The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-19

keep their minds In the balance is put
ting IL too mildly by far.
And then somebody looked back
ard there---there was a big search
light burning on the PROV OF a great
! liner. That light was the most beau
tiful sight | shall ever see.
Distress was turned TO hope as we
put directly about and rowed hard
for an hour toward>the vessel. Al tae
end of that time We were alongside
OF the Carpathia IL wasn't long be-
! fore they let down little wooden
seat about two feet long and foot
wide. Men on the deck held the ends
OF the cables TO which this seat at,
tached. The lifeboat was bobbing
up and down on the waves and il was
pretty hard 10 stand up in IL long
enough to climb out OF the seat but
You can wager we all did II.
AS soon as we got on deck we were
rolled in blankets and given brandy
and water And nothing | have ever
tasted was quite so good as that bran
dy and water.
BY 10 o'clock the Carpathia had
picked up all the 10 lifeboats contain
ing the survivors. In addition 10 the
people who had gotten into the life
boats in the first place there were
several others in them. Thcse men
had been picked up as they were
swimming They were very weaken
ed from the exposure and four or them
died on the Carpathia. These men
were W. H. White and Abraham Horn
ner. passengers. and 5. Z. Sievert,
steward. and L. C. Lyons, sailor.
They were wrapped in the Stars ana
Stripes and buried off the Carpathia,
Monday returning 10 the sea from
which they had been so vainly
rescued.
After we had picked up all the life
boats we steamed again about the
scene Of the disaster. In among the
CLASSY towering peaks Of ice we
threaded our way. seeing a bt OF
wreckaee here and a baby's bonnet
or a mans glove there. But no more
boats, and at noon we turned toward
Ambrose Lightship--and home.
Aboard the Carpathia everything
was confusion. Women were torn
with grief, the worst kind OF grief,
the grief OF uncertainty.
"Oh. II | only knew whether my
hus band has been saved or not was
the all-night cry of more than one
sorrows. licken wife. Oftentimes they
fell upon their knees and prayed for
the safe recovery of their loved ones.
And It was only the hope that they
would finally find them here on land
when they arrived that kept most OF
the women as sane as they were.
What they will do now that they
know that as they themselves watch
cd the Titanic's life being blotted out,
they watched also the life Of their
own loved ones being snuffed out by
the same hard sea.
The distress OF the Titanic suryiv-
ors secured for them every concession
from the passengers OF the Carpathia
Women and men alike gave up their
staterooms TO use and slept on the
floors OF the library and smoking
rooms. Mrs. John Jacob Astor was
given one OF the best rooms in the
cabin and she never emerged from il
during the trip. It is satd she is very
i'll from grief and exposure.
Everyone on the Carpathia was
kindness itself Capt. Rostron, the
surgeon. the stewards, everyone could
not do enough for us.
The final shock was given us all,
Thursday night, as we came up the
bay 1t was then that we learned how
very near we all came 10 not being
rescued at all.
And Il is a great wonder 10 me,
Capt. Rostron said that We ourselves
didn't split on one of them-those
most treacherous, most deadly
enemies of those who go down 10 the
sea in ship"