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was in the neighborhood Of ice fields
and fleets Of bergs. He knew that only
by entering these fields could he pick
up the Titanic's survivors, and he knew
that there was danger of the greatest
kind Of encountering one of these bergs
| and suffering disaster such as had
| overtaken the Titanic.
| But with the lives Of so many at
stake-Capt. Rostron could have no
idea of the number. though he was
pretty sure because Of the stoppage
I Of the Titanic's wireless that the ship
thing for speed. He doubled his look
outs and trusted to them and to good
fortune to bring him through. and the
fifty EIGHT miles were made in three
hours and half.
For some Of the time wireless COM
| munication was kept up with the tt
tanic Her wireless calls were being
heard again and again by Gotham, and
presently he picked up one addressed
to the Titanic's sister ship. the Olympic.
telling her:
I'VE are sinking fast"
The G. @. D. calls and the s. o. S.
were sent out repeatedly, and then
came this last message:
Come quick. Our engine room II
flooded up to the boilers
1t was the last call Gotham received.
and when he got no others he knew
that the Titanic had sunk.
The faint flush of the coming dawn
was just beginning to brighten the
eastern sky when the Carpathia
reached the scene Of the sinking of the
Titanic and sighted the first boat with
survivors. The Carpathia was guided
to the first boat by a flare light in her
bow. She stopped at A. NJ, picking
up the first boat at 4:1O. At $3.50 A.
NJ. the last boat was picked up, and at
$50 A. M. the Cunarder, with all sur
vivors on board. was steaming toward
New York.
Laid out in row along the gangway
and covered by sheets were the bodies
of four men who had died Of exposure.
Soon after the return trip started an
Episcopalian clergymen, one of the
Carpathia's passengers, offered q
prayer for the dead, and the bodies
were committed to the sea. Many Of
the rescued were hysterical, and nearly
every one sobbed aloud as the service
was read.
At first Capt. Rostron was undecid-
ed whether to proceed to New York or
to go to Boston, Halifax, or the Azores
to land his passengers. He conferred
with Mr. Ismay, and the latter told him
to do what he thought best. The un-
certainty Of the physical condition Of
some of the rescued and us need of
provisions and equipment made him
decide upon New York.
Three days iater t. Carpathia
reached New York.
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whose officers had thought to put
lights aboard.
But there were shouts sometimes
from boat to boat, cheering calls that
lights were to be seen, and were
thought to be those Of the approaching
Carpathia. Each time. however, disap-
pointment followed the alarm, until
finally. about 8 o'clock. there actually
did appear two lights far down on the
horizon. Those in the boats watched
them eagerly. straining their eyes to be
sure whether the lights remained to-
gether or moved apart. If they sepa-
rated there would remain the chance
that they were on the Titanic's life
boats which had carried lights. II they
kept together it could only be the Car
pathia speeding to their aid.
Minutes passed while the lights were
watched, and then q cheer arose from
some of the watchers as they shouted,
encouragingly:
They are keeping together. It's the
Carpathia. We are saved!"
The helmsmen Of the lifeboats swung
their craft around till they headed for
the lights, and then shouted encour-
agement to those at the oars:
Pull! Pull your hardest! It's the
Carpathia! .
The name Carpathia was one to con-
jure with. Men and women who had
sat listless, slowly succumbing to the
intense cold and to the strain under
which they had labored, now sat up
right, alert, each one putting all his
strength into the oar.
Dawn grew nearer and nearer. It
was beautiful pink, the light clouds
floating just above the horizon and q
crescent moon showing in dim silver
and apparently resting lightly on the
horizon. The drab gray of early morn
ing was suffused with the pink light,
and slowly retreated before 1t. And
then the sun came up out Of the sea, q
red ball Of fire.
In it's warm rays the survivors saw
for the first time the sea in which they
had been floating through darkness.
On every side was ice-ice ten feet high
near by. and to the left and to the
right, ahead and behind, at greater dis
lance away, fleet of icebergs.
On them played the rays Of the sun.
turning golden as It mounted higher
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~ ROBABLY it will never be known
which boat first left the Titanic
- or who were its occupants. So
far as it has been possible to
gather this data from the stories Of
survivors, the passengers seems to have
been grouped somewhat as follows:
In a boat believed to have been the
fourth to leave the port side were
Major Arthur Peuchen, Miss e. A.
