The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-19
Story Of Wreck
 Told By Woman 5
 Who Survived
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 wick. what we had been told. Uncle George just laughed at us Y
 why. that's nonsense, girls, he said. "This boat is all right. She's going along finely. She just got a glancing blow I guess"
 That's the way everyone seemed to think and we went into our state room but in a minute or so an officer knocked at the dopr and told us to 70 up on the ''A'' deck. He said there was really no danger and that 1t was just a precautionary measure. We got a few clothes and went up- l picked up my eyeglasses in my ex- citement and left my watch lying on the dresser. Nathalie hung her watch arounads her neck. We both wore two or three coats. it was so cold outside. When we got on the deck uncle and aunt were there and went down again to another part of the steamer and got my aunt Elizabeth. When I got back with her there were crowds of people standing all around. No body seemed very excited. Everyone was talking and it seemed to be the general idea that we would soon be ordered back to bed,
 Just then an officer came up to us and said we should go up to the next deck-the boat deck. By that time nearly everyone was up. Mrs. John Jacob Astor was there sitting in a steamer chair Her husband, Colonel Astor, was beside her and her maid was helping her to finish her dress ing.
 There was no confusion here even yet although we noticed that the boat was Beginning to list to starboard con- siderably. The men who were in the Ssm oking room at the time of the col lision said they had seen the berg as 1t passed and that most Of it was under water. Whatever damage was done the vessel was done beneath her waterline we knew for above she was in perfect condition. She had hit the x berg alongside, we found out and not in front After we had been on the top deck for a while, considerably more than an hour I should say, the women were told to stand in a group by themselves and to be ready to get into the lifeboats. The men drew raifngs.
 This was the condition which pre- vailed on our side of the boat. On the other side the men and women were not told to separate and that accounts for the men who were saved.
 Mir Ismay, director of the line, was on that side of the boat and so of course got in one of the lifeboats with the other men. There was very little discipline In fact. there was prac- tically none.
 People had to be urged to get into the lkeboats. No one thought the Iii tanic was going to sink and passen- gers did not feel like trusting them selves to any open rowboats when they were aboard the biggest liner in the world. At least they so argued with the officers.
 As soon as the men withdrew, the women were told to get into the life boats. Most of them that did so were urged to it by their men rela- tives. the officers taking little part in 1t. We never once saw the captain. The boat we were in was the second to be let down over the side but the first to strike the water. In it though, was room for several more people. As we took to the oars the officer told us to row over to a dis tant light and to land there, sending the boat back for others.
 We watched the other boats being lowered as we got under way and the Titanic began to list more heavily, After a while, when we were a con- siderable distance away, a whole deck of lights, the lower deck, was sud denly snuffed out. at the same time the mast lights dropped little far ther down into the sea. After this the tragedy moved with a relentless swiftdeje Deck by deck we watched the lights go out as the boat dropped lower and lower into the sea.
 At last but four rows of lights were left. Then the water reached the portholes and, as it rushed in here. there was one great explosion and an- other and then the ship left the hori- xon unbroken.
 And those that were in the life boats which were close to the vessel