The log cabin Democrat., 1912-04-25
I,595 WERE LOST IN
 TITANIC DISASTER
ONLY 745 WERE SAVED
RESCUE SHIP C A RIP A T H A COMES INTO PORT WITH IT.
 TANG SURVIVORS.

New York, April 19.-How the White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship afioat. sank off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland last Monday morn ing, carry to their death 1901 of the 2,340 persons aboard, was told to the world in all it's awful details for the first time last night with the arrival in New York of the Cunard liner Car pathia, bearing the exhausted surv.v- ors of the catastrophe. Of the great facts that stand out from the account of the tragedy, these are the most salient:
 i The death list has been increased, rather than decreased. Six persons died after being rescued. The list of prominent persons lost stands as pre- viously reported. Practically every woman and child, with the exception of those who refused to leave their l husbands, were saved.
 The survivors in the l.feboats saw the lights on the stricken vessel glin- mer to the last, heard her band play i ing Nearer Nv God to Thee, say the doomed hundreds on her deck, and heard their groans and cries when the vessel sank.
 i The following tabulation of the passengers and crew on board the Ti- tanic, together with those saved and lost, has been compiled from the fig ures in the statement issued by the committee of passengers:
 Approximate number of passengers aboard-First-class 330, second-class 320, third-clasS 750.
 Officers and crew, $40. Total, 2,340.
 ! Number of passengers saved by Carpathia-First-clas 210, second class 125, third-class POO. l Total passengers saved, 535. l Member of crew saved-Oficers 4, seamen 39, stewards 96, fremen Fl. Total members of crew saved, 210. Total saved, passengers and crew, 745.
 1 Total number perished, 1,595. | Six of those saved died later. | First and second-cabin passengers, $50.
 First and second-class passengers saved, 335.
 Total cabin passengers lost, 315 Colonel Archibald Oracle, United States army, the last man saved, went down with the vessel, but was picked up. He was met last night by his daughter, who had arrived from Washington, and his son-in-law, Paul P. Fabracius. Col. Oracle told re- markable story of personal hardship, and denied emphatically the report that there had been any panic on board. He praised in the highest terms the behavior of both the pas (sengers and crew, and gave high tribute to the heroism of the women passengers.
 Col. Oracle told of how he was driven to the topmost deck when the ship settled, and was the sole survi- vor after the wave that swept her ust before her final plunge had passed.
 'I jumped with the wave," said he. Eventually I came to the surface, to find the sea a mass of tangled wreck age.
 i Luckily l was unhurt, and, casting about, managed to seize wooden grating floating nearby. When l had recovered my breath l discovered a larger canvass and cork-like raft, which had foated up. A man, whose name l did not learn, was struggling toward 1t from some wreckage to which he had chung. l cast off and helped him to get on to the raft, and we then began the work of rescuing those who had jumped into the sea and were foundering in the water.
 When dawn broke there were 30 of us on the raft, standing knee-deep IL orl afroJd lest the cranky craft be overturned. Several unfortunates, benumbed and half-dead, besought us to save them, and one or two made an effort to reach us, but we had to warn them away. Had we made any effort to save them we all might have perished.
 "The hours that elapsed before we were picked up by the Carpathia were the longest and most terrible that l ever spent. Practically with out any sensation of feeling because of the icy water, we were almost dropping from fatigue. We were afraid to turn around to see whether we were seen by passing craft, and when someone who was facing astern passed the word that something that looked like a steamer was coming up, one of the men became hysterlcal un- der the strain. The rest of us, too were nearing the breaking point"
 Col. Oracle was in his berth when the vessel smashed into the berg, and was aroused by the jar. He looked at his watch, he said, and found it was just midnight. The ship sank with him at 2:20 a. m., for his watch stopped at that hour.