Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-05-02

Alois Wessner, Melnrad ana 10
seph Zuger, the latter two brothers
and relatives of Carl Henggler oi
Fruitland, who came to America from
Canton Schwyz of Switzerland, TAX
ing passage on the North German
Lloyd steamer Bremen arrived in
Payette Tuesday after stormy pas
sage across the Atlantic The trip
should have been made in five days
but owing to the immense fields OF
ice, and extra precautions taken by
the captain of the German liner,
they were eleven days crossing the
deep. They report having seen over
twenty icebergs and many fields OF
ice near the scene of the disaster.
These gentlemen are friends OF
Werner Klingler who came from a
near by Canton in Switzerland and
settled in the Payette Valley some
years ago and is Vice President of
the Payette- Weiser Milling Company.
They had a number of photographs
with them which brought closer re-
alization of the horrors of the sink
ing of the big steamer, Titanic.
The steamship Bremen received
the news about noon of the fifteenth
that the big ship had sunk, and
warnings to look out for the ice
bergs which were in that vicinity.
They reached the scene of the dis
haster on the twentieth and found the
steamer Mackey Bennett already
there engaged in the work of pick
ing up the bodies. The passengers
on board saw sight that will linger
with them the rest of their days.
The sea was strewn with dead bod
les which were kept floating by the
life belts and other means employed
by the passengers to keep from SINK
ing. The pictures show many bod
les standing upright with head and
shoulders above the water silent
in death and buffeted by the waves
One man is seen lashed into re-
clining steamship chair and slttlng
upright, frozen to death by the IN
tense cold of the merciless waters
of the Atlantic ocean.
Perhaps the most pathetic slgnt
of all and illustrating to the great
est degree the devotion of MOTH
er, was that of a woman floating up
right supported by a life preserVer
and holding in loving embrace her
two little children, boy and a girl
all silent in death yet telling the
story of the heroic mothers efforts
to save her children. With whaC
agony and anguish of spirit, with
what frantic fervor the fond mother
prayed for the rescue of her babes
God alone knows. The merclless sea
and the pitiless skies, unmoVed py
the fearful pleadings of the 1onu
narent were the silent witnesses OF
the heroic tragedy. Surely no act
of strong manhood, in stepping aslue
with calm resignation to certain
death that women and children might
ho saved could exceed in heroism
or larger humanity this womans 10Y
aItv and devotion to her young. When
the entire records of the Worlos
gMAs-st shipwreck shall have oeen
cBrouicled surely none will e8ceeu
the mute story of the woman VINO
ching to her babes in cruel waters
Of the ocean and perished before sue
cor could arrive.
The scene was too much for those
aboard of the Bremen. Women went
and retreated into their cabins TO
escape the horror of the greWsome
scene And big manly tears whlcn
waIled from the springs of the hearU
trickIed down the faces of strong
men Depression and gloom settieu
down on the passengers and there
was but little said on the remain
der of the journey.
The men in detailign the scene al
most broke down with the horror OF
its recollection and declared tna'
-, ,;,,o with them forever.