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Survivors from the Titanic GtScails of the Terrible Catastrophe
BAND PLAYS A
HYMN AS TITANIC
SINKS INTO DEEP
In the Hollow of His Hand
ISMAY SAYS ALL
WOMENLEFTSHIP
BEFORE HE DID
fifteen Hundred Ninety-Five Live
Ate Lost When Great Ship
Goes to Bottom.
WAS RUNNING AT FULL SPEED
Every Ounce of Steam On at Direct
Orders from Company.
TRYING TO BREAK THE RECORD
Passengers Take Great Interest in
Progress of the Vessel.
SIX DIE AFTER BEING RESCUED
Shock of Striking Iceberg Does Not
Greatly Jar Vessel.
VARYING STORIES AS TO PANIC
Moat of Sarvttora Agree thai Calsa
era of 1'iuriirn aad Crew la
Early Hoars Me
aaarkable Fratare.
NEW YORK, April U.-Seven hundred
nd forty-five persons, mostly women
sick In heart and body, wrote Into Hie
I annals of maritime history today the
loss of the biggest steamship ever built
, by man. They vera the survivors of the
White Star liner Titanic, which sank
' bow foremost with 1,585 souls aboard. Its
apuin at the bridge, Its colors flying
and Its band playing "Nearer, My Ood.
to Thee." in 1000 fathoms of water orf
the Banks of Newfoundland under star-
j jii SKies at e;se a. in. adruii.
With one voice they told of the splendid
, heroism of those who remained behind
to find a watery grave that they might
: live. '
Captain Smith died, they said, . as
gallant sailor should, after having first
placed all the women who would so
aboard the lifeboats. There were many
who stayed behind to die in their hus
band's urms.
Faeta la Bole Relief.
Kroni their narratives stand Out In bold
relief the following faeta -.'.
The Tttaai wsa uaklag twat-o
kaotg aa hour waea It rtrnok th loe
bsrg. - Wo m at first thought that it weal
It renalae afloat aura teas tw
hoars.
Ta Iceberg ripped epea Its bowels
Ultw the water tu.
brtaal paal wsa averted by Captatt
a's terse appeal to als orewi "e
British, my as."
A, small somber of steerage paa
gers trial to rusk for th lifeboats aa
wars heM baoK by th ersw as other
as teasers.
Th Tltanle tnraee It aoee for th
bottom wkea th last lifeboat was las
teas koaare yard Swsy, reared lu
tan high Im th air aa trembled for
a asomeat before seeking th bottom.
Thar were two sipUetoa whom th
Unablag water reached Its boUsra.
Whaa It saak than was aL'aacsi a
xaosuat late th arte sag aappUoa
tloas of 1.000 tying nsa rose la ehora
tadeewrlbabi ever th spot where it
west Im,
For hours the survivors rowed In life
boats over a calm sea In bitter cold until
tli Carpathla picked them up.
In th a'termath of th disaster today
the principal development vera the tes
timony of 1. Bl ue Istnay, managing J
director of th White Star Line, before j
th senate Investigating committee, and j
the removal of surviving members of the
Titanic' rew aboard tha Lapland.
UOlBB rail sVreel.
Not only wee the 1 Manic tearing
through Hie April sight tu lis doom
with every owns of els 10 Crowded en.
but It was under order (rem lit g)
ral offlsea of tit tint to wall all th
ai-eed of whlsti It wae eaittbl.
This was th statement tonight by f.
H. Moody, a quartermaster of the ves
sel and helmsmen en the Mfl.t of the
disaster. He sold th ship Was making
twenty -on knot aa hour and th offi
cers were striving to live up to the or
ders to smarh the lesaid,
"It waa otvee tu asUalant," said Mvsdy,
"and I wae en the bridge with the ee
ona officer, who wa In eemmand. ud
denly he shouted; rsrt ywur helm!' 1
did so, but It waa too late, W sirutk
Uis submerged porrhin w( the berg,"
ids nisms vea.
The Tltanle struck an lttl,-;k about
nety feet high, whlih iltvd the liner'
side opwi and n.sde tils waler-Uilit
umpartroents useless, and h(U t vr.
eel waa gradually sinking th; ty watsr
reached Its steaming battels, csi'?!itg an
eipluelon, which rent ': to the Ui.;-.i!.
Among th hundred on Its de. lis to
the last wars Colonel Julia Jseob Aster
emd Major Arcblba'd Butt, President
TafVe military aide; Sen.'s-Tilu 3mr -.-helm.
