The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-04-25

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the water without capsizing. Some OF
the others lowered to starboard, in
Guiding one collapsible, were capsized.
All hands on the collapsible boats that
practically went to pieces were res
cued by The other boats.
Sixteen boats in all got away safely.
1t was even then the general impress
sion that the ship was alright and
there is no doubt that that was the
belief of even some of the officers.
At the lowering of the boats the offl-
GERS experimenting it were armed
with revolvers, but there was no ne
cessity for using them as there was
nothing in the nature of panic and
no man made an effort to get into
boat while the women and children
We're being put aboard
Begin to Jump Into Sea.
AS the ship began to settle to star
board, heeling at an angle of nearly
forty-five degrees, those who had be-
| lieved it was all right to stick by the
ship began to have doubt and few
| jumped into the sea. These were fol
lowed Immediately by others and in
| few minutes there were scores swim
ming around. Nearly all OF them
wore life preservers.
| One man who had Pomeranlan
| dog leaped overheard with it and strik-
| ing piece of Wreckage was badly
stunned. He recovered after few
minutes and swan toward one OF the
lifeboats and was taken aboard. Most
| of the men who were aboard the Car
pathia, barring the members OF the
crew who had manned the boats, had
jumped into the sea as the Titanic was
settling.
Ship Breaks in Two.
Under instructions from officers and
men in charge the lifeboats were
rowed a considerable distance from
the ship itself in order to get away
from the possible suction that would
follow the laundering. The marvellous
| thing about the disappearance was so
| little suction as to be hardly appre-
ciable from the point where the boats
were floating.
There was ample time to launch all
boats before the Titanic went down,
as it was two hours and twenty min
utes afloat.
So confident were all hands that 1t
had not sustained a mortal wound
| that it was not until 1915 a. M, or
thirty-five minutes after the berg was
| encountered, that the boats We're low
cred. Hundreds of the crew and
large majority of the officers, includ-
ing Captain Smith, stuck to the ship
to the last.
II was evident after there were sew
eral explosions, which doubtless were
the boilers blowing up, that it had but
few minutes more of life.
The ship broke in half amidship and
almost simultaneously the after half
and the forward half sank, the for
ward half vanishing bow first and the
other half stern first.
Sinks With Little FURRY.
The sinking ship made much less
commotion than the Mortified watch
ers in the lifeboats had expected
They were close enough to the broken
vessel to see clearly the most grew
some details of the laundering. All
the spectators agree that the shat
tered sections Of the ship went down
so quietly as to excite wonder.
Some of the rescued were scantily
clad and suffered exceedingly from
the cold, but the majority of then
were prepared for the emergency. lr
the darkness aboard the ship thai
came shortly after the collision 1t was
impossible for those in the boats tt
distinguish the identity of any of th<
persons who leaped into the sea. 1t il
believed that nearly all cabin passen
gers who had not gone overheard i'm
mediately after the boats were
launched vanished with the officer
and crew.
Had Time to Dress.
Some of the stewards who formed
part of the lifeboat crew say that aft
err the ship hit the berg the majorit.
of the cabin passengers went back tt
their staterooms and that it was nee
essary to rout them out and in SOM
instances force life preservers upo1
them. All agree that the engines o
the ship were stopped immediatel
after she had made the ineffectua
turn to clear the berg.
The lifeboats' crew were made up o
stewards, stokers, coal trimmers an
ordinary seamen. 1t is said that tn
davits were equipped with a new cor
trivance for the swift launching OF tn
boats, but that the machinery was S
, complicated and the men so unfami
, lar with it that they had trouble j
managing it.
Describes Death Of Butt.
7 Among the first of the passenger
to leave the pier were Washingto
Dodge, his wife, and his seven-yea
t old son, whose large eyes shone wit
: excitement from beneath the rolls {
: white mufflers that bound him frol
: head to foot.
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