The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-25


 
 1 sponsible for the sending of that tele- gram. I urged it." How do you know it was sent?
 "Because MT. Ismay showed It to me, said it was sent, and showed me the an- sWer,' Llghtoller replied. | Senator Smith sought to establish the day on which the witness iad conferred with Ismay concerning the Cedric tee- gram. Lightoller said he thought it was | Wednesday.
 Urged Holding Cedric Do you know whether any other tele- grams were sent?'
 Yes. after Mr F'ranklin's reply, l un- derstand second was sent urging that i the Cedric be held.' Did you know then the Senate was go- | ing to hold an investigation?'' | Certainly not, or the telegram would never have been sent. Our sole idea was | to keep witnesses together for just such an investigation which we knew would be made in England" | Llghtoller said it was an open question as to whether the explosions heard when the Titanic sank were bursting boilers or | bursting bullxheads.
 Do you know if all the passengers were aroused and told the ship was sink ing?v continued the senator | Not that 1 can state accurately, but am sure that all were aroused" 1 How do you account for the 1900 peo- pie who could not be found? Where were they when the boats left?"
 That 1 cannot fathom. I didn't go aft"
 Could anything have possibly been done after the crash to prevent the sink ing of the shlp? Absolutely nothing," replied I.ightoller I.ightoller said a vessel of the Titanic's tonnage going at rate of 21 knots an hour could be stopped in minute and q half, or a distance Of a quarter of a mile
 Senator Smith asked if Lightoller had seen the lights of the mysterious vessel ahead
 l T saw the light" he answered, 'it was two points off the starboard bow" Did you know what the lights were?'' 1 No"
 Robert Hichens quartermaster in charge of the lifeboat which took off Major Peuchen and others next took the witness chair and testified that when the collision occurred he was at the Ti- tanc's wheel. He said the officers had been warned to lookout for small ice, and that he had been ordered to have the heaters started in the chart room. The l first he knew of the collision was when the order came down from the bridge Berg ahead"
 "The first officer rushed over to give the order Hard starboard and the second officer returned Helm hard over, sir but by that time we were into the berg. We could hear the grinding of ] 1t. Captain Smith came rushing out, ask 1 ing what was the matter and immediately ordered MT. Murdock to close the emerg- ency doors The ship had a list of five degrees to starboard within five minutes. I stayed at the wheel until 1928.
 About that time one of the officers said we'll get out the boats, and I was put in charge of No. 6. and ordered tu put away toward a distant light. I had | 3S women, one seaman, myself, an Italian lad, and the major. I told them we would have to pull away from the ship, as she was going down by the head Everybody had to TOW. and l even asked the women We started for the light which we expect ed was on a cod banker.
 Borrowed Fireman
 There were several other boats around One that had four six men came up and I borrowed one fireman from it. We never got any nearer the light. Then we tied our boats together and stayed there until we saw the Carpathia coming The sea was getting choppy, and the womer were getting nervous. I relieved one al an oar and told her to take the tiller. A Mrs. Meyer got mad at me and accused me of wrapping myself in all the blankets drinking all the whisky and using bat language, which l deny
 T saw all the women taken on the Car. pathla, and was the last to leave my boat
 Senator Smith wanted to know if Hicn ems had any trouble in the boat witt Major Peuchen. He replied the majol had tried to take command.
 It had been testified to that Kitchens hat refused to go back and pick up othe survivors None of the women In thu boat had asked him to go back, he said
 Major Peuchen said yesterday tha when you were asked to go back afte some who were drowning. you replle, stiffs.' l"
 Yes; saw that in the newspapers thi' morning. It's a lie sir
 You want the committee to under stand you didn't refuse to go to the res cue of those in the water?'
 ''I couldn't under the conditions. I wa. a mile away from the boat when tn, cries were heard and we had no compass Before she sank we were all pulling fo that light. The ship was still afloa when we stopped and the light disappear ed about l5 minutes later. After it dis appeared we heard cries of distress. som of the women said they were/ cries 0 ] people in one boat signalling another"
 Kitchens is the witness who was take, from the Celtic in New York on a sub roena issued by the committee. When does the Celtic sail?" aske, lSenator Brown. "Tomorrow"
 were you going on the Celtic to