Jacques :-'i:t.cllfc. Usury D, wide,
ner. Henry B. Hej-!s -d u:m f a
well known pe:svn?. l-lior tKra a ws
among these ae wtl el-, XI: s sr.-.,:...
who
hind
nxummd t icav nme L-lnJ Lt-
miito h ti&d tits v,y;-lun:ijy U fl
save herself.
Major . Butt Is reported to kavo been
one of the beroe. With a:. Irvn bar In
b:s hand he la aald to have HtjX at the
steerage pasaaga and defend! the wo
men and children from ;hj msddeonl
men In that part of the sbtp.
l'-wl Aator Dlea Braely. .
Colonel Aator ta aaid to have uet bit J
fate bravely after aeeinc ha briie ta j
life boat, drawtac aside lo watel: cl ;
women step to safety aad awa.il. bis; -when he hai careful !y wpp-d n.e
wu fate. j Hp h rteppa-d on the icimwale of IV
It a oni- because the irwimvim t ta i Ntst and lifting his hat. ?mtfd down
city of the teamer's l;f bot atlmr
: - . e I . i . , t
IB crew ani pass?nge' t,
of despaurins paasc&gu
that ban arc-is
iai io t left
: to their fate.
J. Bruce Ismay, maaaginff director of
iContlnued m Third p"
5 ; ' ' ' ' ' ' .' ... .. i-1 t: " "..'Li' i
Emil Brandeis
Last Seen oh
From survivors mragrr detail
came lu r.nui iirandels when tlie
man, .bravely faring the end. He
Hani of New York, aa old acquaintance, and Ills wife. .Mrs, Harris waa
saved, but Mr; Harris la alao among the- niiw.ln. Mrs. A. 1. Ilrandols, who
had been watching lu New York fur (lie romiiiR of the (anwthla wltil
the load of rearued paaseaKera, has
Harris aa soon as that lady haa reruvered sufficiently to be permitted to
sec anyone.
In reapunoe to a telegram from
sent this message late In the afternoon Friday:
"KW lORk, AprU IS. To t
yon no other details than have sent
terrleweil today. Had there been more lifeboat our splendid men would
be living today. Two survivors saw
pulled away.
Emll Brandrls was playing cards with Mr. and Mrs. Henry It. Harris
when the Titanic struck the irrbcrg that sent It down, according to a tele
gram rerdsed early Friday morning
Jerome Wilson, private secretary
sent the telegram, which stated that
be Interviewed, but requested that
to her for particulars.
, Emll H ran (lets had traveled Willi
well acquainted with them. -
MAJOR BUTT SAYS FAREWELL
Helped Young Woman He Knew
Into the Last Boat.
SEES IT LEAVE WITH SMILE
Wrapt Blaaket Akoat t.lrl Who He
Kaesv la Waehlwatoa. Raises
His flat eaa Steps Baek
ens Shin.'
WASHINGTON'. April 1S.-A graphie
story of the berolfm of Major Archibald
W. Dutt on the Titanic was told today in
an Interview given to the Washington
Star's staff correspondent in New Yori.
by Miss Marie Toung, a former resident
of this city.
Miss Toung, believed to have been tht ;
lest woman to leave the Titanic, and 1
Major Butt had long been frienjs. Mis.' j
Toung having . bcn a feual music In
stiuetor to tho ehildmi of farmer Pre-i
df nt Rooze.'elt. Miss Young sa:d:
The 4a-1 perio.i to ehom 1 .-poke on
board the Titanic ss Anhic Butt, and
his goed. breve face, smiiin at me frm
n,. drk r thr yt.t,ini was the lt
could di!tinruL-h u the boat I wia in
pulld aay from the steroar's Bid?.
"Arcbte hinwetf put me Into the bom,
wrapped blankets around me and tut-kM
me In as carf fully tu if we were starting
en a motor ride, lie himself entered Oc
boat with me, perform inc th tittle eour-
itenes aa caimiy ana witn us rmiims a
face a if dath aa far awar. lnjt'1
of b ins but a Urn moments mnovnd
from him.
wtiaw. f.d.H.a. .lrl.
bravely ami smiUrily. l.iick is witi
yoa. Will you kindly remember me o
all the folks at borne?
"Then he stepped to the deck of the
fO.m r'JM Pat? Voir.)
DiesBravely;v
Titanic's Deck
harp been gleaned uf tlie way death
Titanic sank. These) show him a true
waa playing; cards with Mr. Henry B.
