New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-18

the dead" she says, and covered tho faces Of
the dead until midnight" Then she went TO bed.
and was on duty again at s the next morning.
The rotten life preservers. with their vaueIess
stufting OF powdered cork. were remarked by all.
Many OF the people had their hair filed with the
cork. said Lulu McCibbor- the telephone operator
IN the general Office who the first notify the
Police and Health departments Of the disaster Miss
Mccibbon IS pretty, vtvacious girl. with dark,
curly hair. She is expert swimmer. having been
in the water every day since May @ Without
waiting 10 change her white pique dress or her
shoes. she dashed into the water and brought out
two babies
"One was three months old, 7 should Judge the
other about six months" she told Tribune
porter. one was tiny thing IN long dresses
saw one woman jump over the side. She went
down Ike stone under the wheel. and never
Up One young woman had Just strength enough
eft TO hand me her watch and chain.
B" Give them TO my mother she gasped. Say
they're from Amelia don't know who she was.
The babies were crying from cold and fright
Mothers. their eyes standing out OF their heads,
were screaming for their children. Some Of them
came in wearing life preservers. which fell to pieces
as we took them of. They had not been touched
by the flames Some life preservers We're thrown TO
them from the Edison. These too fell 10 pieces.
This ONCE was Ike slaughter house Over
there a with her spine broken and one
eye gouged out Another woman had both ankles
broken. Living and dead they all the
settees and floor. Oh. II horrtble!" and with
a shudder, she turned direct a blue eyed lad
and young man with terrible. set face, 70 the
AIorgue. The man had lost three sisters. OF
whom had her baby with her.
Magnificent a the heroism OF all the women
on the island, behaved more CALAMITY than
Miss White the superintendent OF nurses and Mrs.
carried such weight Of respons5ilitg For not
Veins V Of t the wreckte we're fesBonsise at the
same tine for the lives and comfort Or the patients
under her resuscltating the more dead man awe
bodies Gs they were dragged ashore. MIS-, smith
fro-be re- have nor had six hours sleep but in
their white uniforms they neat, as calm, as
thoughtful for others, as II nothing unusual Aad
we couldn't all 90 into the water" said Mrs
Smith 1t wouldn't have oeen any use loF 10
left them on the bank A. soon as "A body was
86me Of IA The nurses were asleep when the accident
happened They threw their mackintoshes over
and raedlcanenrs IN their hands, and worked TIL
they 10 the skin up TO their waists over
Miss White herself worked til she dropped from
IN 1hs RalfdT g4 children and Women She
showed how II is done-the arms raised over me
forcibly depressed. then the body rolled over j
barrel. face down, 70 force the water from the
Al FRS; We had no barrels" she went on, so
The nurses worked heroicallv. but I viii not
say that they deserve more creGlJ til me G(5I
Acknowledgement recOmpense-it is our ousl-
ness" she added. smiling wanly when woman
has gone h1ty-seyer hours on I'VE hors steep a.S
ia nj m look WauJ But the conduct OF the ward
helpers and other women employees vas superb
No I won't anything about myself
haven't done anything. and l won't let you say
have" Then. This little building IL the chapel:
We laid the corpses IN row along that wall ana
she pointed tho shabby side OF the low nIl;a-ng.
DO YOU how these trees are Ecorched rlght up
70 the top? That IS with the names rom me
burning steamer" She showed a Eplendld maple,
by the waters edgs scared 20 US crC", az rs
lawn laid four hundred bodies In roWs--lrst the
living. then the dead -. =. III,
Miss White was squa4Iy MATER o. IdCI win
As soon 90 as the General slocu came around the
point I back for cheesecloth ana paIuag!Ls
muslin" she said. while Mrs. smith ana the
nurses were busy bringing the victims 10, ! went
back and got whiskey and more bandases ana
cheesecloth. Then I started out 70 see what
the wreck. but the heat was so intense could
not uut,' 7 put the skirt OF my dress over my
face. IN that way was able TO wade out up 10 my
knees The call came for ladders. There was no
one 70 for them, / went. They were thirty
fve feet long and dreadfully heavy but dragged
them down 10 the water. I never could have done
IL II I had been in my senses. dan KNOW any
thing feel anything. -,
u saw o. bov and his mother drifting IN. He
was fine looking lad Of about twelve. l lay down
an the seawau my stomach and called 10
him 10 hold his mother, and would get her
ont ne had his hand under her chin and was
naddline along as we'll he could. she was IN
6roTscioI7s and weighed l should think go pounds.
Somehow. ! got her up over the seaWall ana
kneaded the water out OF her She lived i think.
II reading the list OF injured 1 rancled the
how might be No. a in Lincoln Hospital
las soon the injured revived we wrapped
-beU in blankets and brought them up to the hos
DitaI We stripped the place OF blankets we used
os9 their shoes and uniforms destroyed by the
mud ard water and torn 10 pieces on the rocks.
some of them lost three uniforms
And so the story goes. The whole Will never be
'o .Tt Will raise the standard OF womanhood."