The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-19

i Slue or the snip and the swell or the sea urging us back against the side again. The result of all these forces was an impetus which carried us par allel to the ships side and directly under boat fl which had filled rapidly with men and was coming down on us in way that threatened to sub merge our boat.
 Stop lowering H. our crew shout ed, and the crew of No. 14. now only 20 feet above us, shouted the same But the distance to the top was some 55 feet and the creaking pulleys must have deadened all sound to those above, for down she came, 15 feet, 10 feet, five feet, and stoker and I reached up and touched her swing on our heads, but just as she dropped another stoker sprang to the ropes with his knife One he answered him two, as his knife cut through l the pulley ropes, and the next moment the exhaust stream had carried us clear while boat IA dropped into the water, into the space we had the mo- l, ment before occupied, our gunwales almost touching.
 "We drifted away easily as the oars were got out, and headed directly away from the ship. The crew seem ed to me to he mostly cooks with white jackets, two to an oar, with a stoker at the tiller Finally it was | decided to elect the stoker who was | steering, captain, and for all to obey his orders He set to work at once to get into touch with the other boats calling to them and getting as clos as seemed wise so that when thu | searching boats came in to look fo 1 us there might be more chances fol 1 all to be rescued by keeping together It was now about l am, beautiful starlight night with no moon and. so not very light. The sea was as calm as pond, just a gentle heave as the boat dipped up and down in the swell an ideal night except for the bitter cold for anyone to be out in the mid dIe of the Atlantic in an open boat
 "The captain stoker told us he had been at sea 26 years and never seen such a calm night on the Atlantic. As i We rode away from the Titantic we looked back from time to time to watch and more striking spectacle it was not possible for anyone to see.
 Saw the Doomed Titanic.
 aln the distance she looked an enormous length, her great bulk out lined against the starry sky, every porthole and saloon blazing with light. 1t was impossible to think any thing could be wrong with such le- viathan. were it not for that ominous tilt dowwards in the bows, where the water was by now up to the lowest row of portholes. Presently, about Z am. as near as I can remember we l observed her settling rapidly with the l bows and the bridge completely under water and concluded it was now only a question of minutes before she went and so it proved She slowly tilted straight on end with the stern verti cally upwards and as she did tho lights in the cabins and saloons, whict had not flickered for a moment since we left, died out, came on again fol 8 single flash and finally went alto gether. At the same time the machin cry roared down through the vesse with rattle and a grooming tha could be heard for miles, the wierdesl sound surely that could be heard II the middle of the ocean, thousand miles away from land. But this wal not yet quite the end.
 "To our amazement she remained in an upright position for time which | estimate at i've minutes oth CTS in the boat say less, but it wa certainly some minutes-while VI watched at least 15O feet of the II tanic towering up above the level Q the sea and looming black against tn sky.
 Then, with a quick. slanting dive she disappeared beneath the water and our eyes had looked for the las tice on the gigantic vessel. And ther was left to us the gently heaving sea the boat filled to standing room wit men and women in every conceivabi fContinaed on Page Three)