The Washington times., 1912-04-19

boat and the boat was upside down
AMI ! was under IL. And 1 remember
realizing l was wet through, and that
whatever hapdened / must not breathe
for was under water.
Knew ! had 20 fight for Il and I
aid. HOW l got out from under the
boat 1 DO not know, but I felt a
breath OF air at last.
There were men all around mo
hundreds of them. The sea was dot
ted with them, all depending on their
away from tho ship she was beau
tifnl sight then"
Smoke and sparks were rushing out
OF her funnel. There must have been
We only saw the big stream of sparks.
the ship was gradually turning on
her nose-just like a duck does that goes
down for a'divey had only one thing
suction. The band was still playing. /
guess all of the band went down.
They were playing Autumn then.
| l swan with all my might I suppose
on her nose, with her after-quarter
1 to settle--slowly.
When At last the waves washed over
of suction / could feel. She must
have kept going just SO slowly as she
had been.
Spoke German Boat.
IT forgot to mention that, besides
the Olympic and Carpathia. we spoke
some German boat, don't know which,
and told them how we were. We also
spoke the Baltic. I remembered those
things as I began to figure what ships
would be coming toward us.
II felt, after a little while, like sink
ing. l was very cold. ] saw a boat of
some kind near me and put all my
strength into an effort to swim to II.
1t was hard work, was all done
and pulled me aboard. 1t was our same
collapsible. The same crowd was on II,
There was just room for me to roll
what the ease nsfs ss n9t Sarng @
legs. They were wedged in between
Stats and were being wrenched. I had
not the heart left to ask the man to
move. II was a terrible sight all around
men swimming and sinking.
II lay where 1 was. letting the man
wrench my feet out Of shape. Others
came near. Nobody gave them hand.
The bottom-up- boat already had more
Ing; er,. o., ,....r w.,,a. .n,.s,.,
over my clothing. Then they began to
splash oyer my head and I had to
Some splendid people saved u.s. They
had a rtght-sde.up boat, and II was
full to its capacity. Yet they came to
some lights off in the distance and knew
O steamship was coming to our aid.
II didn't care what happened. l Just
lay and gasped when I could and and felt
patha was alongside and the people
were being taken up a rope ladder. Our
boat drew near and one by one the
men were taken off OF 1t.
One Dead On the Raft.
"One man was dead. 1 passed him
and went to the ladder, although my
feet panied terribly. The dead man
was Phillips He had died on the raft
from exposure and cold, l guess. He
had been all in from work before the
wreck came. He stood his ground
until the crisis had passed, and then
he had collapsed, 1 guess.
But l hardly thought that then.
didn't think much of anything.
tried the rope ladder My feet panied
hands reaching out to me: The next
knew a woman was leaning over me
in a cabin and felt her hand waving
back my hair and rubbing my face
II felt somebody at my feet and felt
the warmth of jolt Of liquor Some
body got me under the arms. Then
was hustled down below to. the hos
pital. That was early in the day. !
guess lay in the hospital until near
night and they told me the carpathia's
wireless man was getting queer and
would I help.
wireless room, so don't know what
happened among the passengers. saw
nothing Of Mrs. Astor or any Of them
never died down. knew it soothed
the hurt and felt like tie to the world
of friends and home.
How could ] then take news queries?
CnVr NTNn LAT n n
question and get n long string of stuff
asking for full particulars about every
thing. Whenever ! start ed to take such
a message l Thought of the poor people
ing for answers to them.
II shut off the inquirers and sent my
personal messages. Ard I feel did
''If the Chester had had a decent
operator I could have worked with
him longer. but he got terribly on my
tence. / was stlll sending my personal
messages when Mr.. Marconi and the
Times reporter arrived to ask that I
prepare this srs statement ion left would
like to send them all, because I could
rest easier If knew all those messages
had gone to the friends waiting for
ing with a stretcher, and I guess I
have got to go with him. l hope my
legs get better soon.
The way the band kept playing was
a noble thing. l heard II first while
still we were working wireless, when
there was a ragtime tune for US. and
the last saw of the band, when I was
floating out in the sea with my life belt
on, 1t was still on deck playing 'Au-
tumn.' How they ever did 1t cannot
imagine.
That and the way Phillips kept send
ing after the captain told him his life
was his own, and to look out for him
self, are two things that stand out in
my mind over all the rest"