New-York tribune., 1912-04-19

Just before she sank several OF the men on Doard jumped
into the and these for the most part the men SURVIVORS
brought by the Carpatha
The electric lights of the Titanic burned until the boilers
blew up.
The feboats carrying the waited mile from the
ship until she sank and then drew in and picked up the men
found floating in the
Some of the passengers said Captain +. j. Smith and the
chief engineer committed suicide on the bridge of the TITANIC
Just before the ship sank.
-Four of those saved died the result OF exposure before
the Carpatha reached New York
Others sadly manned.
Others temporarily insane
Many had to be taken hospitals, while private amfl-
lances and physicians met many more
The Carpathia arrived the at 8 a Monday
and picked up the feboats
One lifeboat filled with sokers
1t was five minutes after the Carpatha tied at her per-
at o'clock last night before the first of the survivors OF
the Titanic ashore.
Two men walked first, in oil skins and one IL
rancoat They looked around dazed manner at the great
crowd waiting There faint cheer and the two jumped
over the rail holding back the crowd
man and woman came next. There seemed to be no
one to meet them.
J. Bruce Ismav remained coseted with p A. S. Franklin
vcepresdent of the White Star Line board the Narpa
until O5 o'clock and when the ashore Mr. lSmay
gave statement saying that the White Star Line wonlo
do everything possible alleviate the suerings of the sur
vivors that the ship had complied with all regulations and that
an inquiry by the Senate committee would be welcomed
PASSENGERS HAD AGREED NOT TO TALh'
The customs officers the pier opened up lane through
the crowd and then the survivors Of the Titanic came Struggling
out They seemed only anxious to get and few were
willing talk Those first to said that the passengers
had agreed talk but that the line would issue state
ment As the number of those who ashore larger
however, found who would tell the story OF the loss
of the great liner.
Lawrence Beesley, twenty-five years Old whose did
appear among the list of survivors transmitted by the Car
pathia was one of those who would tell the tale.
1T after half past eleven Sunday night that we
struck the ice he said A day had been steamng at full
speed through clear and beautiful We had no ice
that day and the day before The weather had been
fine and clear since we left Liverpool
MANY of the passengers had walked the deck after dinner
Sunday night but at hour of them in bed Only
few in the smoking Captain Smith was
not the bridge but the ship in charge of the first officer
who was on the bridge.
1T the force of the collision that aroused me- but
the stopping of the engines and went out deck to what
the matter.
the collision that aroused me- but the stopping of the engines
and went out deck to what the matter
II found there who had been in the smoking
ROOM they told that had rammed low iceberg They
said stood only fifty hundred feet out of the water and
they did not think it was berg but small foe.
when reached the deck, the not to be and
the told that they had rushed out of the smoking room
Immediately and had barely been able to distinguish the ice
which disappeared from view less than ten minutes after
we struck it.
1--WE struck it the sarboard bow and ripped great
hole in the side of the vessel The vessel did begin
to sink settle, and there seemed no danger
SHIP WAS UNSINKABLE, OFFICERS SAID
Il think most of the passengers asleep and few of
them knew that had been collision until the officers went
through the ship and aroused the passengers and told them o
put life presevers and deck Even then there was
fear that the ship would sink We told by the officers
that there danger We told that the Titanic was
unsnkable and that we had nothing to fear.
"Of there nervousness But there no
panic and real fear because that the Ii
tanic could not sink.
Half an hour later the officers ordered into the life
boats and then there began to be signs Of fear but still mol
panic the first second cabin There the beginning OF
panic at least in the seerage Some of the from the
steeragc tried rush the feboas and heard several shots