Gilpin observer., 1912-04-18
GIANT OCEAN Liner, TITANIC, SINKS;
1900 TO 1900 PERSONS DROWN
GREATEST MARINE DISASTER OF ALL HISTORY
Rescued Mostly ChIden-Passenge
Included Many Wealthy and Notable PeopIeVesseI Was
Making FirstTr

priests and two Protestant ministers
aboard the ship.
Wireless messages relate story of
bravery in the face of death surpass-
ing any other ever written Of the sea,
in fact or in fiction.
When it became known that the IT.
tanic was doomed, and that only few
of the passengers and crew could be
saved, the men aboard, as one, de-
manded that the women and children
be saved. The parting of the wives
from their husbands, as limited in brief
messages, was a scene to rend the
heart, and in every case the husband
assisted the crew of the steamship in
dragging the women away to the life
boat. Wives became hysterical and
| many of them tainted when told they
they must leave their husbands. With
tears streaming from their eyes, hus-
bands and wives locked in the last
embrace upon this earth, the husband
with the Anglo-Saxon blood running
strong in his veins, bore up under the
| terrible ordeal and assisted in un-
winding his wife's arms from around
| his neck.
Help Wives to Boats.
When the boats drew away, with
their wives, the men gazed after them
and then, with the hearts of a stole,
returned to assist the other women
and children to the boats.
, At last, when all the ships boats
had been filled with women and chi!
/ h~
tanic only necessary to man the boats
in them, the boats pulled away from
the sinking ship. Captain Smith OF
the Titanic issued orders to his men
in each boat to proceed as rapidly as
possible away from the vessel, for he
knew that when she took her final
| plunge into the Atlantic that the sue
ton of the mighty leviathan would en-
gulf all boats that were not far away.
The orders of the captain We're car
ried out to the letter, the men left
aboard the boat watching each boat as
it disappeared in the distance over the
rolling waves, and then they turned to
the captain.
1t was realized by every man aboard
that his final hour had come. Out
across the ocean there was no sign
Of ship coming to the rescue, al
though up in his cage the wireless op
orator received messages from halt
dozen ships that they were rushing
as fast as steam could bear them to
the aid of the stricken Titanic. II
was realized, though, by the men, that
none of the hurrying vessels would
reach them in time to save them
They knew that when the ships ar
rived that there would be nothing lef,
but a bit of the floating wreckage to
tell where a $1O,O00,000 vessel hat
gone to her grave.
"Nearer My God to Thee"
Religious services were started in
half dozen different sections Of the
mighty vessel Practically everybody
aboard had come to the decks and
they joined in the religious services
in the singing of Nearer My God to
Thee" Rock of Ages" and other OF
the old time hymns. Between the
hymns, and during their progress, mer
/ knelt upon the deck of the sinking
ship and offered up prayer to God
; while the two priests absolved from
, sin those upon the vessel. The Pro
testant ministers aboard prayed witt
: the priests. while Bibles were passed
around to be read aloud by those te
whom they were handed.
: AS the religious services continued
the ship sank deeper and deeper into
) the ocean. In the presence of deatf
/ to themselves those men whose wives
, had gone in the life boats prayed fer
: vently for their safety, forgetting
Y themselves in their love for theil
! wives Those who were alone prayed
3 for the folks at home, mingling thes'
g prayers with those of their own t.
God.
Wireless Man Faithful TO End.
Up in his cage the wireless operate
. sent out snatches of the scenes upol
the decks and throughout the Titanic
), telling the ships racing on to her ali
= that all was lost; that order prevaile'
and that the religious services ant
. prayers were continuing as the Titani
: sank lower and lower to her grave.
= Then came the end Of those wire
= less snatches. Wireless operators upol
!, other ships knew that the story wa
:, ended. They knew that the great T
:, tanic had taken her last plunge an
that all those brave mon were Il
their ocean grave.
Wireless Big Aid Saving Passengers
Wireless telegraphy in the sinking Q
G the Titanic once more demonstrate
n its use, but in this case not with tn
b success that characterised It in tn