Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-24

put thirty into one. a party of five
women. This a boat No. L
'How many women were in it2f
About five"
How many men?"
About twenty-five"
He didn't know any of the men.
There were no officers. tIe thought 1t
| contained a qua~rter1naster. After that
he crossed the deck to the port side,
met the sixth officer. They filed boats
IA and 16 with women and children.
He took charge of the loading of No Ia
| and put IS aboard, all women. except a
man who sneaked aboard in women's
clothing. He didn't detect him till
later. He put on a passenger named
C. Williams, of New York, to help man
the boat
Mrs. A. C. Compton and r. G. Comp
| ton, Laurel House. Lakewood, N. j.,
were on that boat. Lowe had their
names in a notebook. He had been put
in charge of this boat when it put off
from the Titanic.
Lowe told how he transferred his
passengers from boat IA to the other
boats and called for volunteers to go
back to the scene of the wreck. Men
came TO his aid and they rowed back.
They picked up four. One was Mr..
IIoyt, OF New York. who was bleeding
profusely. He died in a short time.
He didn't know the n<me of the 9TH
ers pulled aboard.
While still at the wreck he saw the
Carpathia.
az was afraid after a time that the
Carpathia didn't see us in the semi
gloom, so l made for her." he said.
ION the way / saw a eollapsible boat
in sorry shape. l went to it and
took it in tow. Mrs. H. B. Harris, of
New York, was the only one ! knew in
the coilapsibie."
He said that he lay off from the
Titanic about a hundred yards till the
cries of the drowning persons died
down. Then he went to the scene.
why didn't you go s%ooner?'
at would have been useless"
But you had a boat with a capacity
of sixty-five."
"What good would that be when
1900 were drowning? 1t would have
been nc use in the world. Neither wise
nor safe,
He said he heard about four ex-
plosions. Then came this inevitable
question from Senator Smith:
"was there any fire." The witness
replied that there was none.
It was while transferring his pas
sengers from lifeboat IA to others that
Lowe discovered he had a disguised
man aboard. He pulled the shawl from
his head, revealing a mustache. He
let him go into the other boat without
question.
After taking one collapsible boat in
tow he saw another collapsible, ap-
parently sinking. In a few minutes II
would have sunk. It had twenty men
aboard, three women and three male
corpses. He didn't know the identity
of the dead.
Perhaps l was a little hard -hearted
leaving them there" he said, but I
was thinking of the living, not the dea
l asked all the persons on the sinking
collapsible II those three were dead.
They We're sure that they we're dead
Lowe took his survivors and the body
of Mr.. Hoyt to the Carpathia, he said.
Lowe knew that icebergs had been
marked on the map showing the IT.
tanic's course. He did not consider II
in the nature of a warning, he said,
and it caused him no concern. He re-
garded IL more as a foutine report
than anything else. The iceberg was
marked by a chip stuck in the edge of
a plane with the longitude and latitude
indicated.
ibid you near any further shots Sun
day nisht?"
81 heard them because ] fred them
as ! was going down the deck. 1 ex-
pected every moment my boat would
double up. / made up my mind that
nobody else must get in. One addi-
tional person might break the boat. I
saw some Italians, all glarins. The
boat wac coming down three feet from
the ships side. AS I went down / fired
these shots. I didn't shoot anybody.
After branding him as q coward,
Major Arthur G. Peuchen, of Toronto,
Canada, who came here as a voluntary
witness to testify before the Senate
committee investigating the wreck OF