The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-20
Mining Magnate Warned of
Danger of Delay by Man
Who Had Served Him at
Dinner in the Evening.
.OTHERS NOTIFIED
SHIP WAS SINKING
Graphic Description of Scenes
and Incidents Aboard the
Ill-Fated Titanic Before
She Went to Bottom.
az International News Service.

\ by International News Service.
TEW YORK, April 19.-The fol-
mi lowing statement made today by
Alfred Tessinger, first-class
steward on the ili-fatcd Titanic:
tells graphically Of scenes and Incl
dents hitherto unpublished.
Tessinger was ono Of the survivors
/ who chung to life raft. For twenty
one years hn has followed the sea. He
\ sails tomorrow on the Laplapd with
scores Of other members of the crew
!, and 1t will be his last trip on the
ocean
''I $oaned the Titanic fortnight be-
fore she left Queenstown said Tes-
singer. al was detailed TO c deck
X and when we started on this trip over
l by some of the most notable people
Ton board. These included Mr.. and
Mrs. Isador Straus, Benjamin Guggen.
I helm, Howard B. Case. H, r. Julian,
4 DR. Emil Taussig, Mrs. Taussig and
Miss Ruth Taussig, their daughter. ]
i can t ever forget the horror OF last
ISundsy night, These people, and hun
dreds Of others, all sitting helpless on
Ethe giant vessel So few Of them were
Saved. too.
y 81 must say right here that it was
mo fault Of the vessel that brought
1about her destruction. She was su-
Jperb in every detail But no vessel
1could stand the grinding of the ice on
her bottom and with the ripping of
I the plates enormous holes were made
&apd the thrush of water WAS too great
Ito check More lifeboats would have
'tsaved us all
& 1.-The run TO Cherbourg and thence
+ Toward the banks was pleasant. The
llses was calm. lf any icebergs were
near heard nothing Of it, No bulle-
TINS regarding them were posted on the
Hoard.
! Last Dinner on Board.
"Sunday afternoon at 5 O'Clock it
4 became colder At Z clock dinner was
{serVed and ] notified my people re-
member distinctly notifying Mr.. Gug.
tgenheim. He speaks German and we
! had conyersed together. He told ME
fsh,p. the Titanic, was the best he had
I eyer sailed in.
Until $50 O'Clock >. m. was busy
4 f1xng, the rooms, when ct this hour
zone OF The passengers requested me 10
so 70 the croquct court with Il pair
OF shoes. 7 did this, and then went to
i fhe working passage, where the stew.
q BIDS quarters are.
ht 1850 ! was summoned TO No.
s oS, IN which there was Mr. Gee. an
= fEnglishman, en- route to Mexico. He
4 requested ME to 40 to the working
passage and have some fircmen who
| nal Just been relieved cease their
y racket | did as requested aud reported
l to Mr. Gee. ] was talking With Georoe
y Srewster, another steward, at 1882.
{ Ship Strikes Berg.
II As we were talking suddenly there
cane noise, as Is made by rowboat
Y running over gravel beach. There
lTss Slight shock through the entire
4 snip, bur absolutely no severe Jolt that
= would have caused us worry. was
ehddepiy aware that the engines had
mopped, and then Brewster said. EWbzt
do You think that is9' ""'
H. ! looked out into the passa~s r,o,,
~ 'te,nan e, % was running past. Carrying a
HAS OF oIothing on MS shoulders As he
Harvard '"eRo ~ water
0IpEht doors shut "ole'
v y ran TO my section and. as passed
nerk where the mailing section is 7
nj T maiIbsaee waser Porins into a room filled With
Was standing by the con1pa nion~a,v Do.t nj
~arn All stewards call your p.oule
sl" ST ,,,ns ,nsm t@ go on dceis'
Iwo. 'MWsnod 10 the first stateroom which
the door pounded on
N ~ wndt Is the mattar1' lie called out.
l,p onicGi;,. laI; The vessel is in danger, Get
1s v very scrious?' bc asked
fhA nj; e5; ! said. water IL coming into
b, Awakens Taussigs.
-lsir In men f7 awakened Mr.. and Mrs. Taus-
the deck '""eo OUT and rush to
raussl., is It as serious as all that?' said Mr.
81 81 faid aid, Veg. hurry.
\ ".r,".arn m.arn Mrs. Tauseig begin 10 c,7;
\ ban viii viii sursI;. Hrg; Mr. TaussIs urged her
Y - approached 1 the i5n, siaterooro os m,ss
her IN nut On opened the door. 7 urged
sbe ~ Ts% p"' hl, on coat; not 10 stop to drcss
She wanted to dress mu, ~ t ,nr III, .1Tpraar
Enm clothes. slip into this coat. II vn,
>f.eId >ffopp 10 orHsE Eou'li drown. / thrn adj.
MIR. and Mrs, Issdor ;tfans tu 'o,r occuni.,
~ Es'cloon' d numher 80 As l knocked al
4 fnr noor Mr.. Sirdus s.kcd. '
What is II. SicHsrd:'
LI answered, Water Is conoinc Ia fast
rhs shIr, Is sinking % ~'"''~ ~ '"''
WI get up.. but don't think 4,
* serious as ell that he ansg ernd
a. tnen summoned others and went tr
I'll neck. where again met Rrc~sier
0fFassenger" wero running In and frn anS
We PASSED tho nurser's office tbrvt
TEGrrrN scores Of mon and women dc
hnoinE and receiving their valuable
J 81 Tent tn say right here that the wafer,
usnt doors %ere shut imme ediately upor
Re nrst notice OF the crash. They cx.
0snded uoward thirty feet atovc III,
Water llne In the engine room on,
nKln"er had his les caught IA a Aoo
seiTHunG. l, Was crushed and he was helr
s1P In wise. BEFORE leaving the Titanj,