East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-04-19

to fight them back.
Most of the passengers were plain
ly hysterical.
Stengel was so far aft he could not
tell, one woman told him she heard
seamen threaten to shoot men who
tried to enter boats. Stengel said
1900 men leaped into the sea when
they saw no chance on the boats.
Passengers say both Major Butt
and Astor are lost.
Stengel said: "How they died l
don't know. 1 caught life boat
gunwhale after 1 had jumped into
the ocean and was dragged on board.
Women told me they heard two
shots fired"
E. A. Taylor. a Philadelphia sur
vivor said J. Bruce Ismay jumped
into the third life boat launched. He
gave hi sseat to a woman with baby
and then jumped into the next boat
launched saying he was going to-
man and have charge of that boat.
An unverified rumor is afloat that
Mrs. John Jacob Astor gave prema-
ture birth to a child just as the Car
pathia reached dock.
Later-Mrs. Astor is alive
=. ''Col. John Jacob Astor kissed his
bride goodbye as he placed her in
life boat and then drew himself up
to attention. AS. he stood on the
first cabin deck. He was in that po-
sition as the life boat drew away"
was the statement of c. H. Stengel.
Mrs. Andrews, of Hudson, New
York. said:
, Mrs. Astor is not dead She is
e alive Many of our women are in
sane"
C Mrs Andrews wore only a night
n dress. She said the agony for six
d hours at sea in a small boat, not
e knowing if they would be saved, was
beyond the power of description.
= Miss Caroline Bonnell, of Youngs-
town, Ohio, said:
y "The steamer was booming along
~ at her usual speed when she was
d wrecked.
shortly before midnight Sunday
/ the Titanic was plowing through ice
+ fields. A large proportion of the
Is passengers were asleep. AS near a:
l can tell it was about 1870 O'Clock
RI when the bottom of her bow drove
'e into the large iceberg.
l. MANY lower plates of the hui
were torn asunder. The water i'm
L mediately rushed in and the boa
2 sank by the bow.
et MANY passengers were not awar
% of the collision, as the boat seemed
as to slip across the top of the berg.
Alarms were Immediately given
The passengers seized whateve
clothes were nearest. The boats wer
made ready 1 heard there was som
shooting among the first class pas
sengers, but there was no verifica
ton.
"As the steamer continued to lowe
into the water, the passengers march
ed toward the stern. 1t was foun
that not enough life boats were o
hand to save ALL
"The band played Nearer My Go
to Thee as the boat went down.
"By that time most Of the life boat
were so far away that the survivor
could catch only faint strains.
"As we left the ship 1 noticed tn
vessel was hogbacked' showing sh
7 had already broken in two, amidshiI
She was not telescoped.
- THE force Of the collision was o
= the keel and not on her bow.
i 1--WE were in the small boats aboU
four hours and a half before res
cued by the Carpathia.
II I'VE saw ice fields and ice floes a
about US. They were grinding an
i crashing together. We were in dar
d ger of being dashed to pieces.
THE weather was extremely col
is and we suffered intensely.
"The men showed splendid here
~ ism and there was no panic anon
the steerage or second class passei
gers, but men among the first cabi
passengers flew into wild rage"
New York Before the Carpath
docked, the New York stock G.
change sent to the dock 100000
small bills, to be distributed amor
the survivors in immediate nee
More than a score of taxicabs we
sent over by the Pennsylvania raj
, road TO convey the passengers to fir
special trains. waiting at the station
One train was secured by Mrs. j.
Thayer. Three women were first Z
-- shore. They did not wait for 4
N boat to stop but climbed down Il
~ ladders.
III New bulletin 1.-The CROW
-Hes began to gather in the vicinity Of Il
Lsa Cunard docks before dark and 1
} can creased rapidly
Police Inspector McClusky was
II.