The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1912-04-25
1850 SOULS IN
WATERY GRAVE
When Titanic, Largest Ship
Afioat, Flunges inio Giant
Iceberg off Newfound-
land Coast

New \ ol'k, April lo-l1oW Cile
White Star Liner Titanic, the
largest snip ahoat, sank OFT the
Grand Banks Of New Foundland
on Monday morning last carry
inc to their death 1,601 of the
2,3l0 persons aboard, was told to
the world in all its awful details
for the first time tonight with
the arrival in New York Of the
Cunard liner Carpathia bearing
the exhausted survivors Of thu
catastrophe. OF the great facts
standing out from the chaotic
account of the tradgedy. these
are the most salient:
The death list has increased
rather than decreased. Six per-
SONS died after being rescued.
The list Of prominent persons
los stands as previously report
ed.
Practically every woman and
child, with the exception OF
those women who refused to
leave their husbands, were
saved. Among these last was
Mrs. Isidore Straus.
The survivors on the lifeboats
saw the lights on the stricken
Titanic glimmer to the last,
heard her band playing and
saw the doomed hundreds on
her dock and heard their groans
and cries when the vessel sank.
Accounts vary as to the eX-
tent of the disorder on board.
Not only was the Titanic tear
ing through the April night to
her doom with every ounce OF
steam crowded on, but she was
under orders from the general
Offices Of the line to make all the
snced of which she was capable.
This was the statement made
to1i=ht by J. H. Moody, a
quarter master of the vessel and
helmsman on the night of the
disaster. He said the ship was
making q knots an hour and
the officers We're striving to live
up to thr orders to smash the
record.
1T was close to midnight, :
said Moody, and l was on the
bridge with the second officer
who was in command. Sudden
ly he shouted port your helm,
[ did so hat it was toe late. We
struck the submerged portion
Of the berg .
OF the many accounts given
by the passengers most agreed
that the shock when the Titanic
struck the iceberg, although rip.
ping her great sides like :, giant
can opener, did not greatly ja1
the entire vessel for the blow
was a CLAN ;ing one along hel
side. The accounts also agree
substantially that when the
passengers were taken off on the
llifeboats there was no serious
panic and that many wished
to remain on board the Ii
tanic," believing it to be un
sinkable.
Sensational rumors told by
hysterical passengers who woulc
not give their names said thai
| Capt. Smith had killed himself
on the bridge; that the chie1
engineer had taken his life anc
that three Italians were shot II
the struggle for the boats. These
rumors could not be confirmed
in the early confusion attend
ant on tie landing Of the sur
vivors.
Ripped from: stem TO engine
room by the great mass of lex
she struck amidships, the Ii
tantics side was laid ol.en as il
by a gigantic can opener. She
quickly listed to starboard and {
shower Of ice Oh to the fore
castle deck. Shortly before She
sank she broke in two abaft the
engine room, and as she disap
peared beneath the water the
expulsion of air caused two eN
plosions which were plainly
heard by the survivors adrift
a moment more and the Titanic
had gone to her doom with the
fate of hundreds grouped on tht
after deck. To the survivors
they were visible to the las
and their cries and means Were
pitiable.
RAPID RISE.