The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-05-09
SMITH IN new YORK
on TITANIC INQUIRY
Much Concerned About Tele-
gram Said to Have Been
Received After Accident.

Il New York. May s. Senato.
smith, chairman of the Senate commit
tea investigating the Titanic disaster,
g confirm the report that q message
telling of the Titanic's fate was re.
Geived in New York early on the Nom
Gay morning after the wreck have thur
Ear proved friftless after two days@of
examination OF witnesses here.
What concerns me most said Mr..
smith. is theSSYostal} telegram gives
the operator on the Carpathia early
Monday morning addressed to .Isll
Frank and signed 'Yamsi' which told
OF the sinking of the vessel and OF thu
serious loss of life.
y am most DESTROYS Of knowing
where that message was the following
two days and why 1t was held up. MT.
Franklin lays he did not receive It TIL
Wednesday,. The Californian, which
was within easy reach OF the Carpa-
thia, could have sent 1t and the Car
pathia.s operator. Gotham. testified that
he had sent It,"
Jack Hinns On Stand.
Jack Binns. wireless operator on the
ill-fated steamer Republic. was called
to testify. today concerning the wireles4
equipment OF vessels In the vicinity Of
the Titanic, n said the responsibilities
for the lack of news rested with Oper.
ator Gotham. While the Carpathia,a
equipment could only send a message
AS ~ AAo Wo0 tCAOA1
with the Californian and the Califor.
llian couid nave reiayed the news to
the Olympic. which could have sent IL
ashore.
Melville e. Stone. general manager
Of h Associated Press. was called to
testify concerning the efforts Of the
Associated Press to obtain news. MI.
Stone presented documentary records
showing the source of the various news
dispatches concerning the disaster
which the Associated Press sent out.
Harder a Witness.
George A. Harder, Of Brooklyn. who,
with his wife was one Of those saved
from the Titanic, testified concerning
the apparent failure Of the mechanic
ism of one Of the ships watertight
compartments to work. Harder said
that when he went down to his room
to get life belts he saw o or five
members of the crew on e deck on the
starboard side with wrenches in their
hands, one of whom was trying to turn
a bolt in a plate in the floor marked
wv. T. c." which Harder said he as
sumed meant "watertight compart-
ment."
The witness said he heard one of the
men say: IT'S no use; this one won't
work. Let's try another"
Harder, who was in the lifeboat COM
manded by Third officer Pitman. con-
frmed the statement that passengers
had begged the officer not to put back
to rescue other passengers, they fearing
for their own safety.
There were az people in our boat
said Harder, a believe me, there
was no room to spare. At that time
we thought the walls OF the drowning
were the hysterical cries OF the steer
G passengers on RATS"
Senate Smith will take the testi-
mony Of other witnesses today.
Storage Passenger Testifies.
Daniel Buckley, who was a steerage
passenger on the Titanic, testified tina
a fireman who was on the steamer
told him that the Titanic did not, he
believed. hit an iceberg, but that while
trying to make a record the boilers
burst. Buckley did not know the name
of the fireman.
Buckley said that he thought the
Storage passengers were given as
good an opportunity to escape as the
first and second class passengers.
The witness said he got into the sixth
lifeboat to leave the ship and h
when the order came for men to leave
the boats he was crying. A woman
whom he thought was Mrs. John Jacob
Aston saw him and covered him up
with a shawl in order that he might
escape. He testified that the officers
fired at men in the lifeboats and made
Them come back to the ship.
DauIer On Stand.
Fred Dauler, a clerk employed by the
Western Union Telegraph
was examined today by Senator Will
ian Alden Smith. chairman OF the Sem
ate committee investigating the Titanic
disaster. Mr.. Dauler, is the father OF
the young man who informed e. J.
| Dunn, a New York merchant, tina
news of the Titanic sinking was re-
ceived here early Monday morning,
April Is.
Mr.. Dauler testified the ne had told
his son nothing whatever of any such
alleged message. The only message lie
mentioned to his son, he said, was one
received here Thursday morning, April
IS, from j. Bruce Ismay to p. A. S.
Franklin. vice president of the White
Star line. This was the message. he
I said. in which Ismay expressed the de-
sire to return on the steamer Cedric.