Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-04-19
Blt Little Disorder as Women and
Children Were Lowered in the Life
GOATS Officer Shot Frantic Men
Who Made Attempt to Crowd.
RIPPED OPEN THE SHIPS SIDE

general feeling aboard the ship was.
even after the boats had left her sides,
that she would survive her wound. and
the passengers who We're left aboard
believed almost up to the last moment
that they had a chance for their lives.
The captain and officers behaved
with the utmost gallantry, and there
was perfect order and discipline in the
launching of the boats, and after all
hope had been abandoned for the sal
walton Of the ship and for those who
We're on board Just before she went
down she broke her back
Goes Down, Band Playing.
The band was playing solemn tunes
as the Titanic went down To the
straining ears of the refugees In the
boats came first when We Meet Be
yond," and later, when the great ship
had sagged still deeper in the water,
the band played softly, Nearer, Ny
God, to Thee"
Officer Shot Two Men,
Washington Dodge said that there
was no dancing on board when the
boat struck, as most Of the passengers
We're preparing to turn In for their
nights rest. Il saw one officer" Mr..
Dodge said, shoot two men. The men
were trying to get into one of the me
boats ahead Of the women. Then the
officer lowered his revolver for a mo-
ment. A minute later he raised the pls-
tol again and blew his brains out"
Survivors Brought to Port.
Lifted from the gates of death the
Lurvivors of the "itanic, numbering
about 700, were landed by the Car
pathia, which rescued them six hours
after the great White Star liner Titanic
hurled herself against an iceberg last
Sunday night. Dishgured by calamity
and misery and oppressed by awful
sorrow, the women ind children and
the few men who escaped from the
worlds greatest disaster were In bet
ter physical condition than the most
optimistic had hoped for.
Majority Of Saved WoIl.
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 physi-
clans when they came out in sight OF
the vast crowd that had been waiting
In almost unbearable uncertainty.
Many, 1t is true, were weak and nerv-
ous and hysterical from an expert
ence that had left the world void and
empty for them. But-and thousands
thanked God for It as they watched
the majority Of the ssddened, bereav-
ed company were well In body.
Only One Survivor Died.
Only one of the Titanic's survivors
died while the Carpatha was driving
through fogs and storms to this port.
-Four Of the Titanic's people had per-
lshed trying to get aboard the Car
pathin and another Titanic passenger
lost his life by the overturn OF boat
One woman, q second cabin passenger,
who was landed, was suffering from a
broken arm. But the general condi-
ton of the hundreds so dra matically
saved from death was cause OF in
expressible pleasure to the thousands
who saw them land There was no
need, as it turned out, for the min
listers OF death.
Various Estimates Of Lost and Saved
The Carpathia reported that there
were ITO saved out Of passenger list
which the White Star line figured at
2lSO. making loss Of 40 lives. The
statement from the Tltanic's passen-
gers says there were 745 rescued out
of q passenger list Of 2,340.
The list Of names furnished by the
CarpathIa on her arrival show 1SS nrst
cabin passengers saved, 115 In the
second cabin, 17S third class and 20d
of the crew-a total of 6s7 names.
A woman passenger on the Carpathia
heard from the ships doctor that 495
Of the passengers and 21O OF the crew
had been saved and that thirty-nins
women lost their husbands. Six OF
those were brides.
J. A. BraytoD Of Los Angeles was
one Of those who jumped from the II
tanic after the big list. He was about
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