The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-04-20
CREW DISPLAYED
GREAT HEROISN
PASSENGERS WERE UNAWARE
OF DANGER UNTIL CALL WAS
GIVEN TO VUT LIFE BELTS ON
AND LOWER BOATS.

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/ New York, April 19.-Seven nun
, dred and for.y-fve persons, mostly
WON IN, sick in heart and body, wrote
into the annals of maritime history
to-. g the loss of the finest steamship
evSt ct by man.
| Thea were the survivors of the
/ White Star liner Titanic which sank,
bow foremost, with 1886 souls aboard,
her colors flying and her band play
ing "Near My God to Thee" in 1000
I fauhoms of water off the banks of
Newfoundland under starlit skies at
2.20 a. m. Monday.
With one voice they told of the
sple ldid heroism of those who re-
mained behind to find a watery grave
that they might live. Captain Smith
died, they said, as gallant sailor
should, after having first placed all
the women who would go aboard the
lifeboats, i. There were many who
stayed behind to die in their hus-
bands arms.
bold relief these facts:
The Titanic was making 21 knots
an Lour when she struck the iceberg.
No one at first thought that she
would sink
She remained afloat more than two
hours
The iceberg ripped open her bowels
below the water-line.
Captain Smith Averted Panic.
Panic was averted by Captain
Smiths terse appeal to his crew:
BE British, my men,"
A small number of steerage pas
sengers tried to rush for the life
boats and were held back by the
crew and other passengers.
The Titanic turned her nose for
the bottom when the last lifeboat was
less than a hundred yards away, rear
ed her stern high In the air, and
treTnbled for moment before seek
ing the bottom.
r. There were two explosions when
the inrushing waters reached her
boilers. vi
When she sank there was snence;
moment later the cries and suppli-
cations of 1900 dying men rose in
melancholy chorus over the spot
where she went down.
For hours the survivors rowed in
-lifeboats over calm sea before the
Carna athir piolxad fham I'm
In the aftermath today Of the dis
aster the principal developments were
the testimony of j. Bruce Ismay, man
aging director of the White Star line,
before the senate investigating COM
mittee, and the removal of surviving
members of the Titapic's crew aboard
the Lapland.
Boilers Exploded ny Icy Waters.
The Titanic struck an iceberg about
min ETY. feet high which ripped the
liners side open and made the water
tight compartments useless, and while
the vessel was gradually sinking the
icy water reached her steaming boil
ers, causing an explosion which sent
her to the bottom.
Among the hundreds on her decks
to the last were Col John Jacob AS
tor and Major Archibald Butt, Presi-
dent Taft's military aide Benjamin
Guggenheim, Jacques Futrelle, George
D. Widener, Henry B. Harris, and
scores of as well known persons. Isl
dor Straus was among them also with
Mrs. Straus, who refused to leave
her husband behind when she had
the opportunity to save her life.
Major Putt Was Hero.
IA 5ior Butt is reported to have been
onE of the heroes. With an iron bar
in akfs hand he is said to ma 'e stood
at the steerage passage and defended
the women and children from the mad
den-stricken men in that part of the
ship.
Colonel Astor is also said to have
met his fate bravely after seeing his
bride to a lifeboat, drawing aside to
watch other women step to safety
and awaiting his own fate.
1t was only because the maximum
Nop1~lby vi IAO oGCdLlOl lIlCbOIbo
was barely third the complement of
the ship in crew and in passengers,
that hundreds of despairing passen-
gers had to be left to their fate.
Ismay First in Lifeboae.
]. Bruce Ismay, managing director
of the White Star line, who was one
of he prominent men who escaped
with their lives, is said by some of
the Passengers to nave been one Of
the first to get into the lifeboats, but
this is denied by Mr.. Ismay him
self
The unbelievable" Happened.
The survivors are unanimo Is that
the unbelievable happened. The
voyage had been pleasant and un-
! eventful except for the fact that It