The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-04-26
FINAL SCENE IS ENACTED IN AW.
Full TRAGEDY OF
THE SEA.
1,47o LIVES WERE LOST
Rescued Passengers Tell Heart.ereak.
ing Tales Of the Crash Of
Steamer and Iceberg
Last Sunday Night.

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
by awful sorrow. the women and chill
dren and the few men who escaped
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, II 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 1t as they
watched--the majority OF the sad and
bereaved company were well 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
q boat. One woman, a second cabin
passenger, who was landed last night,
was suffering from a 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. as
1t turned out, for the ministers Of
dock.
The Carpathia reported that there
were 10 saved out Of a passenger
list which the White Star line fig
ured at also. making a loss OF 40
lives. The Titanic's passengers say
there were 745 rescued out of a pas
senger list of 2.340. The list OF names
furnished on the Carpathia on its ar
rival shows 1873 first class cabin pas
sengers saved. 1I5 in the second cab.
in, IFS third class. and zoe Of the
crew. a total Of 6S7 saved. A woman
passenger on the Carpathia heard
from the ships doctor that 495 of
the passengers and 80 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 THAMES peaceful
company when II became swiftly
known that the ship must go 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
guided into the boats.
No one seemed to know the fate
Of the THAMES captain, T.. ]. Smith.
There was a story that he had CON-
mitted suicide, but the Titanic's pas
sengers did not know that 1t was true.
Many OF them had heard shots fired.
They believed some of the firing was
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 calmly
and cody I'm the face of certain
laundering. was the report brought
here by the rescued. The unhappy
company SO marvelously torn from
the grip of the sea was received SOL
EMMY and with remarkable quiet by
the enormous crowd which gathered
near the Cunard piers and by the few
hundreds that penetrated by right of
relation or friendship or merciful
business to the interior Of the
pier. There was no cheering, no
the pier There was NO cheering, no
uprising Of voices In salute OF the
living for the thought Of the dead was
in the minds of all onlookers. The
depression Of death was on the wait.
ing men and women. 49,
The crowds were held back two
blocks from the pier on the north.
east and south. Everything was done
to expedite the passage of the res
cued oAes and make their transfer
from pier to homes or hotels as easy
and ~ comfortable ~ possible With
In the pier shed were hundreds who
had the ksenest personal interest in
the survivors. From q score Of pas
sensers came the story Of their awful
experience.
The great liner was plunging
through . comparatively placid sea
on the surface Of which there vas
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