The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-19

The Morning World tomorrow will pub
Iish Carlos NJ. l.. Hurd's story In detail
Mr.. Hl:rd's story said
Facts which have established by IN
qu!rlcs on the Carpathia as positlVely as as
they could he established In view OF tue
silence OF the few surviving officers. aro'
THAT the Titanics officers knew. sew
era, hours before The crash. OF the pos
si6le ncarness OF the icebergs.,
THAT the Titanics speed, nearly
twcnty-three knots an hour was not
slackened
THAT the number OF lifeboats on the
Titanic. was insufficient TO accomn,ona.c
more than one-thirJ Of the nassengers'
IN say nothing of the crew Most mem
tcrs Of the crew say there were sixteen
Hfcboa.s and two colapslhlos: none say
there were more than twenty boats III
all The zoo who escaped filed most oi
the sixteen lfeboats and the one col
rspsible which got away, TO the limit OF
their capacity.
"IIad the shin struck the iceberg head
on with whatever speed and with what
ever resulting shock. the bulkhead sys-
tenn Of wster-tight compartments prop
abi,- would have saved the vessel AS
one man expressed Il. IL was the impos-
slblc that happened when with q shock
unbelievably mild, the ships side was
tori, for a length h which ili' made 'nc ou'N
''The Titanic was 1899 miles from
Queenstown. and 1191 miles from New
York. speeding for maiden, VOYAGE rec
d
CLASSY, Lights were out in most OF the
staterooms and only two or three con-
genial groups remained in the puolic
rooms
I'm the crows nest. or lookout, and on
the bridge officers and members of the
crew were a, their places awaiting re,
lief at midnight from their two hours
watch
al I1:I5 came the sudden sound OF
two gums, warning OF immediate danger.
"The crash against the Iceberg, which
lad been sighted AT only Quarter OF
mile came almost simultaneously with
the click RI the levers operated by those
on the bridge. which stopped the engines
and closed inc water-tght doors.
Captain Smith was on the bridge
moment later giving orders for the sum
noning nn deck az all aboard and for
The putting on of life preser1ers and the
lowering of the lifeboats.
THE first boats lowered contained more
men passengers than the later ones. as
the men were on deck first and not
enough women were there to fill them.
Women First.
When a moment later the rush of
fristteued women and crying children to
the deck began, enforcement Of the
loading some OF the boats drew re-
volvcrs. but In most cases the men. both
PASSENGERS and crew. behaved In way
that called for no such restraint.
Revolver shots heard By many |
persons shortly before the end Of the
Titanic caused many rumors. One was
that CAPTAIN Smith shot himself: an
other was that First Officer Mur1ools
had ended his life. Smith Murdoch and
Sixth Officer Moody are known to have
beer lost The surviving officers. |
Iightoller- Pitman. Botball and Lowe, J
have made no statement
Members. OF the crew discredlt all re-
ports Of suicide and say capiain Smith
the ship sank, leapiuS only after those
on The deck had been washed away. II
Is also related that when a cook later
sought to pull him aboard lifeboat he
exclaimed. Let me CO. and. jerking
AWAY. went down.
What became Of the men with life
p2reservers Is question asked since the
DISASTER by many persons The pre-
servers did their work OF supporting
their wcsrcrs In the water until the ship
went down. Many OF those drawn into
the vortex despite the preserycrs did not
come up again Bodies fioated on the
surface as the last boats moved away
Nearer, My God to Thee