Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

l. uid not say anything about IL theh
y.eause there had been nothing salo ABOUT
I ,ne 'elegram at that time said Lishtoi-
'o'' AFTER that there was consioeraoie
discussion about It In the papers !
CONSIDERED myself largely Responsible Tor
the sending of that telegram ] urged It,
HOW do you know 1T was sent?'
1SMAY SHOWED MESSAGE.
Because Mr. Ismay showed 1t to me.
saiu II was sent and showed me tho
answer Ltghtoler replied.
senator Smith sought to establish the
day on which the witness had conferred
WIN lsmay concerning the Cedric tele-
gram. Lightoller said he thought 1t was
Wednesday,
do you know whether any other tele-
grams were sent?"
YES after Mr.. Franklin's reply 1 I'M
uerstand second was sent urging that
the Cedric be held"
! Dio you know tn IN the Senate was
going to hold an Investigations"
most certainly not, or the telegram
would never have been sent. Our sole
i'ea was to keep wits together for
just SUCH an Investigation which we
Knew would be made in England"
| Lightoller said It was an open ques-
tion as to whether the explosions
hsard when the Titanic sank were
bursting boilers or bursting bulk
heads.
Senator Fletcher wanted to know
mad the Titanic been going slower IL
her danger would have been less
Lightoller said she would have been
| GlOwpr har hi. bnJ .
In whrch to turn. He said the ship
was travelling the usual westbouund
track.
| DO you know If all the passengers
were aroused and told the ship was
sinking" continued the senator.
Not that / can state accurately,
but from my knowledge of the pur-
sers AMI the conditions at the time
am sure that all were aroused
Lightoller said that 5. Hemmenngs. a
lfmpman. who was waiting to testify be-
| fore the committee. walked the length Of
| the ship just before she sank and had
seen only two women
How do you account for the 1900 peo-
pie who could not be found; where were
they when the boats left?'
That ! cannot fathom: perhaps Hem
mengs can enliehten you. l didn't go
aft"
Gould anything have possibly been
sinking of the ship?'
Absolutely nothing" replied Lightol-
Ter.
Was there any panic2'
Not the slightest
Lightoler said a vessel of the Titanio's
tonnage going at a rate of q knots an
hour could be stopped in a minute and a
half or a distance of a quarter of n mile
Senator Smith asked If Lightoler had
seen the lights of the mysterious vessel
| ahead.
II saw the light" he answered. ut was
two points off the starboard bow
Did you know what the lights were?"
NO"
STORY OF QUARTERMASTER
Robert Kitchens. Quartermaster in
charge of the lfeboat which took off
Major Peuchen and others. next took the
witness chair and testified that when the
collision occurred he WAS at the Ttanic's
wheel. He said the officers had been
warned to look out for small ice and
that he had been ordered to have the
heaters started In the chart room. The
first he knew of the collision was when
the order came down from the bridge
Berg ahead
THE first officer rushed over to give
the order 'hard-a-starboard' and the Gee
ond officer returned helm hard over. sir.
but by that time we were into the berg
We could hear the grinding Of It, Captain
Smith came rushing out asking what was
the matter and Immediately ordered Mr..
Murdoch to close the emergency doors.
The ship had list OF five degrees to
starboard within five minutes l stayed
at the wheel until 1223
about that time one of the officers
said We'll ret out the boats and I was
put in charge of No. and ordered to put
away toward n distant light. had 2S
women, one seaman, myself. an italian
lad and the major. told them we would
have to pull away from the ship as she
was going down by the head Everybody
had to row and even asked the women.
We started for the light which we ex-
pected was on cod banker
WOMAN ANGRY AT HIM.
There were several other boats around.
one that had four or six men came up
and | borrowed one fireman from It, We
never got any nearer the light Then we
t1ed our boats together and stayed there
until we saw the Carpathia coming The
sea was getting choppy and the women
were getting nervous. relieved one at
an oar and told her to take the filler
Mis- Meyer got mad at me and accused
me of wrapping myself I'm all tbe bIarLo,s
drinking all the whiskey and using had
language. which | deny. saw al, t,o
women taken on the Carpathia and was
the last to leave my boat"
Senator Smith wanted n k,or. =.
Hlchens mad any trouble In the boat
win Major Peuchen. He replied IN.
major had tried to take command
1t mad been testified to that H,chers
had refused to go back and picL IN
other survivors. None of the wouan
in the boat had asked him to 90 back
he said.
MAJOR Peuchen said YESTERDAY that
when you were asked to go back aftar
some VINO were drowning you replie
you weren't going back after those
stiffs,'"
NEVER USED SUCH A WORD
ITS lie, sir never used that
word since | was born"
You want the COMMITTEES 70 updar.
S'ahd you didn't refuse to go to the
rescue or those In the water?"
couldnt under tho conditions
was mile away from the cries we
heard ana we had no compass in
structed the men to row away from
the Titanic when she was sinking be-