The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-04-26
FOURTH OFFICER OF lLL-FATEp
LINER SAYS STEAMER WAS
SIGHTED AND sIoNALLED.
DID NOT CONE TO THEIR AID
Life Boats For All Is Ismay's Order
States Hereafter All Ships on
Lines Controlled BY Him viii
Have Lifesavine Apparatus
For All on Board-on
Fire During Trip.

Washington, April 2S-with succor
only five miles away, the Titanic slid
into its watery grave, carrying with it
more than /, 800 of its passengers and
crew while an unidentified steamer
that might have saved all, failed or
refused to see the frantic signals flash
ed to it for aid. This phase of the
tragic disaster was brought out today
before. the senate investigating COM
mittee, when J.. B. Boxham, fourth Of
ficer of the Titanic, told of his un-
successful attempts to attract the
strangers attention.
This ship, according to Boxham,
could not have been more than five
miles away and was steaming toward
the Titanic So close was 1t that
from the bridge, Boxham plainly saw
its masthead lights and sidelight. Both
with rockets and with the Morse cleo
trio signal did the young officer hail
the stranger. Captain Smith and sew
eral others in the vicinity of the bridge
declared at the time their belief that
the vessel had seen them and was sig
Mailing in reply Boxham failed to see
the replies, however, and in any case
the steamer kept on its course, OBJ.
liquely past the Titanic without ex-
tending aid
This and the declaration of P. A. S.
Franklin, vice-president of the White
Star line, that there were not snf-
ficient life boats aboard the Titanic to
care for the ships company at one
time, were features of the hearing.
The official was quizzed throughout
the morning session on the messages
exchanged between the carpathia and
himself after the ship had started for
New York with the Titanic's survivors
aboard Among the survivors was j.
Bruce Ismay, managing director OF the
line.
The White Star liner Titanic was
on fire from the day she sailed from
Southampton. Her officers and crew
kenw it, for they had fought the fire
for days.
This story, told for the first time to-
day by the survivors of the crew, who
were sent back to England on board
the Red Star liner Lapland, was only
one of the many thrilling tales of the
first-and last-voyage of the Titanic.
Among the wireless kilograms read
into the record was one from Mr.
rsoul urging thar the steamship
be held until the. Carpathia ar
with its sorry burden. lie de.
ed he believed it most desirable
sat the survivors Of the Titanic's
Few be rushed out Of the country as
quickly as possible. He also, the mes
1age said, would sail on the Cedric,
and aked that clothing be ready at
, the pier for him when the Carpathia
docked. The senate's subpoenas
blocked the plan.
The committee will resume its hear
Ing tomorrow morning. Fourth Of
ficer Boxham is expected to continue
on the stand to tell more fully Of the
events Immediately preceding the col
lision.
]. Bruce Ismay, managing director
of the International Mercantile Marine
company, which includes the White
Star Line, owner of the Inflated
Titanic, has announced that he has is
sued orders for every steamship on
every line of the International Com
pany to be equipped with life boats and
RATS enough to save the life of every
human being in case of any other &C
cident in midocean.
Everybody learns 0y experience he
said. zone thing ! learned from my
experience is that the laws relating tc
the preservation Of ufe in case of just
such an accident are not adequate
They were based, no doubt, upon the
assumption that these great steel
ocean liners were unsuitable witt
their highly developed system of bulk
heads. But experience has taught us
that in certain circumstances there
are at present no such things as un
slnkable ships"
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