, seen about 10 A. M., was said to be that which sunk the 
Titanic."



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CHAPTER XIV
THRILLING ACCOUNT BY L. BEASLEY
COLLISION ONLY A SLIGHT JAR -- PASSENGERS COULD NOT BELIEVE THE VESSEL 
DOOMED -- NARROW ESCAPE OF LIFE-BOATS -- PICKED UP BY THE CARPATHIA 

   AMONG the most connected and interesting stories related by the 
survivors was the one told by L. Beasley, of Cambridge, England. He said: 

   "The voyage from Queenstown had been quite uneventful; very fine 
weather was experienced, and the sea was quite calm. The wind had been 
westerly to southwesterly the whole way, but very cold, particularly the 
last day; in fact after dinner on Saturday evening it was almost too cold 
to be out on deck at all.


ONLY A SLIGHT JAR 
   "I had been in my berth for about ten minutes, when, at about 11.15 P. 
M., I felt a slight jar, and then soon after a second one, but not 
sufficiently violent to cause any anxiety to anyone, however nervous they 
may have been. However, the engines stopped immediately afterward, and my 
first, thought was, 'She has lost a propeller.' 

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   "I went up on the top (boat) deck in a dressing gown, and found only a 
few persons there, who had come up similarly to inquire why we had 
stopped, but there was no sort of anxiety in the minds of anyone. 

   "We saw through the smoking room window a game of cards going on, and 
went in to inquire if they knew anything; it seems they felt more of the 
jar, and, looking through the window, had seen a huge iceberg go by close 
to the side of the boat. They thought we had just grazed it with a 
glancing blow, and that the engines had been stopped to see if any damage 
had been done. No one, of course, had any conception that the vessel had 
been pierced below by part of the submerged iceberg. 

   "The game went on without any thought of disaster and I retired to my 
cabin, to read until we went on again. I never saw any of the players or 
the onlookers again.


SOME WERE AWAKENED 
   "A little later, hearing people going upstairs, I went out again and 
found everyone wanting to know why the engines had stopped. No doubt many 
were awakened from sleep by the sudden stopping of a vibration to which 
they had become accustomed during the four days we had been on board. 
Naturally, with such powerful engines as the Titanic carried, the 
vibration was very noticeable all the time, and the sudden stopping had 
something the same effect as the stopping of a loud-ticking grandfather's 
clock in a room. 

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   "On going on deck again I saw that there was an undoubted list downward 
from stern to bows, but, knowing nothing of what had happened, concluded 
some of the front compartments had filled and weighed her down. I went 
down again to put on warmer clothing, and as I dressed heard an order 
shouted, 'All passengers on deck with life-belts on.' 

   "We all walked slowly up, with the belts tied on over our clothing, but 
even then presumed this was only a wise precaution the captain was taking, 
and that we should return in a short time and retire to bed. 

   "There was a total absence of any panic or any expressions of alarm, 
and I suppose this can be accounted for by the exceedingly calm night and 
the absence of any signs of the accident. 

   "The ship was absolutely still, and except for a gentle tilt downward, 
which I don't think one person in ten would have noticed at that time, no 
signs of the approaching disaster were visible. She lay just as if she 
were waiting the order to go on again when some trifling matter had been 
adjusted. 

   "But in a few moments we saw the covers lifted from the boats and the 
crews allotted to them standing by and coiling up the ropes which were to 
lower them by the pulley blocks into the water. 

   "We then began to realize it was more serious than had been supposed, 
and my first thought was to go down and get some more clothing and some 
money, but, seeing people pouring up the stairs, decided it was better to 
cause no confusion to people coming up. Presently we heard the order: 

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   "'All men stand back away from the boats, and all ladies retire to next 
deck below' -- the smoking-room deck or B deck.


MEN STOOD BACK 
   "The men all stood away and remained in absolute silence leaning 
against the end railings of the deck or pacing slowly up and down. 

   "The boats were swung out and lowered from A deck. When they were to 
the level of B deck, where all the women were collected, they got in 
quietly, with the exception of some who refused to leave their husbands. 

   "In some cases they were torn from them and pushed into the boats, but 
in many instances they were allowed to remain because there was no one to 
insist they should go. 

   "Looking over the side, one saw boats from aft already in the water, 
slipping quietly away into the darkness, and presently the boats near me 
were lowered, and with much creaking as the new ropes slipped through the 
pulley blocks down the ninety feet which separated them from the water. An 
officer in uniform came up as one boat went down and shouted, "When you 
are afloat row round to the companion ladder and stand by with the other 
boats for orders.' 

   "'Aye, aye, sir,' came up the reply; but I don't think any boat was 
able to obey the order. When they were afloat and had the oars at work, 
the condition of the rapidly settling boat was so much more a sight for 
alarm for those in the boats than those on board, that in common prudence 
the sailors saw they could do nothing but row from the sinking ship to 
save 

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at any rate some lives. They no doubt anticipated that suction from such 
an enormous vessel would be more dangerous than usual to a crowded boat 
mostly filled with women. 

