The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-04-25
Graphic Description Given
By a Reporter.
LIPS Lives Lost in This Most
Appalling Of All Sea Tragedies
Boat Strikes Berg and Then
Boilers ExpIode-Brave Men
and Women Meet Death With
Undaunted Courage.
BY CARTER F. TURD.


stan Reporter. N. Y. world VINO
rived 9A The Carpnthin.
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Y. World.
New York, April 19.-Seventeen
hundred lives-the figures Will hardiy
vary in either directi0p by more than
a few dozen-were lpst In the SINKING
OF the Titanic which struck al Ice
berg at 11:45 p. m Sunday and was
NJ the oceans bottom hours and 90
minutes after.
The printed rolls of first and sec
end cabins, compared with the llst OF
the survivors on the Carpathia, snow
that of 341 first-Gabin passengers, 2l2
were saved, 1874 RI them women ana
children: and that Of 262 second
cabin passengers. 115 were saved, 1O2
of them women and children. OF the
third-class passengers, 500 IN num-
Der, 1876 survive, Of whom SO are
women and children.
or 9s5 officers and crew, 1873, In
GLIDING % women. reached the Car
pathia. few in each class doubtless
escaped enumeration on the Carpa-
thia.
1853 Are Unaccounted For.
Accepting the estimate OF the Car
pathias officers that 700 survivors
reached the ship, comparison with the
total, 1883, shows that 1858 are I'M
accounted for
There is but the faintest hope that
any OF these reached any other ship.
Reports that the California, cattle
ship, may have rescued few persons,
have given merciful respite from ut
ter despair TO some Of the women.
Cause, responsibility and similar
questions regarding the stupendous
disaster will be taken up in time by
the British marine authorities. No
disposition has been shown by any
survivor II question the courage OF
the crew, hundreds of whom saved
others and gnve their own lives with
a heroism witch equaled. but could
not exceed that OF John Jacob Aston.
Henry B. Harris. Jacques Futrelle and
others IL the long list OF the first
cabin missing.
Officers Knew Iceberes Were Near.
Facts which l have established by
inquiries on the Carpathia. as posi-.
lively az they could be established in
view of tho silence OF the few surviv-
ing officers. ore:
That the Titanic's officers knew.
several hours before the crash, of the
possible nearness Of icebergs.
That the Titanics speed. nearly 23
knots an hour, was not slackened
That the number Of lifeboats on the
Titanic was insufficient to accommo-
date much more than one-third of the
passengers, to say nothing Of tho
crew. Most members of the crew
say there were IS lifeboats and two
collapsibles none say there were
more than 20 boats in all The 700
who escaped filed most OF the 6 life
boats and the one collapsible which
got away to the limit OF their capac.
ity.
women First" Rule Enforced.
That the women first" rule, In
some cases, was applied to the extent
OF turning back men who were with
their families, even though not enough
women to fiji the boats were at hand
on that particular part OF the deck.
10. a.
without being completely filled. but
most OF these were soon filled with
sailors and stewards, picked ND out
OF the water. who helped man them
That the bulkhead system, though
probably working in the manner IN
tended. availed only to delay the
ships sinking the position and length
OF the ships wound Ton the starboard
quarter) admitted Icy water which
caused the boilers TO explode and
these explosions practically broke the
ship in two
BuIkheads Rendered ineffective.
Had the ship struck the iceberg
haa' on, at whatever speed, and will
whatever resultant shock, the bulk
head system OF watertIght compart
ments would probably have saved tn,
vessel. As one man expressed It. 4
was the Impossible" that happened
when. with shock unbellevably mild
the ships side was torn for a length
which made the bulkhead system In
effective.