The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-04-26
crosby and ~helpfulness OF the Carps
thia's passengers"

Doubted Word at First.
Mrs. Louis Mansfield Ogden OF Man.
haitian described how she felt when
she heard tho Carpathia's whistle
sounding early in the morning. Mrs.
Ogden asked her husband II there was
q fog. Mr.. Ogden had left the state
room, however, and did not explain
until some ten minutes later. b
ship had hen slowed down percepti-
bly,. and Mrs. Ogden was pretty nerv-
GUS.
Then her husband returned and told
her that there had been a great acct
dent and that the Carpathia was going
to help.
The passengers are asked to keep
to their rooms" he said. There isn't
any need of being frightened. There's
bene no fire on our boat. but there
has been an accident to the Titanic
Mrs. Ogden thought that an acci-
dent to the Titanic was quite too
ridiculous to think OF and In that she
shared the impression which, SO she
learned afterward, was current upop
the Titanic after the latter had struck.
Mrs. Ogden dressed hastily and went
O. deck.
Boats Filled With Survivors.
." saw there on the bosom OF the
ocean," she said. "a boat full OF wo-
men and children. l suppose there
must have been sailors there, too, but
I did not see them. There were only
one or two women in evening dress,
but most of them were clad IN lur
coats over their kimonos or night
gowns. They had on their evening
slippers and silk stockings. Some OF
them wore hats.
Far in the distance were two or
three other black specks which we
made out also to be boats. AS lay
light grew we made out more and
more boats, three on one side OF our
ship and five on the other. Still later
we picked up more.
Here ond there on the oceans SURF
ace among the field of ice were bits
Of wreckage from the broken Titanic,
and there were In sight many bergs
eighty and ninety feet high. The pas
e of the Titanic were taken
aboard the Carpathia boatload by
boatload up sea ladders.
Most Women Hoisted Aboard.
THE women most of them, were
hoisted to the decks OF the Carpathia
in swings, but a few were hardy
enough to climb aboard by the sea
ladders. The ocean all this time was
calm as a lake and 1t was not a din
cult task to take the excess passen'
gers aboard.
Some of the women helped out In
the rowing in the lifeboats them
selves"
Jumped into a Small Boat.
Abraham Hyman, a steerage passen
ger from Manchester. England, wor
his safety by leaving the steeragt
and going into the first cabin.
Il got alongside OF a boat" he said
and they lowered it, full OF passen
gers. l just crowded In beside thu
man at the tiller. They could hav'
!, taken is more people In our boat
There was no commotion IN the frs
cabin. l heard that a man was sho
in a panic in the steerage. When GU
DOaI got lHJO ln6 water uAIilCA "a
der the exhaust Of the Titanic and W.
l were nearly swamped. We rowed OF
t for about half a mile and then say
I the lights on the Titanic sink gradu
! ally out OF sight. AS the boat SAM
the lights went down, one after an
other"
$ Lyman said he heard OF n mai
who had been sitting on a pile OF dec
s chairs when the last explosion cam
who was blown off with the dec
8 chairs. The man was found In tn
n ocean on the deck chairs.
9 Boiler Blast Split Vessel.
Il Mrs. f. w. Carter left the Carps
y thia terribly shaken by her experience
. She was met at the pier by Albert I
q Ashforth. Mrs. Carter could not tai
o OF the collision and the wreck, bu
Mr.. Ashforth said that what had IN
pressed her was the last boiler explt
sion.
q Mrs. Carter said that the shock
r the collision a nothing said M
Il Ashforth, but the last boiler expl'
a sion tore the ship to pieces. She wa
n in the last boat of"
What impressed z. Taylor OF Phili
n delphia most was the lack Of excit
n ment when the ship struck. He sal
l. he was on deck when the Titanic h
=. the iceberg and that he did not sc
any iceberg and did not think ths
q anybody else did. MIR. Taylor sal
b. that he saw Mr.. Ismay get into a DO;
= fifteen minutes before the Titan
ID sank.
Then came an officer" said M
~ Taylor, land said: This boat is II
y. women only and Mr.. lsmay got OF
y without raising any disturbance"