New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-24
"Its Our Lives, Not Theirs the Answer OF
a Titanic Officer as He Refuses to
Try to Save More.
NOT ONE, LIFEBOAT LEFT FILLED
Witnesses Testify Lookouts in Crows Nest Had No
Classes Sailors Were Too Few to Man Smal
Boats, Orders Were Disobeyed and Lite
belts Appeared To Be Worthless.
From The Tribune Bureau.

into the icy waters Atlantic abandoned their fate ana
struggling agony filled with horror the more fortunate
occupants of the hed when goans and means and
night hdeous that who hearo
forget of lamentations dying away only as ney
gave up their lives beneath the pitless waves?
snay after the chief engineer had told him the
aay the fears Major Peuchen saying
Peucen this boat good for eight hours yet and before that time
then of the feboas himself And
their death result of like from
Jsray returning their oos that when he ready get
ebost there the boat deck any pas
senger any could hear he his
signed statement?
general the Titanic and how far
does failure for the lack Of
children fill the eboat that the president OF the company
other saved while hundreds of went to the
bottom?
WHY did the International Mercantile Company with
$O00OOOo preferred and bonded for Ssooo
provide marine glasses for the ookouts the Titanic
although opinion ookouts and Of Major Peuchen
yctsan of experience the of such glasses would have aveed
the fatal collson7
WHY "a vicinity of disaster be strewn
pieces morning after the Titanic oundeed while
practically bodies found floating? Did the febets and other
preservers dsintegrate contact with the waterF
the Titanic permitted sail with 1900 persons on board
committed to the which had been drilled
which evidence of ability act togher
like Hihensho refused to obey the order 70
who gave as his reason
doing in the presence of the whose husbands and
brothers going with the ship that there's lot
refused the boat compelling women to do
of bottle of brandy and OF another her
shipped officer later TO oe paceo
in command of a Gfeboat?
WHY were those who took ignorance of the
fact Carpaha coming their that only gooo
them from far pursuing imaginary light that
the Carpathia found them when came?
possessed of intelligence no finer sensi-
bes Herbert Pitman shipped third ocr
Of great Atlantic Titanic by possessed OF the
experience of the International Mercantile Marine Com
Ipany
bukeads above decks which could be operated
did bulkheads which could be so operated extend?
These among important questions suggested by the tes
monv given to-day investigating committee the Senate
and doubt be addressed to Bruce nay president OF
the company he is again placed on the stand
TURNED DEAF EAR TO CRIES FOR HELP
For fully an hour according testimony of Herbert Prsn
third officer there spot where the Titanic had sunk that
awful wall helpless abandoned begging and pong for
assistance manned least sixteen eboats
more than filled rested their oars from onest to
hveehts turning deaf alike to the peous plead
of the charge and the heaendng and agonzns
screams of the abandoned.
This statement made at Pitman.
6red in the afternoon by Major Godfrey Peuchen of Toronto
man with nautical experience of obvious intelligence
Then dreadful cries moaning and crying and
nravns and cung Oh simply awful" said Major Peuchen
And asked about he begged the chairman not TO
press the subject 1T awful
This was that death of which the survivors said
"Cod alone knows will ring for all
eternity.
Gradually the picture sinking the Titanic with remain
m coeent fifteen being painted by those who
saw it. and as ketchd these witnesses its horror
o while needless loss of life becomes and
obvious.
Not fewer than three sacrificed by failure fill
the boats and by the termo
oe who commanded refused the Of
the wreck in order take least deliberately disobng
orders of his commanding oc BECAUSE Tie au s our "VeS
not theirs
Every Tan eighteen boats could safely have carried
anv according the statements of her officers
Boats could have carried fifty probably sixty in
that scarcely rue by the struggles the dying were
loaded with thirty and only taxed her capacity
after thirty had been rescued from the bottom OF
the capsized l<lapsbe boat.
ONLY the agonzed passengers appear cond
Grafton than themselves Piman
testified to-day gave with the idea Of picking
easily duaded by those who pleaded their
own and which would be incurred.
the passengers who made this plea and thus