The Washington times., 1912-04-27

yes, certainly"
do you not think It better to have
two on on,S sysry Ss shbiI bsttsr
then"
Suppose Morse signals and rockets had
ousiy for three-auarters Of an hour
after she struck the iceberg, would you,
in the position of your ship on that
nsSIsstt,, niSst, have been able to see those sig
From our position we certainly could
not have seen. the Morse, and I don't
think we could have seen any rockets.
Nineteen and a half miles Is a pretty
Did you talk with the Frankfurt at
Frankfurt at about $50 Monday. She
nrst told us that a ship had sunk. and
then few minutes later said that II
was the Titanic which had sunk, after
officer tell our wireless man to get her
position, and that was the first / had
of the sinking of the Titanic. As we
were trying to get the official position
In with this:
Titanic sinking. Struck an iceberg.
Wants assistance. Passengers In boats"
Have you and idea as to tho Identity
Of the steamer that la yalongside you
IN the Ice that Sunday night?'' the cap
tain was asked.
NO" was the answer, I'VE all thought
Il an ordinary cargo steamer. At day
light we saw a yellow funnel steamer
eight miles away. but 1 don't think It
was the same one"
Evans On Stand.
Captain Lord was followed by Cyril
Evans, wireless operator on the Cali
fornian. e.. ,..'
Evans told how he was on watch in
the wireless room from early Sunday
morning until about 1890, when after
sending the Ice warning to the IT,
tanic, he went to bed. .
Asked II he had any other communi-
cation with the Titanic besides the
message sent Sunday night, Evans
said:
Yes. on Sunday afternoon, after
the Titanic called up and we exchang-
ed signals. l said: Here's a message
AN ice report The Titanic answer
ed. AN right, old man. =! heard you
Asked to recount the circumstances
under which he sent the last ice warn
ing to the Titanic at 1880 Sunday night.
Just before that stepped out on the
dack and met the captain and told him
! was In communication with the Ii
tanic. A little while before we had
passed on a report of Ice that we had
sighted and were then. the captain in
formed me, stopped in the midst Of an
Ice pack. The captain suggested that as
long as l was in communication with
the Titanic / better tell them how we
were situated in regard to the Ice. So I
went back and sent the Titanic this
message:
Say. old man. we're stopped, sur
rounded by ice.
lie replied 'shut up. Shut up. Tn
working Cane Race. and l sIn IA mined
evans explained that the Titanic oper-
ntor meant by the word "iarnmed" that
the message from the Californian was
interfering w'th his communication with
Cape Race)
Just hrforc 6 o'clock was awakened
by the chief officer. He said there was
ship that had been firing rockets, and
asked me- 10 pleas FRY and find out Of
| anything was the matter. got up.
pa!lv drsscd. and started the kcv, call
| ing all stations 1 was answered by
he Frankfort. He caid: do you know
the Titanic has sunk during the night,
AFTER coIlidiu:; with an icebergT
No." ! replied. Please give ma
"Jnst as he gave ii 70 me- the vir-
einian camea Ing asktngsthe same ques-
tion. and Replied that 4 had just heard
| about the sinking of the Titanic, and
asked him to gave me officially the IT.
tanic's position He gave II to me, and
| II was the same as the Frankfort had
given me-. I sent 1t to the captain.