Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-24


that no attention was paid to their
warnings. One of them said: No Won
der that Mr.. Murdoch shot himself.
Gets Dead Mans Place.
Whitleys own experience was a
Sard one
I foated on my life preserver for
several hours" he said. when the
sun came up saw the collapsible raft
in the distance, just black with men.
They we're all standing up. Mr..
Lightoller, the second officer, was one
Of them.
Its 81 lives against yours, he
said, you can't come aboard. There's
no room.
4 pleaded with him in vain, and
then, 1 confess, 1 prayed that some
body might die so l could take his
place | was only human. And then
some one did die and let me aboard"
The senate Investigators have gone
to Washington where the inquiry will
be continued. ]. Bruce Ismay, p. A.
S. Franklin, the chief officials Of the
White Star line and more than a score
of officers and crew Of the sunken
vessel will appear before the commit
tee in the capital.
Ships Coal Was Attire.
The story told by j. Dilley was as
follows:
THE Titanic sailed from Southamp-
ton on Wednesday, April 10, at noon.
Il was assigned to the Titanic from
the Oceanic, where l had served as a
fireman. From the day we sailed the
Titanic was on fire, ana my sole duty,
together with eleven other men, had
been to fight that fire. We had made
no Roadway against it.
"Of course the passengers knew
nothing of the fire. Do you think, sir,
we'd let them know about it? No,
sir.
"The fire started in bunker No. 6.
There were hundreds of tons of coal
stored there. The coal on top of the
bunker was wet, as all of the coal
should have been, but down at the bot
tom of the bunker the coal was dry.
The coal at the bottom of the bunker
took fire, and smoldered for days. The
wet coal on top kept the flames from
coming through, but down in the bot
tom Of the bunker the flames were
raging.
Suckers Fight the Flames.
1.-TWO men from each watch of
stokers was tolled off to fight that
fire. The stokers, you know. work
four hours at a time, so II of us was
fighting the flames from the day we
put out of Southampton till we hit
the iceberg.
NO, sir, we didn't get that fire out
And among the stokers there was talk
that we would have to empty the coal
bunkers after we had put our pas
sengers off in New York and then call
the fireboats there to help us put out
the fire.
but we didn't need such help. 1t
was right under bunker No. that the
iceberg tore the biggest hole in the
Titanic, and the flood that come
through the Titanic put out the fire
that our tons and tons of water hadn't
been able to get rid of.
Told to Shut Mouths.
1.-THE stokerS were beginning to get
alarmed over it, but the officers told
us to keep our mouths shut. They
didn't want to alarm the passengers"
Another fireman said that because
of the fire the ship sank more rapidly
than otherwise would have been the
case.
1T had been necessary to take the
coal out of sections two and three on
the starbOard side forward" he said,
and when the water came rushing in
after the collision the bulkheads
would not hold because they did not
have the supporting weight of the
coal
tSorAebody reported to Chief En-
gineer Bell that the forward bUlkhead
had given way and he replied: My,
God, we are lost"
Bodies and Debris Sighted.
A wireless dispatch from the cable
steamship Mackay Bennett says that
the steamer EOnis reported passing
wreckage and bodies eight miles east
Of three icebergs. The Mackay Ben
nett and the steamer Bremen are now
in the vicinity and further advices are