The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-04-25
! WILL REMAIN"
SAID DIR. M|NAHAN
Fond du Lac Physician Deaf to
Pleas That He Leave Ship.
SISTER TELLS OF DISASTER

Proximity OF lcebergs Shown by B e
Drop IN Temperature Just Before
Thames Fatal Lrash-Praise tor
Bravery OF w.ale Passengers.
Milwaukee.-Suffe from nerv-
BUS shock by the long hours of weary
travel, Miss Daisy Minahan and Mrs
w e. Minahan, sister and widow of
Dr. w. e. Minahan of Fond du Lac,
who persisted on the liner Titanic,
passed through Milwaukee on the
way to Green Bay.
Accompanying the survivors was
DR.. j. Il. Minahan, who went to New
York Immediately after the news of
the disaster reached him and awaited
the arrival of his sister and his broth
er's widow.
Sad hearted as the surviving wom-
en- We're, they were buoyed up by the
consciousness of heroism, the uupar-
alleled courage and chivalric sacrifices
made by the dead brother and hus-
band who stood shoulder to shoulder
with those of the steamer in the
watchword which was the inspiration
Of every man on board-"the women
and children first, before a man of
us will attempt to save himself,
SURVIVOR DESCRIBES WRECK.
Miss Daisy Minahan, when ap-
preached on a train leaving Chica-
go, said:
1T will be absolutely impossible
to describe or even attempt to de-
scribe the scene when the vessel sank
on which so many of us had started
so happily on what We anticipated
would be our homeward voyage.
There We're more than a score of
brides in our party, coming back liz
the completion of their happy honey
moons spent abroad. We brought
twenty of them, widowed by the ter
rible catastrophe to homes of mourn
ing and tears instead of happiness
and bliss.
Everything seemed to be in con-
fusion and it is difficult to relate the
scenes in their sequence We were
sitting on deck in the evening, en-
juying the crisp air and the starlit
night The sea was the smoothest
We had ever seen. Old sailors told
no that it had never seemed so calm
and CLASSY
AIR is SUDDENLY COLD.
About $3.50 O'Clock, the atmos-
phere took sudden drop which
drove everybody inside their cabins.
We must have been going at a ter
rife rate right in the direction of
the icebergs for the air, which had
been pleasant, became so chilly in
a very few minutes that we found
it impossible to keep warm.
1--WE had retired, when there was
q dull shaking of the Titanic, which
was not SO much like a shake as it
was slowing down of the massive
craft. | noticed that our boat he A
come to a standstill, and then we
heard the orders of the captain, and
We went on deck to see what it all
meant
Il never saw such calm composure
and cool bravery in my life as the
men of the first and second cabins
displayed. Col. Aston seemed to be
the controlling figure, and he, Mai.
Butt, Mr.. Guggenheim, Mr.. Widener
and Mr.. Thayer clustered in a group
as if they We're holding a quick con-
sultation as to what steps to be taken
next.
Then Col. Aston came forward
with the cry--not a man until every
woman and child is safe in the
boats"
WOMEN HOLD BACK.
Many of the women did not seem
to want to leave the vessel Mrs.
Astor chung to her husband, begging
him to let her remain on board the
Titanic with him When he insisted
that she save herself, she threw her
with tears in her eyes to permit her
to share his fate. Col Astor picked
her up bodily and carried her to her
boat, which was the one just ahead
of ours, and placed her safely in it,
Il fingered with my brother and
his wife loath TO leave them, al
though we all knew that the ship was
sinking and that the ocean would
soon swallow up all that remained
OF the proud steamer and her hun
dreds of illfated passenger We
both begged my brother to come with
us, but he said: NO, ! will remain
with the others, no matter what hap
pens
FAREWELLS ARE SAID.
'Then, when it was time to go,
when the last boat was being lower
ed to the water line, we were hur-
ried into it by my brother who babe
us good by and said calmly but with
feeling: BE brave, no matter what
happens, be brave,' Then he waved
the steamer jwst in time to escape
being borne down by the suction, for
we were among the last to leave
"As the ship settled there was ?
terrific explosion, which rent 1t in
two. and as 1t sank beneath the
wa, es we could See my brother way
Ing his hand to us in the dark, al
though 1t is hardly possible that he
could see MS, for none of us had a
light on our boats.
I'm fact, we had nothing except