The evening world., 1912-04-20

steward was warned back. but he
Jumped Into n OF the boats At the rail,
tramplns down a woman and her child.
l think that II was In Mrs. Astor'S boat
and II was overloaded then. Murdock
shot him through the Jaw ana he was
ysnked back on the deck.
"Murdock Gained the passengers tell
ing them there was no occasion for OK.
element. that the boats were all COM
Ing back. and ordered them to 70 on
the poop. Even then. the doom Of the
Titanic was sealed and the Officers and
the crew knew It. There was no panic,
but the passengers were bswildsred.
They would start for the poop. then
follow some excited individual who had
started forward.
"A lot Of women ran down bstw>>n
desks to set into the boats there, think.
Ing that The drop TO the water from
there would be less dangerous. They
had to come back up again to embark.
All the nfeboats had to BE- swun1 from
the davits before the collapsible boats
could DO used. But everything was got
on except n Of the colapslbls boats.
which burst In the bows getting sfoui
Of the falls. This was a~ftsrwsrds usod
~ a lifebdat and thirty men were saved
on lite bottom.
MI. Murdoch ordered Bos'n Nichol,
to 90 down to the working alleyvay
and bring up the big gangplank. ca.
pable Of holding forty people. Tho bos'n
and ten mon Obeyed the order. go!nr 10
what they believed was certain death.
They were never seen again. I got OF
In charge OF the second to last i!feboat
lowered before the coliapsibles were used.
and. acting on orders. stood OF nfty
yards from the Titanic. Forty women
and children m some men we're In the
boat.
GOT OFF ALL THE coLLAPsleLE
eoATs BUT ONE.
Murdoch. with Chief Onscer Weld
attend to the manning Of the collapsible
boats. They got them all OF but one.
a. I have said. This 10 the one which
was capsised and whicn now lay on the
deck. Nr. Aurdock had overlooked
nothing that could help ~ the pas
sengers when the anal moment came.
He ordered doors. chairs, chests OF
drawer everything on board that
would float to be thrown Into the sea.
I'm this way he saved not less than
sixty lives. for that number Of people
All tho while Capt. Smith was on the
bridge. overlooking everything. givinS
his orders which were obsyed without
. murmur and without hesitation. &c.,
ond Engineer Farley and his brave
crew Of engineers and hrsmen were
below shutting down the valves and
working the pumps. Farley fell and
broke both legs n was carried to the
pump room. From there he went to
his death.
"rhe water a nearing the bridge
when the irst explosion came. Ten
MINUTES later the second explosion fol-
lowed. The water had reached the boil.
ers and that settled the fate Of the
ship. The Titanic was split In Two.
! All the passengers LEFT were on the
poop deck. The capsized lifeboat was
now adnft on the deck n men crowd
Both Capt. Smith and Junior Chief
Murdock were now together on the
bridge. thsl water being up to their
sr%p,s:' IN T Ne. = saw so,a a. . p ch Smith n
his arms. He swan to the raft on
which wal Second Ohtcsr kShtoiisr
and gave the child to the mate. That
was the last. He and the ship went
down and Murdock-0od help me. don't
ask me what I saw!
Then men on the poop plunged INTO
the sea a. the great craft went down.
both by the head and stern. The men
on the life raft we're carried hithsr
and thither across the width Of the
ship By the currents formed between
the two big tunnels. The raft with IL
load was directly Owe the ship when
the waters closed above IL. n the
miracle Of II all 10 that she kept afioat
There wasn't a bit Of suction from the
sinking Of The Dig ship, and that's what
beats me vet.
THE men who had Jumped into the
sea found resting places on the ohsirs
matches. chests Of drawers and doorl
which had been thrown overheard by
Mr.. Murdock. Everything was nov
dark. The lights on the Titanic had
gone put section by section. n thsrs
was Just an electric arc left to Ugh,
the noble ship down.
-Four hremen were seen on the poor
Just before the vessel sank. They wsrs
Natty Black, Mason. Denny CorcoNI
and John Bannon. One OF the boy
named Dillon SAID to Bannon: Johnny
thsrs's Q light 0ver there: Tn going Il
strike out for II. Are you comingr"
mot Just yet awhle,' said Johnny
Dillon went ovsr the slds In the q
rseton Of the iiGht On the lfehost en-
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