The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-22
Told by Brave Operator Who
Stuck by Post to Last
FRANKFURT Needed NOT CALL
1t Was Nearest Boat to Scene of the
Disaster-White Star People Knew
of Wreck Hours Before They
Gave 1t Out.

New York, April 22.Continued in.
vestigation INTO the Titanic disaster by
the Senate subcommittee Saturday
served further to confirm the fact that
the great ship had been forced forward
at top speed in the face of aerial warn
ings OF icebergs ahead. The testimony
OF young Harold S. Bride, assistant Mar
conf operator aboard the Titanic, dis
closed the warning of danger received
five hours before the collision and the
delivery OF this warning to the bridge
Just as Second Officer Lightoller, the aft
ernoon before, had fixed the speed OF the
ship.
APPARENT what phose OF the investi-
CATION stands settled to the satisfae-
tion of Senator William Alden Smith
and his colleagues, for Saturday much
OF the short SESSION was taken up with
matters nearly as significant. They had
to do with the situation just before
the impact. the last hours of the ship
and what came after those who lived
were drifting awaiting the coming of
the Carpathia.
1t was the day of the wireless oper-
ator and of his experience both in the
doomed vessel and the rescuing one.
The two chief witnesses, in their order.
we're Harold T. Gotham, operator of the
Carpathia, and young Bride. Third Of
ficer Herbert John Pitman of the IT,
tanic appeared for minute on the stand
Just before adjournment was taken, but
he answered one question only, as to
the fate of the log. So far as he knew,
that important document to-day is at
the bottom OF the sea.
Other significant facts established
were:
The White Star line ship Baltic was
notified before o'clock Monday morn
ing that the Titanic was sinking fast
and at 1880 in the morning that she
had gone down with most of her pas
sengers and crew, the survivors being
on the Carpathis.
On the same Monday afternoon, the
White Star line notified Congressman
Hughes that the Titanic was proceeding
to Halifax and all aboard her safe.
No report was sent from the Car
pathia to justify the statement that
the Titanic or her passengers were safe.
The advent of the Carpathia upon the
scene was the merest accident, the opera
tor catching the distress message as he
was retiring for the night and while
waiting for response from another
ship.
Six hours before the Titanic was side
swped by an iceberg, her captain had
received warning from the Californian.
in about the same position, that the
latter had Just passed very close to
three large bergs.,
The first reply received by the Titanic
operators to their distress call was from
the German liner Franfurt. which, ac-
eording to the surviving Titanic opera
tor, ignored the urgent demand for as
sistanee.
Bride, the surviving Titanic operator,
told OF seeing Tots of people" running
around the decks of the Titanic just
before she went down, searching for
liebets.
Capt. Smith of the Titanic, says Bride.
jumped from the bridge into the ocean
about five minutes before the waves
closed over the big ship, lie wore no
lfelelt and Bride never saw him again.
Scores OF lifebelted men and women
struggled to get hold of the last boat,
a collapsible, which was thrown into the
sea and fell bottom up, and We're driven
of by the men who had managed to
REACH the boat and loaded it to its full
weight carrying capacity.