Ix - rn promlierd aa Interriew' with Mrs.
tlie editor of The lire, Mrs. Hrandei
utor llimewater, Omaha: tan give
Arthur. Mrs. Harris In too III to be in
Kmll on tlie ship when the llfeboata
ZKKM.VA RIMMtKlrt."
by Arthur and Hugo Itrandels.
to William Morris, the theatrical maa,
Mrs. Harris was not In a condition to
one of Kmil Hrandels' relatives come
Mr. and Mrs. Harris before and was
.
MEMORIAL FOR BRANDEIS
Ikrvice to Be Held in Brtndeis
Theater Sunday Horning.
COMMITTZES ABE APPOIKTED
rial f lab, l thmk mu4 Lradlaft
I Itlsras Jola ta Tar Hoavr
Dead Merrhaat Frtaee.
MeimirlHl erirea for frUntl nratidrls
will he held at W o'clock Hundaty morn
ing In tfrandt-ln theater.
At a mating uf the board of govern!
of the Kniicbts of Ak-Sar-Ben yrterday
arraiteementrt were ina3e and committees
appontrl (j mike up a program for tha
ceremoniea.
Thaw h attended the mer tin in (he
Commerriiil club rooms were Charles .
Pk'kena. Juwph Btkr. W. I.. Yetter.
C. IK lt W. HiWofU. Wtnr
ICotewater. Charls OonrtneV, i. K.
l;lak. II. J. PcnloM. O. W. Parties.
John 1. K ninnly. . i. Ilavrrtkk and
Jhji . Whtiin.
iiarifs II. VI keti. prudent of the
Knights of Ak-MirOn. f. 8. Ilaverstick.
pren(dtit of the Commercial club, and A.
1 Gale, president of the Omaha Ad club,
were named as a comm .e? to arrango
a prugram for the memorial services.
A committee on titenrntionp. theater
and music was named aa follows: G. W.
W at tits, Joeeph Barker and C. E. Black
and tha committee on g eral a rra. mo
ment ta Victor Roswatrr, John I. Whar
ton. H. J. Onfwld and 'ua ks t'ourtney.
MURDERS HIS WIFE AND
FORCES BOY TO SHOOT HIM
.KAIVII,1E. Pa.. April 1. -Stephen
Wellmvn. acrd , a priprroiis farmer uf t
!Jnvolniile. Pa., tod? I'Ji and killed
hA wife and, acordtntt to tlv stor?' of!
Griccotii Union, a-nl . In compelled
tl-te boy to blow tne back of his had
awar with the same shotjnin used to kill
tire woman.
Linng and the. Dead
First clans. ... . ..
cond diss
Third clan
Officers and crew.
330
760
40'
Total 2,340
Number pavext by Carpathla
First class , 210
Second claw. 125
Third class '. 200
Total passengers tgrrd ..... &3 5
Members of crew saved:
Officers 4
Seamen 39
Btewards 96
F'remen 71
Total members of crew saved . . 310
Total saved passengers and
crew T4o
Total number perished 1,595
First snd second cabin pas
sengers 650
First and second nassenters. . 23d
Total cabin passengers lost. . . 315
LIVES ARE GIYEN FREELY!
Crew and Cabin Fatieng-ers Exhibit
Uninrpaned Heroiim.
BAHD FLATS FAMOUS OLD S0N0
t a fori a as -a iim Death aa "hip's
trlag llaad m4m Oat Mralsa mt
Nearer My fad ta
Tbee.M
BT - CARI.Ofl P. HITRD. POST
rmsPATTH STAFF IlKPORTKB. WHO
ARRfVCD ON TUB CARPATII1A.
t:opYRi;i!T. mz. bt hutzkr
PIBMSHING COWPAXY. TIIK T.
UOIM8 pnsT-DI.PATt'H. ALL RIGHTS
NEW TOUK. April If. -Seventeen hun
dred and twenty- i liven were !nt on
the Titanic, aiitt-lt strork an K-ebera; at
11:1 p. m. 9undar and wa at th
ocean a hot lorn two hours iTid thirty-five
mlnnteaafter.
Of the Titans s 341' first cabin paa
entrers. lfwrr raved. UA of them
worn- and children, and of the "
ond cabin pawns-era lt$ were aaved. W.
of them iomT. sod children. . "
tf th third clan pause nger. w n
number. 1 wre saved, eighlj -three of
whom were women and children. Of iV
offk-ers and crew, !. irx luding twenty-
two women, were rescued.
Ko survivor ran qiet Ion the courage
of the crew, hundreds of whom gavr
tietr laves with a lierotem which equaled,
bat could not exceed, that of John 1a-ob
Astor. Heary B. Harris. Jauea Fut relit
and others in the tone Ii't of first cabin
pawenarr.
