Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-04-25

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Monday morning. z
Took Chance In Water. '
]. A. Brayton OF Los Angeles was I
one OF those who jumped from he {
Titanic after the first big lhst Of The {
stricken vessel. 1
Il WIS walking on the deck" he
said. IT was a fine. cOidi clear
night. {
The accident happened at about
so. and within half an hour the
Nireless was calling for help. Az
aboat midnieht. l think. there came
the first boiler explosion. Then for
the frs, time. l ghink, Capt Smith
bevan to set worried A few min
ntes later a second boiler explosion
occurred. and then Capt, Smith or
dered the crew to man tte boats.
Among she first cabin passengers
little or no confusion prevailed. The
first and second officers. with revol
vers. stood by the ladders to the
boats. The orders xere Women
first"
Men Threatened with Guns.
The procedure into the boats was
orderly. / understand that among
the steerage passengers a panic
broke out and that the ships off
Gers had 70 shoot three men who
tried 10 force their way into the
boats. The small boats were an
titled when the ship gayeia heavy
lureh. She reeled TO the right and
Ito the left as il she were groggy
when the vessel struck the pas
sengers were SO little alarmed they
I5oked over the matter. The few
that appeared on deck early had tax
len their time to dress properly and
there was not the slightest indica-
ton Of panic.
Some fragments OF ice had fall
en- on the deck and these were pick
ed up and passed around by some
: of-the faeetious ones who offered
: .sem as menentoes of the occasion
ion the port side a glance over the
sh' failed to show any evidence
t of damage and the vessel seemed tC
/ be on an even keel
James CIinch Smith and l. how
ever, soon found the vessel was list
ing heavily. A few minutes latei
the officers ordered men and womel
Ito don life ~preservers.
"One OF the last women seei
: was Miss Evans OF New York. wht
Virtually refused to be rescued, be
e cause she had been told by a for
tuneteller in London that sh'
would meet her death on the water
Fulton Mans Sister On Titanic.
eli Fulton. Mo. April IL.
I'll John McLaren OF Fulton said &c
e day be believed his sister. Mrs. Jns
Baxter Of Durln Pace, Scotland, wa
on the steamer Titanic. The nam
appeared on the list OF first elias
passengers.
Isadore Taylor. who is with u
re Pitcher Jewelry Co, anne over |
ID August. 1906. He sailed on the Al
~ Ratio, in charge Of Captain r. ]
i. Smith, the captain of the in-fated I
3v tanIc. who went TO the bottom I
"a the sea with the 1909 and more I
er the ships passengers.
r Isadore Gays the AdrIauc vas Il
to largest ship at that time. 1T ira
10 eled through the Northern route, b
adlw, saw no icebergs," continued Is
ct dore. THE weather was ideal, q
mt sea calm and the TRIP indeed plea
ant.
The ship seemed more like a b
;t.. hotel than 1t did a vessel sailing {
on- the Ocean. Every apartment W
I'VE magnificently furnished"
MS Drowning Not Very Painful.
his That those who were sent
amItheir death in the wreck of the :
,ey Itansc did not suffer greatly. is I
gh- belief of Earl King, who was near
drowned an Salt River. while swi
so lining two years ago.
,rk. When he was Seen at Wren's Ph
macy on Friday he gave a vi'
and descrdption Of the sensation he
after having remained in the wa
several minutes.
xii when I was going down for
ndi. first time / felt helpless" Mr.. Xxi
said, "but by the time ] had start
Ito 20 down Tor the second time
was in a frenzy Of fear. There v
.y an agonized strain on every mus
In my body / clutched and CLAW
the water madiy in the vain h'
r. that | might save myself.
Y Il after / had gone down for
flthird time, however, my physi
vi weakness cleared my brain and
..lery event in my life passed Def
u eme in a shifting Kaleidoscope.
saw my faults and weaknesses vi
OlI iy. I did not fear any more
I'll strangely enough / seemed to b
Gil resigned myself to my fate"
81 Spends Night Among leebergs
II Miss Ida Rosamond who went
N Europe last ummer gives an in
~ estIng account of the experience
g 4 the ship on which she came no
= Ian the iceberg region. 1t was
- Canada OF the Allen line which 7
~ between Liverpool and Montreal,
vO- Miss Rosamond passed through
~ same portion Of the Atlantic
(which the Titanic sank. She said
When we came through that
Eion. the fog was 50 dense that
was ~impenetrable TO the eyesl
alive emterd this region Just be
4 the might and through the period OF
draw night we travelled in the iceberg
ricul. glon. When we entered It, Car
iched Jones, a most careful sailor, inf
oil Of ed the passengers OF the presenc
lcebergs and warned us not to
\ the come unasy should we hear the
the CINE stop, He said he was &
al to take the utmost care with
Trep. ship. and during the night the
inner. CINE stop several times. How