Norton of London; Mrs. Walter Clark
Of Los Angeles; Mrs. Lucien B. Smith
Of Huntington, West Va; Mr.. and Mrs.
T. Cavendish of New York; Mrs. Walter
Douglas of Minneapolis; Mr.. and Mrs.
Burnham Of Denver; Mrs. Edgar j.
Meyer, Mrs. Arthur Ryerson and her
son John D. Ryerson. and seventeen
other women. There were thirty-seven
passengers in all. including Quarter
master Hitchins, Lookout Frederick
Fleet and four sailors.
In another boat went Sir Cosmo and
Lady Duff Gordon. A. L. Saloman. Miss
Francatelli. Mr.. and Mrs. c. e. Henry
Detroit. with three stokers and one
seaman.
]. Bruce Ismay was in a boat with
Mrs. Mark Fortune. Miss Ethel, Alice
and Mabel Fortune, Mr.. and Mrs. W..
E. Carter of Philadelphia. Mr.. and Mrs.
A. A. Dick, and Miss Marie Young.
There were two stokers in the boat and
four Cinnamon were found, when the
boat was afloat, hidden under the seat.
Mrs John Jacob Aston got away in a
boat in which were also her maid. Ro-
sale Birdsle, Mrs. George Widener.
Mrs. ]. B. Thayer. Mrs Ida s. and Miss
Jean Hippach and Mrs. Fair and her
child.
Col. Archibald Oracle, Peter D. Daily
Of Lima, Peru, Mrs. A. T. Compton and
daughter Of Jefferson, N. H.. r. M.
Williams. Mr.. and Mrs. George Rheims
and Mr.. Mellers were in another boat.
Thirty-two passengers and two men,
bers of the crew were in sixth boat
Among them were Mrs. Edward w. APP
pleton. Mrs. John Murray Brown, and
Mrs. Robert c. Cornell. wife Of Magis-
trate Cornell.
Mr.. and Mrs. William 7. Graham and
their daughter Margaret, with Miss E.
w. Shutes. were among the thirty-five
passengers and two seamen to put off
in another boat
Two seamen and thirty passengers,
among them Fiernam Omond, Pierre
Marechal, Paul Chevre, Miss Marion
Wright, Mrs. Wright, Stuart COLLECT
and Miss Buss, were the occupants of
another boat.
Albert Crawford, a steward, took
charge of boat in which there were
thirty-flve passengers and four mem
bers OF the crew. 1t was this boat in
which Mrs. Straus refused to go. But
aboard Of it We're Mrs. Strauss maid,
Mrs. L. Parrish and daughter, Gilbert
NJ. Tucker, Jr.. the Countess Rothes.
and Mrs. Paul Schubert of Danbury.
Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl H. Behr, Mr.. and
Mrs. Engelhard c. Ostby and daugh-
ter, and Mrs. Emilia Richards were
together in another boat. Two other
boats held. the one DR.. Emil Taussig
and his daughter Ruth. Mrs. Henry B.
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Leboat from the Titanic Partially Filled With Survivors,

mitted to board the boat, and who sank
within sight Of those aboard.
It was the men on this boat who saw
Capt. Smith die All who afterward
reached the Carpathia were not there
then. Some were still swimming In the
icy water, kept afloat by the hfebelts
Those who had already made the boat
however. saw Capt. Smith swimming
toward them with a child held high
out of water. With a lifebelt to sup
port him the Captain was swimming
easily and strongly. He reached the
boat from which hands were stretched
out to receive him and passed the
child on board. Several hands gripped
his arms, but he broke away from those
who would have raised him out OF the
boat.
"where is Murdock? he demanded.
Some one told him that the first Of
ficer had gone down. Capt. Smith
showed himself away from the boat.
His fingers worked desperately at the
fastenings OF his lifebelt. and finally
he cast 1t from him.
IT will go down with the ship, ne
cried.
He sank Immediately. and although
those on the collapsible boat watched
for him to come up that they might
drag him aboard. he never appeared.
Only the lifebelt which he had discard
ed bobbed on the water few feet from
the boat.
And now there were men all about
hundreds Of them. The sea was dotted
with them, some afloat on hfebelts.
others clinging to pieces Of wreckage
each one striving to reach a boat.
