Evening journal., 1912-04-19

/ Nearer, MY God to Thee a few mo-
ments before she went down
r. NJ Williams, Philadelphia
youth on his way home from England
TO take the Harvard entrance exami-
nations, was one OF the few saloon
passengers at teh rail excluded by
the women-first order from the boats
who was saved. His father, Duane
Williams, was lost
There is much, and yet there is
little, to tell of my experience"
said young Williams MY father ana
had about given up our hope fol
life and were standing together, re-
solved 10 jump together and keep to-
gether If we could, so long as either
of MS lived | had on my fur coat.
'The forward end where we stood,
was sinking rapidly and before &c
? could jump together the water wash
: ed my father over. Then, with
: the explosion, the ship seemed o
break in two. and the forward end
! bounded up again for an instant.
leaped with dozens i'm the water be-
: tween us my father was lost to me.
81 swan and rifted nearly two
J hours before I was pulled aboard the
raft or collapsible boat which served
5 for a time as a raft. Later, with the
: abandonment of the raft, / was taken
aboard boat"
Frederic K Seward. who sat next
r 10 w. T. Stead at the Titanic's saloon
table. told Of the veteran English
] journalists plans for his American
t visit His immediate purpose was TO
aid in the New York campaign Of the
Men and Religion Forward Move
e ment.
D "Mr. Stead talked much of spiritual
D ism. thought transforence and the
S occult" said Seward. "He told a
{ story of a mummy case in the British
Museum which, he said, had had
n amazing adventures. but which pun
{ ished with great calamities any per-
son who wrote its story. He told Of
Q one person after another who, he
h said had come to grief after writing
n the story and added that, although he
knew it, he would never write it. He
did not say whether ill-luck attached
2 TO the mere telling OF it.
!. Stead also told, Seward said OF a
q strange adventure of a young woman
with an admirer in an English rail-
r road coach. which was known to him
as it happened, and which he after
n ward repeated to the young woman
S amazing her by repeating everything
o correctly save for one small detail,
r Had Harold Cotton. Marconi oper-
y ator on the Carpathia, gone to bed
Is Sunday night at his usual time the
Carpathia would have known nothing
l. of the Titanic's plight. and the life
n boats, without food or water, nigh
e have been the scenes of even greater
4. tragedy than the great death ship it
self.
Ig The Carpathia, an easy going Med
re iterranean ship, has only one Maroon
n man, and when Cotton had not the re
es ceiver on his head the ship was on
le Of communication with the world
~ Cotton. an Englishman Of twenty
~ one years. told me the morning afte
or the wreck how he came to receive tn
m Titanic's c Q ID.
ne Il was relaying message to tn
Titanic Sunday night shortly after
n- o'clock by my time he said. "and tol
It Phillips. the Titanics Marc0ni mar
I" that I had been doing quite bit q
10 work for him. and that If he ha
nothing else for me l would quit an
tt turn in for the night Just as I wa
o. about to take the receiver off my hea
ne came c Q d. This fas followed Wit
BY We've hit something. Come at once
id 81 called a sailor and sent word {
at an officer and few minutes later IN
captain had turned the Carpathia, a
70 eighteen knots. in the direction Of th
at Titanic. which was sixty miles q
er more. from us.
ls. "rm Afraid We Are GODe.-
Us Before I could tell the Titanic W
III were coming came their s o s. an
! he urfaff
I, gone told him we were coming. an
~ he went on sending out signals
IN every direction"
er An assistant Marconi man from n
re Titanic, not on duty at the time
ne the wreck, was among the survivor
rs and assisted Cotton i'm his work aft,
=. Wednesday. having been laid up II
III two previous days by the shock
at the chill he suffered i'm the water al
Ia. by injuries to his legs.
US He denied a report, generally circi
re lated on his ship. that Jack Binns
C Republic fame was on the Titanic.
al said Phillips. the Titanic's chief ope
ator was lost
en Mrs. Edward S. Robert, whose hu
on hand. a leading St Louis attorne
we died last December during her a
sence in England, and her daughte
M Miss Georgette Madill. have been
'it close seclusion on the Carpathia sin
their rescue from the Titanic. Tn
=. are accompanied by Mrs. Robert
~, maid
ne S. V. Silverthorne. buyer
10 Nugents, was one of three or TO
saloon passengers on the Titanic vi
~ saw the deadly iceberg just after q
~ collision.
:, Il was i'm the smoking room rea
in ing near a bridge whist game at o
b, Of the tables" he said. when {
ne crash came. ! said. We've hit som
he. thing. and went out on the starboa
side to look. None Of us was alarl
,aS cd. Il occurred to me that me mig
bv have bumped a whale. or at most, r.
of down some small craft.
for II went back to the smoking roc
yas with the others. One of the brid
players had not left the smoking roc
id at all and was waiting impatiently
Inc the others to come back and resul
die the game They returned and to
vas up their hands and We were all abe
md TO settle down. when an officer {
nv dered us on deck and told us TO
ary into :he boats, there not being enou
women on deck TO fiji the first on
ith We didn't like the idea Of leaving
the ship then. but did as we We're Il
ION Had We been in our rooms We wol
hip have had 10 stand aside. as other m
( a did then"
ter Diyed Overheard From the Liner.
eek c. IT. ROmaine of Georgetown. X
,ow left the Carpa.Eia in the evening s.
the he wore when the Titanic struck {