The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-04-25


How the Titanic Met Fate.
\ Her hull rose on a shelf of the berg,
just as has been surmised. and in so
doing and in the subsequent recoil her
bottom plates and her port side were
badly torn and shattered, but there
was no such terrific shock from the
impact as might have been supposed
according to the preponderance of the
evidence.
The captain and officers at once re-
assured the passengers. believed that
there was no immediate danger. I'm
der this encouragement many of them
went back to their staterooms and not
a few calmly returned to their berths.
This is said to account for the fact
that many OF the women were not
even on deck when the imminence of
their danger was realized and scores
OF them were drowned in their state
rooms like rats in a trap.
Women and Children Shot Down.
About an hour before the ship
plunged to the bottom there were
three separate explosions from the
boiler rooms as the vessel filled.
These were at intervals of about fif
teen minutes. Until then there had
been no panic and but little disorder.
From that moment, however. there
was a different scene. The rush for
the remaining boats became a stam-
pede. Robert Daniel, a Philadelphia
passenger. tells of terrible scenes at
this period of the disaster. He says
men fought, bit and struck one another
like madmen and exhibits wounds on
his face to prove the assertion. Mr..
Daniel says that he was picked up
naked from the ice-cold water and al
most perished from exposure before he
was rescued. He and others say that
the Titanic's bow was completely torn
away by the impact with the berg.
Those Perished, 1901; Rescued 739.
AS brought to this port, the total
death list is placed at 1.601, and the
total number of those saved at 739,
the ship having had abroad. in all. p
$40 persons. te
Vessel Not In Darkness.
Narratives OF survivors do not bear
out the supposition that the final hour
upon the vessels decks were passed in
darkness. They say the electric light
ing plant held out until the last and
that, even as they watched the ship
sink from their places in the floating
lifeboats. her lights were cleaning in
long rows as she plunged under by
the head. Just before she sank. some
of the refugees say, the ship broke
abaft the engineroom, after the boiler
explosion had occurred.
How 100 Lives Were Lost.
One hundred of the Titanic's passen-
suit of faulty lowering of two of the
lifeboats. There were fifty persons in
each boat, as told by one of the sur
vivors who witnessed the mishap.
In each instance the lowering tackle
at the stern jammed as the boats were
being dropped from the davits and the
passengers were all spilled into the
sea and drowned.
Find SO Floating Bodies.
Officers of the Carpathia report that
when the reached the scene of the
Titanic's wreck there were fifty bodies
or more floating in the sea.
Only one mishap attended the trans
fer of the rescued from the lifeboats
to the decks of the Carpathia. after
they had been afloat in the open boats
from eight to ten hours.
One large, collapsible lifeboat, In
which were thirteen persons, turned
turtle just as they were about to save
it and all in it were lost.
Mrs. Churchill Candee of Washing
ton said that she was standing close
beside Mr.. and Mrs Isidor Straus