The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-04-25
745 SURVIVORS
LAND At n. Y.
FINAL SCENE is ENACTED IN AW.
Full TRAGEDY OF
THE SEA.
1,470 LIVES WERE LOST
Rescued Passengers Tell Heart-Break-
ing Tales of the Crash Of
Steamer and Iceberg
:: Last Sunday Night.


:: Last Sunday Night.
New York, April 2O.-Lifted from
the gates of death, the 745 survivors
OF the Titanic were landed by the
C%arpathia, which rescued them two
hours and a.half after the great White
Star liner hurled itself against an
iceberg last Sunday night. Disfgured
by calamity and misery and oppressed
by awful sorrow, the women and chill
dren and the few men who escaped
from the worlds greatest sea disaster
are in better physical condition than
the most optimistic had hoped for.
Out of the great company that waited
for hours in bitter cold among the
grinding bergs, many of them thinly
clad, many bruised and hurt by the
collision which destroyed their ship,
few needed the ministrations of ply
sicians when they put their feet on
land in sight of the vast crowd that
had been waiting in almost unbear-
able anxiety.
Many, it is true, were weary and
nervous and hysterical from an ex-
perience that had left the world void
and empty for them, but and thou
sands thanked God for it as they
watched-the majority of the sad and
bereaved company were we'll in body.
Only n of the Titanic's survivors
died while the Carpathia was driving
through fogs and storms to this port.
Four of the Titanic's people had
persisted trying to get aboard the
Carpathia and another Titanic pas.
senger lost his life by the forging of
a boat. One woman, a second cabin
passenger, who was landed last night,
was suffering from a broken arm.
But the general good condition of the
hundreds so dramatically saved from
death was a cause of inexpressible
pleasure to the thousands who saw
them land. There was no need, as
it turned out, for the ministers OF
death who with collins waited at the
dock.
The Carpathia reported that there
were ITO saved out of a passenger
list which the White Star line fig
ured at 2,1S0, making a loss of lac
lives. The Titanic's passengers say
there were 745 rescued out of a pas
senger list of 2,340. The list of names
furnished on the Carpathia on it's ar
rival shows 1873 first class cabin pas
sengers saved, lis in the second cab
IN TN fhir6 NIoCC onG CnE nf fh<
crew, a total of 687 saved. A woman
passenger on the Carpathia heard
from the ships doctor that 495 Of
the passengers and 2l0 of the crew
had been saved and hat 80 womer
lost their husbands.
Six Of these were brides. The
worlds annals has provided few more
intense and dramatic moments thar
when all that was left of the great
company that sailed so gayly by the
Titanic appeared on the Cunard pier
1t was with difficulty that the
tongues Of many were loosened tt
speak of the enc of agony and fea1
that fell owe the Titanic's peaceful
company when it became swiftly
known that the ship must go down
Some told haltingly with dread still
frozen in their eyes of men who
strove and struggled against wome1
for the life boats and of officers shoot
ing them down. One woman saw al
officer shoot two men, she said, ant
other passengers recalled how officer:
had stood with drawn pistols while
the women and children we're being
guided into the boats.
No one seemed to know the fat
of the Titanic's captain, E. ]. Smith
There was a story that he had com
mitted suicide, but the Titanic's pas
sengers did not know that it was true
Many of them had heard shots fired
They believed some of the firing wa:
done to warn back steerage passen
gers.
For the Titanic's officers and crew
the rescued seemed to have nothing
but praise. The men acted calml!
and cody in the face Of certain
laundering, was the report brough
here by the rescued. The unhappy
company so marvelously torn from
the grip of the sea was received sol
EMMY and with remarkable quiet b!
the enormous crowd which gathered
near the Cunard piers and by the few
hundreds that penetrated by right O
relation or friendship or mercifu
business to the interior of thu
pier. There was no cheering, NJ
the pier. There was no cheering, NJ
uprising of voices in salute of The
living for the thought of the dead wa
in the minds of all onlookers. Til.
depression of death was on the wait
ing men and women. ae~~
The crowds were held back two
blocks from the pier on the north
east and south. Everything vas don,
to expedite the passage of the res
cued ones and make their transfer
from pier to homes or hotels as cas-!
and as comfortable as possible. With
in the pier shed were hundreds WHIT
had the keenest personal interest il
the survivors. From a score of pas
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