Balkbeada lerlay auktas.
The h'Ji1l fV"":: (-aVy
wrtrktnf p'-ei a.i't! only to l-y trc
bhil s s-nltlrs. The p"- im f the Vf
wouTi od ih sta-toiir.. artTtlitf'I ;
ater. whke tauvi ;h- yiirr -p'oda
. atrd ti.rse exp!wiinf brokf 1h
f-hip 11 two.
Th Taii aftainst the icelierj. wfii-.-n
had been atahted at only aa quarter of
a mile, came almoat hwa'tajiemialy with
i nttnnd on F'rth fr
S 'T I ' I i ,ii 1 1 . ' . a n ir i 1 1 i l ii ii i, se
Chronological
? Ship and Disaster
, Kr(im the facta completed by the' arrival of the Titanlc's story,
which began in the fall of 190N, when the White Star line announced
Its .proposal lo eclipse all previous records' In shipbuilding with a ves
sel uf staKKcrlng dimensions may be outlined chronologically a
follows:
1909 Keel of the glgsntic vessel laid at Harland aid Wolf yards
at Belfast.
191 1, May 31 The vessel Is launched and christened the Titanic.
191 2 Completed and fully furnished at an outlay of about.
1 10,000.000.
April 10, .Noon Sturts on the tntlden trip from Southampton to
New York vlu Cherbourg.
April 14 Sends a routine wireless warning ashore o( the pres
ence of Icebergs off the Grand Banks of New Foundland. .
April 14, 11:40 p. m Titanic strikes an Iceberg In latitude
11:16 north, longitude 50:14 west.
April 14, .Midnight Carpathla and other vessels hear TUanlcs
call for help.
April 15, 12:27 a. m. Titanlc's wireless Is put out of commission
and flashes given that the boat la sinking by the hesd and women
an children are being put off In llfeboata.
April l.i. About I a. m. Tha first news reached the. United
Htatcs by way of th Allan lino off he at Montreal. The Virginian
reported that the Titanic struck in Iceberg.
April 15, 2:20 a. m. Titanic sinks.
April l.'i, 3 a. m. Wireless from the Cape Kate station directed
to the Associated Press gives the first information of a serious disaster.
April 15, 5 a. m. First survivors picked up from lifeboats by
EtcariK-r t arpalhla.
April 15, 3 a. m. to 10 a. m No advices.
April 15, Noon Reports current Titanic still is aflogt and that
ull are saved.
April I r.. 7:30 p. m White Star line offices admit a probabla
great loss of life.
April 16 Carpathla sends by wireless list of survivors, failing
lo account for about 1,300 petsons. im Hiding scores ot weailny anf
prominent people.
April 17 Hope given up that oilier vessels have saved any.
April 18 Two days elapsed without slightest description of
Jitastcr.
April 18, :.') p. ni - Rescue ship docks at New York with 745
passengers snd crew, confirming the loss of all others and bringing
the first detsils of the Titanic disaster.
NEBRASKAN TELLS OF RESCUE
John Kuhl Wat Stealing Away with
Bride Whea Titanic Sunk.
IS PASSENGER OK CAKPATHIA
r paraker af Xebnuka Haaae
ICarwaf la Karr wllfc mifr,
kfl Waa Vrmrtj Mi mm
j NEW YORK. April It -The eufftriaf
1 of th TitmiU d paftriKerB when taken
I .iff itV litVboati by the Carptithsa, wa
sral'ht a !y told b John Kuhl of iCvn
d !!. X" , a pergtr on Carpathla.
Mar, . : il.se om'ii. h" aaMl. welt
aKiUitliy rUd and sail aere auffrriitic lrou
ih- -ti)u. Four dkii on I be Caipathta a
. frrult of the exitcaure.
, "In pite of the sufferms and the
tiroadd ?rtidHioB of the koau." aa:d
Mr. Kuhl. 1h utmost kerotam waa diaw
lpiivtNf v s' rf fh Mffs-fsinar-f . Wb-n
History of
J
i liter were lifted to the deck of the Cax
: vatlila. Biaur of ths women broke down
? completely and there wer many tuurh
; Ing scenes. Many of the women wer In
coherent sod several were a'moat Insane,"
Speaker mt tkc llaaae.
1 John Kulil a aiptuktY of the hou
j at the Mart w-sion of the teicialature, aui
. hit expertanca reveali the fact that
j htf as od hia way to Europe with a
: bride, lie and MIsa Etaufh. a teacher,
' In the Ilandolpli aclioala, ere manie4
quietly and their frienda were not take a
J Into their confidence.
