The Ordway new era., 1912-04-25

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and half after the great White Star
steamer hurled itself against an ice
berg last Sunday night.
Distigured by calamity and misery
and oppressed by awful sorrow. the
women and children and the few men
| who escaped from the worlds great
est sea disaster are in better physic
condition than the most optimistic
had hoped for.
Out of the great company that walt,
ed for hours In bitter cold among the
| grinding bergs. many OF them thinly
clad. many bruised and hurt by the
collision which destroyed their ship.
| few needed the ministrations OF ply
sicians when they put their feet ON
land In sight OF the vast crowd that
had been waiting in almost unbear-
able uncertainty.
Survivors Well In Body.
Many. 1t IL true. were weak and
nervous and hystericai from an expert
ence that had left the world void and
empty for them. But-and thousands
thanked God for 1t as they watched
the majority OF the sad and bereaved
company We're we'll In body.
Only one OF the THAMES survivors
died while the Carpatnia was driving
through fogs and storms TO this port
Four OF the THAMES people had per.
! ished trying to get aboard the Car
pathia and another Titanic passenger
lost his life by the overturIlng OF
boat. One woman. u second cabin pas.
senser who was landed. was suffer
ing from a broken arm.
Thirty.Eine Women Widowed.
The Carpathia reported that there
were 40 saved out Of a passenger list
which the White Star line figured at
2.lS0. making a loss OF l.470 lives. The
Titanic's passengers say there were
745 rescued out o; q passenger list
OF 2.34O.
The list Of names furnished on the
Carpathia on Its arrival show lSS first
class cabin passengers saved, ll5 In
the second cabin. It's third class, and
! 2O6 OF the crew. total OF 687 saved.
A woman passenger on the Carpathia
heard from the ships doctor that 495
OF the passengers and 2l0 OF the crew
had been saved and that 80 women
lost their husbands. Six OF these we're
brides.
The worlds annals has provided
few more intense and dramatic mo-
men,s than when all that was left OF
the great company that sailed SO gay
ly on the Titanic appeared on the
Cunard pier.
Tragedy In Their Faces.
The tragedy OF the Titanic was writ
ten OH the iaces OF nearly all OF her
survivors. Some. 1t is true. who were
saved with their fatgilies. could not
repress the joy ana thankiuiness that
filled their hearts. but they wee few
compared 10 the number oi Tue res
cued. These others bore the impress
Of their time OF darkness when their
people passed In an accident that
seemed like an insane vision OF the
night. Their faces were swollen with
weeping. They had drunk us deeply
OF sorrow as Is ever given TO human
kind
But many. whose spirits were faint
ing from despair. walked !irmly
enough down the gang plank. Some
walked unseeing In u kind OF dread.
ful somnambulis,n o: despair.
Officers Shoot Men Down.
II was with difficulty that the
tongues OF many were looseIed to
speak OF the scenes OF agony aad fear
that fell over the Titanlc's peaceful
company when i, became swiftly
known that the ship must go down.
Some told ha!tingiy. with dread still
frozen In their eyes. OF men who
strove and struggled against women
for the lifcboats and OF officers shoot.
Ing them down. One woman saw an oil.
cer shoot two men. she said. and 9TH
or passengers recalled how officers
had stood with drawn pistols while the
women and children we're being guild.
ed into the boats. o
No one seemed to know the exact
fate OF the Titanic's captain. +. J.
Smith. There was story that he
had committed suicide. but the Titan
les passengers did not know that was
true. Many OF them had heard shots
fired. They believed some OF the FIR
Ing was done TO warn back s,cerage
passengers.
Praise for Titanie's Crew.
For the Titanic's officers and crew
the rescued seemed to have nothing
but praise These men acted calmly
and coolly In the face OF certain found
ering. was the report brought here by
the rescued
Tho unhappy company so marvel.
ously torn from the grip OF the sea
was received solemnly and with re-
markable quiet by the enormous
crowd which gathered near the Cunard
PIERS and by the lew hundreds that
penetrated by right OF relation or
friendship or merciiul business to the
interior OF the pier
There was no cheering. no upraising
Of voices in salute OF the living, for