The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-23

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warning by the Californian that ice
was in the vicinity?'
mo, sir
You heard nothing whatever eth
er from Second officer Lghtoller or
the captain when you were on the
bridge that night?"
The witness said the Titanic had
on the fatal Sunday. He said it was
done because Captain Smith had been
warned" ice was near
who warned him pa inquired Sen
ator Smith.
81 don't know, sir"
well, who told you he had been
warned? Were you told before the
disaster or afterwards"
Il cannot remember who told me,
and 1 think it was after the wreck
Can you tell what speed the ship
was making sunday evening"?
About 2 II knots an hour.
WAS that pretty good speed?'
NO, nothing to what we expected
her to do
''How much did you expect?"
1--WE thought she could reach "a"
Were you trying to reach Pap
mo, because we did not have the
coal for that
On the Bridge Sunday Night.
Pitman said he was on the bridge
from to Sunday night and then
had gone to his berth. asked again
about the iceberg warnings Pitman
said he did hear abCut LighA oilers
warning to Murdoch about ice on the
ship.
selves Sunday night. Lightol1er re-
marked that we should be near ice
about his watch
Were you all agreed to that?"
81 did not say anything about it
W., nOk f,,fA f11 ~, ~ "a
member who was present. [ heard
the remark passed. That was ALL
Senator Smith inquired on what ba-
sis the witness figured the Titanic
was making q u knots an hour. Pit
man said by the log and by the reVO-
buttons which were about 10.
Did the ship travel faster than that
at any time prior to the accident?' he
was asked.
mo sir, think not
DO you not know that another Of
ficer has said that she was making up
to 80 revolutions?"
mo sir. if he did I think he's mis-
taken"
The witness said he left his cabin
about 1880 Sunday night just after
the collision.
There was very little impact" he
said. st was half asleep and half
awake and I wondered sleepily where
we were anchoring. I walked out on
deck after three or four minutes and
saw nothing.
Dressed LeisureIy.
Then 1 returned, lighted my pipe
and dressed leisurely for it was near
time for my watch. Just as finished
dressing, Mr.. Boxhall came up and
said We have struck an iceberg
II went on deck again and met
Sixth Officer Moody. I asked him if
he had seen the iceberg and he said
1T IT,
satisfy myself I went forward and
saw ice.
Then I walked back and saw
flock of firemen coming up. I asked
There's water in the hatch 1 looked
downward and saw water flowing over
the hatch.
Then I went up on deck and met a
man in a dressing gown who said to
me hurry, there's no time for fool
ing Then I went to the boats
did you know who that man was?"
Not then. I do now
who was it?"
Mr.. Ismay. Later this man told me
to get the women and children in the
boats. I lowered one of them. Mr..
Tsmay came to the boat and helped
me. I put in quite mum Der of them
and a few men. Then I called for
be seen.
Then I stepped back on the ship
again and Officer Murdoch told me to
get in the boat and row around to the
aft gang way. 1 thought that was the
thing to do, because L expected to
bring all of the passengers back to the
ship again.
There were five members of the
crew on the lifeboat commanded by
Pitman who testified that he carried
40 of the passengers. He acknowl-
edged that his boat did not have lights
although the regulations Of the Brit
ish board of trade compelled it
Pitman said the women behaved
''splendidly'' and that all of them
wanted to help in rowing to keep
warm. He said his boat
was some distance from the Titanic
when she went down.
How did she sink? ?" asked Senator
Smith.
'She settled by the head and then
suddenly she got on end and Owed
right straight down"
Were No Lookout Glasses.
Frederick Fleet, who was the look !
out in the crows nest of the Titanic,
testified that on Sunday night some
time after 10 o'clock he reported
black mass of ice ahead to the officers |
on the bridge. How long this was
before the collision the lookout could
not say.
Fleet told the committee there were
no lookout glasses in the Titanic
II he had glasses. he said, he could |
have seen the iceberg enough sooner
to have escaped it.. He said glasses
we're furnished the lookout from Bel |
fast to Southampton where they were |
taken away.
BTRNIA WAS TOO LATE.