Senate Passes
Homestead Bill
Tt A8MI.CTO.. April 1?.-The senate
! has passed - bill suthorlllng the Is
suanre of patents on hemeeteads covered
.by Irrigation projects. I'nder the terms
' the bill, the government Is te be paid
b a lien for the unpaid portion of the
ipari-haae art?. Tee Measure now goes
If. t's -'.
Managing Director of White Star
Line Telli Story of Titanic lis
aster to Senate Committee.
WAS NOT GIVEN PREFERENCE
Stepped Into Partly Filled Boat as
it Was Being Lowered.
OTHER OFFICERS AT HEARING
President Ismay is Aeompanied by
Vice President Franklin.
STORY OF MRS. HICIES SMITH
Widowed Daughter of Representa
tive Hughes Sees Him Leave.
ATTENDED BY SOME OF CREW
Heaa ( Cesapaay Is CWea Every
Aaalelaaew aaa Is Carries'
A boar Carpathla Maa
A Howe to See Hlaa.
'NriW 'YORK, April. Ifc-Th story of
how the Titanic met It fat wa told
todar to th I'nl ted State eeaat Inves-
tlgating committee Into th Titanic, dis
aster by J. flrure Ismay, managing di
rector of Ih Whit Btar line.
When asked Ih circumstance under ,
which he left th boat Mr. Ismay replied
almost In a whisper:
"On of th boats waa being filled.
Officers .called out to know If there wer
any more women to go. Then wer -none.
No passengers were on th deck.
A the boat was being lowered I got '
Into It."' " '
Th details of th story wera drawn
out by Senator Alden Smith, chairmen
of the special subcommittee charged with
th elimination uf witnesses, and rVua
tor Newlands, th other senator who
came to New York to conduct th In
quiry. . -
Mr. Ismay waa accompanied by V. A.
I. Franklin, vie president, and Kmerson
E. Parvln. secretary of th International' ,
Mercantile Marine. Besides tha commit-
tee. Representative Hughes of West Vir
ginia, whose daughter, Mr, l.uclen t.
Smith, waa aaved. and whose eon-ln-law
wsa lost, was present. Another spectator-'
was Truman II, Newberry former s
slatant secretary of the navy, i . ;
, Heard Little. .A heme lee.
"During your voyage did you know you
wer In th yk-lnlty ol Iref" Senator
Smith asked: '
"I knew some had been reported," re
plied lha w itness. .
Ha aald Ih ship wus not In proximity
to Icebergs Maturday or Sunday, al
though lie knew the ship would be near
Ice on Sunday night. Th wanes suld
he knew nothing of the Amerlka and tho
Titanic talking by wireless about ke
berg. 8enatnr Smith asked If lie sought to
end any wireless messages from th Ti
tanic after shs struck. II did not.
Turning to the subject of lifeboats, Mr.
Ismay said he heard Iho captain give
the order to tower the boats.
"I' then left the bridge," sdded the
offlclsl. Three boats, he said he saw
lowered and filled. In his own boat were
four members of the crew and forty
five passengers.
See e Joatllag. t
' Was there any Jostling or attempt by
men lo get Into the boats?" asked Sena
tor Smith.
"I saw none."
"How wer the women selected?"
"We picked the women and children u
they stood nearest the raJI.",
Representative ilughee handed Senator
Smith a note, and then the elialrnian told
Mr. Isinav that It was reported that the
second llfo boat left without It full
complement of oarsmen and from 11.3
until 7:90 o'clock women were forced tu
row th boat.
"I know nothing about 11.'
Representative llughea daughter was
In this boat and was assigned to watch
the cork in th boat snd. If It came out.
to use her finger as a stopper,
Mr. Ismay was asked how long' he re
mained on the Injured ship.
"Thst would be hard to estimate." he
responded, MAlmost until It sank- Phob
ably an hour and a quarter."
Adjusting his cuff?, Mr. Ismay was vis
ibly nervous when tie took the stand.
(Continued on fet-ond Page.)
In the spring the
young man's fancy
lightly turns to the
thoughts of automo
biles. These perfect
motoring days will set
any man longing for the
ojxn road and a far of
his very own.
It really Is well within
your reach to get that car.
You'll realise It after you've
.read the ads in The Bee's
classification " second nana
Auto." They offer you tu
every issue a truly impres
sive choice of used and re
built cars at prices tbat don't
even hint at the real value.
Why not get the good
of your Bee automobile
bargains? Turn to those
small ads choose your
car and the price you
want to pay for it.
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