The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-04-23
SURVIVORS TELL STORY
OF TITANIC DISASTER
CARPATHIA ARRIVES WITH 7S9
RESCUED ABOARD.
1885 Lost When Giant Ship Sank-Six
Survivors of Wreck Died Aboard
Carpathia.

New York, April 19.-The living
cared for, the dead beyond recall, sur
vivors of the Titanic disaster were
able, for the first time today, to see
in calmer retrospect Mondays trag-
sdy of the North Atlantic, and from
their story of how the great White
Star Liner, her band playing to the
last, sank off of the Grand Banks
with more than 1900 on board.
From the Countess of Rothes, now
quartered luxuriously in New York
hotel, to the six Chinese coolies, who
escaped by hiding under the lifeboat
seats, all of these 745 have been pro-
vided with food and clothing, and 9TH
ers, some immigrants and millionaries,
are On their way home, to England,
the Continent, or distant parts of the
United States. Many, however, and of
these hospitals shelter scores, still re-
main in New York, where the Cunard
liner Carpathia brought them last
night.
Number of Victims Uncertain.
Even after all that has been told Of
the disaster, the death Its remains ap-
proximate. Last nights total estimate
was 1888; today the White Star Line
issued a statement placing the toll at
1875. Exactly how many died will
never be known.
1t has been established, officially,
however, that the Titanic was travel
ing 21 knots an hour when she struck
the iceberg. Notwithstanding this,
however, none of the survivors, from
steerage to saloon, has as yet con-
demned Capt. Smith, who went down
with his ship.
The Titanic's rate of speed, which
was approximately 26 1-2 land miles,
was brought out today from the lips
of J. Bruce Ismay, president of the
international Mercantile Marine, and
managing director of the White Star
Line, who appeared as witness be-
fore the United States senate commit
tee, which is Investigating the disas-
ter.
ISmay Tells of Escape.
Nervous, but not in tears, as was
Capt. Rostron, of the Carpathia, who
followed him on the stand, Mr.. Ismay
told in whispers of his escape from
the sinking liner, from the time he
pushed away in boat with the wo-
men until he found himself, clad in
his pajamas, aboard the Carpathia.
He was not sure in just what boat
he left the Titanic, nor was he sure
how long he remained on the liner af-
ter she struck. He added, however,
that before he entered a lifeboat he
had been told there were no more wo-
men on the deck, and he denied that
there had been any censoring of mes
sages on the Carpathia
New York, April 1S.-How the
White Star liner Titanic, the largest
ship afoat sank off the Grand Banks
of New Foundland on Sunday night,
last, carrying to their death about l.
900 of the 2,340 persons aboard, was
told to the world in all its awful de-
tails for the first time tonight, with
the arrival in New York of the Cunard
liner Carpathia, bearing the exhaust
ed survivors of the catastrophe. Of
the great facts that stand out from
the chaotic account Of the tragedy,
these are the most salient:
Most Salient Facts.
The death list has been increased
rathe than decreaed.
Six persons died after being res
cued.
The list of prominent persons lost
stands as previously reported.
Practically every woman and child,
with the exception of those women
who refused to leave their husbands,
were saved. Among these last was
Mrs. Isidor Straus.
The survivors on the lifeboats saw
the lights on the stricken vessel glim-
mer to the last, heard her band play
ing and saw the doomed hundreds on
her deck and heard their groans and
cries when the vessel sank.
Accounts vary as to the extent OF
the disorder on board.
Tried to Break Speed Record.
Not only was. the Titanic tearing