The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-04-23
FINAL ACTIONS ARE DESCRIBED
Third Officer on Stand Before
Senate Investigators Today
LOOKOUT HAD NO GLASSES
Had He Been Supplied the Iceberq
Might Have Been Avoided
Says Witness.

Washington. April 23.-How the VIC
TINS of the Titanic disaster went TO
their death was pictured to the Senate
INVESTIGATING committee today by
Third Officer Pitman of the sunken,
liner. Asked TO describe the final ac-
tons of the doomed. Pitman said their
screams were maddening.
ut was one long continuous moan.
The cries from the victims continued
for an hour"
Pitman declared the live boat pas
sengers implored him not to return TO
the wreckage The boat drlfted among
one hundred drowning persons He
declared Ismay aided him i'm loading
women and children in the boats. Ex-
planning the accident, Pitman said the
iceberg tore away the side of the ship
and had the vessel struck the berg
head on IT would be afioat today.
Lookout Had No Glasses.
Frederick Fleet. lookout i'm the Ti-
tanic's crows nest. said that on Sun.
day night after 10 o'clock he reported
black mass ahead to the officials on.
board. Just how long this was be-
fore the collision he could not say.
Fleet declared there were no lookout
glasses in the Titanic nest after leav-
ing Southampton. With glasses. he
said. he could have seen the iceberg
soon enough To have escaped Il. He
said glasses were furnished the look
out from Belfast to Southampton,
where they were taken away.
New Laws Will Result.
When the investigation resumed to-
day the Senate committee was con-
vinced that the facts already disclosed
point out the inadequacy of the marine
regulations and that the whole story.
when told. will form the basis for new
maritime laws and lead to internation-
al conferences entirely revising ocean
steamship transportation. Information
has come TO the Senate that the au-
thorities of all the great maritime ma
tions of the world are watching the in
vestigation closely.
Ice Prevented Possible Rescue.
Mas Sluis. France. April 23-Nasses
OF ice prevented the Russian steamship
Birma from New York 20 Rotterdam.
April eleventh from reaching the Ti-
tanic in reply To the sinking liners
appeal. The Birma arrived here today.
The captain said his vessel was one
hundred miles from the Titanic when
the wireless calling for assistance was
received.
Some Bodies Identified.
New York, April 23.--Fifteen addi-
tionai bodies from the Titanic dlsas-
ter recovered by the cableship MaclSay-
Bennett We're Identified today, The
total recovered now is seventy-seven.
Of the fifteen just identified twelve arc
those of passengers.
The Identified: Mrs. Mack, Mrs N.
NTcNalee. Catavelas Vassilos, w. Wear.
Mary Mangan, William Sage. James
Farrel. Henry ID. Hansen, James Kel-
~. Mauretz Adahl, Roy Hale, w d.
Douglas. ]. r. Rice. assistant pur-
G. HincRley. hospital attend
ant and w. Butt. member of the crew.
The first list of names of bodies re-
covered was received last night
through wireless messages to the
White Star Line offices. The list con-
Iains none of the prominent men who
unless that of George w.
Widen" as sent by wireless, refers, as
i is believed probable to George ID.
widener Of Philadelphia.
Steamship Man Victim.
New York. April 22-It was learned
today that Jonkheer J. G. Reuchlin,
director OF the HollandAm-
srican Steamship line, was drowned