The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-27

It would indicate he had gone to bed"
Captain Lord said that II the opera
tor had been on duty he would have
caught the Titanic's signal An op-
orator on duty in the day, he said. was
Of more service than to remain on
duty at night. because there were so
many one-operator ships that one got
more information in the day than at
night, when the other operators were
asleep.
but your passengers are asleep at
night?" suggested Senator Smith.
Wouldn't ii be better to have your
operator awake when other eyes are
closed?"
1T probably would"
The captain was asked by Senator
Smith whether he had seen any dis
tress signals and he said no.
when / came on the bridge at
1880 Sunday night" Captain Lord
said. the officer there said he thought
he saw a light. 1t was peculiar night
and we had been having trouble with
the stars, mistaking them for lights.
In four or five miles of us. She lay
there nearly all night. but we could
not hear from her. 1t was not the Ti-
tanic. l am sure about that. About
l o'clock told the operator to call
this ship again. She sent up several
rockets. but she would not answer. l
told him to ask her who she was.
bed, but she did not answer. I have
a faint recollection of hearing the
cabin boy. about o'clock, saying
something about the ship still stand
ing by. Soon after that she steamed
away. This boat sent up several white
rockets. but they were not distress sig
nals.''
Captain Lord said that at the Cali
fornian,s position, 10 IL miles away
impossible to see either the Morse
signals or the distress signals. He
said he did not sight the Amerika. but
told of passing the Frankfurt in the
ice when the latter, going east, enter
ed the ice lane from which the Cali
fornian had just emerged.
"The first news that reached me Of
the disaster" said the officer. was
shortly after O'clock Monday morn
ing when the Frankfurt reported that
the Titanic had sunk after hitting an
iceberg"
| At 4:10 that morning the Virginian
sent word of the collision, Captain
Lord said, following it by a second
message asking that word Of the ex-
tent of the damage be sent her. Cap
tain Lord. was then excused.
Wireless Operator Tcstifies.
| Cyril Evans. wireless operator of
the Californian, testified that he turn
ed in at 1925 Sunday night and new
er heard any distress signal from the
Titanic.
"In the evening the Titanic called
me up and we exchanged signals"
said Evans. II said Here's a mes
sage for you about ice and he said
he had heard me send it to the other
ships"
What time was it you sent the ice
message to the Titanic?"
"5:35 New York time" said Ev-
ans.
Evans read the message as fol-
lows:
April 14-5:35 p. m.-Californian
to captain Titanic-42.3 north--49.9
west. Passed three large bergs five
miles south Of us. Regards"
when did you next communicate
with the Titanic?"
1905 New York time that same
evening"" Evans said. The captain
said we were going to stop on ac-
count of ice. HS told me to advise
the Titanic. I'D and said:
'"'Say old man, we are surrounded
by ice and he said. shut up 1 am
working with Cape Rice and that
had jammed him up"
After that l heard him sending
private messages to Cape Rice"
What were they?"
"I don't know. l did not take
them." Evans said.
Evans said he was awakened at
3:40 in the morning by the chief off,
Ger who said he had seen rockets and
wanted to get some information.
II made ready and called and the
Frankfurt answered with the news OF
the sinking of the Titanic. The Nir-
ginian called before l left the key and
furnished more information"
1 Evans said the Frankfurt operator
had not told of the receipt Of C. Q.
d. from the Titanic nor Of a rebuff
by the Titanics wireless operator.
did anyone tell you about Captain
Lord having been informed three
times that night about a ship sending
up rockets?" asked Senator Smith.
II think Gibson, the apprentice,
told me that the captain was being
called, and told about the rockets"
Evans said.
1.-THE men on the ship talked about
it among themselves generally. did
they?"
were on our way to the scene of the
wreck. / heard the men say rockets
had been sent in the night and that
the captain had been reused"
The witness said the apprentice got
out the morse signals and tried to
get into communication with the dis
tressed vessels. No effort was made
to use rockets on the Californian
Senator Burton asked Evans IL 1t was
generally believed among the men
that the rockets were from the Ii
tanic He said that Gill expected to
get $500 for the rocket story from
some newspaper when he got ashore.
Frank Osman. a seamon was in the
lifeboat with Fourth Officer Boxhall.
the first boat to be picked up by the
Carpathia because a box of rockets.
mistaken for a box Of biscuits. had
been put in the boat.
"One of the officers fired some of
the rockets" said Osman, land the
4 Carpathia came to- US and picked us
up half hour before anybody else. -
He said they did not steer for the
mysterious light some people saw be-
cause they were not sure whether 1t
was light. Osman thought the light
might have been that of sailing ves-
sci from the banks.
Osman added another strange chap
ter to the sinking of the Titanic. He
said that after his lifeboat showed off
he suggested going back alongside to
try to save more people. The officer
agreed. but tho women disagreed.
They pulled back, kot astern of the
Titanic and lay on their oars and saw
the ship go down. =
After she got to a certain angle. -
he said, tshe exploded. broke in halves
and 1t seemed to me as If all the en-
Rines and everything that was in the