The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-19
THIRTY SAVED BY JUMPING
 FROM TITANIC AS SHE SUNK
Miraculous Escape of Men Who Leaped From
 Vessels Deck and Clung to Life Raft.

New York. April 1S.-E. z. Taylor of Philadelphia, one of the survivors, jumped into the sea just three min utes before the boat sank He told a graphic story as he came from the Carpathia:
 T was eating when the boat struck the iceburg,p he said There was an awful shock that made the boat tremble from stem to stern. l didn't realize for some time what had hap pened No one seemed to know the extent of the accident. We were told that an iceberg had been struck by the ship l felt the boat rise and it seemed to me that she was riding over the ice. I ran out on deck and then I could see ice. It was verit- able sea of ice and the boat was rock ing over it. l should say that parts of the iceberg were 80 feet high but it had been broken into sections, prob ably by our ship.
 t1 jumped into the ocean and was picked up by one of the boats. I never expected to see land again. I waited on board the boat until the lights went out It seemed to me that the discl- ! pline on board was wonderful" I Colonel Archibald Oracle, U $. A., the last man saved, went down with the vessel, but was picked up. He was met tonight by his daughter, who had arrived from Washington, and his sof-in-law, Paul ?. Fabriicns. Col onel Oracle told a remarkable story of personal hardship and denied em practically the report that there had 1 been any panic on board. He praised in the highest terms the behavior of both the passengers and crew, and placed a high tribute to the heroism of the women passengers. Stayed With Her Husband.
 Mrs Isidor Straus," he said, went to her death because she would not desert her husband. Also he pleaded with her to take her place in the boat, she steadfastly refused and when the ship settled at the head, the two, were i eHgulfed by the wave which swept over the wreck"
 Colonel Oracle told of how he was driven to the topmost deck when the ship settled and was the sole sur vivor after the wave that swept her just before her final plunge had passed
 Jumped into the Sea.
 q jumped with the wave," said he, "iust as I often have jumped with the breakers at the seashore. By great good fortune, II managed to ] grasp the brass railing on the deck above. and I hung on by might and main. When the ship plunged down, l was forced to let go and I was swirled around and around for what | seemed to be an indeterminable time. Eventually I came to the surface to find the sea a mass of tangled Vreck- age.
 Luckily, 1 was unhurt, and casting l about, managed to seize & wooden grating floating nearby. When I had recovered my breath I discovered a larger canvas and corklilSe raft, which had floated up. A man whose name l didn't learn was struggling toward it from some wreckage to which he had clung, cast off and helped him to get onto the raft and we then be- gan the work Of rescuing those who had jumped into the sea and were flounderlng in the water.
 | When dawn broke, there were so of us on the raft, standing knee deep in the icy water and afraid to move lest the cranky craft be overturned Several unfortunates. benumbed and half dead, besaught us to save them and one or two made an effort te reach us, but we had to warn them away. Had we made any effort to save them we all might have per
 ished
 Rescued hy carpathia.
 "rhe hours that elapsed before We
 were picked up by the Carpathia were Il the longest and most terrible that i ever spent. Practically without any
 sensation of feeling because of the icy water, we were almost dropping from ]