The Nevada County picayune., 1912-04-26
,,,.restina Narrative Collected From Surviving Passengers On the Carpathia oplIsEs HER0ISM OF MEN ,a.,,c,s String Band Plays "Nsarer My God to Thee" as Ship
 Goes Down.

T'sssr Hew York.-How the Titanic sank
 ]. told by Charles F. Hurd, staff
 .,respondent of the Evening World,
 sho was a passenger on the Carpathia,
 ..a who furnished that newspaper
 sth his account,
 ue gives the number of lives lost as
 ,,M He praises highly the courage
 f the crew hundreds of whom gave
 Aer lives with heroism which equal
 d bnt could not exceed that Of John
 teob Astor. Henry B. Harris. Jacques
 gnrelle and others in the long list of
 fist cabin passengers.
 t was inc explosion of the boilers, rording to Mr. Hurd's account. which
 fpaly finished the Titanics career.
 The tukhead system, though prob
 6k working, prevailed only to delay
 p ships sinking. The position of the
 4p's wound on the starboard guar
 w admitted an thrush of icy water, srording 10 TIurd's story, which ausad the boilers to explode, ana aese explosions broke the ship in Two.
 . The ships string band gathered in | ta saloon near the end, his narrative | sys, and played Nearer My God, to flee D
 Captain Rushed to Bridge. \ The account continues: "The crash sgaiast the iceberg. which had been sghed al only a quarter-mile distance. |4ne almost simultaneously with the kick of he levers operated at the |i1dge. which stopped the engines and tosed the water.tight doors Captain Smith was on the bridge moment hler He summoned all on board to Et on life-preserVers, and ordered ae lfe-toats lowered. The first boats fsd more male passengers, as the men tere lhe first 10 reach the deck. When ee rush of frightened men and wom- 2 and crying children to the decks legan. the Women first rule was 'gialy enforced.
 Officers drew reyolvers, but in s@t cases there was no use for them. ssolyer shots. heard shortly before se Titanic went down. caused many rnors-one that Captain Smith had Dot himself. another that First Officer sardock had ended his life; but mem 1ss of the crew discredit these ru- Eors.
 Captain Seen on the Bridge. Captain Smith was last seen on the kdge, just before the ship sank. hping as the decks sank beneath En.
 What became of the men with the Espreservers was a question asked h many since the disaster
 Many of those with lfe-preseryers 'sre seen to go down despite the pre- srers, and dead bodies floated on ee surface as the boats moved away Mrs lsadore Straus refused 10 lave her husbands side. and both |yrished together.
 Harold Cotton, Marconi operator on |te carpathia. did not go to bed at his |eaal time Sunday night. and as re |at eansht tho first message of the |lfanic's pAeht. which was responsible ff saving he hundreds rescued who aded in New York
 was testified to by several sur a0rs that the Titanic was going 23 |hots au hour when she crashed into be iceberg.
 Officers Knew the Danger.
 h addition to the foregoing Mir. surd said. in part:
 Facts which have established by eqpiries on the Carpathia, as posi- |ueIy as they could be established in fE Of the silence of the few sur |N'ing officers are:
 That tho Titanic's officers knew aefal hours before the crash of the ~slaIe nearness of the icebergs,
 That the Titanic's speed, nearly
 ahots an hour, was not slackened nat the number of lifebats on 'tanic was insufficient to accom-
 4Pate more than one-third of the
 %sensers 10 say nothing of the
 " Members of the crew say there ele l6 lifehoats and two collapsble
 none say there were more than % |'oats in all.
 lie tH1 who escaped filled most of n, @e le lltetoats and the one collap- s ule' which got away, to the limit of |aeir capacity.
 Had the ship struck tke iceberg sad-on' at whatever speed and with .ua,eFer resulting shock, the bulk a system of water-tight compart-
 .a'S ", might have saved her.
 AS one man expressed it, 1t was the
 p0sslole that happened when, with suocN nnbelieyeably mild, the ships |ss ,e was torn Tor a length which made
 ~r, ouiFhead system ineffective. me Titanic was l,799 miles from S.. S..eas'o~n and 1,191 miles fire m New speeding for bridal voyage |. The night was starlight, the
 grassy, Lights were out in most