The Washington times., 1912-04-26
DRAMATIC PICTURES
PAINTED BY SAILORS !
IN NS|MPLELANGUAGE
Testimony Given In Execu-
tive Session Is Made
Public.

Dramatic pictures of the Titanic's
death agony, told in the simple Ian
guage of the sailors who witnessed
II, were told to the members of the
Senate investigating committee In
separate executive sessions yesterday,
according to testimony, made public
today.
Albert Haines, boatswain's mate,
told of his taking charge of a life
boat and helping tifty passengers and
members OF the crew into 1t. He did
not go back near the ship to PICK up
those who went down with the snip,
because mis- boat was already loaded
nearly to capacity.
did you see anybody in the wa
terY' asked senator smith:
mo SIR" said haines. I'VE heard
some cries after the boat went down."
DID anybody in your boat urge you
to return"
said, There are people in the water.
an d asked whether they thought we
ought to 60 back. l said, We can not
do anything with this crowd we have
to row, let alone anything else, and
II was no good sof going back. By
the time we got back we could have
done nothing. l thought II was un-
safe to go back having so many in
Haines said they had a light and
provisions and water on his lifeboat
and that they Just lay to" until
died from exposure:
did the women urge you to go back"'
Senator Smith asked.
Women Did Not Stir.
mo, sir: the women did not stir. If
had thought It possible l would have
gone back"
Haines declared that he saw no Ice
bergs until dawn, when In the lifeboat,
| then the horizon was dotted with them.
There were anywhere from thirty to
! ffty," he said. Then there was a big
! neld of ice, miles long"
Asked again about the embarkation
of the lifeboats, the witness said one
woman passenger, whose name he did
not know, refused to get on his boat.
IT think she was afraid" he explained
: II did not see any OF the others hesi-
tate. I didn't see any Of the men pas;
sengers try to get in: They were told
! to stand back by officer Murdock."
Samuel S. Hemming, a lamp trim.
| mer, told Senator Smith that after he
had been awakened by the impact OF
| the Titanic's collision with the icebergs
| he went back to his bunk and only left
| Il when the boatswain came In his room
and shouted: Turn out, you fellows
you havn't got half an hour to live
Andrews Knew Danger.
"The boatswain," Hemming continued
"said, that Is from Mr.. Andrews. Keel
II to yourselves and let no. one know.
Mr.. Andrews was one Of the Arm o
builders of the ship. This occurred I
quarter of an hour after the time tn
ship struck
Hemming told of putting lamps
already III, in several OF the iifsbeats
,tar oeoTgs gsuFne r. crows hove fifts " Officer % Lowe
in charge Of the lifeboat In which n
was rescued, tried to put back TO IN
scene of the wreck. In order 70 rescu
the drowing, despitaSthe fact that ther
were more than sixty men, women al
children in the boat. -,
Groves boat. No. 16, sprung a leai
and the witness said that very shorti
there were eight inches OF %aSeF o, ~
messengers were transferred to anothe
} boat. Previously wC'rnen passenger
hal assisted in bailing out the boat.
Lowe Wanted to Go Back.
' The NTH officer. in charge Of the hft
, boat, wanted to go back 10 aid thos
in the water. Grove related. but tn
, women Messengers protested against an
more loading of the already overloade
boat
'It was a matter of discipline ths
we went back" the witness said, aftt
Describing how many Of the passenger
were transferred TO another boat. q.
"ReturninE to the wreckage we hear
various cries and endeavored to g
. among them, and were successful
doing So We picked up one body tina
was foa Ting around in the water; VINE
|, we got him into the boat, after grei
y difficulty, he Icing such a heavy ma
he expired shortly afterward. Goir
n farther into the wreckage we can
= across a steward or Cne of tn" Grey
and we got him into the boat. and
was very cold and HE hands were KIT
o OF stiff but we got him in and ne r
: covered by. the time we got back 70 u
a Carputhia."
'Dd he sur yiVe?' ,,,
; Yes, sir. Also a Japanese or CHING
young fellow that we picked up or u
n OF come of the wre2kageIit miSht ha' ma,
boating around. We otopped until da
: break, and we saw In the distance
y raft "r boat submerged with q CROW
OF men on 1t. we vent over to the no So
u might have been twenty-five men, al
p one woman, also three or four del
9 bodies, which we left. Returning hai
q again under canvas sail. we stopped o
e mast at night ana took II low &c &c
r pie, women. children. and men,"
l. Told of Shooting.
Grove said there was some shootin
ID but the shots were discharged into t
air by officers merely to frighten
;e crowd of what he thought was Itali'
~ immigrants.
i Senator Bourne elected that the
It was generally daily fire drill, but du
% had been no boat drills. On other shi
that he had been on, Grove said II W