The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-23

EW YORK.-A steward from the M Carpathia told the story of the l V rescue of the Titanics passengers
 and crew to greatly interested group
 of his mates tonight.
 Tt was between quarter and half after |1 o'clock. ships time Monday moraing." !"
 he said. when all the stewards were
 mustered and Chief Steward Hughes told us that wireless had just come in that the Titanic had hit an iceberg and proh- ably would need help. He urged us to turn right in ands get things ready for a ships load of people. The Carpathia turned in the direction the wireless had called from.
 .we got hot coffee ready, and laid out
 blankets, and made sandwiches. and ev- erything like that. It seemed as if every
 passenger on the boat knew about the trouble and turned out. Captain Rostrom
 had shut off the hot water all over tho ship and turned every ounce of heat into | steam, and the old boat was as excited as Fapy of us.
 After we got things ready we went out on deck. It was glorious morning no swell in the sea, but bitter cold. The ships lights were on full blast. and we were there in the middle of a sea of ice
 the finest sight ever saw. "Jusc as it was about half day and dark we came upon a boat. There were
 IS men in 1t and it was in charge of an officer. There were no women sn the
 boat and it was not more than one-thlrd filled. All of the men were able to come up the Jacobs ladder on the Carpathia.
 which we threw over the port side. Every
 one of them was given hooker of bran | dy or as much hot black coffee as he
 wanted. After they were all on board we pellcd up their boat.
 "It was bright morning by now and all cround the Carpathia, here and there about a quarter mile apart, were more boats. These were fuller than the first ] anl there were worren in all of them | The women were hoisted up in bo suns chairs and the men who could do so climbed the Jacobs ladder. Some of
 them, however had to be hauled up, es- pecially the firemen.
 There was a whole watch of fremen
 saved. They were nearly naked. They had jumped overheard and swam after the boats, it turned out, and they were almost frozen stiff
 ""rhe women were dressed. and the funny thing about it is only five of them had to be taken to the hospital Both the mems hospitals were hlled-24 beds in all.
 We got 12 boatloads. I think, inside If q little more than an hour. Then between SI5 and s:So we got the last two boats, crowded to the guards and almost all
 women.
 After we got the last boatload aboard,
 the Californian came alongside and the
 captain arranged that we should make straight for New York and the Caiifor- nian would look around for more boats. l We circled round and round. though. and we saw all kinds of wreckage- There was not soul on a stick of it and we 1 did not get sight of another soul.
 While we were pulling in the boat
 leads the women we saved were quiet
 enough and not making any trouble at | all. But when it seemed sure we would
 not find any more persons alive then
 bedlam came. I hope I may never go 1 through it again. The way those women 1 took on for the folk they had lost was awful and we could not do anything to
 quiet them until they cried themselves out.
 There were five Chinamen .n the boats