Quickly the collapsible boat filled.
until the time came when those on
board of her drove others away. In
other boats men raised oars and struck
down the frenzied swimmers who fas-
tened a weak grip on their gunwales.
In one boat a woman clinched a jew
eled fist and drove it with all the might
Of her arm into the face of man who
caught desperately at the side Of the
boat near where she sat-
"Shame!" cried an elderly woman,
and she and young Girl caught at the
man as his grip relaxed and he was
about to drift away.
They dragged him into the boat, his
face cut and bleeding where the stones
Of the woman's ring had SCARED it. She
sank abashed into the bottom Of the
boat.
But from other boats helping hands
were extended to those in the water.
Two women were dragged aboard Of
one. They were almost unclothed. and
though it was icy cold and many of
those in the boat were already as wet
as the women, nevertheless men re-
moved their coats or gave over the
blankets in which they were wrapped
that the women might keep warm.
Sixteen lifeboats and four collapsible
boats were the equipment of the IT,
tanic. All the lifeboats and three Of the
collapsibles got away from the ship.
one of the former to capsize when she
struck the water. Those who got away
were widely scattered except for five
which Fifth Officer Lowe managed to
bring together. In the haste OF leav-
ing the ship many OF the boats carried
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clearer and clearer as the vessel neared
the scene, presently became more and
more dim and finally passed from sight,
few miles away hundreds were dying
for want Of the assistance they could
have rendered.
What ship it was that stood thus
near the laundering Titanic may never
be known. Several liners are known
to have been in her neighborhood. The
Leyland liner California was within
Is to 20 miles of her by reckoning of
her Captain. Capt. Lord. but the steam
ship had run into an ice field and Capt.
Lord had had her engines stopped for
fear Of collision with berg.
With the engines shut down the wire
less also ceased to work so that the
Titanic's calls for help were never
heard by liner which could have
reached her In an hour, or a little more.
The freight steamship Lena was an
other boat which is now known to
have passed close to the Titanic. But
she Is not equipped with wireless. and,
for the want Of this. slid slowly past
the sinking ship, unknowing that the
greatest vessel Of the seas was In
her death throes and that hundreds
aboard her were doomed to die.
But not all the lifeboats had pulled
too far to lend aid to those in the
water. and Of those that remained
close enough. there were some whose
passengers were brave enough to take
the risk of trying to save others. Many
a man, exhausted and almost dead from
cold was pulled into a boat and share
in the few blankets and articles of
clothing which its passengers possessed
was generously offered to him. How
many were picked up in this way can
never be known, for sometimes the ex-
perience in the icy water proved to be
too much and then. while the women
turned their heads, the men In the boat
gently lowered something over the side.
A collapsible boat, which none had
been able to get overheard from the
Titanic, but which floated off when the
big steamship sank, saved the life OF
thirty men. Harold Bride, the Marconi
operator. saw a throng around 1t just
before the Titanic sank. He was CIV
Ing them hand to push it overheard
when the final engulfing wave swept
over the steamship. Boat and men
were picked up like chips and sent
whirling out into the water.
1t was this boat on to which Col.
Archibald Oracle, young J. B. Thayer.
and Second Officer Lightoller climbed.
Bride also reached it. The boat was
upside down and cranky. There was
danger every moment that she would
capsize, but when dawn came thirty
men had managed to Chamber on to her.
They stood knee-deep in icy water,
afraid to move lest they upset the craft,
freezing, benumbed, and almost sense
less, but still alive.
Others swimming in the water strove
to board the boat. They were warned
away by those whose sole hope of
safety the boat provided, and the thirty
that finally reached the Carpathia will
carry with them forever the memory
Of the unfortuhates who were not per-
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less than their complement Of passen-
gers, and Lowe found that he could
crowd into four Of the boats all the per-
sons who then filled five. He made the
| transfer, and In the fifth boat picked
up dozens of others who otherwise
would have been lost. loves boats
were tied together with a line, and he
kept them thus until he sighted the
Carpathia.
It was approaching dawn when the
Cunarder first appeared on the horizon.
In the hours that had gone before since
the Titanic foundered, hundreds had
died. and long since that weird. waiting
cry which had dinned at first into the
ears Of those in the lifeboats had
ceased. The boats now. except for
loves. which had kept together, were
In many there were vacant spaces
which had been occupied when the long
ordeal of waiting for the Carpathia be-
gan. In one boat alone eight men died
Of exposure and were cast overheard.
