Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-04-26

Grand total saved ...... 745
Total number perlshed. .... 1895
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or any mangled persons were picked
up except one man with broken arm.
Bruce Ismay went to the lifeboats
in the first place, although the crew
of the liner was unwilling to leave
the Titanic, believing that the liner
was in little danger.
The last seen of John Jacob Astor
was when he was talking to his wife
before she took to the boats.
The last information concerning Ma
jor A. W. Butt was that the gallant
officer was with a group of the ships
officers and passengers on the upper
deck as the giant of the seas sank.
Ship Begins to List.
Still dazed and half stunned from
the shock of that appalling night,
amid all their grief, the survivors in
, sentences interrupted by sobs and
calculations, told of brief moments of
their experience that had to be pieced
together to make a coherent nara
tive.
The ocean was calm as a mill pond
when the Titanic crushed into the ice
berg. Most Of the passengers were
in the cabins. Then came the shock
of the collision, not so violent crash
as had been depicted, but enough to
disquiet all who felt it.
There was a general and orderly ex-
odus to the decks. Sailors were sour
rying hither and thither crying:
Nothing to be afraid Of! There's no
danger"
Then with perceptible suddenness
the ship began to list "All passen-
gers on deck with life belts" was
shouted. Then for the first time the
gravity OF the situation began to dawn
upon the passengers.
Sailors Help Women and Children.
The sailors helped the nearect wo
men and children into the boats. And
it was the beginning of excitement
Other sailors began to lower the boats
Thus far the men, standing idly by
failing entirely to grasp the signifi
canoe of the moment, had helped the
sailors. Many of the passengers re
| port that the men were laughing.
Wen be safer here in the ship than
in that cockleshell!" one man cried
to his wife as she was helped over
| the rail. But the Titanic began to
settle in the ocean and it was diff
cult for the men to remain on their
feet. Then it was that the appalling
nature of it all dawned upon these
men. And then also it was, that the
officers of the ship drew their re
volvers.
STAND back!" they cried. "Only
women and children go into the
boats"
The ship sank lower and lower
Three revolver shots were heard
| Three passengers in the steerage ha6
attempted to force their way past the
sailors and had been ruthlessly shot
down.
The ship had now listed to ter
rible angle. Men in the throes Of
panic attempted to reach the boats
and were pushed back And in thai
moment the heroism of hundreds as
serted itself 1t was the passengers
who pushed back these panic stricken
I few, and not the sailors. OF the in
dividual deeds of heroism, only few
have as yet been told.
Weaker Men Jump Overheard.
Finally all the boats were lowered
Then the sailors, seeing women stand
ing and running about, cried:
"All women to the lower deck"
There began a rush to the lowe
deck, and here 1t was that the neares
semblances to a panic began. Som'
Of the women were seized by sailors
and deliberately thrown over the raj
into the boats. The weaker men b,
scores began to jump overheard. Th
lifeboats began to draw away from
the ship. AS they drew away thos
who were floating among the cakes o
ice in the sea cried aloud pitiousl.
for help. Those who could seized tn
sides of the lifeboats. In many case
they were pulled overheard.
Several more pistol shots wer
heard on board the ship and then, sue
denly above the murmur of the Sc
and the crunching of the ice foes
there rose a steadily increasing or
from the doomed ship--a cry in whic
hundreds upon hundreds of voice
mingled. And the women in the life
boats were screaming, each to he
husband or her brother;
" Jump! We'll pick you up!" wa
heard on every side.
Then suddenly, above all the wal
ing of that desolate scene, there ros
the strains of the ships band playin
Nearer My God to Thee" And 70
the first time those in the lifeboat
realized that those who We're left be
hind knew that they were doomed,
The last light went out and tn
! tmusic ceased
The naerleas Titanic had sunk.