The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-25

over his head and fsuplycsed he had skirts.
ANYHOW. | pulled this shawl on his face
and saw he was man and he was in
great hurry to get into the other boat
, in.
i rowed OFT to the wreckage and around
tho wreckaGe. and picked UP four people
do not know who these persons were
they never came near me afterward
, Only one died. Mr.. Hoyt Of Now
York; and it took all the boats crew to
pull him into the boat. because he was
an enormous man and suppose he had
been soaked fairly we'll with water.
propped him up at the stern Of the boat
but unfortunately he died
Il then left the wreck ! went right
a single female body. not one. around
the wreckagc."
Picked IN Collspsible.
After come Interruptions MIR. Lowe
said he noticed a collapsible boat 1T
looked rather sorry" he said. Also
thought. Well. I will go down and pick
about and sailed down to this collapsble
and took her in tow.
.. Now. I want to take you back a
! moment. You say you lay OF a bit
where how far from the Titanic. \. I
lay of from the Titanic, as near as I
could roughly estimate. at about $50
yards. because | wanted to be close
enough to pick up anybody that came by.
9. You said YOU lay OF bit to wait
until 1t quieted down. until the drowning
people had thinned OF? \. II would not
J have been wise or safe for me to have
gone there before. because the whole lot
OF us would have been swamped. and
| then nobody would have been saved.
.. But your boat had. according 20
| your own admission. water capacity OF
/ 80 people" a. Yes but then what are
you going to do with a boat OF 80 where
1900 people are drowning: I made the
attempt. sir. soon as any man could
| do SO. and | am not scared OF saying IT,
| II was absolutely not safe. You could
not do otherwise. because you would have
| hundreds Of people around your boat. and
| the boat would go down just like that
! lind.catingl | was just on the margin
II anybody had struggled out OF the mass
| was there to pick them up. but 1t was
! useless for me to go into the mass. 1T
would have been suicide.
! Took In %6 Persons.
Lowe then told Of how he went to the
rescue Of another collapsible boa,
and took from u about forty-five
! people. These PERSONS. he said were
standing ankle deep in water and would
have sunk in few minutes II he had not
come along with his nearly empty life
/ boat
! He said he found three bodies in the boat
but paid no attention to them. as the
time was pressing and he felt. he said
that il was his duty to save life. and not
to bother about bodies. Mr.. Lowe de-
livered all the people he rescued to the
Carpathia
/ Just before adjournment. Lowe cleared
! up the mystery which has preva ileda bout
the reported use of revolvers by officers
; Of the Titanic. Intensely and dramatically
Lowe said he fired his revolver for the
purpose of keeping people from jumping
| into his boat.
/ As was going down the decks he
said. Il expected every minute that my
/ boat would double up under my feet
! was quite scared Of it. although. of
course. il would not have done for me
/ to mention that fact to anybody else. I
had overcrowded her and I knew ] had
to take a certain amount Of risk. So
thought. Well, | shall have to see that
nobody else gets into the boat
i thought that IL one additional body
was to fall into that boat the slight jerk
might part the hooks or carry away
something. no enc would know what
There were i0i things To carry away
Then thought. Well! will keep an eve
open