From the upturned collapsible boat sew
eral men died and rolled off into the
waves.
Those who were still alive were be-
numbed, half frozen. some Of them un-
conscious, but that they were alive at
all was due to the wisdom Of the few.
often times the women, who forced
those less wise than themselves to
labor at tho oars, pulling aimlessly
d. 1t ,3exIat 1n
move far from the scene Of the wreck.
yet pulling nevertheless with all their
strength. It was the example Of
single person or two in each OF the
boats which kept the others from
abandoning hope. relaxing to the ter
rible torpor which overlook them
and sinking into the bottom OF the
boats to die there Of exhaustion and
exposure.
In some Of the boats the passengers
tried to keep up their courage by sing
ing. It was mournful chorus. inter-
rupted again and again by the sobs Of
women who broke down and wept. In
some Of the boats they tried to pray.
There was no diffidence. In one boat
a man asked simply:
Don't you think we ought to pray?"
The others accepted the suggestion
easerly. Men and women called out
their religions. There were Catholics,
Protestants of many denominations
aboard. Finally the Lords Prayer was
selected. They said it in chorus again
and again.
Through the long hours each boat
load Of passengers and crew struggled
to keep up their spirits, buoyed by the
knowledge that the Carpathia was
coming-how soon they could not tell.
but coming certainly. The blackness
of night, which was lit only by the
myriad stars. gave way to the gray Of
coming morning.
Over the sea dim light settled, al
lowing those in many of the boats to
catch a glimpse Of the others for the
first time since they had left the Ti-
tanic. For in the lffeboats there had
been neither provisions nor water-not
even lights. The boats had drifted
about in The blackness, unable to sight
one another. except those few boats
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Harris, Miss Gretchen Lonely. Mrs
Cornelia I. Andrews, ]. C. Hogeboon
DR.. and Mrs. Washington Dodge Of San
Francisco and their four-year-old child,
and the other, Mrs. Frederick Joel
Smith and DR.. Alice Farman Leader
Of New York, among the twenty-four
passengers and sailors, sixteen Of them
women.
Some of these boats, the first ones
to leave the ship, had pulled far away
from the Titanic. Others, however,
were near enough to hear that terrific
sound which rose above the waves
some seconds after the Titanic sank.
It was a cry raised by more than
1000 voices, the voices Of men and wo-
men who had jumped overheard when
the Titanic sank, or who had gone down
aboard her, and who rose for an in
slant afterward to the surface beneath
which the suction Of the great ship had
drawn them.
It was the most appalling noise that
human being ever listened to, the cries
Of ellow-beings struggling in icy wa
ter, crying for help with cries which
those in the lifeboats knew could not
be answered.: a wild chorus above
(which rose prayers shrieked to Heaven.
despairing sobs, and crazy laughter OF
those In whom the tension had merci-
fully snapped at last to leave them wit
less, with no sense Of pain or danger.
The first wailing cry died out. and for
few instants there was perfect quiet
over the water except for the sobbine
of women In the lifeboats. It was as
though those who had gone down and
risen again had sacrificed all their re-
naming strength in that one appeal
for life.
But presently from over the black
water came renewed cries. and for an
hour the anguished tones rang in the
ears Of those In the lifeboats. Had the
lifeboats put back, many doubtless
could have been picked up, though at
the risk Of sinking the boat which Of
fered them succor.
But many Of the lifeboats did not
turn back. They drifted here and there,
their passengers WOThlIlS lHISIullIclllty
at the oars, for there was no place to
go more safe than where they were,
and in their ears rang the cries Of the
drowning.
In some cases 1t was the men In COM
mand Of the little boats who refused to
put back, sealing their ears to the calls
Of the dying. doggedly determined that
the lives Of those already safe should
not be endangered that chance might
be given to others. But it was not al
ways the men who shrank from the
danger. In some boats it was the wo-
men, there only through the bravery of
those who now begged their aid, who
refused that aid because it meant dan
ger to them.
Some boats there were which could
not have put back. those first ones
which, in obedience to Capt. Smiths
order, had started pulling for light
which glowed a moment on the horizon
just before the Titanic went down. 1t
was some steamship which might have
rescued many if not all those who were
lost. but her light. which first grew
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MAYVILLE NORMAL

M -aaLEM
Miss Wilkinson came last week to
spend the summer with her brother.
