The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-16
HUNDRED
PEOPLE PERISH
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braced their wives and their babies
for the last time, and then the stall |
wart seamen began the work OF put
ting the great boats-their number
cruelty few over the side.
The ice fields must have been very
heavy. Other vessels, just into port,
both here and on the other side, de-
scribe the fields as almost solid and 1t
is certain that the greatest care must
have been taken in launching the
boats SO that they were not overturn-
ed.
Whether or not the unfortunate wo'
men and children in the boats wit
messed the last final plunge of the
wounded leviathian as she staggered
to the bottom, carrying with her their
nearest and deaerst, will not be
known until these tell their stories
here. 1t is likely that they did, how
ever, as the lights of the great float
ing hotel probably remained lighted
until the final plunge.
The women and children, it seems
certain, suffered greatly, while the
fraiI boats in which they had taken
refuge tossed like corks on the sur
face OF the water. 1t was long after
daylight when the Carpathia finally ar
rived, only to find the score of heavily
laden boats and the floating wreck
age.
Like Mouth Of Wrecked Mine.
NEW YORK. April ia crowd of
men, many of them on the verge OF
tears, and very few women crowded
1 into the offices of the White Star line
today and remained there hoping
against hope that some word would
come that would enlighten the gloom
resulting from the disaster to the
Titanic.
So dense was the crowd, both in
the building and on the street. that the
police reserves were hard put
to keep passage open for traffic.
4 BY order of the commissioner the pc,
lice handled the grief-frenzied multi.
tude as tenderly as possible but per.
sons whose only motive was morbid
curiosity were quickly hustled from
the vicinity.
The line Offices are on lower Broad
way with rooms devoted to first, sec
ond and third class passengers. AT
augmented force of clerks was on hanG
with the latest revised list of the
known survivors and where person
asked for was known to have beer
saved the glad news was quickly CIV
en-. Where there was no record Thu
Information was given as gently a
possible coupled with the belief tina
there was still bare chance that tn
company did not have all of tn
names of the saved as yet.
A typical case was that of City MAJ
istrate Robert C. Cornell, whose vii
and two sisters, Mrs. J. Murray Brow
of Boston, and Mrs. e. D. Appleto
of Bay Shore, L. T., were passenger
The wireless told of the saving {
Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Appleton, bl
contained no word of Mrs. Cornell
fate. When Magistrate Cornell rea
: ICED that his wife was probably drowl
ed he collapsed and had to be assiste
d into the private Office.
1f Company Is Blamed.
The few women who came to til
g. offices were nearly historical and d
I'd not remain long The men continue
g. to importune the clerks for SON
~ word that would relieve, not alor
I'd their own suspense, but tn;
of their relatives waiting ;
~ home, but the company eitht
an could not or would not mai
public any information.
C. This attitude on the part of the G
tn ficials of the company was bitter
a resented by the public. 1t was accer
le ed as a fact that the company be
n withheld information from the sta
ar and it was known that all of the wir
less information that was coming in
the offices of the big wireless compar
. was being translated only to Il
. White Star company and careful
= guarded against leaks.
vice PT0SluSuI TIduhllh lhoioh'
= that he was making public all of Il
= information he could. He was to
= that the directors here of the lir
= who had been in almost consta
. executive session since IL last nigl
. were using Franklin as the buffer
= tween them and the public and tn
= he would give out only the informati
= they wanted to reach the public.
Mrs. Butts, of Newark, N. j., fore
= her way into the offices OF the line
= ask information regarding the safe
. of Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Stengel.
, Newark. She was told they were sa
= THANK God! Thank God!" S
? cried and fell on her knees weepi
Historically.
Money Is no Help.
At 1920 the crowd has increased
such numbers that additional pol
had to be hurriedly sent for. Mum