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had been told that there were no more
| women on the deck; and he denied
that there had been any censoring OF
messages from the Carpathia.
other witnesses. including Captain
Roston. bore him out In this, with the
explanation that the lons wireless OPP
orator on the rescue ship. swamped
with personal messages. was unable
to send matter for the press.
Interest. second only to that in the
tales of survivors, centered upon Mr..
Ismay's recital. In Washington, Senator
Rayner of Maryland bitterly arraigned
him before the Senate, and hoped that
this country might rely on British justice
TO bring to bay the guilty directorate Of
| this company
WAS 60 MILES SOUTH OF COURSE
From Washington also came the opin-
ion OF expert naval photographers that
no blame should attach to Captain Smith
because. as they contend. analysis OF
ocean charts has shown that the skipper,
warned of the presence of icebergs, had
steered the Titanic fully 60 miles south
ward from the regular course. In spite
Of this caution the mass of ice was struck,
and as a preventive OF similar disasters.
the photographic office in New York to-
night issued an order shifting the lanes
of trans Atlantic liners $50 miles south
ward from the path which the Titanic
followed.
After giving his testimony before the
Senate committee. Captain Rostron of
the Carpathia took charge Of his ship
which departed late to-day for the
Mediterranean. The vessel had been hur-
redly renovated and cleared Of the dis
order caused by the presence Of the
Titanic survivors, and she left with cabins
full. II Is commented upon as a curious
fact that notwithstanding the Titanic
disaster, there has as yet been little or no
falling of In the volume OF transatlantic
travel. Captain Rostron wept as he told
to-day how the Carpathia had picked up
the unfortunate set adrift from the
Titanic and before ne left on his ship
admiring passengers presented him with
loving cup.
Although several consistent accounts of
what happened aboard the Titanic have
peen obtained from survivors, 1t was
manifestly impossible for any one fully 10
take account OF all that occurred on hcr
great decks. four city Locks In length
Thus there are those who maintain that
there were one or more suicides among
the officers
THINK MURDOCH A SUICIDE.
captain Smith. It would appear from
the consensus OF narratives, went down
with his ship: but several passengers saw
that First Officer Murdoch shot himself
through the head before she sank. Among
others who hold this View is Mrs. George
d. 'Widener of Philadelphia, whose nus
band and son were drowned.
The 300 rescued members of the Trtanic,s
crew were still in New York Tonight
sheltered on the Red Star liner Iapland.
| with few exceptions they are silent as IN
what happened aboard the sinking liner,
Iney Will be returned to England. but
not until they have been held long
enough TO permit some OF them to testify
pefore the Senate committee.
me greatest problem confronting the
committees appointed TO provide for the
SURVIVORS has been with the steerage pas
sehgers' Speaking no English in MANY
| cases. ignorant of their destinations
frightened, and without friends or rela
tiVes' their plight was acute until inter-
prefers from the International Institute
LOT Young Women. a branch of the Y.
W. {. a, circulated among them to-day
ana apportioned them as befitted their
nationality among the vast foreign quar-.
ter in New York.
More than $4,000. including $5OOo from
Andrew Carnegie. has already been sub
scribed for the sufferers and series of
dement's to raise more money has been
! arranged
| Mostof the wealthy and more prominent
survivors have left the city. among them,
Mrs. Charles NJ Hays. widow OF the
| president Of the Grand Trunk railway.
He met death In the disaster. but Mrs.
hays and her daughter were saved. They
left for Montreal to-day IN special
train Col John Jacob Astor's young
widow remained secluded In the Astor
residence here, too III. according to her
physicians to make any statement.
ROSTRON TOOK A RISK.
| Captain Rostron stirred the committee
when he said that he knew he was rum
ming risk when he drove the Carpathia
through the sea OF ice at top speed toward
the Titanic after receiving her call for
help.
| Il doubled the watch and knew what
! was about. took the risk, for there
were many human lives to be saved" he
said.
I'm the name OF Congress and the peo.
pie OF the United States we thank you for
what you did," said Senator Smith
solemnly,
ORPHANED AND UNIDENTIFIED.
New York, April ls.--Nearly 40 OF
the survivors Of the Titanic were In
hospitals tonight. suffering from
shock and exposure. but as far az
could be learned none was In a ser
ious condition. II was expected that
all would be discharged within a few
days.
Most Of them were third-class pas
sengers and members OF the crew
More than 25 were children under 10
years Of age. some OF them orphaned
and few yet unidentified There was
Tor instance, u wailing nine months