The Forrest City times., 1912-04-26
Remarkable Heroism Dis-
 played by All.
Enforcement of the Rule "Women First" Sunders Family Ties Forever-Famous Americans Show Elements of Strong Man. hood-Passsngers in Lifeboats Watch Great Steamer Sink.

hood-Passengers in Lifeboats
 Watch Great Steamer Sink. nurse and was taken in charge by Maj. Arthur Peuchen.
 The admiration felt by passengers and crew for the matchlessly appoint ed vessel was translated. in those trst few moments, into a confidence which. for some. proved deadly Llfeboats Arc Lacking. In the loading of the first boat, re- strictions of sex were not made, and It seemed to the men who piled in be- side the women that there would be boats enough for all. But the ships officers knew better than this. and as the spreading fear caused an earnest advance toward the suspended craft the order. Women first," was heard, and the men were pushed aside.
 To the scenes of the next two hours on those decks and in the waters be- low, such adjectives as dramatic" and tragic" do but poor justice. With the Knowledge of deadly peril gaining greater power each moment over t.ose men and women, the mobility Of the greater part. both among cabin passengers, officers, crew and steer age, asserted itself
 Straus Held Back by Guard.
 Isdor Straus. supporting his wife on her way to a lifeboat, was held back by an memorable guard. Another officer strove to belp her to a seat of ! safety, but she brushed away his arm and clung to her husband. crying. Il will not go without you"
 Another woman took ner place, and her form, clinging to her husbands. became part of a picture now drawn indelibly in many minds. Neither wife nor husband, so far as anyone knows. reached a place of safety
 i Astor and Wife Part.
 Colonel Astor. holding his wife's arm, stood decorously aside as the officers spoke to him. and Mrs. Astor and her maid were ushered to seats. Mrs Henry 5. Harris parted in like manner from her husband. saw him last at the rail, beside Colonel Astor. Walter NJ. Clark of Los Angeles, nephew of the Montana senator | joined the line of men as his young wife. sobbing. was placed in one Of the craft.
 Let him come, There is room," cried Mrs. Emil Taussig as the men O. the White Star line motioned to | |, fA har diff culty that he released her hold to permit her to be led to her place.
 George D. Widener. who had been l ir Captain Smiths company few moments after the crash was an- other whose wife was parted from
 i'm and lowered. a moment later. to the surface of the calm sea Butt, Hays and Stead Lost. Of Major Archie Butt. a favorite with his fellow tourists; Of Charles Nj | Pays. president of the Grand Trunk; of Benjamin Guggenheim. and Of VII. l liam T. Stead, no one seems to know i whether they tarried too long in their | state-ooms or whether they forebore {, approach the last filling boats None of them was in the throng which, weary hours afterward reached the Carpathia.
 Pistols Check Steeraec Men.
 Simultaneously on the upper decks ol the ship the ropes creaked with the | lowering Of boats, and as they reached | the water those fin the boats saw 1 what those on the decks could not see-that the Titanic was listing rap 1 idly to starboard. and that her stern was rising at portentious angle A rush of steerage men toward the koats was checked by officers with i revolvers in hand.
 | Some of the boats. crowded too full 10 give powers chance, drifted for a time. None had provisions or water. t..ere was a lack of covering from the l icy air. and the only lights were the still undimmed arcs and incandeseents of the settling ship. save for one of the first boats There a steward. who explained to the passengers that he had been shipwrecked twice before. appeared carrying three oranges and a green light
 l Green Lantern as Savior.
 That green light, many of the sur. vivors say, was to the shipwrecked hundreds as the pillar Of fire by night Long after the ship had disappeared and whiS confusing false lights danced about the boats. the green Ian tern kept them together on the course which led them to the Carpathia
 As the end of the Titanic became