Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-22
TITANIC facts
WERE SUPPRESSED
Official Testifies There Was
No Basis For Reassuring
Bulletins
Grew NOT SPIRITED AWAY
Many of Ill Fated Ships Surviv.
ing Passengers Will Be
Examined.

(By Special Leased Wire to New MeXfcan)
New York, April 22.-The White
Star Line announced this afternoon
less message from the cable ship Mac
kay-Bennett, which is on the scene OF
the Titanic disaster searching for
bodies: Heavy southwest squal has
interfered with operations. Fifty
bodies recovered All not embalmed
will be buried at sea at p. m. with
Divine services. Can bring only en-
balmed bodies to port"
The White Star Line officials said
that any information from the Mackay
Bennett, which is under orders to re-
main in the vicinity of the wreck for
week, will be made public on re-
ceipt
Ice Mutiated Bodies.
Only those bodies that have been
identified or admit of being identified
will be brought back. Some of the
victims have undoubtedly been mutt
lated by ice so that Identification is
impossible.
The steamer Rhein reported to the
White Star Line by wireless that
wreckage and bodies We're passed in
AZ min. OF sec. latitude, 49 min. 13 sec
longitude and that the Mackay-Ben-
nett was heading for that position.
This message indicates that the Gulf
stream carried the bodies and wreck
age fifty miles east of where the Tt
tanic sank. The survivors who were
taken to hospitals on their arrival on
the Carpathia have now practically all
recovered and many of them have left
/ for their homes.
| Relief societies have gathered funds
aggregating more than a quarter Of a
million dollars and the relief commit
tees have been swamped with cloth
ing. Not only that, but countless let
| ters were received all offering assist
ance of every sort.
Life Boats Half Filled.
That many of the lifeboats of the I'll
tanic were sent away only half filled,
and that, if Captain Smiths orders
had been obeyed, many more lives
would have been saved has been dis
closed by Peter D. Daily of Lima Peru
a first cabin survivor. DAILY states
that he saw the captain rush to the
rail after the boats had been put out
from the sinking ship, and call:
Bring those boats back, they are only
half full" How many boats obeyed
the captains orders to return, Mr.
DAILY was unable to tell.
Out to Beat All Records.
John Thompson, fireman of the Tt
tanic, suffering with a broken arm al
st. Vincent's hospital may be an i'm
portant witness at the senatorial in
vestigation into the circumstances Of
the wreck. Thompson comes from
Liverpool and he asserts that the I'll
tanic was out ''to beat all records or
maiden trips'
From Queenstown out" Thompson
is quoted as saying, "all the firemer
had been talking of the orders we hat
to fire her up as hard as we possibly
could. We had to make as quick {
passage as possible the orders ran.
heard that these orders came from the
sengineering department.
II Revolutions.
We were carrying full pressure
from the time we left Queenstown un
til the moment of the shock, we neve
ceased to make from "A to II revolu
tions. During that whole Sunday hi
had been keeping up at IT,"
Washington, D. c., April 22-Vice
President P A. S. Franklin, of the In
ternational Mercantile Marine Com
pany told the Senate investigatine
committee today how he had asked
to have the earlier reports of the I'll
tanlc's disaster held up to avoid un
necessary alarm. He denied any
knowledge of the message addressed
to Representative Hughes of Wes
Virginia aboIt the ships being towe(
to Halifax and gave other details. Sen
ator Alden Smith of Michigan, pre-
sided
Issued Reassuring Statements With
out Basis.
: After denying that officials of tn,
White Star Line had any knowledg,
; OF a misleading telegram to Mr.
Hughes, it was acknowledged by MI
Franklin that he had issued reassur
ing statements when he had no fact
on which to base them.
The witness read from a great shea
Of wireless kilograms received Mon
day morning. None of them contain
s ey any information of value, but
was on this data that the line issue,
its statements in an effort, said MI
Franklin, to reassure inquiries.
S Gave Our Definite News.
Later, when the news came, he said
s he sent Immediately for the reporter
and began reading to them the lon
s Marconi grams from the Carpathis
giving the grewsone news in cons
s derable detail.
81 began to read: Titanic wen
s down this morning at 2:30' and the
: / looked up said Mr.. Franklin
There wasn't a reporter in the room
They were all racing for telephon
tc get news out to the world Bit b
bit, Mr.. Franklin contributed to th