Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-05-01
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went to their deaths aboard the II
tsnic lighting a fronzied mob OF armed
brutes attempting to crowd women
and children from the lifeoosts were
the British sailors and petty officers
of the TiI.Alc stationed On the steer
age deck, late stories OF the disaster
state.
Up from the stokehole a blackened.
frantic crew surged upon the Storage
passengers when the flood rushed IN
about the boilers far below and car
ried alarm to the scores OF men VINO
fed them.
Armed with the tools of their trade.
stocking bars. shovels, ashpan hoes ana
Jewelers.. the stokers and coal psssers
stormed the line OF steadfast sailor
men guarding the boats then coming
down the sides from the upper decks
and loading into them as they were
halted Al the steerage deck the WON
en- and children there.
Manhood met brutehood undaunted.
however. and honest fists faced iron
bars. winning at last the battle for
death with honor
Tale OF Horror Told.
No tale of the final hour OF the
great steamship exceeds in horror that
pieced together by DR.. Lengyl Arpad.
a Hungarian. and steersge physician
Of the Carpathia, from the stories he
CLEANED as he bent over the bruised,
the scalded and the frostbitteH men
and women who had been rescued
from the steerage Of the Titanic.
His account cleared up many state
ments Of cabin passengers which have
seemed contradictory. told where the
shots that were fired came from and
explained the shrieking which many
had attributed to the doomed and
drowning.
Beyond Control At First.
"Piling up to their deck. shouting
and crying. dragging their bundles, the
steerage men and women Sere at first
beyond control. Sailors went among
them telling them the ship had struck
the ice, but was not in danger, and
they grew calmer. Just as the boats
began to come down from the upper
deck the steamship listed heavily TO
starboard, and the steerage passengers
were piled up against the rail This
renewed their terror and they fought
to extricate themselves.
Despair took possession OF them,
because the first and second boats
lowered past them were not stopped
at that deck and neither WAS hall
filled They believed they were being
deserted
When the first boat was stopped at
the steerage deck everyone surged for
ward to get into it, the men forcing
themselves TO the front and none OF
them. so far as they told me. thinking
OF anything but his own safety and
his precious bundles. One woman
rescued could talk OF nothing but The
beautiful goose liver and cheese they
had torn from her.
The first boat stopped was filled
with men before the sailors could in
terfere. They had a battle to dral
out the men and let the women TAKE
their places.
Suckers Start Panic.
This great panic seems to have be
gun when the stokers rushed up from
below and tried to beat a path through
the steerage men and women an
through the sailors and officers TO &c
into the boats. They had their irOl
bars and shovels and they strucI
down all who stood in their way.
First to come up from the depth
OF the ship was an engine oiler. Fror
what he is reported to have said
think perhaps the steam fittings wer
broken and many were scalded t
death when the Titanic listed.
Right at his heels came the stol
ers. The officers had pistols, but the
could not use them at first. for fear {
killing the women and children. TT
sailors fought with their fists, an
many OF them took the stoke bal
and shovels from the stokers and use
them to beat back the others. The
il seems, from what the survivors to-
me, the officers thought OF firing
the air.
Many of the coalpassers and sto
ers who had been driven back fro
the boats went to the rail and whe
ever boat was filled and lowered Sc
eral of them jumped overheard al
swan toward 1t. trying to clin
aboard. Several OF the patients h
said that men who swan to the sid
OF their boats were pulled in
climbed in"
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