The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-04-29
Was ENDEAVOR|NG
TO BREAK RECORD
TITANIC WAS RUNNING At FULL
SPEED WHEN SHE coLLlDED
WITH ICEBERG.
Was Ripped From stem to Engine
room by Great Mass Of Ice, Her
Side Being Laid Open 40 II by
Gigantic Can Opener.

New York.-How the White Star
liner Titanic. which was the largest
ship afloat, sank after colliding with
an iceberg on April IA, while on her
maiden trip, carrying to their death
1901 of the 2.340 persons aboard,
was told to the world in its awful
detail for the first time with the ar.
rival at New York Thursday of the
Cunard liner Carpathia, bearing the
exhausted survivors of the catastro-
phe.
The report OF the survivors forces
the abandonment of all hope for those
who remained ON the. stricken vessel.
OF the great facts that stand out from
the chaotic account of the tragedy
the most salient are that the list of
prominent people lost stands as pre-
viously reported. Practically every
woman and child, with the exception.
OF those women who refused to leave
their husbands, were saved. Six per-
sons died after being rescued. Among
the women lost was Mrs. Isadore
Stratus. Survivors on the lifeboats
saw the lights on the stricken vessel
glimmer to the last, heard the band
playing and saw the doomed hundreds
on the decks and heard their groans
and cries when the vessel sank, being
powerless to aid them.
Among the people of worldwide
prominence who met death on the ILL
fated Titanic were men like John
Jacob Astor, master of scores of mil
lions; Benjamin Guggenheim of the
famous family of bankers; 1sador
Strauss, merchant prince; William
T. Stead, veteran journalist; Major
Archibald w. Butt, soldier; Washing
ton Roebling, noted engineer; Charles
M. Hays, president of the Grand
Trunk railway; F. D. Millet, the noted
artist; Henry B. Harris, theatrical
manager; Jacques Futrelle and many
others of lesser note in the worlds
affairs. The combined wealth of those
above named is over half a billion
dollars.
Mrs. Churchill Candee of Washing
ton, one of those rescued, declared
that the action of the men on the Tt
tanic was noble. They stood back in
every instance that she noticed and
gave the women and children the first
chance to get away safely. Particu-
larly heroic was the conduct of Isador
Strauss, Major archibald Butt, John
Jacob Astor and Henry q. Harris
Mr.. Harris insisted that his wife get
into boat. She refused and was
forced into the boat. The men, she
declares, worked desperately to get
the women and children safely on to
the boats.
Not only was the Titanic tearing
through the April night to her doom
with every ounce of steam on, but
she was under orders from the gen.
eral officers of the line to make all
the speed of which she was capable.
This was the statement by ]. P. l..
Moody, quartermaster of the YES
sci and helmsman on the night OF
the disaster.
He said the ship was making
twenty-one knots an hour and the Of
ficers were trying to live up to the
orders to smash the record.
1T was close to midnight" said
Moody, land l was on the bridge with
the second officer, who was in COM
mand. Suddenly he shouted Port
your helm I did SO, but it was too
late. We struck the submerged por-
ton of the berg"
Ripped from stem to engineroom
by the great mass of ice she struck
amidships, the Titanic's side was
laid open as If by gigantic can
opener.
naNaloFHn uNe - ~