Connecticut western news., 1912-04-25

plains Ills Rescue From Vessel.
 At the session of the senate commit tee, in New York, investigation of the Titanic disaster these main facts were developed:
 The White Star line ship Baltic was notified before 2 o'clock Monday morn ing that the Titanic was sinking fast and at 10:30 in the morning that she had gone down with most of her pas sengers and crew, the survivors being on the Carpathia.
 On the same Monday afternoon the White Star line notified Congressman Hughes that the Titanic was proceed ing to Halifax anc all aboard her safe.
 No report was sent from the Carpa- thia to justify the statement that the Titanic or her passengers were safe.
 The advent of the Carpathia upon the scene was the merest accident, the operator catching the distress message as he was retiring for the night and "hiS WdlIlhS TUT ISSpOuse 1IOlu du' other ship.
 Warned of Iceberss.
 Six hours before the Titanic was side wiped by an iceberg her captain had received warning from the Cali. fornian, in about the same position, that the latter had just passed very close to three large bergs.
 The first reply received by the Tita. nic operators to their distress call was from the German liner Frankfort, which, according to the surviving IT. tanic operator, ignored the urgent de mand for assistance.
 Bride, the surviving operator, told of seeing ''lots of people" running around the decks of the Titanic just before she went down searching for life belts. # ..- .e-
 Captain Smith of the Titanic, said Bride, jumped from the bridge into the ocean about five minutes before the waves closed over the big ship. He wore no life belt, and Bride never saw him, again. <. @
 Scores of life belted men and women struggled to get hold of the last boat, a collapsible which was thrown into the sea and fell bottom up, and were driven off by the men who had man. aged to reach the boat and had loaded it to its full weight carrying capacity. Many Witnesses Tell of Wreck.
 J. Bruce Ismay, managing director or the White Star line and president of the International Mercantile Marine company; Captain Arthur Henry Ros- trom of the Carpathia; Charles w.. LightolIer, second officer of the IT. tanic; Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy; Harold Thomas Cottam, wireless operator of the Car pathia, and haggard seamen of the sunken vessel who rowed the survi- vors to safety told the senate investi- gating committee under oath the story of the sinking of the giant vessel. It was a thrilling. recital and it estab- lished beyond a reasonable doubt how the catastrophe occurred and the cause of 1t
 MT. Ismay and Mir. Lightoller, sec ond officer, agreed that the ship was
  miles-an hour when she hit the ice berg. The officer added the detail that it was the intention of the captain to | let her out more and perhaps exceed the twenty-two and one-half knots made on her trial trip. The speed was not lessened even after Captain Smith and MT. LightoHer had discussed the proximity of icebergs at 9:20 o'clock last Sunday night,
 One Eifeboat Not Jssd.
 One of the lifeboats of the Titanic was not used. It was on the top of the officers quarters on the boat deck and 1t capsized when it reached the water. Later thirty men stood in the upturned boat for four hours. This went down with the vessel and came up again. He climbed aboard the up turned boat and took command of 1t.
 Determined to get to the bottom of the case without an hours unneces- sary delay, Senators William Alden Smith of Michigan and Francis c. Newlands of Nevada. representing the committee, will late today go aboard the Cunard steamship Saxonia and take the testimony of Harold Bride. the surviving wireless operator of the Titanic, whose ankles are broken and back Is injured.
 Last Salute of Major Butt
 "We particularly desire one witness who is now too i'll to appear" said Senator Smith, who briefly described to the committee when the members went aboard the Carpathia Thursday night the bravery and heroism of the men who perished. This witness says that Major Archibald Butt and Clar. ence Moor of Washington stood at the rail and waved parting salute to the last boat to leave the Titanics side"
 Absolute denial was made by Gap tain RoStrom, Mir. Ismay. MT. Mar coni and Harold Cottam, the operator that any 'nururtions had been given 1ot Y" "H yer President Taft's mes Bage t,Om ILe cruiser Chester about