New-York tribune., 1912-04-20

tine lifeboats He said that only tweny-sX or '"ei'y
women were put the first boat that was all 1t was ate 10
load in the boat while swung to the davs 1t was not u'
after the ship began to SETTLE ne Sad that Tie sa'! " "
situation realized
The second officer testified that the Titanic did not break
IN two There was explosion he said after the decks had ds
appeared beneath the
Mr. Marconi denied that any orders had been issued re-
oardnp the sending of He said that dscourey had
been intended to President Taft in the failure to reply to his
ou;rv for Major Butt He told that the message had
been answered.
Capan Rosron said that Presidents had been
received bv the Carpaha but at the time he could not give MS
attention to details of messages received The general ode
in regard to the of the wireless were that Official messages
should be sent first then the names OF sNoS " P''>"
messages frc:o survivors.
Captain Rostron testified that it only by accident ttat
The tanc call for help had been heard He said that the
wireless operator the Carpatha about to go on duty
when the call for help He was mlacng his ooots anu
il was onv by chance that he had the receiver at his ear
Mr. Marconi put the wireless business at sea on purel!
commercial basis He said that when the tanlcs call was
sent out it was time for the Capahas operator to be OIL duty
and there was no one take his place Ships were not sup
ped with operators sufficient to be on watch throughout w
hours unless there reason to believe the COM
mercial business would justify it. The reason for this was tha
the ship did not to be at the expense OF the wire
less operators pay
Members Of the crew of the Titanic said yesterday that
fire had broken out in the coal bunker of the Titanic an hour
after she left her dock Southampton and had not been e
tinpushed until Saturday afternoon.
It had been necessary take the coal out of Sections
and on the staboard sde forward and when the water
came rushing in after the collision with the Ice the buKheao
would not hold because they did not have the supporting
weight of the coal.
"MY GOD WE ARE LOST!
fireman said that he had reported to Chief Engineer
BELL that the forward bulkhead had given and the en-
gineer had replied
MY God we are lost!
The engineers the crew said stayed by the pumps and
went down with the ship BY order of Third Engineer Harvey
the reen and sokers deck five minutes before
the Titanic sank when that they would inevitably
be lost if they stayed longer at their work of trying to keep
the fires in the boilers and the pumps at work
The lights burned to the last because the dynamos were
run by oil engines.
There was no muster Sunday morning to teach the crew
their places in the boats the sailors sad and they wondered
at this thought the muster would be held Sunday evening
The result that when the collision came and the call to
man the boats the members of the did not know their
stations Despite this the found places at the boats and
there panic among the crew.
Captain Smith, according to the ordered the first
boats launched to make fishing macks whose lights
could seen four miles away and after transferring their
sengers return for There only one blue light
1.-THE signal of dstreSs the sailors sad in all the feboa If
all the boats had had blue lights to set afoa the the
fishing smack might have noticed them and rescued many of
the passengers who could not be taken off in the eboats
James McGann, fireman. said Captain Smith did not
commit suicide but attempted himself by jumping into
the sea as the Titanic went down.
The said that when the ship struck the ice of
the sailors asleep their hunks killed They went on
deck but did realize the extent of the disaster and many
.f them returned to their hunks.
Twenty-one of the twenty ynine boilers use the
stokers said, up to midnight Friday The Friday
was SIS miles At midnight Friday three boilers put
in service and Saturday the $40 miles The best
speed made Sunday when the ship averaged twenty
two and one-haf knots.
few minutes before the final catastrophe the sailors said
the Titanic broke in between the third and fourth tunnels
The forward end sank while the after end remained
a1oat for several minutes.
MANY. SURVIVORS CRITICISE MANAGEMENT
Many of the survivors criticised yesterday the handling
of the lfeboats. Among these Mrs George n Stone
of CINCINNATI. Arthur Pechen of Toronto