The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-20
E. H. DILLON & co.
Lack Of Order In Filling Lifeboats
 Cost 200 Lives
Investigating Committee Found That Boats Were Not Uni formly Loaded And Few
 Carried Their Capacity

New York. April ao-Having defi- nitely established that fully 200 of the Titanic's victims could have been saved If the lifeboats had been loaded uniformly and to capacity, the Sen ate subcommittee which is investi- gating the disaster, continued, today, to hear the story of the survivors. The White Star line has agreed to hold 15 selected sailors and all of the officers that were rescued in this country to tell their stories. The others of the crew the company is planning to re- turn to England on the Lapland, this afternoon.
 The dazed survivors are slowly re- covering at hotels here or have been hurried to their homes by the friends who met them. Despite the exposure which many of the tender women were subjected to 1t was believed, to- day. all will recover. The condition of the 39 newly made widows. rang ing from the beautiful Madeline Force Astor to the less fortunate steerage women, Is most pitiable and universal sympathy was being expressed for all of them.
 rlr at St. vincent's hospital where the steerage survivors are being cared for many of the immigrants had been released by the immigration officers to friends. The relief committee of we'll known New York women who have been looking after the personal needs of these unfortunates saw that they were supplied with clothing and other necessities.
 America, naturally generous. is re- sponding nebly in the present emer- gency and the relief fund is constant ly increasing. In addition to the an- nouncement that they have changed the steamship lanes so that hereafter there will be no danger of encounter ing ice fields. many of the steamship companies announced, today, that they are preparing to install lifeboats ana rafts so that in the future there will be a place in these for every indt- vfdual on board the ships.
 To do this 1t will be necessary in many instances to change the deck construction so that additional davits can be installed. A number of the lines, because of the bitter criticism. that has followed the knowledge that tender women were compelled to man the oars in the boats are considering the advisabilit of installing the pow CT type of lifeboat. These will be equipped with engines of the type familiar to the operators of automo- biles and if necessary could be op- erated by women refugees.
  mained on the Titanic after the boats had gone and there was no hope spent the last few minutes in prayer seemed certain. today Down in the bowels of the ship, in the fireroom and the engineroom, the engineers who had done all they could to save the vessel knelt on the floor and died thus. Most of them were drowned there before the ship sunk, according to the stories told by stokers who reached the shore.
 On deck most of the men continued quietly, calmly smoking and awaiting death, after realizing their was no hope. Some had taken off their life belts. They realized they could not live in the sea, where the ice was below the freezing point, and prefer red to have it over with as soon as possible.
 eral men in the steerage and a few of the crew were shot down in the first few minutes of awful panic. But order was quickly restored and after that there was perfect discipline. whether First Officer Murdock killed himself as the bridge was submerged is a question. Some persons claim that the giant Englishman. true type of all that Is best in mariners, after doing everything he could to save the people committed to his care, waited until the final plunge and then calmly U suffering in the ice field water. Other persons say they think he went to the bottom clinging to the rail of the bridge
 From the second cabin passenger refugees came some further stories of had been separated from her two chill dren and who believed they had been drowned, is hopelessly insane, it is feared When the children were re- stored to her on board the Carpathia she was so fearful in her bewildered 1oy that she threw them on the floor and had to be forcibly restrained.
 One of the heroines of the tragedy was Miss Edith Evans, who sacrificed her own life that Mrs. John Murray Brown might have the last remaining place Mrs. Brown was overcome to- day with the realization that the big hearted girl, who had told her it would be all right, that she would ind a place soon, had lost her life. The lifeboats of the Titanic, which were brought here by the Carpathia, have been carefully secreted by the out on a launch to photograph these boats in the slip in the North River where they are held, alleged that he was shot at by a pier watchman af- ter he refused to leave the vicinity when ordered.
 The cndTBe II1t HIduy Oi thO CicW deserted to be saved met with em- phatical denial today. 'The captain, at the last, gave the order. Every man for himself now,'" said one of the saved. "and we who could swim jumped. Thirty of us managed to get on board the lifeboat that had cap sized. No passenger was sacrificed that a member of the crew could be saved"
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