Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24
SURVIVORS Of TITANIC
TELL TALES OF HORROR
Supply of Life Boats Was Woe
fully Short.
The Rule of the Sea, 'Women and Child
rem First" Was Heroically Observed
and Enforced.


Titanic told of their terrible ex-
periences- told of the sudden crash on
the fatal berg. The great ship plunging
into darkness, the re-assurances of
safety by tho stout-hearted officers,
the crashing plunge back into the sea
from the berg. the command to man
the life boats, the hurried escape. the
weary wait for the Carpathia, and the
sad trip to port.
This story. from the list of those
saved who were able to talk here
follows:
One of the passengers. the wife of
Jacques Futrelle, the author, said
that the Titanic went down with all
her lights burning and with the band
playing 'Nearer My God to Thee.
She said that the members Of the crew
had to use force to separate wives
from their husbands and throw them
into the life boats.
BUTT AND ASTOR HEROES
'fWe were asleep in our berths
when the Titanic crashed into the
iceberg. We Immediately rushed on
deck, only stopping to throw on
coat over our night gowns.
The night was bright and star
lit We could see the crowds of
passengers falling down the stairways
while the officers sought to reassure
them of their safety. Maj. Butt and
Col. Astor stood by the life boats
bravely and helped the women. They
did not think the boat was going to
sink.
The Titanic kept settling lower
and lower, however. Then word
came that the engine room was
flooded.
SHOOT TO KEEP MEN BACK
There was some shooting They
would not allow those half crazed
men to get into the boats.
II was in one of the life boats.
After we were lowered away the men
in our boat started to row. l looked
back to the Titanic and could see
the big ship settling. She seemed
already to be only half her former
height. The officers in charge of our
life boat kept urging the men at the
oars to row harder. Some, Of the
oarsmen fell exhausted. Then
women took turns at the oars. We
must have been about mile away
from the Titanic when she went
under
'There was big wave. The sea
was calm otherwise. and / asked a
sailor what it was. He said: "The
Titanic has sunk. =
It was bitterly cold. We half
dressed women suffered intensely until |
we were picked up
PICKED UP 10 BOATS
According to one of the first |
ashore, the Titanic struck
the iceberg at IL II p. M. Sunday |
night and went down at 2 30 Monday
The Carpathla reached
the scene at 4 40. She picked up
nineteen life boats.
J. B. Thayer of Philadelphia said:
THE Titanic struck about mid
night, as near as I can guess. It
rode upon the ice, hesitated for a |
few seconds and then slipped off with
tremendous crash and broke in the
The manning of the life |
boats Immediately began.
Bruce Ismay manned one of the
boats as a sailor. But he had no
taken his seat at one of the |
oars when he jumped up again and |
gave his place to a woman Then
Ismay, with an oar in his hands, got |
into a second life boat. About twenty |
afterward our life boat pulled |
away. Then the Titanic sank. =
MRS. ASTOR NEAR COLLAPSE.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor came down |
the gang plank with hating steps. |
She was fully dressed wearing black |
astrakhan coat. She seemed to be
on the verge of a complete collapse
and half dozen men rushed to her.
Asked for a statement she said
I can't, I can't. It was horrible.
am unspeakably i'll. On. some one
help me. Help me. =
Margaret Hays. 1884 West Eighty
third street, New York, said:
Il first came to my senses in one of
the life boats. My first realization
was that I was holding in my arms
2-year old girl. | don't know the
name or identity of the child. She
was almost naked. | kept her with
me and VII closely guard my little
ward given to me by Providence.
DAZED BY THE CRASH.
Mrs. Cornelius z. Anderson of
Hudson, N. Y, said: