Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-19
Band Plays On Till
the Ship Goes Down
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he could do could gain him admission, to attend Mrs. Wilson Carr
and Miss Louise Matthias, of Baltimore. A Star reporter offered
to deliver a message to the two inyaids who were going to Rome
for their health.
Practically the whole width of West street, from Eleventh to
sixteenth street, and every cross street for two blocks east
were packed with the thousands of automobiles of relatives and
friends of the survivors.
Outside of that was the crowd. Besides the private hospitals,
which sent ambulances, forty.fye other of these vehicles were sent
to the scene by the city, and fifteen trucks of the Gimhel Brothers
firm we're chartered for the same purpose.
Loads of supplies for the comfort of the passengers, socks,
underwear and linen, began arriving as the crowd began gathering.
The automobiles, ambulances and trucks kept weaving IN n III
ceaselessly in an endless procession, as If all the vehicles in New
York were passing the spot in review.
On the roofs of the piers and houses, and in upper windows, on
the roofs of automobiles, everywhere, were placed cameras. The
docking of the ship was announced to the. crowd by a number or
vivid flashes and dull reports that were set off.
The widest rumors began spreading. There was one which
seemed more or less accurate that more than 300 collins had been
brought to the docks. One rumor had it that, Major Butt was
forced to shoot Colonel Astor and FIVE others to keep them from
stampeding the crowd at the rails as the women and children were
being put aboard, but this was denied.
The first inkIing that the ship had come in wrought a change
in the crowd. A murmur began arising from the hundreds of
thousands of persons that swened louder and louder. Thousands
of relatives and friends of victims and survivors, who had been
unable to get passes, began edging closer to the closely drawn cor
don of police.
When the first passenger was taken out, and it was seen by
part of the crowd that it was a woman who was being supported
on both sides by two men, there was a rush that overwhelmed the
police, and for a few minutes there was the widest confusion.
Women became hystacal, men pushed and struggled But
this was only for a moment. Most of them seemed to realize that
they were witnessing an awful tragedy.
At the door of the pier, through which the men, women ana
children were being taken. there ensued scenes that moved all
within sight and hearing. Strong men wept openly, unashamed,
with the tensity and emotion that men show only on extreme oc
casions.
Policemen forgot what they were there for. Veteran news
papermen. hardened to scenes of horror, forgot to take notes.
Whatever JOY was expressed at seeing the loved ones was hyster-
zeal and was not unlike to sorrow.
That carelessness was the cause of the frightfuI disaster seems
The consensus of opinion.
Everything points to criminal carelessness,' said one OF the
crew of the Inflated vessel. 1.-THE fact alone that all the boats
we're picked up in midocean. always a teklish job, shows that the.
sea was calm and the night clear. An iceberg such as we struck
can be seer twenty miles on a night like that. The sea was calm
the night was clear and we had had warnings that we were going
through fields of ice. The iceberg that sent LOO human beings to
their death was of such size that it should have been felt and heard