The Green Forest tribune., 1912-04-26
Interesting Narrative Collected From Surviving Passengers
 On the Carpathia
PRAISES HEROlSM OF MEN
Titanic's String Band Plays "Nearer My God to Thee" as Ship
 Goes Down.

Western Newsnauer Union News Service.
 New York.-How the Titanic sank is told by Charles F. Hurd, staff correspondent of the Evening World who was a passenger on the Carpathia, and who furnished that newspaper with his account.
 He gives the number of lives lost as HOO. He praises highly the courage of the crew, hundreds of whom gave their lives with heroism which equal ed but could not exceed that of John Jacob Astor, Henry B. Harris, Jacques Futrelle and others in the long list of first cabin passengers.
 It was the explosion of the boilers according to MT. Hurd's account, which finally finished the Titanics career
 The bulkhead system, though prob ably working, prevailed only to delay the ships sinking The position of the ships wound on the starboard guar ter admitted an thrush of icy water according to Hurds story, whict caused the boilers to explode, and these explosions broke the ship ir two.
 The ships string band gathered ir the saloon near the end, his narrative says and played Nearer My God, tc Thee"
 Captain Rushed to Bridge.
 
 The account continues: "The crash against the iceberg, which had been sighted at only quarter-mile distance came almost simultaneously with the click of the levers operated at the bridge, which stopped the engines and closed the water-tight doors. Captain Smith was on the bridge a moment later. He summoned all on board tc put on life-preservers, and ordered the life-boats lowered. The first boats had more male passengers, as the men were the first to reach the deck. When the rush of frightened men and wom en and crying children to the decks began. the Women first rule was rigidly enforced.
 Officers drew revolvers, but in most cases there was no use for them Revolver shots, heard shortly before the Titanic went down, caused many rumors-one that Captain Smith had shot himself, another that First Officer Murdock had ended his life; but mem bers of the crew discredit these ru mors.
 Captain Seen on the Bridge.
 Captain Smith was last seen on the bridge, just before the ship sank leaping as the decks sank beneath him.
 What became of the men with the life-preservers was a question asked by many since the disaster.
 Many of those with life-preserver: were seen to go down despite the pre- servers, and dead bodies floated or the surface as the boats moved away
 Mrs. Isadore Straus refused tt leave her husbands side, and botf perished together.
 Harold Cotton, Marconi operator or the Carpathia, did not go to bed at hi! usual time Sunday night, and as re suit caught the first message of tht Titanic's plight, which was responsibl, for saving the hundreds rescued wht landed in New York
 It was testified to by several sur vivors that the Titanic was going 2, nots an hour when she crashed int the iceberg.
 Officers Knew the Danger.
 In addition to the foregoing MT Hurd said. in part:
 Facts which I have established b, inquiries on the Carpathia, as posi- lively as they could be established il view of the silence of the few sur viving officers are:
 That the Titanic's officers kney several hours before the crash of tn possible nearness of the icebergs.
 That the Titanics speed, nearl g knots an hour, was not slackened
 That the number of lifebats O. the Titanic was insufficient to accon modate more than one-third of tn passengers to say nothing of tn crew. Members of the crew say ther were 16 lifeboats and two colIapsibl none say there were more than boats in all.
 "The 700 who escaped filled most c the 16 lifeboats and the one collar sible, which got away, to the limit c their capacity
 Had the ship struck the iceber head-on, at whatever speed and wit whatever resulting shock, the bull head system of water-tight compar ments might have saved her.
 "As one man exprssed it, 1t was tn impossible that happened when, wit shock unbelieveably mild, the ship side was torn for length which mad the bulkhead system ineffective.
 "The Titanic was 1,799 miles frol Queenstown and 1,191 miles from Ne York, speeding for bridal voyag record. The night was starlight, tn sea glassy. Lights were out in mos ---~---~---->->---~~-