The Springfield herald., 1912-05-03
2O5 TITANIC
VICTIMS FOUND
BODIES OF COL. AsToR, IsIooRE
STRAuS AND c. M. HAYS
RECOVERED.
MANY ARE Identified
NAMES OF NINETY-oNE PERSONS
REPORTED BY CABLE SHIP
MACkAY-BENNETT.
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New ork.-The bodies OF Colonel
John Jacob Astor and Isidore Straus,
the millionaire merchant Of this city,
who lost their lives In the Titanic dis
aster, have been recovered and are on
board the cable ship Mackay Bennett.
News of the recovery of the bodies
was contained in a dispatch to the
White Star Line Company.
The body of G. NJ. Hays. president OF
he Grand Trunk Railway. has also
been recovered according to a wire
less message from the cable ship
Nina.
The wireless dispatch which came
TO the company from the Mackay-Ben-
OF forty-nine of the heretofore un-
known recovered dead on the cable
ship. OF the POS dead on board the
Mackay-Bennett the names of ninety
less.
Washington.-Ablaze with light fr om
her salon and cabins. the Titanic
according to Ernest Gill, donkey en-
gIne man on the steamship Califo;ni-
an, who testified before the Sena' e
committee Investigating the disaster.
He said Captain Stanley Lord of the
Californian refused later to go to he
aid of the Titanic, the rockets from
which could be plainly seen.
This, Captain Lord denied; but both
he and his wireless operator acknowl-
edged having seen rockets. Their ship,
they said, was fast in the ice.
Gill submitted an affidavit to the
committee. and when sworn and put on
the stand stuck to his charges against
the captain OF the Californian.
He said he was standing on the
deck late Sunday night when he sight
ed great ship, sweeping along at top
speed. about ten miles off. He did not
know 1t. was the Titanic. but made out
readily that 1t was not freighter or
a small vessel because of the manner
in which it was illuminated.
Some time later he saw distress rock
cts on the horizon. He says the cap
tain was apprised OF these signals.
but made no effort to get up steam aId
go to the rescue The Californian was
drifting with the foe. So Indignant
did he become, said Gill. that he en-
deavored to recruit committee of pro-
test from among the crew, but the men
failed him.
Captain Lord entered sweeping de-
nial of Gills accusations and read from
the Californian's log TO support his
contention.
Cyral Evans, the Californian's wire
less operator, however, told of having
heard much talk among the crew, who
criticised the captains course. Gill,
he said, told him he expected to get
$500 for his story when the snip
reached Boston.
Evans told of having warned the IL
tanic only a brief time before the
great vessel crashed into the berg
that the sea was crowded with ice.
The Titanics operators, he said,
at the time were working with the
wireless station at Cape Race, and
they told him to "shut up and keep
out" Within a half hour the pride
of the sea was crumpled up and sink
ing.
1t developed that one reform which
is certain to spring from the investi-
CATION will be enforced in the wireless
rooms of ships entering or leaving
American ports. This concerns lack of
authority over the operators pay,
hours and freedom from responsible
ty as brought out by the testimony to
date. Senator Smith, its chairman,
announced that such legislation was
inevitable.
A sworn statement that the captain
of the liner Californian refused to go
to the aid of the Titanic, although
only few miles away, was filed with
the committee by Ernst Gill, donkey
engineman on the Californian. Gill
said that the distress rockets were
plainly visible from the deck of the
Californian, and must have been visi-
BILE to both the bridge and the look
out.