The state herald., 1912-04-19

| priests and two Protestant ministers
aboard the ship.
Wireless messages relate story OF
bravery in the face Of death surpass'
ing any other ever written of the sea,
in fact or in fiction.
When 1t became known that the Ii
tanic was doomed, and that only a few
of the passengers and crew could be
| saved, the men aboard, as one, de-
manded that the women and children
be saved. The parting of the wives
from their husbands, as limited in brief
messages, was a scene to rend the
heart. and in every case the husband
assisted the crew of the steamship in
| dragging the women away to the life
boat. Wives became hysterical and
many of them tainted when told they
they must leave their husbands. With
tears streaming from their eyes, hus,
bands and wives locked in the last
embrace upon this earth, the husband
with the AngloSaXon blood running
strong in his veins, bore up under the
terrible ordeal and assisted in un-
Nihuihb ms WIG arms iiou diouhu
| his neck
Help Wives to Boats.
When the boats drew away, with
their wives, the men gazed after them
and then. with the hearts OF a stole.
returned to assist the other women
and children TO the boats
/ At last. when all the ships boats
had been filled with women and chll
dren. with officers and crew of the I'll
tanic only necessary TO man the boats
in them, the boats pulled away from
the sinking ship. Captain Smith OF
the Titanic issued orders to his men
in each boat to proceed as rapidly as
| possible away from the vessel, for he
knew that when she took her final
| plunge into the Atlantic that the sue.
ton of the mighty leviathan would..n
gulf all boats that were not far awssy
The orders of the captain were car
ried out to the letter the men left
aboard the boat watching each boat as
Il disappeared In the distance over the
rolling waves, and then they turned TO
the captain.
II was realized by every man aboard
that his final hour had come. Out
across the ocean there was no sign
Of ship coming 10 the rescue. al
though up In his cage the wireless op
orator received messages from a hall
dozeo ships that they were rushing
ne fast as steam could bear them to
the aid of the stricken Titanic II
was realized. though. by the men, that
none of the hurrylng vessels would
reach them In time to save them.
They knew that when the ships ar.
rived that there would be nothing left
but a bit OF the floating wreckage TO
tell where u Sl0.0OO.0OO vessel had
gone to her grave.
Nearer Ny God to Thee"
Religious services were started in
half dozen different sections OF the
mighty vessel, Practically everybody
aboard had come to the decks and
they Joined in, the religious services.
In the singing OF Nearer My God 10
Thee Rock OF Ages and other OF
the old time hymns, Between the
hymns. and during their progress men
knelt upon The deck Of the sinking
ship and offered mp prayer TO God.
while the two priests absolyed from
sin those upon the vessel The Pro
teatant ministers aboard prayed with
the priests, while Bibles were passed
around TO be read aloud by those to
whom they were handed
A. the religious services continued
the ship sank deeper and deeper into
the ocean, In the presence Of death
10 themselves those men whose NlycR
had gone In the life boats prayed fer.
vcntly for their safety. forgetting
themselves IN their love for theft
wives Those who were alone prayed
for the folks At home. mlngling these
prayers with those Of their own 10
God
Wireless Man Faithful 10 End.
Up In his cage the wireless operator
sent out snaichcs Of the scenes upon
the decks and throughout the Titanic,
telling the ships racing on to her aid
that all was lost. that order prevailed
and that tho religious services ana
prayers were continuing as the Titanic
sank lower aud lower TO her grave.
Then came the end Of those wire
lesa anatohca Wireless operators upon
other ships know that the story was
ended, They knew that the great II.
tnnlc had taken her last plunge aud
that all those brave men were In
their ocean grave.
Wireless Dig Aid Saving Passengers.
Wireless tologrhphy In the AinklnE o.
the Titanic once moro demonstrated
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