Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-05-23
People Thought Themselves to
Be Safer On Ship
Than Boats
low BOAT Is TOOK
THE WATER WITH LOAD
Card Game Not Disturbed By
Shock Of COIIiSiOn-HOrribIe
Scenes When Ship Was
Seen to Be Doomed,


The following account Of the disas
ter was given by Mr. l.. Beasley, q
Cambridge University man who lives
I'm London. Mr. Beasley was in the
second cabin and had not been men
toned in the list Of the saved.
The VOYAGE from Queenstown had
been quiet and uneventful; very fine
weather was experienced and the sea
was quite calm The wind had been
westerly to sOuthwosterly the whole
Way, but very cold. particularly the
last day, IN fact after dinner on san
day evening it was almost too cold Ia
EC out on deck al all. | had been III
my berth for about ten minutes when
a. about HE y. m. | felt n slight lar
and then soon after second one. but
not sufficiently large TO cause any anX
iety to anyone. however nervous they
II ay have been. However. the engines
stopped Immediately afterwards and
my first thought was she had lost a
propeller. | went on the top (boaO
deck In a dressing gown. and found
only few people there who had come
up similarly to inquire why she stop
ned, but there was no sort of anxiety
In the minds of any one. We saw
through the smOking.room window q
game of cards going on, aud went IN
To inquire II they knew anything: II
seems they felt more OF the lar and
looking through the window had seen
huge Iceberg go by close to the side
a. Ia fIl.tH FhApnIt 10, l..
Grazed 1t with . glancing blow, AMI the
engines had been stopped to see IL any
damage had been done. No one, OF
course, had any conception that she
had been pierced below by part of the
submerged iceberg. The game went
on without any thought of disaster,
and | retired to my cabin to read un.
m we went on again. | never saw any
OF the players or the OnlOOkers again.
4 little later, hearing people going up.
stairs, went out again and found ev.
eryone wanting to know why the en-.
gines had stopped.
No doubt many were awakened from
sleep by the sudden stopping of a vi
bration to which they had become ac
customed during the four days we had
been on board. Naturally with such
powerful engines as the Titanic car.
ried. the vibration was very noticeable
all The time, and the sudden stopping
had something of the same effect as
the stopping of a loud ticking grand.
fathers clock In a room.
On going on deck again, ! saw there
was an undoubted list downward from
stern to bow. but, knowing nothing OF
what had occurred | concluded some
Of the front compartments had filled
and weighed her down. went down
again to put on warmer clothing and
as ! dressed, heard an order shouted:
IAN passengers on deck with life belts
on" We all walked slowly up with
them tied on our clothing, but even
then presumed this was a wise precau
ton the captain was taking and that
we should return in a short time and
retire to bed. There was total alb.
sence Of any panic or any expressions
of alarm, and ! suppose this can be
accounted for by the exceedingly calm
night and the absence of any signs of
the accident. The ship was absolute.
ly still and except for a gentle tilt
downward which don't think one per.
son in ten would have noticed at that
time, no signs of the approaching dis.
aster were visible. She lay Just as II
she We're waiting the order to 90 on
again when some trifling matter had
been adjusted. But in few moments
we saw the covers lifted from the
boats and the crews allotted to them
standing by and curling up the ropes