Putnam patriot., 1912-04-26
ICEBERG TORE
 TITANIC'S SIDE
Sank as Band Played Nearer, Ny God, to Thee,' Carrying 10 the Bottom of the
 Atlantic 1895 Souls
745 SURVIVORS ENTER PORT

Those who were rescued number Just 745.
 More than this number were picked up from the Titanle's boats and from pieces of wreckage to which they olunq, but four died of exposure after having been transferred to the Car pathia and were buried st sea.
 Of the 745 who reached New York 2fo were members of the crew, most Of them stewards and fremen. Only four officers were saved.
 lt was the submerged ledge Of an Iceberg Of ordinary proportions that sent the White Star liner more than two miles to the bottom of the Allan tic of the Banks of Newfoundland. She was steamino almost fuli tt through a gently swelling sea and un- der a stsrilt sky when at t1.4o ?. m. she hit the berg. First Officer Mur- dock . moment after the collision sur rendered the command to Capt. Smith, when went down with her
 New York, April 19.-After four days of suspense the Garpatbia ar rived at this port bearing all that re mains mortal Of the thousands of souls who sailed upon the Titanic.
 StiH dazed and half stunned from the shock Of that appalling night, amid all their grief the survivors in senten- ces interrupted by sobs and ejacula. tlons told of brief moments of their experience that had to be pieced to- gether 10 make q coherent narrative.
 II was a narrative to thrill the soul with horror Darkness, a sea of ice. the huge hulk of the Titanic dotted with myriads of lights aowly sinking beneath the waves, the cries of men shrieking for help. of women scream. ing in panic growing louder and loud CT with every moment hundreds of men struggling in the water amid the cakes of ice, striving piteously to climb upon the overladen lifeboats, begging to be saved women crying to their husbands to jump from the decks, ships officers threatening to shoot the first man who attempted to enter a life boat-no picture inferno ever presented such phantasmagoria. Titanic Was Running at Full Speed.
 The ocean was calm as mill pond when the Titanic crushed into the ice berg. It was quarter Of an hour be fore midnight Most of the passengers were in their cabins.
 Then came the shock Of collision not so violent a crash as had been de pieted, for there were many who were rot even awakened by but enough to dsquiet all who felt il. There was a general and orderly exodus to the decks.
 Sailors were seurrying hither and thither crying:
 NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OFl THERE'S NO DANGERi"
 Some of the passengers even return ed to their rooms and prepared to re- tire But gradually the cessation of the engines vibration caused uneasi- ness and tho groups on the decks grew greater and greater. Still the sailors announced that there was nothing to be feared
 Then with pereeptible suddenness, the ship began 10 list
 "All passengers on deck with life belts" was shouted. Then for the first time the gravity of the situation dawn ed upon the passengers.
 The sailors. working silently and without excitement yet fast as their paulIns from the lifehoats and tcrse- ly. without excitement-eam the or der. repeated upon every side;
 Women and children in the life. boatsi"
 The sailors helped the nearest wo- men and children into The boats. And --it was the beginning of excitement --other sailors began to lower the boats
 Men Laughed as Boats Filled.
 Thus far the men. standing idly by, failing entirely to grasp the signiti- canoe of the moment, had helped the sailors Many of the passengers fe- port that the men were laughing.
 Wen be safer here on the ship than in that cockle.shell! one man cried to his wife as she was helped ever the rail.
 But the Titanic settled deeper in the ocean and 1t was difficult for the men to remain on their feet Then it was that the appalling nature of it dawned upon those men. And then, also it was, that the officers of the ship drew their revolvers.
 Stand back" they cried, Only women and children go into the boats"
 some of the men leaned against the rail and looked down over the tower ing sides Of the ship Others slowly paced the deck as if they were wait ing
 Three steerase Men Shot.
 The ship sank lower and lower. Three revolver shots were heard. Three passengers in the steerage had attempted 10 force their way past the sailors and had been ruthlessly shot down.
 By this time the passengers on the deck who remained in possession of their faculties ohserved the huge masses of lee which the Titanic had rent from the berg with which it had loolllded. Of the scene in the bow, where over hundred and fifty feet of the ships length had been crushed in. there were no witnesses until an hour afterward. when the lifeboats were all sn the water.
 Herolsna Asserts Itself.
 The ship had now listed to terrible angle Men, in the throes of panic. attempted to reash the boats and were pushed back. And in that moment the heroism of hundreds asserted it-