The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-04-20
745 SURVIVORS
LANlIAI n. Y.
FINAL SCENE is ENACTED IN Aw.
Full TRAGEDY OF
THE SEA.
1870 LIVES WERE LOST
Rescued Passengers Tell Heart-Break.
ing Tales of Tire Crash of
Steamer and iceberg
= Last Sunday Night.

NEW IOrK, April lS.-Llfted from
the gates of death, the 745, survivors
OF the Titanic were landed by the
Carpathia, which rescued them two
hours and half after the great White
Star liner hurled itself against an
iceberg last Sunday night Disfigured
by calamity and misery and oppressed
by awful sorrow, the women and chill
dren and the few men who escaped
from the worlds greatest sea disaster
are in better physical condition than
the most optimistic had hoped for.
Out of the great company that waited
, for hours in bitter cold among the
grinding bergs, many of them thinly
clad, many bruised and hurt by the
collision which destroyed their ship,
few needed the ministrations of ply
sicians when they put their feet on
land in sight of the vast crowd that
had been waiting in almost unbear-
able anxiety.
Many, it is true, were weary and
nervous and hysterical from an ex-
perience that had left the world void
and empty for them, but and thou
sands thanked God for it as they
watched-the majority of the sad and
bereaved company were we'll in body.
Only one of the Titanic's survivors
died while the Carpathia was driving
through logs ana storms to this port.
-Four of the Titanic's people had
perlshed trying to get aboard the
Carpathla and another Titanic pas
senger lost his life by the fotging of
boat. One woman, "a second cabin
passenger who was landed last night,
was suffering from broken arm.
But the general good condition of the
hundreds so dramatically saved from
death was a cause df inexpressible
pleasure to the Thousands who saw
them land. There was No need, as
it turned out, for the ministers of
death who with collins waited at the
dock.
The Carpathia reported that there
were 10 saved out of a passenger
list which the White Star line fig
ured at 2,18O, making a loss of 1,470
lives. The Titanics passengers say
there were 745 rescued out of a, pas
senger list of 234O. The list NJ names
furnished on the Carnathia m ito or.
rival shows 188 first class cabin n.s.
sengers saved Tx in tho socond ooh,
in. 178 third class and 2Oe of Tho
crew q total If 6a7 saved n,oman
messenger IN tho Carnatbio hoard
from the ships doctor that 4e5 of
the passengers and 21O of the crew
had been saved and that 20 women
lost their husbands.
Six of these were brides. The
worlds annals has provided few more
intense and dramatic moments than
when all that was left of the great
company that sailed SO gayly bv the
Titanic appeared on the Cunard pier
It was with difficulty that the
tongues of MANY were loosened TO
speak of the scenes of agony and fear
that fell over the Titanic's peaceful
company when it became swiftly
known that the ship must 20 down.
Some told haltingly with dread still
frozen in their eyes of men who
strove and struggled against women
for the life boats and Of officers shoot
ing them down. One woman saw an
officer shoot two men, she said. and
other passengers recalled how officers
had stood with drawn pistols while
the women and children were being
guided into the boats.
No one seemed to know tho fato
of the Titanic,s cantain ~ T smith