The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-04-30

Give Il New \crSIOn OF His
on the Ship.
lBy the Associated Press.)
Washington, April 27.-Failure to
give her exact position. a great field
Of floating ice that offered a we'll
nigh impossible barrier to ships hur-
rying to the rescue, and the mistake
Of her own captain in rushing at top
speed through an ice covered sea
all these combined to send the Titanic
and her 1900 victims to their graves
in the North Atlantic. This was
strongly indicated today in the testi-
mony before the Senate Committee in
yestigating the ocean tragedy.
Captain James H.. Moore, Of the
steamer Noun Temple, which was
hurried to the Titanic in response to
wireless calls for help, told of the
great stretch of the field of ice which
held him off. Within hts view from the
bridge he discerned, he said, another
strange steamer. probably a tramp"
and a schooner which was making her
way out Of the ice. The lights of
this schooner, he thought, probably
were those seen by the anxious sur
viVors Of the Titanic and which they
were frantically trying to reach.
Captain Moor denounced as most
unWise" the action Of the Titanic'S
commander in rushing at q knots
through the night, when he had been
advised of the proximity of ice. The
Mount Temples commander testified
that he had spent twenty-seven years
II the North Atlantic. Whenever
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his watch and reduced speed, and it
he happened to get caught in an ice
pack he stopped his engines and
drifted until he was clear.
The witness also was emphatic in
his declaration that the position sent
out by the Titanic was wrong. He
said the ship was eight miles further
eastward than its operators report
ed. This, he declared, he proved by
observations taken the first thing or
the day following the disaster.
With what virtually was a fleet o.
steamers within a radius Of fifty
miles Of the Titanic, the officer sale
that this mistake in fixing accurately
the position of the doomed ship wa!
a bad one. With icebergs and float
ing ice covering the northern sea, f.:
ship of even the size of the Titani
might we'll be overlooked through
such a distance.
NOInlOrI IOf lSL1ay.
j. Bruce ISmay, managing directo
Of the International Mercantile Ma
rine Company, was much cheered b,
the testimony of the afternoon
Throughout the week he has had
troubled look and during the lon;
daily sessions he has sat silent, sci
dom speaking to his associates VIII
accompanied him. Today, however
he listened eagerly to the account
Of his conduct at the life boat a
told by the stewards and seamen VIII
came in contact with him the nigh
of the disaster. His eyes fairl
beamed when Steward Crawford toll
how he had called for women to &
IN one of the boats and had said t
a woman who told him she was
~stewardess. You are a woman, TAX
your place in the boat"
Ismay listened intently too {
Steward Bright testified that he ha
not left the ship until all the lare
life boats had gone and only one
two collapsible boats were left c
deck. Bright had seen Ismay Worl
ing with the others on the %starboal
~collapSible boat, the last to leave tt
ship from that side. Bright, WI
left on the very last boat, the pc
not left the ship until Just before II
cOllapSible. said he knew Ismay he
port c~ollapsible was lowered into II
water in time to get only a hundrs
yards from the Titanic before 81
went down.
Distress of Sailors Relieved.
After the session was over, the co