The Washington times., 1912-04-24
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slow progress made All the Senators
left Senator Smith to run the inquiry
alone.
'"Do you wish US to understand" be-
gan Smith, that there were not
enough capable men present to man
the boats properly"
have on all steamers-American ships
the same as British" Lowe answered.
Smith Lectures witness.
Senator Smith reviewed the testimony
already offered, lectured the witnesses
for not answering questions directly,
and demanded Il at Lowe quit arguing
with him.
The witness then admitted there we're
not enough sailors on the boat deck to
man the boats properly.
Lowe admitted having seen wives sep
arated from their husbands when the
boats were cast adrift.
1--WE put the women In the boat ac-
cording to the order In which they ar
First come, first served, was our
motto. eWasked no questions of the
women and children, but ordered the
men 10 stand back.
| filled, Mr.. Murdock said, That will
do and we lowered the boat. Then
we went up to No. 3. Mr.. lsmay was
| there. He was standing by me when
| fash lighted up the whole deck, and
| distinctly saw Mr.. Ismay standing
beside me. Rockets were going off
incessantly. ! helped fll boat No. 3.
| of the passengers. ! knSw the pas
sengers that were in the boat I
helped man. l went around to soc
them often when we were on the Car
pathIa, to find how they were getting
after we got all the women present
in lifeboat No, we let male passengers
go on. l think there we're forty oi
fcrty-five abuarl when she was lower.
| I'd.
! Many that were on deck didn't want
The people were unrestrained--they
were permitted 20 go where they ltket
The witness said he saw no crowd.
board the boats.
How many men were in No. 8 life
boat?' Lowe was asked.
About twenty-five" he said. There
| were no women available at that time
They didn't respond to the call.
Next went to the EN- ergency boat,
said Lowe, resuming his story.
about ave women. Then we fllet
boats No. IA and 1s. on the port side
with women and children. we pu
-ifty-e eight in No. II. They were al
He sneakeds in dressed like woman
liie had a hat and shawl over his head
II didn't see hi-, until the last min
lutte. There was another man, too,
Williams, OF Middlesex, England.
! Love had the names of three womel
. who were in his lifeboat and gave then
to Smith. The chairman looked at thes
l and observed sarcastically:
II thought you had card with tn
autographs OF all the women on?'
! Not Autograph Hunter.
IT didn't, SIR" was the angry answer
I'm no autograph hunter"
II started to transfer my passenger
from my lifeboat into some of tn
. others, intending to go back to tn
wreck" the witness continued me
! ment later. Il discovered the Italia
and pulled the shawl off his face.
threw him into another boat and the
we went back to the scene of the wrecl
!, found -four persons floating on tn
I New York. was giant, and IT took
OF the crew to pull him in. He wa
o bleeding from the nose and mouth; w
n opened his shirt and gave him bette
I died very shortly. did not see sing
r female body. This was just at daJ
break.
pathia had not seen us. l was goin
y along very nicely In the direction
o the Corpathia. I noticed a collapsib
= | boat and took her In tow.
"One OF the women in the boat.
think, was Mrs Henry II. Harris. 81
8 had a broken arm. l didn't know an
e of :he others"
: For some reason Chairman Smith IL
t sisted on interrupting Loves chronoloi
e ical stcry with criticism and sarcast
d questions. The witness doggedly trie
to tell his story Coherent1Y and was al
u Earently greatly disguised over Smith
n constant Interruptions over seemingI
e trivial points.
c Picking up his narrative of one
e I'll the drowning people quieted dow
Then ! went to where the Titanic san
z II ia have gone before we would ha'
It been swamped.
n Il made the attempt as soon as ar
man could do so. / didn't hang back
W Lowe told the committee he waite
y one and half to two hours before goir
y back to the wreckage.
e. "If anybody had struggled out of Il
d mass of wreckage, / would have takt
them, but II would have been suicide
y go into that crowd of struggling, drow
J. ing people"
/. Lowe said the Titanic went down be
first, almost perpendicular, at an ang
p of rs degrees. He could see no peop
:. on the after deck.
II heard about four explosions" LoN
said, about fifteen minutes after I lie
the ship"
The witness said he transferred fft
81 three people from his boat No. l6
others, and saved twenty men al
one women from sinking collapsib
le which had been pierced by wreckae
,s Three bodies were left on. the boat.
io II was there to save life-not bodies
Lowe declared.
"Ancther three minutes and the bo
20 would have gone down. l landed the
- all on the Carpathia.