   "All this time there was no trace of any disorder; no panic or rush to 
the boats and no scenes of women sobbing hysterically, such as one 
generally pictures as happening at such times everyone seemed to realize 
so slowly that there was imminent danger. When it was realized that we 
might all be presently in the sea with nothing but our life-belts to 
support us until we were picked up by passing steamers, it was 
extraordinary how calm everyone was and how completely self-controlled. 

   "One by one, the boats were filled with women and children, lowered and 
rowed away into the night. Presently the word went round among the men, 
'the men are to be put in boats on the starboard side.' 

   "I was on the port side, and most of the men walked across the deck to 
see if this was so I remained where I was and soon heard the call: 

   "'Any more ladies?' 

   "Looking over the side of the ship, I saw the boat, No. 13, swinging 
level with B deck, half full of ladies. Again the call was repeated, 'Any 
more ladies?' 

   "I saw none come on, and then one of the crew, looking up, said: 

   "'Any more ladies on your deck, sir?' 

   "'No,' I replied. 

   "'Then you had better jump.' 

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   "I dropped in, and fell in the bottom, as they cried 'lower away.' As 
the boat began to descend two ladies were pushed hurriedly through the 
crowd on B deck and heaved over into the boat, and a baby of ten months 
passed down after them. Down we went, the crew calling to those lowering 
each end to 'keep her level,' until we were some ten feet from the water, 
and here occurred the only anxious moment we had during the whole of our 
experience from leaving the deck to reaching the Carpathia. 

   "Immediately below our boat was the exhaust of the condensers, a huge 
stream of water pouring all the time from the ship's side just above the 
water line. It was plain we ought to be quickly away from this, not to be 
swamped by it when we touched water.


NO OFFICER ABOARD 
   "We had no officer aboard, nor petty officer or member of the crew to 
take charge. So one of the stokers shouted: 'Someone find the pin which 
releases the boat from the ropes and pull it up!' No one knew where it 
was. We felt on the floor and sides, but found nothing, and it was hard to 
move among so many people -- we had sixty or seventy on board. 

   "Down we went and presently floated, with our ropes still holding us, 
the exhaust washing us away from the side of the vessel and the swell of 
the sea urging us back against the side again. The result of all these 
forces was an impetus which carried us parallel to the ship's side and 
directly under 

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boat 14, which had filled rapidly with men and was coming down on us in a 
way that threatened to submerge our boat. 

   "'Stop lowering 14,' our crew shouted, and the crew of No. 14, now only 
twenty feet above, shouted the same. But the distance to the top was some 
seventy feet and the creaking pulleys must have deadened all sound to 
those above, for down she came, fifteen feet, ten feet, five feet and a 
stoker and I reached up and touched her swinging above our heads. The next 
drop would have brought her on our heads, but just before she dropped 
another stoker sprang to the ropes, with his knife.


JUST ESCAPED ANOTHER BOAT 
   "'One,' I heard him say, 'two,' as his knife cut through the pulley 
ropes, and the next moment the exhaust stream had carried us clear, while 
boat 14 dropped into the water, into the space we had the moment before 
occupied, our gunwales almost touching. 

   "We drifted away easily, as the oars were got out, and headed directly 
away from the ship. The crew seemed to me to be mostly stewards or cooks 
in white jackets, two to an oar, with a stoker at the tiller. There was a 
certain amount of shouting from one end of the boat to the other, and 
discussion as to which way we should go, but finally it was decided to 
elect the stoker, who was steering, as captain, and for all to obey his 
orders. He set to work at once to get into touch with the other boats, 
calling to them and getting as close as seemed wise, so that when the 
search boats came 

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in the morning to look for us, there would be more chance for all to be 
rescued by keeping together. 

   "It was now about 1 A. M.; a beautiful starlight night, with no moon, 
and so not very light. The sea was as calm as a pond, just a gentle heave 
as the boat dipped up and down in the swell; an ideal night, except for 
the bitter cold, for anyone who had to be out in the middle of the 
Atlantic ocean in an open boat. And if ever there was a time when such a 
night was needed, surely it was now, with hundreds of people, mostly women 
and children, afloat hundreds of miles from land.


WATCHED THE TITANIC 
   "The captain-stoker told us that he had been at sea twenty-six years, 
and had never yet seen such a calm night on the Atlantic. As we rowed away 
from the Titanic, we looked back from time to time to watch her, and a 
more striking spectacle it was not possible for anyone to see. 

   "In the distance it looked an enormous length, its great bulk outlined 
in black against the starry sky, every port-hole and saloon blazing with 
light. It was impossible to think anything could be wrong with such a 
leviathan, were it not for that ominous tilt downward in the bows, where 
the water was by now up to the lowest row of port-holes. 

   "Presently, about 2 A. M., as near as I can remember, we observed it 
settling very rapidly, with the bows and the bridge completely under 
water, and concluded it was now only a question of minutes before it went; 
and so it proved." 

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   Mr. Beasley went on to tell of the spectacle of the sinking of the 
Titanic, the terrible experiences of the survivors in the life-boats and 
their final rescue by the Carpathia as already related.