Mr.. Wilkinson. of the faculty.
The literary society held its regu-
lar meeting last Friday evening, when
the following programme was rem
dered:
Instrumental Solo s............
..e.......... Miss Hatred Nelson
Reading. ........ Miss Selma Koppang
Debate-Resolved: That men and
women should have equal wages.
Affirmative, Miss Clara Fowler, Miss
Tonetta Hanson; Negative, Miss Nellie
Steen, Miss Bedah Borgerson.
Reading........M Miss Bessie Holbrook
Grafton 80. j. McIver
The judges on the debate were Mrs.
Hillyer, Mrs. Wilkinson and Mr.. Hill
yer. The decision was in favor of the
negative.
After the programme the members
Of the Y. w. G. A. conducted a candy
sale, the proceeds of which are to be
used to defray the expenses Of the del
egates to the state meeting
At q recent meeting the society re-
vised its constitution and changed its
name. It is now known as The Da-
cotah Literary society. Al committee
was appointed to select a suitable pin
for the members to wear.
Miss Miller and Miss Olson were
speakers 1T the Social Center meeting
in Newberg township, In steele coun-
ty, last week. This meeting was held
at the pleasant farm home OF Iver
Thompson. A good attendance and in
terest reported.
Miss Nelson spent the week end at
her home in Fargo.
Miss Eddy addressed the Young Peo-
| pies society OF the synod church last
Sunday evening on the subject. Al Trip
to Rome,
THE board OF management for the
normal schools met in Mayville last
week, taking care of the routine bust
ness. eIecting a faculty for next year
and considering some special features
| for the advancement OF the schools.
All present members of the faculty
were elected.
six members of the faculty were out
for the commencement addresses last
week and about as many will do the
same this week. The news notes gave
D list Of places to which various menu
hers went All Export that the schools
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visited give evidence OF having been
doing good work and of a right inter-
est in the school on the part Of the
community.
Mr.. Wilkinson. Of the department Of
education, has secured several pieces
OF school apparatus to be inspected by
his class OF seniors, studying school
management. 1t is pleasing to note
that this Is mostly handled by the new
firm located in the state, The Northern
school Supply company, of Fargo. The
department mentioned viii be glad to
receive samples Of any good apparatus
and to present the merits OF the same.
This a the purpose Of preparing our
graduates to select that apparatus
which Is modern and which win do
most conductive to the physical com
fort Of the pupil, as well as to his
| mental a~dvapcapssr+
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mencement dinner viii be held in the
commons from s to 5 p. m. The Alum
nj association viii also hold it's annual
meeting in the evening. Other events
OF the evening will be the band con
cert on the campus at s O'clock, the
presidents reception in Davis hall par
Tor at 8 o'clock and the alumni annual
party in the gymnasium at $3.50 O'Clock.
The commencement procession will
take place at $3.50 a. IN. Wednesday.
June ~, and the commencement ex-
ercises will begin in the gymnasium
at 9:45.
Clyde Duffy and Albert Void will be
the orators representing the law school
at the commencement exercises.
Greater Democracy is Mr.. Duffy's ora
ton, while Mr.. Wold's subject is The
New Liberalism. Miss Annabel Batten
will talk on The Heart of Humanity.
Miss Anna McIIraith has for her sub
jeet The Meaning Of College.
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Wesley coIIsae.

The wesley college commencement
exercises will be held at the Metho-
dist church on Tuesday, June IL, at
10 a. m. All class reunions and func-
tions will be held at the university
m at noon Tuesday.
Justice Andrew A. Bruce will give
the university address in the auditor
ium of Woodwork hall at $50 p. m.
OF the same day.
At $3.50 p. m. the Women's league
of the university will hold a reception
in Davis hall parlor. The annual com
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cIass PlaN.

The Professors Love Story, by J.. NJ.
Barrie is the play is to be put on by
the senior class of the university this
year. The play will be staged on June
10 and it promises to be one of the
best ever given by a graduating class.
Prof. F. H. Koch is in charge of the
play and is having three rehearsals a
week.
The play will be given at $3.50 p. m.
in the Metropolitan theatre.