The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28
most anything that it would pick up in it's

most anything that it would pick up in it's path"
 Senator Smith sought this information because of some levity caused by a ques- tlon he asked several days ago as to what an iceberg was composed of, and the wit ness answered 'ice.'
 Have you seen icebergs by day and by nght?' asked Mir Smith.
 "Yes, sir"
 How do they look at night with the stars?"
 White; in fact they are luminous" he replied, ''the morning of the catastrophe the morning was clear and the. sky studded with stars''
 MOore's Narrative
 T wish you would tell the committee what happened on that Saturday night and Monday morning." said the senator.
 At 1920 a. m., April 15," Captain Moore said, "I was awakened by the steward with a message from the Marcon oper- ator of my ship which said the Titanic was sending out C. e. D. message. Here's the message Geading): Titanic sending c. O. D.; requires assistance; po- stion, 41.4 N, 5024 w; come at once; Iceberg This was a message the oper- ator picked up.'
 What reply did you send?"
 None whatever; we did not want to stop those distress message going away. and the operator said the Titanic could not hear him." replied the captain 'At once I headed our course toward the Ti- tanic. I dressed and went to the chart room. We steamed mp and sailed east by compass. We turned right angle toward the Titanic. Then I went to the chief engineer. told him about the Titanic and said push up the fires. told him to awaken all extra firemen and get them to work. I said: If nece uary give the firemen a gill extra At the> time I was perturbed.'
 F0rty-Nine Miles From Titanic
 "How far distant did you figure your intended vessel was from you?' asked MT Smith.
 About 49 miles,"
 MT. smith asked what speed the Mount Temple made toward the Titanic Can tain Moore said trife more than II knots. About 8 a. m. we ran into our first ice,' continued the witness s.and wa immediately doubled the lookout watch. At 325 a. m.. ships time, we had to stop. We figured then we were 14 miles distant from where the ship signalled."
 The Mount Temple was stopped a few minutes by ice and again delayed by a schooner coming from the direction of the Titanic When Captain Moore saw the schooner he estimated she was F miles from the Titanic. Asked if the schooner S light might have been the one mentioned by Officer Boxhall of the Titanic and others Captain Moore said they have seen the light of tramp steamer, which was on the port bow. which might have ef- fected some additional rescuers
 Tramp Unidentified
 The captain said he did not determine the tramps name. He had no communica- . tion with her. The captain said he had reached point close to the Titanics po- sition about 4:30 Monday morning. The captain described the ice field and the extra large bergs in his course
 He saw no wreckage or floating corpses.
 Captain Moore was asked to explain statements made by some of the Mount Temples passengers to the effect that they had seen rockets fired by the Titanic that night. MT. Moore asserted none of his passengers was on deck when he started for the Titanic's position. He said the wireless operator in his room caught the Titanic signal just as the Ti- tanic operator was going to bed Mes sages from the other ships were picked up in rapid succession when the status became known.
 The second message to the Carpathia said
 Struck iceberg; come to our assist ance."
 A message to the Olympic read;
 Get your boats ready; we are going down fast by the bow Of the messages that pSsed between