Mexico Missouri message., 1912-04-25

ceived by Gotham at II IS, read:
Come as quickly as possible. She's
taking water and it's up TO the boil
ers."
Il never heard from her after that"
said Gotham, although several times
called the Titanic. and sent Capt RIOS.
irons reply TO Phillips last message,
which read We are making your
position as speedily as possible. Have
double watch in the engine rooms. We
are making 10 to 16 knots an hour.
Get your boats ready. We have ours
ready l never got that message to
the Titanic"
The horrors Of the disaster grew
very real before the committee when
Harold Bride, the extra wireless op.
orator of the Titanic, took the stand
Bride, palefaced, black-haired boy
OF % years, was carried into the room
Both of his feet. frozen in the terrible
hours between the time he left the
sinking Titanic and the time he
reached the Carpathia, were swathed
in heavy bandages. His face was
VI "a VII WIN PAM anu plB uldCh
eyes were red and sunken.
As his bearers tenderly placed him
on a couch and stretched his band.
aged feet on pillow on a chair be.
fore him, Bride gritted mis- teeth and
his face twitched convulsively with
pain.
Answering Chairman Smith Bride
said that he was assistant operator on
the Titanic that his home was in Lon
don, and that he received So, about
500 a month. He said that he and
Jack Phillips, his chief, alternated six.
hour watches at the instruments on
the Titanic, which were constantly
manned.
Bride Tells His Story.
Bride said he was a native OF Lon
don, was % years old and learned his
profession In a British school of tel.
egraphy.
What practical experience have
you?" Il have crossed to the states
three times and to Brazil twice." said
Bride.
Operator Bride remembered receiv-
ing and sending messages relative 20
the speed of the Titanic on its trial
tests. After leaving Southampton on
the Titanic's fatal trip he could not
remember receiving or sending any
message for lsmay. Senator Smith
asked particularly about messages on
Sunday.
"I don't reunambar cir - eo;d pr;do
There was so much business Sun
day"
He was asked II Capt. Smith re-
ceived or sent any messages Sunday.
mo, sir" was the reply.
How do you know he did not?"
Because l see the messages Mr.. Phil
ipps takes when they are made up"
Were those for Sunday made up?'
mo; they never were"
After testifyng he made no perma-
nent record Of the iceberg warnings,
Bride insisted he gave the memoran-
dun of the warnings to the officer on
the watch. The name of the officer
he could not tell
II knew the officers by sight but
not by name" he said. He did not in
form Capt. Smith.
Bride said he was in bed when the
impact came. He was not alarmed at
the collision and remained in bed
about ten minutes. He saw Philips
in the operating room.
He told me he thought the boat
had been injured in some way, and
he expected 1t would have to go back
to the builders" said Bride.
Sent Distress Call.
The witness said that according to
arrangement, he relieved Philips.
Immediately the captain came in
and said we had better send out a
call for assistance" testified Bride
Phillips asked II he wanted to send
a distress Call. The captain said hi
did. could read what Philips said
-. Q. D."
How soon did he get a reply?'
"As far as I know, Immediately.
could not hear what he received, how
ever" The witness told OF having in
tercepted a message from the Califor
/ MA lHleHutU lot the DdlllCt WHICH, tOlu
of the presence of three huge icebergs
in the vicinity of the former vessel.
81 gave the message to the captain
personally" he said. Bride did not
take down the message and could moi
give its exact form.
THE California was seeking out the
| Baltic and | merely noted that it was
an iceberg reported and told the cap
/ tain" he said.
| Bride acknowledged that half hour
previously, or at 4;30 Sunday after
noon, he was working on his accounts
/ in the wireless room when he heard
the California trying to raise the I'll
tanic He did not respond, he said
! because he was busy"
you had the telephone apparatus
at your ear?" inquired Senator Smith
| in surprise Eyes, sir"
"And you did not respond to the
CALI" NO, sir"
Then a half hour later on, about