The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-19
LINERS BAND PLAYED NEARER MY GOD
TO THEE" As THE GIANT BOAT SANK
Staff Correspondent on Board the Carpathia Tells Details Of
Awful Disaster. Men Heroic---Band Played to Last
Mrs. Straus Refuses to Leave Husband and Dies
With Him--Stories as Told by Passengers.

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'p''S" l''1 'y p'"'z" All zSo Rights S es"PsaZj the st. Louis p''t-D''p'''h
Titanic, which struck an iceberg at l1A5 m Sunday. and we're at the oceans
passengers psa@% es~sso a a;% ~sS ase ssSe sdS i5z o. @Rssss ws sas:v ~o@ 1s ts s1d I sSahsn, 9 and s or ss s: ss'
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tbG NG E Sufv w% 5 6ero aueSu %%t the . eou1sge h ot the e eGfew w. hundreds hundreds Of " whom ION gave
f &ssor H Henry %y" B 1 assfs" Js %ass* Fusrs1s, 1S sd S9 es5s1 So in e ss io s9i list Il }S sst } es5ie
The bukhead system, though probably working, prevailed only to delay the
ships s. sinking a@aan os u., .. m -,.u,
:vst ens r PSs:Se caused as sh the s1 spis1 w9 sa s.p i tss s s5s5e aPss eseiss;on sd% S4ess t the sS iy
in two.
na The crash against the iceberg which had been sighted at only a quarter Of a
b badee s1 which hI stopps sI4 9%e ensosz .n with ela ss e% lick s Of the levers Sam operated esan from sn 5s
was o the bridge nonsn later. He summoned all IN board to put n life pre-
gers W 7s en te ~ rss e of t a55 so sf, men ts s ds Women and CRYING children t. the decks
Revolver shots we're beard shortly before the Titanic went down. and caused
%% gsa9 sS;d me %s that h, SaP1 ns1 Smith af shot %. hins md% another r., that First Officer
Smith was last seen o. thu bridge just before the ship sank, leaping only after the
900. What What became of the men with life peservers was the question asked by many
ers, % ad dead ez 5h sedk s5 ao as p ee ,Ss ss Ese =, seen fne to ' e h down. n despite sn the pr@erv-.
md It ah lis stated sM positively xy The he ships ship Ix string BAN gathered in the saloon near the end
Mrs. lsadoe Strauss refused o1eave her husbands side and both persisted o.
Harold Cotton. marine operator of the csrpathia, did mo- got to bed at his usual :
time Sunday night and as a result caught the first message Of the Ihancs plight
II s ea%e as babe 5s ae T F%1s sed do night %s i"'"e d" Sunday night and shortly after:
ed. 'M Tms es w %s % folo 1ssr BY to the s' %o5 {ds f *wsSe bit s sem ssat the @ em 9 It D. oe sss sound
at e sns:e Changed sS ei in 3 Ge' da%esos of fs t III: Tits Gatp att ian s psesft o e esh sses G fnet, T fs
e ens a re qEte so fe OF 6 :1 & D miles tSe iT;t5vSnin gS between ,xsa the " ships ships Before Before Cotton :
sent word of the coming of the carpahia No further communication vas had
The THAMES speed of % knots an hour was nevers laekened and she was going
Of f s v 4i snGat NOR s, of St.: d Louis was S one oft the x three or ro four saloon passengers
W in the smoking room reading near a bridge whist game at me of the ia.
% Usn ot o. ss tSs sa9Sosrd " sMe@ tn t loo f5a5 M Ssam i u said Sa,S w Is.yn hit something On netting; and
m that s we I'm might have bumped soms small craft I went back in the smoking
III IN sss Sas %s sd {o sa9 ss sSsy t ssn ts , s5% v: TO w. se% an back sSas and d 5 5stse . the game IN
an e4sr ordered US . h deck and told Us to gss into the he boats sess eof K" ''<'
i'd; id: , 81 s 5;;;S ing i ; {: ss Ss;5 s:s. T 10; I'D !: S xs x !s ~ !s q s5 zss s' ~:S ,: DID ID : ss 9 9ss 'a:
have dropped her on curl heads (ms md ho rt uon u . uu, -. ..