Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-19
SURVIVORS SAW AWFUL END
THEY HEAR STRAINS OF SWEET
MUSIC As THE GREAT SHIP
PLUNGES UNDER.
MANY PITIFUL TRAGEDIES
Colona. Astor Plead TO Go With His
Wife; All Women First, He Was
Told survivors Own Version.

NEW YORK, April 1S.-The Cum
ard liner Carpathia, ship of gloom
and succor came into New York to-
night with the first news direct from
the great White Star liner Titanic,
which sank off the Grand Banks of
Newfoundland early last Monday
morning.
The great liner went down with her
band playing, taking with her to
death all but 7l5 of her human cargo
of 2,340 souls.
10 this awful death list, six per-
sons We're added. one died in the
lifeboats when 1t put off from the
liners side, and five subsequently
succumbed on the rescue ship Car
pathia. The list of prominent men
missing stands as previously reported,
and the total death list as brought to
port by the Carpathia Is l,G01.
Survivors In the life boats huddled
In the darkness at safe distance
from the stricken ship and saw her
go down. As to the scene on board
when the liner struck accounts dis
agree widely, Some maintain that
a comparative calm prevailed others
say that wild disorder broke out and
that there was maniac struggle for
the life boats. That the liner struck
an Iceberg as reported by wireless
was confirmed by all.
Sensational Rumors Heard.
Sensational rumors told by hyster-
ical passengers who would not give
their names. said that Captain smith
had killed himself on the bridge; that
the chief engineer had taken his life,
and that three Italians were shot in
the struggle for the boats. These ru-
mors could not be confirmed in the
early confusion attendant on the
landing of the survivors.
Ripped from stem to engine room
by the great mass Of ice she struck.
the Titanic's side was laid open as IL
by gigantic can opener. She quick
ly listed to starboard and a shower Of
ice fell on to the forecastle deck.
Shortly before she sank. she broke
In two abaft the engine room, and
as she disappeared beneath the water.
the expulsion of air caused two ex-
plosions which were plainly heard by
the survivors adrift. A moment more.
and the Titanic had gone to her
doom with the fated hundreds
grouped on the after deck To the
survivors they were visible to the
last, and their cries and means were
pitiable.
Following is the account Of Mr..
Beasy. of London:
The voyage from Queenstown had
been quite uneventful. very fine
weather was experienced and the sea
was quite calm. The wind had been
very cold particularly the last day;
in fact, after dinner on Sunday even
ing Il was almost too cold to be out
on deck at all. | had been in my
berth for about ten minutes. when, at
about 11:1j y. m. felt slight Jar
and then soon after a second one but
not sufficiently large to cause any
anxiety. However the engines stopped
Immediately afterwards and my first
thought was-'she has lost a propel-
Ter. went up on the top (boaD
deck in a dressing gown and found
only few people there who had
come up similarly to inquire why We
had stopped. but there was no sort OF
anxiety In the minds OF any of us
I'VE saw through the smoking room
window game of cards going on
and went IN to inquire If they knew
anything; It seems they felt more of
the jar. and looking through the win
dow had seen huge iceberg go by
close to the side of the boat. They
thought we had just grazed II with a
glancing blow and that Ile engines
had been stopped to see II any damage
had been done. No one OF course.
had any conception that she had been
pierced below by parts of the suh-
merged iceberg. The game went on