The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-19
1885 WERE LOST IN
 TITANIC DISASTER
ONLY 745 WERE SAVED
RESCUE SHIP CARPA A COMES INTO PORT WITH IT.
 TANG SURVIVORS.

New York, April 19.-How the White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship afioat, sank off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland last Monday morn ing, carry to their death 1,60l of the 2,340 persons aboard, was told to the world in all it's awful details for the first time last night with the arrival in New York of the Cunard liner Car pathia, bearing the exhausted surviv- ors of the catastrophe. Of the great facts that stand out from the account of the tragedy, these are the most salient:
 The death list has been increased rather than decreased. Six persons died after being rescued. The list of prominent persons lost stands as pre- viously reported. Practically every woman and child, with the exception of those who refused to leave their husbands, were saved.
 The survivors in the lifeboats saw the lights on the stricken vessel glim- mer to the last, heard her band play ing Nearer NV God to Thee," say the doomed hundreds on her deck, and heard their groans and cries when the vessel sank
 The following tabulation of the passengers and crew on board the Ti- tanic, together with those saved and lost, has been compiled from the fig ures in the statement issued by the committee of passengers: 1 Approximate number of passengers aboard 330, second-class 320, third-class 750.
 Officers and crew, $40.
 Total, 2,340.
 Number of passengers saved by rpathia-first- class 210, second class l25, third-class 200
 Total passengers saved, 535. Member of crew Officers seamen 39, stewards 96, firemen Il.
 Total members of crew saved, 210
 Total saved, passengers and crew 745.
 Total number perished, 1895.
 Six of those saved died later.
 First and second-cabin passengers $50.
 First and second-class passengers saved, 335.
 Total cabin passengers lost, 315.
 Colonel Archibald Oracle, United States army, the last man saved. went down with the vessel, but was picked up. He was met last night by hi! daughter, who had arrived fron Washington, and his son-in-law, Pau P. Fabracius. Col. Oracle iold a re markable story of personal hai dship and denied emphatical!y the report that there had been any panic or board. He praised in the highest terms the behavior of both the pas sengers and crew, and gave a h;ef tribute to the heroism of the womer passengers.
 Col. Oracle told of how he wa! driven to the topmost deck when tn, ship settled, and was the sole surv vor after the wave that swept he ust before her final plunge hat passed.
 'I jumped with the wave" said he "Eventually l came to the surface, t find the sea mass of tangled wreck age.
 Luckily I was unhurt, and, castn, about, managed to seize woodel grating floating nearby When 1 ha recovered my breath l discovered larger canvass and cork-like raft which had floated up. A man, who's name 1 did not learn, was strugglin toward 1t from some wreckage t which he had chung. 1 cast off an helped him to get on to the raft, an We then began the work of rescuin those who had jumped into the SC and were laundering in the water
 "When dawn broke there were 3 of us on the raft, standing knee dee l in bn nd af, tn lest the cranky craft be overturned Several unfortunates, benumbed an half-dead, besought us to save then and one or two made an effort t reach us, but we had to warn ther away. Had we made any effort t save them we all might have perisheG
 The hours that elapsed before W were picked up by the Carpathi were the longest and most terribl that l ever spent. Practically with out any sensation of feeling becaus of the icy water, we were almos dropping from fatigue. We wer afraid to turn around to see whethe we were seen by passing craft, an, , when someone who was facing asterl passed the word that something tha looked like steamer was coming ur one of the men became hysterical un der the strain. The rest of us, toe , were nearing the breaking point" Col Oracle was in his berth whel the vessel smashed into the berg, am was aroused by the jar. He looke' at his watch, he said, and found i was just midnight. The ship san with him at 2;20 a. m., for his watc stopped at that hour.