The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24


aboard a lifeboat, he exclaimed
Let me go and, jerking away, wen
down.
What became Of men with If
preservers is question asked sine
the disaster by many persons. Th'
preservers did their work Of support
ing their wearers in the water unit
the ship went down. Many Of thos'
who went down into the vortex, de
spite the preservers, did not come
up again. Dead bodies floated on tht
surface as the last boat showed
away.
''To relate that the ships strins
band gathered in the saloon, neal
the end and played Nearer, Ny Coo
to Thee" sounds like an attempt tt
give an added solemn color to scene
which was in itself the climax o:
solemnity. The various passenger:
and survivors Of the crew agree II
the declaring that they heard this
music. To some Of the hearers, with
husbands among the dying men, il
the water and on the ships rails
the strain brought in through The
words:
Nearer, My God, to Thee"
So by my woes I'll be
Nearer my God to Thee.
Nearer to Thee
''In the loading Of the boat, the
restrictions Of sex were not made
and it seemed to the men who filed in
beside the women that there would
be boats enough for all. But the
ships officers knew better than this,
and as the spreading fear caused an
earnest advance towards the suspend
ed raft, the orders women hrsS were
heard and the mon were pushed
asidn.
ITO the scene OF the next two
hours on those decks and In the wat
ers below such adjectives dramatic
and tragic do but poor justice. With
the knowledge of deadly peril gain
ing greater power each moment over
those men and women, the nobility
OF the greater part, both among cabin
passengers, of;cers, crew and steer
age, asserted itself.
"Isador Straus, supporting his
wife on her way to a lifeboat, was
held back by an ine1orable guard.
Another officer strode to help her to
a seat Of safety, but she brushed
away his arm and clung to her hus-
band, crying, I will not go without
you
Another woman took her place
and her form, clinging to her hus-
bands, became part OF picture now
drawn indelibly in many minds.
Neither wife nor husband, so far as
any one knows, reached a place OF
safety.
"Col. Astor, holding his young
wife's arm, stood decorousl!- aside as
the officers spoke to him, and Mrs.
Astor and her maid were ushered to
seats. Mrs. Henry B. Harris parted
in like manner from her husband,
saw him last on the rail beside Col.
Astor.
walter NJ. Clark, OF Los Angeles,
nephew Of the Montana Senator,
Joined the line of men as his young
wife, sobbing, was placed in one OF
the crafts. Let him come, there is
room,' cried Mrs. Emil Taussig, as
the men Of the White Star Line mo-
toned to her husband to leave her.
No Tiding OF These.
"Of Major Archie Butt, a taVorite
with his fellow tourists, OF Chas. NJ.
Hays, president Of the Grand Trunk;
Of Benjamin Guggenheim and of VIM.
T. Stead, no one seems to know
whether they tarried too long in their
state rooms or whether they forebore
to approach the fast filing boats.
None OF them was in the throng,
which, weary, hours afterward reach
e6 the Carpathia.
simultaneously those in the boats
saw what those on the decks could
not see-that the Titanic was listing
RAPIDLY to starboard and that her
stern was rising at portentious an
gle. A rush OF steerage men toward
the boats was checked by officers
with revolvers.
Some Of the boats, crowded, drift
ed for time. None had provisions
or water, there was lack Of covering
from the ice and aid and the only
lights were the still undimmed arcs
and incandescents Of the settling
ship, safe for one Of the boats. There
a steward, who explained to the pas
sengers that he had been shipwreck-
ed before, appeared carrying three
oranges and green light. That
green light, many OF the survivors
say, was to the shipwrecked hun
dreds as the pillar of fire by night.
Long after the ship had disappeared
and while confusing false lights
danced about the boats, the green
lantern kept them together.
GAS the end Of the Titanic be-
came manifestly but matter of mo-
ments, the oarsmen pulled their
boats away and the chilling waters
began to echo splash after splash, as
passengers and sailors in life presery-
ers leapei over and started swim
ming away to escape the expected
suction. Only the hardest Of :he
n en- could endure more than 4 few
minutes of such numb bath Such q
vigorous stroke gave away 70 heart
breaking cries of 'Helo: Help and
etiecned forms were seen floating
the faces relaxed in deal.
Major Butt is Lost.
Mai. Archibald Eutt, we'll known
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