The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-27

time We told him we were surrounded by ice and had stopped"
 Did the Titanic acknowledge that mes sage2"
 'sYes. sir. It told us to shut up or keep out or something like that.
 He said they nor the Titanic had further communication that evening.
 How far were the Californian and the Titanic apart when you sent your mes sage to the Titanic telling her you were blocked in the ice?"
 From the position we had of the IT. tanic we were about 1912 miles apart
 Did You Get "C. Q. D."
 Did the Californian receive the IT. tanic's C. Q. D. call?"
 No" said the captain. but we got it from the Virginian about o'clock the morning of the 18th"
 What is the speed of the Californian.
 About Il knots ordinarily" said the captain. we made 1872 when we were going to the Titanic. driving all we could."
 When you told the Titanic you were surrounded by ice. how badly were you surroundedT
 The witness said the field was about 25 miles long and several miles wide. The Californian. he said, was about quarter mile rom the cage or the HOe.
 Do you know anything regarding the Titanic disaster of your own knowledge2'
 Nothing"
 Did you see any of her signals or any thing of the ship herself?''
 "No.n
 Was the Titanic beyond your range of vision?"
 Yes, 19tk or 20 miles away"
 The witness read from the log that at 690 they started for the scene, drew alongside the Carpathla at s:30. Captain Lord said he was on the bridge himself until 10:So Sunday night and that the watch was doubled.
 Were Cautious
 we had reports two or three days before of the presence of ice ahead,' he said. land we took precautions.
 Would glasses In the crows nest have aided in sighting ice?" asked the senator
 'I think not. I tried it once, and don't believe I shall try It again"
 'If you had received the Titanic's dis tress call Sunday evening after your com munlcation with the Titanic, how long would it have taken you to reach herY
 At the very least. two hours under the ice conditions" When he got to the scene the next morn ing Captain Lord said he remained searching from 9:30 a. m. to Il 80 a. m. and saw no further signs of the Titanic. He said there was no attempt to pre- vent him from coming to testify. Captain Lord said that if the wireless operator had been on duty he would have caught the Titanic's signal. Asked whether he had seen any distress signal he said no.
 Another Flying Dutchman'
 "when I came on the bridge at 1o.3O Sunday night" Captain Lord said. "the officer there said he thought he saw q light. It was a peculiar night, and we had been having trouble with the stars, mistalxing them for lights. Finally a ship did come up. and l asked the oper- ator if he had heard anything, and he said he had had the Titanic and given the Ice message. Then this ship came up and lap within four or five miles of us. She lay there all night nearly, but we could not hear from her. It was not the Titanic. l am sure about that. About l ococl1 I told the operator to call this ship again She sent up several rockets, but she would not answer. told him to ask her who she was. I heard him call ing her when I went to bed, but she did not answer. I have faint recollection of hearing the cabin boy about o'clock saying something about the ship still standing by. Soon after that she steamed away. This boat sent up several white rockets but they were not distress sig nals."
 Captain Lord said that at the Califor- nlan's position, 19iA mles away from the Titanic, 1t would have been impossible to see either the Morse signals or the dis tress signals"
 "'rhe first news that reached me of the disaster" said the officer. was shortly | after o'clock Monday morning" Operator on Stand Cyril Evans, wireless operator of the Californian, testified that he turned in at 1:25 Sunday night and never heard any distress signal from the Titanic. He said he sent ice messages to the Titanic at 5:35 New York, at 9:05 New York time that same evening, Evans said he advised the Titanic that the Californian was sur rounded by ice and stopping. It was then, Evans said. the Titanic replied: Shut up. I am working with Cape Race"
 After that I heard him sending private messages to Cape Race.'
 What were they2'
 q don't know didn't take them.' said Evans.
 ''Did anyone tell you about Captain Lord having been informed three times that night about a ship sending up rockets?" asked Senator Smith. "There was a lot of talk while we were on our way to the scene of the wreck. I heard the men say rockets had been sent up m the nlsht ana tnat the captalh hdu been roused'
 Senator Burton asked Evans if 1t was generally believed among the men that the rockets were from the Titanic. He said that Gill expected to get $500 for the rocket story from some newspaper when he got ashore
 Capt. Thomas H. Moore of the steamer Mount Temple had not yet arrived and the committee adjourned until 10 a. m tomorrow.