The Nome daily nugget., 1912-07-17
GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF
 s. 5. TITANIC WRECK

An passengers on deck with life
 belts on"
 1 J. q Phillips, the first wireless op-
 orator Of the ship. had sent out the
 distress signal "C e D" at the first alarm. By Captain Smiths orders he alS" sent out the new distress signal < S." Phillips stayed at his post sending out calls and went down with the ship.
 Several ships. including the Olym- pie and Nirgiuian. caught the wireless messages The Carpathia. of the Cn- nard line. bound for Gibraltar. was the nearest fifty miles away. and also the quickest She started immedi- ately to the rescue. operator Phillips continued to give information to the approaching ship. The last message was. Engine room flooded Taking passengers off in boats Hurry, Hurry" The messages died in a splutter as the sea swamped the IT. 
 from her wireless dynamo
 Captain Smith and the officers Of the Titanic knew the ship was going down. but the fact was generally con cealed fom the passenges. The of fees also knew the ship did not have enough lifeboats to carry more than ne-third of the passengers. She car ried sixteen lifeboats and four other boats. All the boats were on deck A. back; women and children to the dec', below" The boats were swung out and the women and children go first. The officers stood. revolver in hand to enforce the rule. A rush for the boats by some men from the steerage was stopped bv First officer Murdock, who shot two of them.
 There Had Been no Boat Drill.
 Colonel John Jacob Astor put his bye to her with a cheery smile. Major Butt assisted the officers in maintain Ing order. Mrs. Isidor Straus refused to gn without her husband and stood with her arm around him on the deck of the sinking ship.
 officers and men had never gone through a boat drill to prepare them for such an emergency. All the boats were sent way with fewer persons of the earlier boats were sent away with less than half the possible mum ber they could have carried. The first lifeboat only carried twenty five pas sengcrs out of possible sixty-five. Fifth officer Lowe afterward said he feared the lowering tackle or the boats would break if the latter were loaded full Two hundred and sixty seven women and children were left behind because they were overlooked or would not go. l. Bruce Ismay, the manager of the line. was one of the men taken safely off in a boat.
 The "Unsinkable" Giant Sinks.
 The boats pulled away from the ship as far as possible: some because they were making for a ships light report afraid of the suction of the sinking ship. Between 12 and 1 1t became obvious to those on the boats that the great liner was sinking with 1,535 persons aboard.
 The ships band played Nearer. My God, to Thee" and other hymnas up to the last. The doomed passengers stood on the upper decks. The sea was smashing in the bulkheads of the watertight compartments, one after another. At 1;40 a. m. the bow sank under water At 1850 she broke In two. At 2:00 a. m. the stern section turned around and stood for many minutes towering high in the air hundred feet above the water.
 At 2:20 a. m, almost two hours and tnlGty-INe minutes dlttT Snc SlfuS the iceberg. the mighty ship went down. As she did so the survivors on the boats heard a tremendous long drawn out shriek. such as mortal ears have never heard before.
 The Shrieks of the Drowning.
 None of the boats ventured near the ship as she went down, but it has been testified that one or two returned after the shrieking died out. About thirty, including Colonel Archibald Oracle, of Washington, and Third Of- Gcer Lightoller. who were on the ship when she sank. escaped by clinging to some wreckage and getting hold of & collapsible boat.
 Among the 325 first cabin passen- gers fourteen women and children were lost: among the 2S5 second cabin passengers 22 women and children were lost, and among the ITO steer age passengers 1S1 women and chil-