Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-04-25
BY CARLOS N. HURD.
staff Correspondent Of the New York
World on Board Of the carpathia.

copyrighted by the New York Worldly
New York, April 19-Approximately
1,700 lives were snuffed out when the
liner Titanic sank 2 hours and IS
minutes after colliding with an i'm
mense iceberg at HAS p. m. last
Sunday.
The printed rolls Of first and Sec
ond cabins, compared with the list Of
the survivors on the Carpathia, show
that Of 341 frst-cabin passengers, 212
were saved, 1874 of them women and
children; and that of 262 second
cabin passengers, lis were saved. 1902
of them women and children. of the
third-class passengers, 800 in num-
Der, 1876 survive, Of whom SO are
women and children.
OF 985 officers and crew, 1919, in
GLIDING q women, reached the Car
pathia- A few In each class doubtless
escaped enumeration on the Carpa-
thia.
1858 Are Unaccounted For.
Accepting the estimate of the Car
pathia's officers that 700 survivors
reached the ship, comparison with the
total, 1888, shows that 1858 are I'M
accounted for.
There is but the faintest hope that
any Of these reached any other ship.
Reports that the California, cattle
ship, may have rescued few persons,
have given merciful respite from ut
ter despair to some Of the women.
Cause, responsibility and similar
questions regarding the stupendous
disaster will be taken up in time by
the British marine authorities. No
disposition has been shown by any
survivor to question the courage of
the crew, hundreds of whom saved
others and gave their own lives with
q heroism which equaled, but could
not exceed that Of John Jacob Aston,
Henry B. Harris, Jacques Futrelle and
others in the long list of the first
cabin missing.
Officers Knew Icebergs Were Near.
Facts which l have established by
Inquiries on the Carpathia, as posi-
lively as they could be established in
view of the silence Of the few surviv-
Ing officers. are:
That the Titanic's officers knew,
several hours before the crash, Of the
possible nearness Of icebergs.
That the Titanic's speed, nearly %
knots an hour, was not slackened.
That the number of lifeboats on the
Titanic was insufficient to accommo-
date much more than one-third of the
passengers, to say nothing Of the
crew. Most members of the crew
say there were Is lifeboats and two
collapsibles; none say there were
more than 20 boats in all. The 700
who escaped filed most Of the 16 life
boats and the one collapsible which
got away to the limit of their capac-
lty.
'fWomen First" Rule Enforced.
That the women first" rule, in
some cases, was applied to the extent
Of turning back men who were with
their families, even though not enough
women to fill the boats were at hand
on that particular part Of the deck.
Some few boats were thus lowered
without being completely filed. but
most Of these we're soon filed with
sailors and stewards, picked up out
of the water, who helped man them.
That the bu1khead system, though
probably working in the manner In
tended, availed only to delay the
ships sinking, the position and length
of the ships wound Con the starboard
quarter) admitted icy water which
caused the boilers to explode, and
these explosions practically broke the
ship In two.
BuIkheads Rendered Ineffective.
Had the ship struck the iceberg
head-on, at whatever speed. and with.
whatever resultant shock, the bulk
head system Of water-tight compart-
ments would probably have saved the
vessel AS one man expressed II. y