The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-20

ABOARD the snip.
Wireless messages relate a story OF
bravery in the face OF death surpass,
ing any other ever written Of the sea
in fact or in fiction.
When ii became known that the Tt
tanic was doomed. and that only few
OF the passengers and crew could be
saved, the men aboard, as one, de
manded that the women and children
be saved. The parting of the wives
from their husbands, as hinted in brief
messages, was a scene to rend the
heart, and in every case the husband
assisted the crew OF the steamship in
dragging the women away to the life
boat Wives became hysterical and
many of them tainted when told they
they must leave their husbands. With
tears streaming from their eyes, hus-
bands and wives locked in the last
embrace upon this earth. the husband
with the Anglo-Saxon blood RUNNING
strong in his veins, bore up under the
terrible ordeal and assisted in un-
winding his wifes arms from around
his neck
'C'P SslSCo " oOdto
When the boats drew away, with
their wives, the men gazed after them
and then, with the hearts OF a stole
returned to assist the other women
and children to the boats.
At last, when all the ships boats
had been filled with women and chi
iren. with officers and crew of the T.
- pi ig nplK hA
in them, the boats pulled away from
The sinking ship. Captain Smith OF
The Titanic issued orders to his mer
in each boat to proceed as rapidly a.
possible away from the vessel, for he
knew that when she took her final
plunge into the Atlantic that the sue
ton OF the mighty leviathan would en-
gulf all boats that were not far away.
The orders of the captain were car,
rled out to the letter, the men left
aboard the boat watching each boat as
1t disappeared in the distance over the
rolling waves, and then they turned to
the captain.
1t was realized by every man aboard
that his final hour had come. Out
across the ocean there was no sign
Of ship coming to the rescue, al
though up in his cage the wireless op-
orator received messages from a half
dozen ships that they were rushing
as fast as steam could bear them to
the aid of the stricken Titanic. II
was realized, though. by the men, that
none of the hurrying vessels would
reach them in time to save them.
They knew that when the ships ar
rived that there would be nothing left
| but bit of the floating wreckage to
tell where $1o,00O.000 vessel had
gone to her grave.
Nearer My God to Thee"
Religious services were started in
half dozen different sections OF the
mighty vessel. Practically everybody
aboard had come to the decks and
they Joined in the religious services;
IN the singing of Nearer My God to
Thee" Rock of Ages" and other OF
the old time hymns. Between the
hymns, and during their progress, men
knelt upon the deck of the sinking
ship and offered up prayer to God,
while the two priests absolved from
sin those upon the vessel. The Pro
testant ministers aboard prayed with
the priests, while Bibles were passed
around to be read aloud by those to
whom they were handed.
AS the religious services continued
the ship sank deeper and deeper into
the ocean. In the presence of death
to themselves those men whose wives
had gone in the life boats prayed fer
venuy for their safety, forgetting
themselves in their love for their
wives. Those who we're alone prayed
Tor the folks at home, mingling these
prayers with those of their own to
God
Wireless Man Faithful to End.
Up in his cage the wireless operator
sent out snatches of the scenes upon
the decks and throughout the Titanic.
telling the ships racing on to her aid
that all was lost; that order prevailed
and that the religious services and
prayers were continuing as the Titanic
sank lower and lower to her grave.
Then came the end of those wire
less snatches. Wireless operators upon
other ships knew that the story was
ended. They knew that the great tt
tanic had taken her last plunge and
that all those brave men were in
their ocean grave.
Wireless Big Aid Saving Passengers.
Wireless telegraphy in the sinking o.
the Titanic once more demonstrated
its use, but in this case not with the