The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-04-25

AT q suggestion from the =
\ memory of tho brave
with one accord the roomfui Of
women arose.
man were placed in 1t. The officer
said he could spare no more and that
the fact that women rowed did not
show the boat was not fully equipped.
AT that time he did not believe the
dancer was great. Two seamen placed
him, but he could not recall who they
were.
How did you happen to name
them?"
did they want to go?n
Il did not ask them; they went by
my orders"
1.-THE third boat
by the time / came to the third
boat-all these Were on the port side
serious and / began to al chances"
"How long did all the work of low
ering a lifeboat take?"
TT is difficult to say, but I think
about 15 or 20 minutes"
How many passengers did the
third boat contain
II filed her up as full as I dared,
sir, h lowered her. About 35. The
women n children could not have
stood auieter If they had been in
church"
Short of Seamen.
In loading the fourth lifeboat. Officer
Lightholder said he was running short
Of
81 put two seamen in and one
jumped out That was the first boat
I had to put a man passenger in. He
was standing nearby and said he
would go If / needed him.
Il said, Are you a sailor?' n he
replied that he was a yachtsman. Then
I told him if he was a sailor enough
to get over the bulwarks to the life
boat to go ahead. He did, and proved
himself to be a brave man..
"Who was he-did you know him ?"
81 did not know him then, but after
wards 7 looked him up. He was Major
Peuchon, Of Toronto" said Light
"The boats deck was only 10 feet
from the water when I lowered the
sixth boat. When We lowered the first
the distance to the water was 70 feet"
isMAY cENsuRED FOR
TITANIC CATASTROPHE
Washington, April 20.-It has been
years since SO vigorous indictment
against one person has been delivered
attack on j. Bruce Ismay, managing
director OF the White Star line, made
yesterday afternoon by Senator Ray
nor, of Maryland.
Senator Raynor pointed out that
while there We're no civil and criminal
remedies available in the American
courts, criminal and civil suits could
be brought in the British courts and
that a congressional committee would
have absolute authority to subpoena
everybody connected with the disaster.
and If anyone should refuse to answer
questions he could be indicted and I'M
prisoned for contempt.
C%riminaIiy Responsible.
mfr. Ismay claims, according to re-
ports, that he took the last lifeboat,"
cried Senator Raynor. Il do not be-
lieve it, and II he did, 1t was cowardly
to take any lifeboat, for the managing
director is criminally responsible for
this appalling disaster.
"If this should have happened On an
American vessel there would be no
question that an Indictment would be
found, and If the facts were sustained
the officers of the company could be
convicted of manslaughter, If not OF
murder, because the evidence is clear
that the vessel was not properly equip
ped with efficient life saving appar-
atus.
~ have not the slightest doubt that
the northern route was taken In obedi-
ence to Mr.. Ismay's direct orders, and
that with full warning he risked the
life of his entire ship to make a speedy
passage.
Il care not what the rules of tho
English admiralty are. We have the
spectacle of the head of the line failing
to see that his ship was properly equip
ped with life saving apparatus, needless
of the warnings that he was sailing in
a dangerous sea, forsaking his vessel
and permitting 1900 Of her passengers
and crew to be swallowed by the sea.
The martyrdom and the agonfes Of
separation hat o place on board the
sinking ship are too fearful for the
but Mr.. Ismay, the officer primarily
responsible for the whole disaster, has
reached his destination in safety and
unframed.
NO legislation can bring back to
earth a single life lost upon that fatal
night. What we can do is to help fix
the responsibility, if possible, and rely
upon the British justice to bring to bay
the guilty directorate of the company.
Criminal Prosecution Necessary.
"All civilized nations will applaud the
criminal prosecution of the manage
ment of this line. If they can be made
to suffer no sympathy will go out for
them, and If it does, it win be sub
merged in the overwhelming lamenta-
ton that today echoes throughout the
civilized world for the victims of their
culpable carelessness, a recklessness
lnaL sent nuUdTeQS OF tnelT 1ellOW be-
ings into eternity, desolating homes
and firesides and turning this land into
q house of mourning.
In this our of our calamity. we ap-
peal to the majesty of the law to dea
out retributory justice to this guilty
company to the last degree"
Two more bills framed on the lesson
drawn from the Titanic disaster were
introduced in the House yesterday. One
of them, by Representative O'Shaugh-
messy, of Rhode Island. would compel
all oceangoing ships to or from the
United States to carry constant and
adequate wireless.
Representative Parran, of Maryland,
offered a measure to approprite $780,
900 for naVa target practice in de-
stroyirg icebergs by the guns of war
ships and by dropping explosives from
airships.
OLYMPiC'S CAPTAIN DENIES
HE SENT OUT TITANIC REPORT
JopIon April % -Tanfaip IIaa1oo,r