The Forrest City times., 1912-04-26
FEAR GOD. TELL THE TRUTH AND MAKE MONEY~
FORREST CITY. ARK. FRIDAY AFTERNOON,

nanlieStly DaI matter Of LCnients. the oarsmen pulled their boats away. and the chilling waters began to echo splash after splash as passengers and sailors in life preservers leaped over and started swimming away 10 es- cape the expected suction
 Icy Water Brings Death.
 Only the hardest of constitutions could endure for more than Il few mo ments such numbing bath The srst vigorous strokes gave ~ay to heartbreaking cries Of Help! help!" and stifened forms were seen. the faces relaxed in death
 Revolver shots were heard in the ships last moments. The first report spread among the boats was that Cap tain Smith had ended his life with a bullet. Then it was said that a mate had shot steward who tried to push his way upon a boat against orders None of these tales have been veri- hed, and many of the crow say the captain without preserver. ieaped in at the last and went down. refusing cooks offered aid
 Last Lifeboat is Capsized
 The last of the boats, a collapsfble. was launched too late to get away. and was overturned by the ships sinking. Some of those In it-aii. say some witncsses-found safety on raft. or were picked up by lifeboats.
 In the Marconi tower, almost to the last. the loud click of the sending in- strument was heard over the waters Who was receiving the message. those In the boats did not know. and they would least of all have supposed that Mediterranean ship in the distant South Atlantic track would be their rescuer
 Music Was Sacrament
 As the screams in the water multi piled another sound was heard, strong at first, then fainter in the distance. It was the melody of the hymn. "l,earer. My God. to Thee" played by the string orchestra in the dining saloon. Some of those on the water started to sing the words. but grew silent as they realized that for the men who played. the music was a sac rament soon to be consummated by death. The serene strains of the hymn and the frantic cries of the dy- inC blended in symphony of sorrow.
 Titanic Goes to Bottom
 Led by the green light. under the light of the stars, the boats drew away, and the bow, then the quarter, then the stacks, and at last the stern of the marvelship of a few days be- fore passed beneath the waters. The great force of the ships sinking was unaided by any violence of the ele- ments. and the suction, not so great as had been feared. rocked but mildly -Ee group of boats now quarter of a mile distant from it.
 Sixteen boats were in the forlorn procession which entered on the terri- ble hours of rowing. drifting and sus- pense. Women wept for lost hus- bands and sons. Sailors sobbed for the ship which had been their pride Men choked back tears and sought to comfort the widowed. Perhaps. they said. other boats might have put of in another direction toward the last. They strove. though none too sure themselves. to convince the women of the certainty that a rescue ship would appear
 Carpathia Brings Joy.
 Early dawn brought no ship but not lcng after a. m. the Carpathia, far out of her path and making Is knots al hour instead of her wonted Is. showed her single red and black .It, joy of that moment. the heaviest griefs were forgotten
 Soon atterward. Captain Rostron and Chief Steward Hughes were wei coming the chilled and bedraggied arrivals over the Carpathia's side
 Men Praised by Women. One of the few women able to give an account of the disaster was Miss Cornelia Andrews of Hudson. N Y. Miss Andrews said she was in the last boat to be picked up.
 The behavior of the men" she said. was wonderful-the most marvellous have ever beheld."
 Did you see any shooting?" she was asked
 NOt sH6 Teplicu, Dul OHc OiiSca did say he would shoot some of the steerage who were trying to crowd in- to the boats Many jumped from the decks I saw a boat sink"
 Miss Andrews was probably refer ring to the collapsible boat which overturned She said that the sinking of the ship was attended by noise such as might be made by the boilers exploding. She was watching the ship she said, and 1t looked as if 1t blew up; anyhow. 1t broke in two. Henry Stengel of Newark said was only the forethought Of member 1 of the boat crew who was quick-wit ted enough to snatch up three green l lights that saved a number of the lives of those adrift in the tiny life boat
 These green lights" he said, shining through the darkness en' abled the other beats crews to keep | .t.n. ,00a4har tr fha ica filled wa.