Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-28

had ladders put oyer the sides and He boats were swung out. Every body was on hand and everythine was all made ready"
 A great ice pack was between the Mount Temple and the Carpa. .hia when Captain Moore sighted the latter about six o'clock in the morn ing. The Californion arrived on the l scene Of the disaster shortly after the Mount Temple. The Burma was sighted about a. III.
 In his testimony Cabin Steward Crawford told of 'he last minutes of MT. and Mrs. Isadore Straus. T went to my station on Boat Mo- S." said Crawforh MT. Wilde, the chief officer was in charge. We fil- led that boat up with women first. Mrs. Isadore Straus and her hus- band were '.here, and she made an attempt to get into the boat first. She had placed her maid into the boat previous to that. She handed her maid a rug and then stepped back and clung to her husband and said
 We have been together all these years Where you go l go."
 C.Otain Moore TpStifieS
 Cap'sain James H. Moore, of the Steamship Mount Temple, appeared before the Senate Investigating Com mittee today and declared that two steamers and schooner were but a short distance away from the ill., fated Titanic when she sunk to The bottom off the New Foundland Banks.
 Had it not been for the hube ice field, which kept the steamers from hurrying to the rescue, many of the Titanic victims would have been saved, said Captain Moore He tes- tified that he made an effort to get to the sinking liner but was unable to do so in time to save any of her passengers.
 Had Said 'G0Od Night"
 Passengers on the Mount Temple which was in the vicinity of the Ti- tanic on the fateful night of Sunday April 14, have declared they saw the Titanic's lights and signals. Wire less Operator Cottan of the Car pathia testified that he did not be- leve the Mount Temple got the Ti- tanic's wireless signals of distress because the operator of the Noun" Temple had given his good night shortly after 10 o'clock that night.
 The committee has yet to examine a number of British sailors who survive the Titanic wreck. A Craw- ford one of the stewards who was examined in New York, also is await ing recall J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, who has been waiting in Washington five days. attending the hearings from beginnig to end each day, still IS waiting to testify. He said today that he was not so impatient since the testimony of 25 of the survivors of the crew had been taken in one day by the arrangement whereby each senator spent nearly a whole night examining them. He expected to take the stand again within few days. The committee does not wish to recall him until it has cleared up all the points it can through surviving members of the crew and those on ships known to have been in the Titanic's vicinity the night of the catastrophe.
 Holding Witnesses
 Chairman Smith today reiterated the statement that no more passen- ger survivors would be heard until the officials, most of the crew and crews of other boats has testified. The four surviving officers of the Titanic. who are anxious to return, are still held. Fifth Officer Lowe is contemplating demanding of Sen ator Smith upon what information ne based his Interrogation of him as to his sobriety, Senator smith asKed Officer Lowe if he was drinking man. stating that he had been ln- formed he had been drinking the night the Titanic sank. This Lowe indignantly denied. asserting sha' he was "teetotaler"
 Samuel Goldberg and several others from New York representing the committee of Titanic survivors,
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