Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-04-21

| frankfurt operator could not under
stand and that Phillips. his superior
had used his own Judgment.
Another phase of the laxity of thu
wireless so far as man is concerned
was developed by the chairman. HI
| drew from the witness an acknowl-
edgement that on Sunday evening
Bride was sitting with the telephone
apparatus strapped to his ears, adjust
ing his accounts. while the steamship
Californian. seeking to warn the III
tanlc that icebergs were invading the
lanes of ocean travel called incessant-
! ly. Bride said he heard the call but
| did not answer because he was busy.
1t was not until half hour later
that the Californian. striving to reach
the steamship Baltic, reached the III
tanic, whereupon the warning that
three huge icebergs had been sighted
was noted by Bride and verbally com
municated to the liners captain.
Senator Smith esta blished by Gug-
lielmo Marconi, inventor of the wire
less system bearing his name. that
both the Titanic and the Frankfurt
, operated virtually the same type of
instruments. In the opinion of the
inventor there existed no reason why
communication between the two YES
sells should not have been perfect, as
weather conditions were favorable.
Under inslstent questioning Bride
began to show signs of collapse, SO
Senator Smith ended the wireless in
QUESTION and questioned him about
the final scenes aboard the Titanic.
Bride and his superior. Phillips We're
among the last to leave and We're wit
ncsses of the closing scenes on the
boat deck, the topmost parade deck of
the lost ship. Brides story was frag-
mentary because it was drawn from
a memory that had not ceased to see
the actual living horror of it. Without
Senator Smiths interrogations it ran
about as follows:
I'VE did not feel the shock when the
ship struck In fact | was asleep at
the time and was not awakened by
the impact.
when the engines stopped Mr..
Phillips called me and | put on the
telephone apparatus while ne went
out to see what was. the matter. A
little later he came back. He said
things looked queer. BY queer l
suppose he meant that everything was
not as il should be.
AT the time. however neither of
us worried a bit When he heard the
confusion on deck | went out to in
,.astigata and when / returned found
Mr.. Phillips sending out Il C. 9. d..
call. giving bur position.
I'VE raised the Frankfurt first and
then the Carpathia and the Baltic
,s have said we did not try for
~, Erankfurt fnr any length of time
IN, concentrated our messages on the
..,r,a,.t,s,, which had answered. that
she was rushing to our aid.
The captain came into the wireless
ga hin from the deck when the Car
-pathia advised US of her position and
figured ont the time when that vessel
probably would arrive He left when
that was disposed of and preceded to
the bridge. Then we began unofficial
~ to keep in communication with the
Carpathia From time to time either
Mr.. Phillips or | would go on deck to
observe the situation. The last time
| went on deck | found the passen
gers running around in confusion and
there was almost panic They were
seeking life belts. All of the large
life boats We're gone but there was
one life raft remaining. 1t had been
Iashed on the top of the quarters of
the boat deck. number of mer
were striving to launch il.
II went back to the wireless cabin
then. Mr.. Phillips was striving to
send out final C. .. d. call Ihe
power was so low that we could not
tell exactly whether il was being car
ried or not. for we were in closed
cabin and we could not hear the
crackle of the wireless at the mast.
Phillips kept on sending. however.
while | buckled on his life belt and
put on my own. Then We both cared 1
for woman who had tainted and
who had been Brought INTO our cabin.
Then, about ten minutes before
the ship sank, Captain smith gave
word for every ONE TO look to his own
safety. | sprang to ain the men
To launch the life raft anu
we succeeded i'm getting IL Ia the edge I
OF the boat when giant wave car
ried il away. | went with IL ana
found myself underneath. STRUGGLING |
through an eternity hnally emerged /
and was swimming $50 feet lron IN" !
Titanic when she went down
II did not see Mr.. lshaN at an I
fTautaiu smith stuck tn tn iftNHr ]