The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-19
ter the collision / with others went on
deck and looked at the berg"
He Denies Censorship.

Ter the cOl1SlOn Win oInefS went on
deck and looked at the berg"
He Denies Censorship.
Ismay denied he had exercised a
censorship over the wireless on the
Carpathia. He said Il didn't interfere
in any way with the working of the
Carpathia's wireless, nor with commu-
nication to shore. | was never out OF
my stateroom on that ship. | saw no
body. But / think that the captain of
the Carpathia could explain this bet
ter than t.
Senator Smith requested Mr.. Ismay
to remain subject to the call of the
committee. This will prevent his de-
parture from this country Captain
Rostron of the Carpathia followed Mr..
1smay on the stand and gave the de-
tails of receiving the wireless call for
help, the cruise to the scene of the dis
Rster, and the rescue of the survivors.
Captain Rostron said that the wealth
er had been clear until midnight Sun
day when it thickened "The wireless
call for help he testified, was picked
sup by the Carpathia's operator at
1235 a. m. Monday. The Titanic's mes
sage stated her position as 4146 north
latitude, 5014 west longitude" Cap
tain Rostron said he put his ship about
and started for the location at full
speed. The first of the Titantics boats
containing survivors was sighted
shortly before A a. M Monday and by
H10 the Cunard steamer had pulled
along side Of it.
"'The boat was in charge of an Off
Ger" he said, but / saw that he was
mot in full control of it and he soon
yelled out that he had but one seaman
with him.
DAY broke then and we could see
the other survivors, scattered about
within radius of four miles There
were icebergs all around Twenty or
more of these were at least 200 feet
high, while there were numerous
smaller bergs. We had all the survi-
vors abroad by $50 We were then
close to where the Titanic must have
gone down, for lot of small debris
that you would scarcely call wreckage
was scattered about At 8 a. M the
Californian hove up and we got into
wireless communication. We told her
that another boat load of survivors
was still in the sea and she started to
look for them
Capt. Rostron then told of the
Thanksgiving service that was held on
the Carpathia's deck by the survivors
while she cruised about for an hour
in the hope Of picking up other survi-
vors. 1--WE saw but one body" he said.
II did not take the body aboard be-
cause 1t feared it would increase the
hysteria among the women. From the
boats we took three dead men, VIC
tins of exposure. One man, a member
Of the crew, died that night and the
four were buried at sea-"
Find Fifteen Lifeboats.
I'VE had fifteen alongside with pas
Eengers in them. There was another
drifting empty. 1t was leaking and
had been abandoned We brought Is of
the Titanic's lifeboats aboard he re-
piled.
did you bring them back with
vou?"
Eyes"
where are they now?"
They were taken off the Carpathia
some time last night and don't know
what was done with them"
Capt. Rostron testified that all the
lifeboats picked up were marked "Ti-
tanic," and that all were new and con-
formed to regulations of the Board of
Trade. The captain told of having
seen some OF the women passengers
of the Titanic rowing in some of the
lifeboats. Asked concerning the charg-
es that he had ignored the request of
President Taft for information about
Major Butt, the witness replied that
until he had reached New York he did