The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-19
With Her Great Side Ripped Open the Queen Of the Ocean
Plunged TO the Bottom Boilers in the Engine Room
Exploded As Vessel Went Down
STANDING FIRM ON THE BRIDGE CAPTAIN
SMITH WENT To DEATH WITH HIS VESSEL
Report Denied that Captain Smith Shot Himself Titanic Sank Forever
An Official Statement Places Number Of Those Who Persisted al
lo95-Survivors in Lille Boats Heard Piiable Cries
Of Those Who Went to Bottom with Ship
Associated Press Special.

Associated Press Special
New York, April 19.-The Official
death list as announced resultant
of the sinking of the Titanic follow
ing the collision with an iceberg
off the coast OF New Foundland |
is 1895, including six deaths among
the survivors taken on board the
Carpathia.
All the missing notable men |
whose fates have been unsettled are
now known to be dead.
Jacques Futrelle, the writer, who
was previously reported as being
among the saved, is dead.
Little is known as to the deaths
of the many prominent men who
went down with the stricken queen
of the ocean. further than that they
simply effaced themselves IN order
that the women might occupy the
boats and be saved
No shock followed the collision
| with the mighty mountain of ice.
The first passengers to enter the
ships lifeboats went unwi1lingIy.
thinking they would soon return to
the Titanic Several men were thus
forced into the boats.
AS the ship began sinking panic
broke loose in the steerage, which
the officers controlled by shooting
pistols and possibly killing several.
Captain Smith went down with
the ship standing firm on the bridge
of the vessel which he had so
proudly commanded, and he did not
shoot himself, as was first reported.
The wireless operator, Phillips, |
stuck to his post until the Titanic
dived towards the bottom, when he
jumped and swan and was taken
aboard life raft, but died of ex-
posure
The ships band played until the
last.
at the last refused to leave the card
game which was progressing in their
quarters, not believing that THE
Titanic could sink.
The lights aboard the Titanic
burned brightly until the last plunge
making a weird picture for those
who stood off in the lifeboats watch
ling the death struggle OF the mighty
liner
There was little suction when the
great ship went down.
| Countess Rothes. who is an expert
oarswoman, took charge of the crew
in one of the lifeboats, the ships
crew being unskilled stewards who
could not row we'll. The countess
appointed several of her women
lcompanions as rowers, and by the
work of these the lifeboat with It's
heavy freightage of human lives
was pulled away from the founder
| ing ship.
| Nearly all of the men survivors
escaped from the sinking ship by
swimming. One entire watch OF
lnearly naked firemen made their
escape in this way and were saved.
]. Bruce Ismay Is said to have
entered one OF the IlfSt poaes " put
off fom the Titanic, but this he
ldenies. and sailors eorroborating his
story say that he was saved in the
last lifeboat that was launched by
the Titanic.
| BE British, my men," was
iCaptain Smiths order from the
bridge of the sinking ship to the
members of the Titanic's crew who
stood on deck as the steamer plung-
ed down to the depths.
The living survivors of the Titanic
number 745.
The Titanic was making twenty
lone knots an hour when she hit the
iceberg that sent her TO the bottom.
The momentum of the ship carried
her well up on the shelving side OF
the mountain OF ice, and the recoil
tore the steel plates loose from the
bottom, ripping the sides OF the yes
sci we'll back to the stern.
One thousand persons were LEFT