The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-04-24

IL Men Before He Himself If FeIIed.
New York.-Freighted with her ar
COSY of woe, disaster and death, bring
ing glad reunion to some but misery
unutterable to many, the Carpathia,
with the survivors of the lost Titanic
aboard, came back to grief-stricken
city and nation.
The story she brought home was
one to crush the heart with its pathos,
but at the same time to thrill it with
tude displayed in the face of the most
awful peril and inevitable death.
| When the great liner went down it
took with her to death all but 745 of
her human cargo of 2,340 souls.
Six Die After Being Rescued.
To this awful death list six persons
were added. One died in a lifeboat,
which was put off from the liners
side, and five subsequently succumbed
on the rescue ship Carpathia.
The list of prominent men missing
stands as previously reported, and the
total death list as brought to port by
the Carpathia is 1,601.
AS the Titanic sank, according to
the story of those who were among
the last to leave her wounded hulk,
Capt. Smith stood to his post, calm,
resolute, efficient to the last, and when
all that mortal man could do for the
1000 lives intrusted to his care he
raised his revolver and shot himself
while standing on the bridge.
The chief engineer is also reported
to have taken his life, and three Ital-
ians are said to have been shot in the
struggle for the boats.
Butt Said to Have Killed Twelve.
1t was reported to the White House
that Major Butt killed II men who
were scrambling for the boats before
he himself was killed by the crazed
passengers.
The passengers who told the story
two attempts upon his life before he
succeeded. fellow officers wrestling his
weapon frim his hand the first time
as he stood in the ships library. He
then broke away and, standing at his
post on the bridge discharged the re-
volver into his mouth.
Henry B. Harris, theatrical mana
ger of this city, was one of the men
who showed superb courage in the cri-
sis. When the lifeboats were first be-
ing filled, and before there was any
panic or extraordinary excitement, he
had been assisted into one of them at
the side of his wife before the boat
was lowered away.
women first!" shouted one of the
ships officers. Mr. Harris glanced up
and saw that the remark was address
ed to him.
Goes Back to Meet Death.
"All right" he replied coolly. Good
by, my dear" he said as he kissed his
wife, pressed her a moment to his
breast and then climbed back to the
Titanic's deck.
The night was clear and the males
tic ship was steaming, it is asid. at
twenty-one knots when she struck the
iceberg that sent her to the ocean bot
tom 1000 fathoms deep. Her hull rose
on shelf of the berg, just as has been
surmised, and in SO doing and in the
subsequent recoil her bottom plates
and her port side We're badly torn and
shattered, but there was no such ter
rife shock from the impact as might
have been supposed, according to the
evidence.
The captain and officers at once re-
assured the passengers, believing that
there was no immediate danger.
Return to Their Staterooms.
Under his encouragement many of
them went back to their staterooms.
and not few calmly returned to their
berths. That is said to account for
the fact that many of the women were