Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-25

liner Carpathia, & ship of gloom and
succor came into New York tonight
with the first news direct from the
great White Star liner Titanic. which
sank off the Grand banks of Newfound-
land early Monday morning last.
The great liner went down with its
band playing, taking With it to death
all but 745 OF its human cargo of 2,340
souls.
To this awful death list six persons
were added One died in the lifeboat
which was put off from the liners side
and live subsequently succumbed on
the rescue ship Carpathia
SAYS 1925 LOST LIVES.
The list of prominent men missing
stands as previously reported and the
total death list as brought to port By
the Cafpathia is 1.60i. Charles f.
Hurd, staff correspondent of the ST.
Louis Post-Dispatch, who was a pas
senger on the Carpathia and inter-
viewed the survivors, estimates the
number of dead at 1726.
Survivors in the lifeboats huddled
in the darkness at safe distance
from the stricken ship and saw it go
down.
AS to the scene on board when the
liner struck, accounts disagree wide
ly. Some maintain that compara-
tive calm preyailed others say that
Wild disorder broke out and that there
was a maniacal struggle for the life
boats.
That the liner struck an iceberg as
reported by wireless was confirmed hy
all
REPORT CAPTAIN A SUICIDE.
Sensational rumors told by hysteri-
cal passengers who would not give
their names said that Captain Smith
had killed himself on the bridge, that
the chief engineer had taken his life
and that three Italians were shot in
the struggle for the boats. These ru-
mors could not be confirmed in the
early confusion attendant on the land
ng OF the survivors.
Ripped from stem to engine-room by
the great mass OF ice it struck amid
ships, the Titanic's side was laid open
as II by a gigantic can opener. 1t
Ell of ice fell onto the forecastle deck.
Shortly before it sank it broke in
tWo abaft the engine-room and as it
disappeared beneath the water the ex
pu!slon OF air caused two explosions
Whlch We're plainly heard by the sur
NiNorS adrlit A moment more and
The Titanic had gone TO its doom, with
tle fated hundreds grouped on the
afterdeck
RECEIVED WITH WHISPERS.
The scene at the Cunard pier as the
Carpathia came up the harbor and
warped into its dock was one of per-
iect order and an awe-like air of wall
ing. The crowds had steadily aug
mented and along the shores of the
bay from the Battery on, where tens
OF thousands were gathered to witness
The passing of the funeral ship, all
conversation was conducted in whis-
per.
For twenty minutes there was an
agonized wait while the boat was be-
ingly slowly warped into it's berth.
When the ship docked the gang plank
vas quietly lowered and the doctors
and nurses went aboard. Then the
tirst survivors began to leave the
ship.
AS the Carpathia was passing into
It's slip 1T was surrounded by newspa-
per boats and frequent flashes from
cameras taking pictures Of the rescue
ship punctuated the silence like a
arias ofNholahs
As they came into the street a dead
silence fell over the crowd and even
The flsshlight battery for a moment
eeased its bombardment
STORY or SURVIVORS.
Testimony of half a dozen of the
Titanic passengers given to a report
cr Immediately after they left the
Carpathia goes TO prove that the I'll
tanic struck an ice field that stretched
or fifty miles over the frozen sur
ace of the ocean
First stories OF the survivors on the
Carpathia pieced together, though told
in dfsjointed, hysterical fashion, paint
a picture Of the awful Titanic calam-
ity full Of horror fear, panic and con-
fusion. Hundreds were asleep in their
beds, scores We're sitting at the tables
in the card roms, smoking rooms and
saloons when the Titanic hit the ice
berg with terrific shock that sent
them hurting across the cabins.
Stunned by the terrific impact, the
dazed passengers, many of them half
clad, rushed from their staterooms in
to the main saloon amid the crash of
sp!intering steel. rending of plates and
shattering OF girders while the boom
of falling pinnacles of ice upon the
broken deck OF the great vessel add
ed to the horror.