Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-24

line steamship Carpathia, laden win
sorrow for a world. crept to her pier
in the North river at 8:45 tonight
and discharged 10 the hysterieal en-
braces % hundreds of their erazed
relatives and friends 745 survivors
OF the S10.0OO,000 Titanic. which
went to the bottom of the Atlantic
ocean after striking an iceberg on
the coast of Newfoundland on the
morning of April, carrying LIPS OF
the passengers and crew.
The expression OF human emotion
from $4,000 people on shore and
from those racked soults who lined
the ships rail reached far beyond the
limits OF written or spoken descrip-
ton.
The closing chapter of the great
est of all sea tragedies was enacted
amidst the most stupendous and
overwhelming sorrow Joy at seeing
again loved kin or dear friends was
alleged by grief for the fate of one
equally close who persisted
The search lights of twenty boats
placed the scene in a lurid spot
light Women, who had been first
cabin passengers on the Titanic,
stumbled down the gang plank and
rushed to waiting limousines or taxi
cabs and hurried to mansions or ho-
tells; men and women of the steer
age we're received by customs Off
cials and entrusted to the care of
physicians and nurses and members
of the stock exchange. who carried
in their hands $4,000 for the int
mediate relief of the needy.
or the notable men who sailed on
the Major Archibald Butt,
VIM. r. Stead. John Jacob Aston,
Isadore Straus, and others. not one,
save Bruce Ismay. managing director
of the White Star line. survives the
wreck Capt, Smith, a true sailor,
went down with his ship. Accounts
OF all survivors are that he was seen
standing on the bridge as the II
tanic plunged into the ocean.
STORIES OF CRASH AGREE.
All accounts of the disaster agreed
in the main. There was crash at
midnight on Sunday, a concerted
rush to the deck to learn the trouble;
a return TO berths only to be sum
moned back an hour later; fearful
partings at the vessels rail as men
tore their wives from them and
thrust them into the life boats; the
escape to the ocean waste; the sink
ing of the Titanic a short time aft
erward; the terrible hours of drift
ing before being picked up by the
Carpathia,
And first In every description Of
the disaster was the story of how the
Titanic's band sank beneath the
waves with the strains OF Nearer
My God TO Thee coming from their
instruments.
Travelling at twenty-three knots an
hour the Titanic struck the berg
which was seventy-tive feet out Of
the water
STRUCK CHANGING BLOW.
The blow was glancing and ripped
the boat from the bow clear to the
engine room, The extent of the
calamity was not realized The blow
was so slight that not until the boat
began to settle aid the officers fear
for her safety,
The officers and crew busted them
selves rousing the passengers. and it
was decided to place the women and
children in the life boats
The sailors. working silently and
without excitement. yet fast as their
hands could move. began to remove
the tarpaulins from the life boats
and -tersely. without excitement
came order repeated on every side:
women and eiIiidron in the life
boats"
The sailors helped The nearest
women aud children into the boats.
And 1t was the beginning of excite
ment-other sailors began TO lower
the boats.
No THOUGHT OF PERIL.
Thus far. the men, standing idly
by. failing entirely TO grasp the sig
niiicanee of the moment, had helped
( the sailors. Many of the passengers
report that the men were laughing.
/ Wen he safer here on the ship
( than in that eockleshell," one man
! cried TO his wife as she vas helped
over the rail
But the Titanic began to settle in
! the ocean. and it was difficult for the
men TO remain on their feet Then
it was that the appalling nature of
il all dawned upon those men. And