Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-04-23
SHIPS OFFICER did NOT Go
BACK To- PICK Up PERSONS
STRUGGLING IN THE OCEAN

yit like? Were the screams intermi
tent of spasmodic?"
rIt was one long. continuous moan.
The witness said the means and erie
continued an hour and that he mad
no effort to go to the rescue.
'You dtitfed near the drawing pee
pie and made no effort to give then
aid?s asked Senator Smith in sur
prise.
Please, sir. DON'T" pleaded Pitt
man.. Il can't bear to recall it.
wish we might not discuss the scene
II have no desire to lacerate you
feelings" said Senator Smith, ''bu
we must known whether you drifted
there without offering aid. Answer
that and shal press you no more. .
Il did, sir" answered the witness
Did you ever hear anything of a
boar known as the Hellig Olav?" sud
denly asked Senator Smith.
No didn't, there may be a boa,
OF that name," said Pittman.
The Olav docked at New York April
II and is reported to have encoun-
tered an iceberg near where the III.
tanic sank. 1t has ben suggested that
the Olav may have been the boat
whose lights Fourth Officer BoxhalI
saw and which he Intellectually tried
to signal with distress rockets.
Frederick Fleet, who was the look
out in the crows nest of the Titanic
testified that on Sunday night some
Iime after 10 O'Clock he reported
black mass Of ice ahead to the officers
on the bridge How long this was be.
lore the collision the lookout could
not say. Fleet told Che committee
hat there were no lookout glasses In
he Titanic's crows nest after leav.
ng Southampton. If he had had
classes, he said, he could have seen
he iceberg enough sooner to have es-
'aped it. He said glasses were fur
lished hte lookout from Belfast to
southampton, where they were taken
way.
Probe Must Go Deep.
In the opinion Of Senator William
Alden Smith, the chairman, and
many OF his colleagues, 80 much al
'eady has been learned from the ex-
animation of but a few witnesses,
hat 1t is incumbent upon them to get
Ill possible information from every
,erson who can enlighten the com
nittee; that the facts already dis
closed point out inadequate marine
'egulation. they are convinced, and
hat the whole story, when told, will
orm the basis for new maritime
avs and lead to international con-
erences entirely revising ocean
teamship transportation, they do not
loubt.
Information has come to the senate
hat the authoities of all the great
maritime nations OF the world are
the investigation closely
Assistance Was Near.
The committee had planned to re-
all to the witness stand today
Fourth officer Boxhall of the Titan
c who revealed the startling fact
ate yesterday that an unknown ship 4
vas sighted five miles from the III
anic long before she went to the bot
ON. This was the first time anything T
lad been told of the ship, which fail !
d to catch the distress signals and
teamed away. leaving the Titanic to
Ter fate,
When the investigation was resum
ID it was announced that j. B. Box
lalI, fourth officer of the Titanic, (
vas i'll and could not be heard fur
her at this time H. ]. Pittman, third /
'fficer of the ship, was called to the
tand.
Third Officer Pittman told in detail
lis experiences of II years on the /
eas. Replying to questions. the wit
less said boat drills were held at
southampton and at Queenstown.
rhe Titanic's drill at Southampton,
le said, consisted Of lowering and
fitting two boats.
Anything else done?'
NO, sir: the drill was to satisfy
he British board Of trade. We low.
red the boats, sailed around the har-
,or and then returned to tne ship"
The witness said It was customary
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