The Ordway new era., 1912-05-03

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New ork.-The bodies OF Colonel
John Jacob Astor and Isidore Straus,
the millionaire merchant Of this city,
who lost their lives In the Titanic dis
aster, have been recovered and are on
board the cable ship Mackay-Bennett.
News of the recovery OF the bodies
was contained in a dispatch to the
White Star Line Company.
The body of c. NJ. Hays. president OF
the Grand Trunk Railway. has also
been recovered according to a wire
less message from the cable ship
Nina.
The wireless dispatch which came
to the company from the Mackay-Ben-
nett gives the additional Identification
OF forty-nine Of the heretofore un
known recovered dead on the cable
ship. or the 2O5 dead on board the
Mackay-Bennett the names Of ninety
one have been sent ashore by wire.
less.
Observation-Disclosures with light from
her salon and cabins. the Titanic
dashed full speed to her destruction,
according to Ernest Gill. n donkey ell
gine man on the steamship CalifO!ni
an. who testified before the Senate
committee Investigating the disaster.
He said Captain Stanley Lord OF the
Californian refused later to go to he
aid OF the Titanic. the rockets from
which could be plainly seen.
This. Captain Lord denied: but both
he and his wireless operator acknowl.
edged having seen rockets. Their ship.
they said. was fast in the ice.
Gill submitted an affidavit to the
committee. and when sworn and put on
the stand stuck to his charges against
the captain OF the Californian.
He said he was standing on the
deck late Sunday night when he sight.
ed great ship. sweeping along Mt top
speed. about ten miles Off. He did not
knoY 1t was the Titanic. but made out
readily that 1t was not n frcighter or
n small vessel because OF the manner
In which II was Illuminated.
Some time later he saw distress rock.
cts on the horizon. He says the cap
tain was appriscd OF these signals.
but made no effort to get up steam and
go to the rescue. The Californian was
driftin. with the foe. So indignant
did h" become. said Gill. that he en-
deavored to recruit committee OF pro.
test from among the crew. but the men
failed him.
Captain Lord entered n sweeping de-
nial of Gill's accusations and read from
the Californians log to supper. his
contention.
Cyral Evans. the Californians wire
less operator. however. told OF having
heard much talk among the crew. who
criticised the captains course. Gill.
he said. told him he expected to get
$500 for his story when the snip
-cachcd Boston
Evans told of having warned tha II.
ianic only n brief time before the
great vessel crashed into the berg
that the sea was crowded with ice.
he Shih,
at the time were working with the
wireless station at Cape Race. and
they told him to shut up and keep
out" Within n half hour the pride
of the sea was crumplcd up and sink
ing.
It developed that one reform which
10 certain to spring from the invcsti.
cation will be enforced in the wireless
rooms of ships entering or leaving
American ports. This concerns lack of
authority over the operators pay,
hours and free dom from responsible
ty as brought out by the testimony 70
date. Senator Smith, its chairman.
announced that such legislation was
inevitable.
4 sworn statement that the captain
of the liner Californian refused to go
to the aid OF the Titanic. although
only a few miles away. was filed with
the committee by Ernst Gill. donkey
,ngincman on the Californian. Gill
said that the distress rockets were
plainly visible from tn" deck of the
Californian, and must have been visi-
BILE TO both the bridge and the look.
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