Evening journal., 1912-04-19
LOOKING FOR
ICEBERG,
GOT THRILLS

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whether in her excitement she put il I
on by mistake
Little Lamp ON Boat.
We were provided with the most mis-
cradle little oil lamp have ever seen /
guess il didn't have any kerosene /
in 1t for it kept going out as fast |
as we could light it with the matches
which the steward happened to bring |
along. We couldn't have seen at all
nor signalled had il not boen for the
fact that one woman had a cane that
had a little electric light in the end OF
l it,
AS far as know there was no food
nor water in the craft, but viii not
complain of ihat. for We were the luck
lest | guess OF an the survivors The
other boats all leaked and the women
told MS afterwards that the water was
up to their knees And that water was
below freezing point--5l degrees to be
/ exact.
For nearly eight hours these six
teen boatloads of hysterical, cold, wet,
hungry women and men were at the
mercy of tho elements. During the
]
dawn brought fresh danger lt
disclosed the fact that we were be-
set by vast fields of ice aud icebergs
Those looming mountains Of CLASSY
ice were verywhere. We were al-
most afraid TO move and 10 add 10 o--
distress stiff hreeze was spring up,
churning the sea into a nasty chop
piness. Still we kept on rowing
toward the light The men were ex-
hausted so We women took a hand.
But those oars.-they were The
heaviest ones I have seen. 7 am a
good oarswoman, but with the aid OF
another woman. could scarcely
swing one of them. There were three
sets of them and they all had to ne
used TO make any progress
Couldn't Reach Light.
Toward O'Clock we gave up hope
Of ever reaching that light IT had
gotten trihe larger, it seemed, but
It was absolutely no nearer and we
had no food, very little clothing, no
, heat and nearly every lifeboat was
r shipping water TO an alarming ex-
b tent
And on top Of all that. those wo-
) men didn't know whether they We're
ever to see their husbands and their
z sons again In this world or. not n
, was terrible and to say that they were
| most wonderful women 10 keep their
: minds i'm the balance. ] am not putting
z il too far by far.
Z And then somebody looked back and
h there-there was a big searchlight
G : burning on the prov of a great liner
s That light was the most beautiful
T. sight I shall ever sec. Distress MAS
s turned TO hope as we put directly about
2 and rowed hard for an hour toward
n tho vessel At the end of that time
r We were alongside OF the Carpai hin
II wasn't long before they let down I
ir little wooden seat about two feet Ions
,t and foot wide. Men onrt the dec
IN held the ends Of the cables 20 whic
MI this seat was attached Tho lifeboa
nt was bObbing up and down on. tic wave
and twas pretty hard TO stand 'ip q
,r il long enough to climb out Of "a
70 seat. but you can wager we all lid I
Rolled in Blankets.
As soon as we got on deck. we wer
rolled in blankets and given brand
and water And nothing have eve
tasted WAS quite so good as that bran
l1 dy and water.
BY 10. o'clock the Carpathia la
picl ed up an the l6 lifeboats cor
3. tanning the survivors. In addition
v the people who had gotten into IN
10 lifeboats in the first place there wer
several others I'm them. These me
u had been picked up as they wer
swimming. They We're very weaker
le ed from the exposure and four q
II them died on the Carpathia.
N These men were w. II. White an
y Abraham Hornner, passengers. an
u S. C. Sievert stewart and T Lyon
y sailor They were wrapped in IN
IS Stars and Stripes and buried off th
b. Carpathia Monday. returning TO IN
N sea from which they had been s
yainly rescued
RS After We had picked up all the life
in boats we steamed again about th
n scene of the disaster. In among N
le CLASSY, towering peaks Of Ice "
pr threaded our way seeing a bit q
ne wreckage here and babys bonnet
mans glove there. But no MOI