Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1912-04-25
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By a Reporter.
LIPS Lives Lost in This Most
Appalling Of All Sea Tragedies
Boat Strikes Berg and Then
Boilers Explode-Brave Men
and Women Meet Death With
Undaunted Courage.
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star Reporter. n. Y. World, who ar
rived ON the Carpathin.
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New York. April 19.-Seventeeh
hundred lIves-the figures will hardly
vary in either direction by more tnan
a few dozen-were lost In the SINKING
of the Titanic which struck an Ice
berg at Has D. m. Sunday and was
at the oceans bottom 2 hours and 80
minutes after.
The printed rolls OF first and sec
ond cabins, compared with the list OF
the survivors on the Carpathia. snow
that of 341 first-cabin passengers, 2l2
were saved, 154 of them women ana
children: and that of 262 second
cabin passengers. lis were saved. loz
of them women and children. OF the
third-class passengers. 500 In num-
Der, 1876 survive. OF whom S5 are
women and children.
OF 9s5 officers and crew. 1873, IN
cluding % women. reached the Car
pathia. A few in each class doubtless
escaped enumeration on the Carpa'
.hia.
1888 Are Unsccounted For.
Accepting the estimate Of the Car
pathia's officers that 700 survivors
reached the ship. comparison with the
total. 2.3ss. shows that 1.6sS are un
accounted for.
There Is but the faintest hope thai
any OF these reached any other ship
Reports that the California. cattle
ship, may have rescued few persons
have given merciful respite from ut
ter despair to some OF the women.
Cause, responsibility and similar
questions regarding the stupendou:
disaster will be taken up In time b!
the British marine authorities. NC
disposition has been shown by any
survivor to question the courage oi
the crew. hundreds Of whom saved
others and gave their own lives with
q heroism which equaled. but could
not exceed that of John Jacob Astor.
Henry B. Harris. Jacques Futrelle and
others in the long list Of the first
cabin missing.
Officers Knew Ieebergs Were Near.
Facts which / have established by
inquiries on the Carpathia. as posi-
lively as they could be established in
view of the silence Of the few surviv-
inc officers. are:
That the Titanic's officers knew.
several hours before the crash. OF the
possible nearness OF icebergs.
That the Titanic's speed. nearly %
knots an hour. was not slackened.
That the number OF lifeboats on the
Titanic was insufficient to accommo-
date much more than one-third Of the
passengers. to say nothing OF the
crew. Most members OF the crew
say there were 16 lifeboats and two
collapsibles; none say there were
more than % boats in all. The zoe
who escaped filed most OF the 16 life
boats and the one collapsible which
got away to the limit Of their capac
ity.
"Women First" Rule Enforced.
That the women first" rule. II
some cases. was applied to the exten
OF turning back men who were with
their families. even though not enough
women TO fill the boats were at hanc
on that particular part OF the deck
Some few boats were thus lowered
without being completely filled. bu
most OF these were soon flied will
sailors and stewards, picked up ou
OF the water. who helped man them
That the bulkhead system. though
probably working in the manner in
tended. availed only TO delay tn,
ships sinking. the position and length
OF the ships wound (on the starboart
quarter) admitted Icy water which
caused the boilers to explode. ant
these explosions practically broke tn,
ship in two.
BuIkheads Rendered Ineffective.
Had the ship struck the iceber,
head-on. at whatever speed. and Will
whatever resultant shock. the bulk
head system OF water-tight compart
ments would probably have saved th'
vessel AS one man expressed II. !
was the impossible" that happened
when. with shock unbelievably mild
the ships side was torn for length
which made the bulkhead system In
effective.