The Forrest City times., 1912-04-26
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 By a Reporter.
1.l26 Lives Lost in This Most Appalling of All Sea Tragedies Boat Strikes Berg and Then Boilers Explode-Brave Men and Women Meet Death With Undaunted Courage.
BY CARTER ?. hURD.

' CAn n NShOs
 Stan Reporter, N. Y. World. whs .r- rived on tho Cnrpathia.
 (Copyright. 1912, by Pulit.er Psslish-
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 Y. World.
 New York, April 19.-Seventeen hundred lives-the figures will hardly vary in either direction by more than a few dozen-were lost in the sinking Of the Titanic which struck an ice berg at 11:45 D. m. Sunday and was at the ocean's bottom hours and 35 minutes after.
 The printed rolls of first and sec ond cabins. compared with the list of the survivors on the Carpathia. show that of 341 first-cabin passengers. PIP were saved. i54 of them women and children; and that of 262 second cabin passengers. 115 were saved. 102 of them women and children of the third-class passengers, 500 in num- Der, 136 survive, of whom S3 are women and children
 Of 9S5 officers and crew. 199, in- cluding 22 women. reached the Car pathia few in each class doubtless escaped enumeration on the Carpa- thia
 f,6S8 Are Unaccounted For.
 Accepting the estimate of the Car pathia's officers that TOO survivors reached the ship. comparison with the total. 2,3SS. shows that l.6SS are un. accounted for
 There Is but the faintest hope that any of these reached any other ship Reports that the California, a cattle ship, may have rescued few persons. have given merciful respite from ut ter despair to some of the women
 Cause, responsibility and similar questions regarding the stupendous disaster will be taken up in time by the British marine authorities No disposition has been shown by any survivor to question the courage of the crew. hundreds of whom saved others and gave their own lives with heroism which equaled but could not exceed that of John Jacob Astor. Henry R. Harris. Jacques Futrelle and others in the long list of the first cabin missing
 Officers Knew Icebercs Were Near.
 Facts which have established by inquiries on the Carpathia, as posi- lively as they could be established Tn View Of the silence of the few surviv- Ing officers. are:
 mat the Titanic's officers knew several hours before the crash. of the possible nearness of icebergs
 That the Titanics speed. nearly 23 Ahots an hour, was not slackened
 mat the number of lifeboats on the titanic was insufficient to accommo- date much more than onethird of the passengers. to say nothing Of the crew Most members of the crew say there were l6 lifeboats and two "oilapsloles; none say there were more than 20 boats in all. The TOO ~ho escaped filled most of the 16 life poats and the one collapsibe which kot away to the limit of their capac- fty
 Women First" Rule Enforced.
 nat the women first" rule. in one cases. was applied to the extent H turning back men who were with 'eef families. even though not enough eethen to fill the boats were at hand ah that particular part of the deck 9oine few boats were thus lowered @ithout being completely filled. but inost of these were soon filled with aditors and stewards, picked up out VI me water, who helped man them
 nat the bulkhead system. though pfohabT working in the manner in- 'ended, availed only to delay the s.ip sinking. the position and length oi the ships wound Con the starboard quar'er) admitted icy water which Naused the boilers to explode and saese explosions practically broke the ship in two
 euikheaos Rendered ineffective.
 mad the ship struck the iceberg nead-on. at whatever speed, and with "ha.ever resultant shock. the bulk Head system of water-tight comrart- nehts would probably have saved the .essei. As one man expressed 1t. 1t was the impossible" that happened ~ men. with a shock unbelievabiy mild. .ne snip's side was torn for a length
 .'en made the bulkhead system in effective.