Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-24
Thousands Greet Arrival Of Rescue
Ship, Carpathia, in New York.
DEATH ROLL IS row 1,72S
Survivors Give Accounts of Greatest of All Sea
Tragedies-Saw Ship Plunge Beneath the
Waves While Band Played Hymn
Only Few Women Perished.

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the ship crew drew their reYolvers.
Stand back" they cried. only
women and children go into the
boats"
Some of the men leaned against
the rail and looked down over the
towering sides of the ship. Others
slowly paced the deck as if they we're
waiting.
The ship sank lower and lower
Three revolver shots were heard.
Three passengers in the steerage had
attempted to force their way past
the sailors and had been ruthlessly
shot down.
The ship had now listed to a ter
rible angle. Men in the throes of
panic attempted to reach the boats
and were pushed back And in that
moment the heroism OF hundreds as
serted itself. Il was the passengers
who pushed back the panic-stricken
few and not the sailors. or the in
dividual deeds Of heroism only a few
have as yet been told.
Then the sailors, seeing women
standing and running about cried.
"All women to the lower deck"
They began a rush to the lower
deck, and here it was that the near
est semblance to panic began. Some
of the women were seized by sail
ors and deliberately thrown over the
railing to the boats.
The weaker men, by scores, began
TO jump overheard. The life boats
began to draw away from the ship.
LOUD CRIES FOR HELP.
AS they drew away those who we're
floating among the cakes of ice in
the sea cried aloud piteously for help.
Those who could seized the sides of
the life boats In many cases they
were pulled aboard.
Ia many cases the sailors who
manned the boats deliberately went
or, needless of all supplications, for
their boat was full. One boat was
seen to oyerturn. What capsized her
is not known.
Several more pistol shots were
heard on board the ship. And sud
denly above the murmur OF the seq
and the crunching OF the ice foes
there rose steadily increasing cry
from the doomed ship-a cry in
which hundreds of voices mingled.
And the women In the life boats we're
screaming each to her husband or
her brother. Jump, jump, Wen pick
you up. was heard on every side.
The screams Of men and women on
the Titanic began 70 increase in vol
ume. From the life boats the huge
liner doomed a huge mass Of black
ness dotted with a few tiny lights.
None of these illuminations wera suf-
ficient TO discern what was goins on
on board, But these lights we're
steadily sinking
In the hurry of embarking one of
the life boats had been lowered with
ont single sailor in IL. Three men
had been picked up by this boat, but
the women We're rowing. And the
women between the thwarts were
screaming to their loved ones in
agony
STRAINS OF MUSIC HEARD.
Then suddenly above all the wall
ing of that desolate scene there rose
the strains of the ships band play
ing Nearer My God to Thee"
And for the first time those in
the boats realized that those who
were left behind knew that they were
doomed A few voices rose. in ac-
compartment to the melody. The
chorus swelled louder and louder.
The lights sunk lower and lower.
The life boats We're pulling from
the scene as fast as they could. But
while they were sim within sight
of the ship the lights went out with
/ startling swiftness.
BRoKE IN TWO; SANK.
At 2:3O the Titanic suddenly rose
/ in the middle and bow and stern
plunged downward into the sea. The
survivors describe the final plunge of
the Titanic as free from suction. II
seemed. they say. as il the giant liner
had been neatly sliced with knife
and with its back broken. the fore
and aft parts glided gently into the
sea.
There were sixteen life boats. One
smashed as soon as lowered. Stores
I jumped over and some we're pulled
into the life boats
Those in the life boats could see
plainly every detail OF the sinking
ship. The Titanic's side must have
been cut open as if by can opener.