The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-21
THREE WARNINGS OF |CEbERGS WERE GIVEN BY LOOKOUT Steward Says Officer on Bridge Was Warned by
 Crows Nest
WARNED THRICEIN
 FIFTEEN MINUTES
~No Wonder MT. MurdoclS Shot Him self" Said One of the Men Who Was on Watch--Whiteley's
 Experience a Hard One

New York, April 20.-Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were trans imitted from the crow s nest of the Titanic Ito the officer on the doomed ships bridge l5 minutes before she struc-s, according to Thomas Whiteley, a saloon steward. who now lies in St. Vncent's hospital witt frozen and lacerated feet.
 whiteiey. who was whipped overboard from the ship by rope while helping to lower a lifeboat, finally reached the Carpathia aboard one of the boats that .contained, he said. both the crows nest 1ookouts. He heard conversation be- aween them, he asserted, in which they discussed the warnings given of the pres ence of the iceberg. ss. O. s,iss .,a -,- -l.s
 Have Returned to England l whiteley did not know either of the lookout men's names and believes they Hhave returned to England with the ma 5ority of the surviving members of the crew.
 :, 'I heard one of them say that at 1l15 o'clock. 15 minutes before the Titanic struck. he had reported to First Officer Murdock that he fancied he saw an ice- Qtkk Sdlu W nlltlt9+ WlNt eiltCi tif"' the lookout said he warned MT MurdoclS that a berg was ahead. l can't rememner their exact words. but they were indig- nant that no attention was paid to their warnings. One of them said No wonder MT Murdock shot himself.
 Whiteley was asked if he knew whether the reports from the crows nest to the pilot house were made by telephone or signal
 ''I don't know how it was on this ship he replied. "On some ships 1t is done by bells, three bells meaning danger straight ahead; two bells starboard,' and one bell port. All l heard the lookout say was. that he, had reported to Mr Mardocls
 He Saw Iceberg T saw the teeherg. Ii was avery large and ito me 1t looked rather black Or a daill gray instead of white
 Whiteley. in telling of various expert ences of the disaster that had come to hls knowledge, said that on one of the first boats lowered the only passengers aboard were a man whom he was told was an American millionaire, his wife, child and two valets The others in the boat were firemen and coal trimmers, he said. seven in number, whom the man promised to pay well if they would man the boat. They made only lS in all.
 T do not know the mans name. said Whiteley. T heard 1t but have forgotten it. But 1 saw an order for five pounds which this man gave to each of the crew of his boat after they got aboard the Car f+ a. i.ln of Or6fparN- paper addressed to the Coutts bank of England. aY
 Called Boat Money Boat
 i've called that boat the money boat Ii was lowered from the starbuard side and was one of the first off. This man paid the fnemen to lower a starboard boat before the officers had given the order
 Whiteley's own experlence was hard one. When the uncoiing rope which en- rapeied his feet threw hlm into the sea fl furrowed the flesh Of his leg. but he did not feel the pain tll he was safe aboard the carpathia.
 II fIoated on my life preserver for seN- eral hours" he said, then came across a big oak wardrobe with two men cling ing to it. l hung on to this till daybreak and the two men dropped ofI- when the sun came up 1 saw the collapsible raft fin the distance just black with men. They were all standing up. l swan to 1t. al most a mile it seemed to me, and they xpo,,Id moi let me aboard. Mr. Lishtoller,' tb. second officer, was one of them.
 ...If is 3 lives against yours he said. syo,, can't come aboard, there's not room.
 sl pleaded with him in vain and then confess 1 prayed tliat somebody might dIe so 1 could take his place II was only human. And then someone did die and they let me aboard.