Connecticut western news., 1912-04-25

Photo by American Press Association the safety of Major Butt and the de. tails of the accident.
 My God. hope notr cried Captain Rostrom when asked If he had issued any such order.
 Ismsy Explains His Escape.
 MT. Ismay told the committee thK, when he boarded the last lifeboat there were no other passengers, either men or women, within hailing distance. Second Officer Lightoller said that when he went on deck to uncover the lifeboats twenty minutes after the ship had struck he saw MT. Ismay standing alone on the boat deck, near one of the boats. He did not speak with him and said he did not see him get into boat. f,
 . Ship Near When Titanic Struck.
 When the inquiry was transferred to the senate committee room in Wash ington the following facts were testi- fled to by Fourth Officer Boxhall of the Titanic:
 That fifteen minutes before the IT. tanic sank he saw the masthead and red side lights of ship i've miles away, coming straight toward the lin CT. He signaled with rockets and by Morse to the ship, which veered on without answering. @a...-.-.
 That the iceberg, which could not have risen more than thirty feet above the waters surface, struck the Titanic midway between the bow and the for ward portion of the starboard side. Some splinters of ice from the berg were deposited on the lower deck, That the examination upwards from the steerage made by the fourth officer showed no evidence of internal dam. age, but shortly after his return to the bridge water was reported from the mail room, He found it within two feet of the deck.
 That he saw no effort to rush a life boat nor saw any one refuse to enter a boat, although he heard on the Gar pathia that there had been many such instances. Colonel Astor, the only American he knew by sight, was not seen by him after the collision.
 That no officer of the Titanic was of other than temperate habits and that he saw none who was not attending to his duty at the time of the collision. No testimony was offered that tended to disprove this. Two men were Tn the crow's nest when the berg was struck.
 That there was an inspection and fire drill an hour before the Titanic left Southampton. The lifeboats were test | ed to carry slxty-five persons each; the emergency or sea boats from twen- ty-five to thirty, and the collapsible lifeboats the same number. ! News Withheld Six Hours.
 P. A. s. Franklin, vice president of the White Star line, testified:
 That 1t had been known at the White Star offices in New York six hours be- fore the news was made public that the Titanic foundered.
 That this information was withheld because it seemed unbelievable in the light of other information and because 1t did not seem possible that the great ship was sinkable.
 That 1t never entered the mind of any White Star official on Monday morning that there had been any seri- ous loss of life in the accident. No one doubted that the Titanic was afioat or in tow for Halifax.
 That he did not believe there had been negligence or any violation of British regulations in the equipment or handling of the Titanic. He did not believe that any White Star official was in any way responsible for the dis aster.
 That J. Bruce Ismay's request that the Cedric be held until the Titanic men could be transferred, Ismay in- tending to accompany them, was deemed by him ''an unwise step"
 That in the handling of all White Star ships everything is second to safe ty, that no company desires speed rec. ords at the expense of anything else md that dangers from collisions and tom icebergs are the greatest risks 'n on the Atlantic.
 That the Titanic was in the proper rnck and that when the CarpathIa cached here she was exactly wheT she should have been.
 Glasses Might Have Saved Liner
 Frederick Fleet. lookout in the
 row's nest" of the Titanic, told the
 umittec that he and his mate could
 see the iceberg ahead until the
 D was close to it because they did
 | have marine glasses.