The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-04-26

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Thought Husband by Her side.
OF how Colonel Aston met his death,
she had no definite conception. She
recalled, she thought. that In the con-
fusion as she was about to be put into
one Of the boats the colonel was
standing by her side.
After that, as Mr.. Biddle recounted
her narrative, she had no clear recol-
lection Of the happenings until the
boats we're we'll clear of the sinking
| steamer.
Mrs. Astor. It appears. left in one
of the last boats which got away from
the ship. 1t was her belief that all
the women VINO wished to 60 had then
been taken of. Her impression was
that the boat she left in had room for
at least fifteen more persons.
Clear and starlit.
Mrs. Edgar ]. Meyer of New York
said:
1T was a clear and starlit night.
When the ship struck we were In
our cabin. My husband went out on
the deck to see what was the trouble.
He came back and said. we had hit an
iceberg. but that It did not amount
to much. I said I was v We
went on deck for q walk. More peo-
pie said the accident was OF no i'm
p~ortance. 1t would only delay our ar
rival.
81 was afraid and made my husband
promise If there was trouble he would
not make me leave him. We walked
around the deck a while. An officer
came up and cried: All women into
the lifeboats.'
my husband and I discussed It and
the officer said: You must obey or
ders.'
Decided to Separate.
1--WE went down into the cabin and
We decided, on account Of our baby, to
part. He helped me put on warm
things. I got into q boat. but there
were no sailors aboard. We called to
the ship that there were no men in
the boat. They SEN a sailor down.
IAN English girl and I rowed four
hours and a half. Then We were
picked up at six o'clock in the morn
Ing. We were we'll away from the
steamer when 1t went down, but We
heard the screams of the people left
on the boat.
There were about seventy widows
on the Carpathia and all we're won
derfully brave. The captain Of the
Carpathia and the passengers did all
they could for us. Mrs. Harris says
my husband and Mr.. Harris and Mr..
Douglas lowered the last boatload full
Of women. All three were perfectly
calm.
Fights to Save Wife.
Mrs. Daniel W. Marvin of this city.
who was on a honeymoon trip with her
husband, was almost Frustrated when
she reached the dock and learned her
husband had not been picked up by
some other boat.
"My God, don't ask me too much
she said; tell me, have you n news
from Dan? He grabbed me in his
arms and knocked down men to get
me into the boat. As I was put in the
boat he cried:
Its all right, little girl; you 60
and I will stay a while. I'll put on q
life preserver and Jump of and follow
your boat
"As our boat showed off he threw
a kiss at me, and that is the last
saw Of him."
Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Allison of Mon
treai and their daughter were drowned
their ten-months-old baby, a boy. and
his nurse were saved. Mrs. Allison
was just about to jump into a lifeboat
where the nurse and baby were when
she discovered her husband was not
with her. She went back to look fol
him and did not return.
Green Lantern Saves Many.
Henry Stengel Of Newark said I
was only the forethought OF q membel
Of the boat crew who was quick-wit
ted enough to snatch up three greel
lights that saved a number of tn,
lives OF those adrift in the tiny life
boat.
These green lights" ne said
chAAAih6 IuiOu6h tAC Val hutSS cu
abled the other boats crews to keel
close together in the ice filled wa
ters."
MI. Stengel put his wife in a boa
and then followed. He said that earl,
the next morning. shortly after the,
had been picked up. they saw tioatinl
far away a gigantic iceberg, with tw,
peaks shining in the morning sun
This was the berg that sent the r!
tanic to the bottom, he thought.
Jumped Into Sea; Picked Up,
e. z. Taylor OF Philadelphia. one o
the survivors, jumped into the sea Jus
three minutes before the boat sanh
He told a graphic story as he cam
from the Carpathia.
II was eating when the boat struc]
the iceberg" he said. There was a,
awful shock that made the boat treu
BILE from stem to stern. | did not req
lie for some time what had mar
pened. No one seemed to know tn
extent Of the accident. We were tol,
that an iceberg had been struck b
the ship.