The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-04-25
CARPATHIA The
HEARSE OF SEA
Passengers Say Captain Smith
And the Chief Engineer
Killed Themselves
SIX REFUGEES SUCCUMBED

Three Explosions In Boiler Room as
Vessel Filled Added to Panie-Big
Liners Side Ripped BY Iceberg as
if Gigantic Knife Had Been Hit
Major Butt Believed to Have FelIed
IL Men Before He Himself if FeIled.
New York.-Freighted with her ar
COSY of woe, disaster and death, bring
inS glad reunion to some but misery
unutterable to many, the Carpathia,
with the survivors of the lost Titanic
aboard, came back to grief-stricken
city and nation.
The story she brought home was
one to crush the heart with it's pathos,
hut at the same time to thrill it with
pride in the manly and womanly forti-
tdde displayed in the face Of the most
awful peril and inevitable death.
When the great liner went down it
took with her to death all but 745 of
her human cargo of 2,340 souls.
Six Die After Being Rescued.
To this awful death list six persons
were added. One died in a lifeboat,
which was put off from the liners
side, and five subsequently succumbed
on the rescue ship Carpathia.
The list OF prominent men missing
stands as previously reported, and the
total death list as brought to port by
the Carpathia is 1,GQ1.
As the Titanic san according to
the story of those " ISho,'ere among
the last to leave her. 'ded hulk,
Capt. Smith stood to h1GsteEt, calm,
resolute, efficient to the last, add when
all that mortal man could do for the
1000 lives intrusted to his care h1
raised his revolver and shot himself
while standing on the bridge.
The chief engineer is also reported
to have taken his life, and three Ital-
ians are said to have been shot in the
struggle for the boats.
Butt Said to Have Killed Twelve.
1t was reported to the White House
that Major Butt killed u men who
were scrambling for the boats before
he himself was killed by the crazed
passengers.
The passengers who told the story
of the captains end said that he made
two attempts upon his life before he
succeeded, fellow officers wrestling his
weapon frim his hand the first time
as he stood in the ships library. He
then broke away and, standing at his
post on the bridge, discharged the re-
volver into his mouth.
Henry B. Harris, theatrical mana
ger Of this city, was one of the men
who showed superb courage in the cri-
sis. When the lifeboats were first be-
ing filled, and before there was any
panic or extraordinary excitement he
had been assisted into one of them at
the side of his wife before the boat
was lowered away.
women first!" shouted one of the
ships officers. Mr.. Harris glanced up
and saw that the remark was address
ed to him.
Goes Back to Meet Death.
"All right" he replied coolly. Good
by, my DEAR" he said as he kissed his
wife, pressed her a moment to his
breast and then climbed back to the
Titanic's deck,
| The night was clear and the majes-
tic ship was steaming, it is asid, at
| twenty-one knots when she struck the
iceberg that sent her to the ocean bot
tom 1000 fathoms deep. Her hull rose
on a shelf of the berg, just as has been
surmised, and in so doing and in the
subsequent recoil her bottom plates
and her port side were badly torn and
| shattered, but there was no such ter
have been supposed, according to the
evidence.
The captain and officers at once re-
assured tie passengers, believing that
there was no immediate danger.
Return to Their Staterooms.
Under his encouragement many of
them went back to their staterooms,
and not few calmly returned to their
berths. That is said to account for
the fact that many of the women were
|
of their danger was realized, and
scores of them were drowned in their
staterooms like rats in a trap.
About one hour before the ship
plunged to the bottom there were
three separate explosions from the
boiler room as the vessel filled. These
were, at intervals of about Is minutes.
Until then there had been no panic
and but little disorder. From that mo-
ment, however, there was different
scene. The rush for the remaining
boats became a stampede.
The officers had to assert their au-
thority by force, and the three Ital-
ians from the steerage who had tried
to force their way in among the wom-
en- were shot down without mercy.
Practically every woman and child,
with the exception of those who re-
fused to leave their husbands, were
| Sovad Am0Op thnSe last w9S Mrs