Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-04-26

FINAL SCENE IS ENACTED IN AW.
Full TRAGEDY OF
THE SEA.
1,47o LIVES WERE LOST
Rescued Passengers Tell Heart.Rreak.
ing Tales Of the Crash Of
Steamer and Iceberg
: Last Sunday Night.

Steamer and Iceberg
: Last Sunday Night.
New York, N. Y.-Lifted from
the gates of death, the 745 survivors
OF the Titanic were landed by the
Carpathia, which rescued them two
hours and half after the great White
Star liner hurled itself against an
iceberg last Sunday night. Disfigured
by calamity and misery and oppressed
byjawful sorrow, the women and chill.
dreR and the few men who escapes
FROM the worlds greatest sea disaster
are in better physical condition than
the most optimistic had hoped for.
Out of the great company that waited
for hours in bitter cold among the
grinding bergs, many of them thinly
clad, many bruised and hurt by the
collision which destroyed their ship
few needed the ministrations Of ply.
sicians when they put their feet on
land in sight of the vast crowd that
had been waiting in almost unbear.
able anxiety.
Many, it is true, were weary and
nervous and hysterical from an ex.
perience that had left the world void
and empty for them, but and thou.
sands thanked God for it as they
watched-the majority of the sad and
bereaved company were we'll in body.
Only one of the Titanic's survivors
died while the Carpathia was driving
through fogs and storms to this port.
Four of the Titanic's people had
persisted trying to get aboard the
Carpathia and another Titanic pas.
senger lost his life by the forging OF
a boat. One woman, a second cabin
passenger, who was landed last night,
was suffering from broken arm.
But the general good condition of the
hundreds SO dramatically saved from
death was a cause of inexpressible
pleasure to the thousands who saw
them land. There was no need, az
it turned out, for the ministers OF
death who with collins waited at the
40:
The Carpathia reported that there
were TO saved out Of q passenger
list which the White Star line fig
ured. at 2.1S0. making loss of 1.470
lives. The Titanic's passengers say
there were 745 rescued out Of pas.
senger list of 2.340. The list Of names
furnished on the Carpathia on it's ar.
rival shows 1873 first class cabin pas
sengers saved, lis in the second cab
in, 17S third class, and 206 Of the
crew, total of 6S7 saved. A woman
passenger on the Carpathia heard
from the ships doctor that 495 OF
the passengers and 210 of the crew
had been saved and that 80 women
lost their husbands.
Six of these were brides. The
worlds annals has provided few more
intense and dramatic moments than
when all that was left of the great
company that sailed SO gayly by the
Titanic appeared on the Cunard pier
1t was with difficulty that the
tongues of many were loosened to
speak of the scenes of agony and fear
that fell over the Titanic's peaceful
company when it became swiftly
known that the ship must 60 down
Some told haltingly with dread still
frozen in their eyes of men who
strove and struggled against women
for the life boats and of officers shoot
ing them down. One woman saw an
officer shoot two men, she said, and
other passengers recalled how officers
had stood with drawn pistols while
the women and children were being
gsSed into the boats
70 one seemed to know the fate
of the Titanic's captain, E. j. Smith
There was a story that he had com
mitted suicide, but the Titanic's pas
sengers did not know that it was true
Many of them had heard shots fired
They believed some of the firing waf
done to warn back steerage passen
gers.
For the Titanic's officers and crew
the rescued seemed to have nothing
but praise. The men acted calml!
and cody in the face of certain
foundering, was the report brough
here by the rescued. The unhapp!
company so marvelously torn from
the grip of the sea was received sol
emnlv AID with remarkable quiet b!
the enormous crowd which gathered
near the Cunard piers and by the few
hundreds that penetrated by right o
relation or friendship or mercifu
business to the interior of tn
nier There was no cheering, nj
the pier. There was no cheering, NJ
upraising of voices in salute of th'
living for the thought of the dead wa
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