The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-05
Senator Smith Has About All the In
formation He Wants Now
About the Dis
aster.
OPEN ALL BOSSES TREMBLING
COMPARTMENTS
Crew Did Not Know How to Operate
Lever Which Might Have Kept
Ship From Sink
Ing.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, May 4.-When the SEN
ate committees investigation of the I
here tonight by Senator Smith, it be-
came known that the committees re-
port, which may be ready for the SEN
ate in a week, will be based on these
facts brought out in the testimony:
The Titanic was warned of ice
bergs by other vessels.
The liner was running S3 knots an
hour and did not slacken speed.
Captain Smith was not on the
bridge but at dinner III his cabin.
/ The lookout in the crows nest" not
provided with binoculars.
There was no evidence that the
watertight compartments were closed
at all.
There was no testimony that the
life saving apparatus and safety de-
vices were properly tested before the
Titanic left Southampton.
There were lifeboats for not more
than one third of those on board. 1t
was learned that some of the things
that Senator Smiths report to the
senate will recommend are:
Requirement of life saving appara-
tus and liftboats sufficient for all on
: board and sufficient watertight com.
9 partments.
n Standardization Of the wirsless
I There will be an international wira
less convention in Berlin in July anc
Senator Smith said that this phase o
the lesson taught by the Titanic dis
/ aster will be taken UP there.
Just before he left for Washington
tonight, Senator Smith closed thu
senate investigation with the test
s mony of H. Chambers, of New York, ;
y surveyor, who said the ships com
/ partments were not closed Chambers
. who is an engineer and familiar will
i the mechanism of liners, swore tina
y the brass plate in e. deck, cover
. ing the lever that operated the com
Il partments, was in place fifteen mir
: utes after the Titanic struck. "Ha
4
10 could not have been in it's place." h
y said. He said members of the GREY
u did not seem to know how to operat
the device.
- Bert Pickard, Russian steerag
passenger on the Titanic, told of tn
~ steerage gates being locked. One ma
= broke it down after a ships Office
: threw him down the steps Their
!. was a fight among the steerage me
: and women to get out but they wer
10 given equal chances with the first an
second class passengers after the
got on deck, Pickard said.
Harold Bride, wireless operator
the Titanic, was recalled in an effo
- by Smith to clear up the delayed me
- sage from j Bruce Ismay to P. A.
- Franklin, telling of the sinking of IL
40 liner. Ismay said he filed the me
sage on the Carpathia the morning
~ April Is and it was not received
-, ~ New York, Franklin said, until tv
~ days later
Bride said he did not rememb
n ~, seeing it. Harold CotUm the ca
~ pathia operator, sailed for Southam
On ton today on the Caronia and cou
on not be reached.
~. Frederick Dauler, sixty years o.
for Al years with the Western Uni
- Telegraph Co., denied that he handl
the alleged "Islefrank' wireless fro
a. 'Yamsi' telling the White Star Ii
~ that the Titanic had sunk e.
20 Dunn, New York importer told
io' committee that Dauler's son told h
chat his fathey a delivery clerk in
Western Unions main Office handl
that message early Monday. Dau
today swore that the message
ern told his son about was one receiy
md two days later from Ismay, ask
IN that the Cedric be held for h
day Senator Smith declared that his
quiry along that line had not be
on cleared up to his satisfaction the S
Jun picion that the White Star line h
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