The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-26
DESTRUCTION OF TnE TITANIC
F0RESEEM by FICTION WRITER

, shouted orders and sprang down to
enforce them. The chief mate came
on deck in his underclothes and pass
ed the word to man the boats. A
companionway n strove with panic
and unhuman fury to reach the deck.
One a clad in a night robe,
gained the outside Of the press. and.
running swiftly along the deck, fitted
Ike a. ghost over the rail and disap-
peared into the sea lie had gone
clean crazy, perfectly insane in the
panic.
"Brownson tied down the siren
cord, and the roar shook the atmos-
phere. The tremendous tones rose
above the din Of screaming men and
cursing and then the master
called down to the heart Of the ship,
the engine room.
lis She going??' he asked.
Water coming in like through a
up to the CRATES now
THAT was all. The a left the
tube to rush on deck. and the captain
knew the forward bulkheads had
gone. had either damned or burst un-
der tina terrific impact. The ship
was going down.
"Brownson stood upon the bridge
and Gazed down at the human tide
below him. Men fought furiously for
places in the small boats. The fire.
room crew came on deck and mingled
will the passengers. The coal dust
showed upon their white faces. maxi
ing them seem strange beings from
an inferno that was soon to be abol-
ished. They strove for places IN the
lifeboats. and hurled the weaker pas
sengers about recklessly. Some, or
the other hand, helped the
One man dragged two m with
him int a boat, kicking, twisting,
and roaring like a lion. He was a
big fellow, with a red beard, and
Brownson watched him. The mate
struck him Owe the head with a
hand spike for refusing TO- get out
of the boat, II his interest in things
ended at once and forever.
The crew, on the whole. behaved
we'll. Officers and men tried to keep
some sort of discipline. Finally six
boats Went down alongside n the
sea. We're promptly swamped by the
crowds above who slid down the
falls or jumped overheard and climb
ed in from the sides. The sea was
as still as a lake; only the slight swell
heaved 1t. Great fields of floating
particles of ice from the berg fioated
about, and those who had gotten wet
Shivered with the cold.
Lue AulIlIIdl, running tJ 90 klOlS
an hour, had struck straight into the
wall of AN iceberg that reached as
far as the y could see in the haze.
1t lowered at least 800 feet in the air.
showing that its depth was colossal.
probably at least half a lnile. 1t was
a gigantic ice mountain that had
broken adrift from its northern home,
and, drifting southwark. had survived
the heat of summer and the break
ing of h sea upon its base"
Further along, the magazine story
runs:
Young Lovers Die Together.
THE ship was listing heavily. and
the cries of the passengers were dy-
ing out. All who had zee able to
get away had gone. somehow. and
only a few desperate men and wom-
en-, who could not swim and who were
cool enough to realize that swimming
would not prolong an agony hat was
better over quickly, huddled aft at
last second left them. and last in
slant of life, and suffer a thousand
deaths every second to get it. 1t was
absurd. Brownson pittied them.
"Many Of these women were pray
ing and talking to their men, who
held them in a last, embrace. One
young woman was ciinging closely
10 Il young man, INC tleH were APP
parently not suffering terror. A look
Of peacefulness was upon the faces
of both. They We're lovers, and were
satisfied to die together. and the
thought of it made them satisfied"
Then came paragraphs telling of
the end:
THE ship sank to her superstruc-
ture. Her stern raised high in the
air. 1t was now impossible to stand
on deck without holding on. Some
of the remaining passengers slid off
with parting shrieks. They dropped
into that icy sea.
"Brownson ,gazed straight at his
second officer. Smith saw him raise
h pistol. saw a bit of blue smoke.
saw his commander sink down to the
deck and disappear. a cracking and
banging of ice blocks blended with
the report. and the ship raised her
stern higher. Then she plunged
straight downward, straight as a
plunlmet for the bottom of the At
Ia ntic ocean,"