Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-05-02
LONDoNER TELLS OF
TI7AN|C'S SINKING
Graphic Account Of Being
Aroused and Placed in the
Life Boat.
LINER STOOD ON IT'S END
Slowly Listing to One Side, Titanic
Turned On End Before Taking
tho Final Plunge Into
the Sea.

New York. Special: The following
account of the accident was given by
L.. lsosley, IL Cambridge university man
who resides in London. He was in the
second cabin and had not been men
toned in the list of the saved
The voyage from Queenstown had
been quite nneventful; very fine wealth
er VAS experienced and the sea was
quite calin The Wind had been west
erly to southerly the whole way, but
Very cold, particularly the last day.
In fact, after Inner on Sunday ere-
ming it Was almost too cold to be out
ON deck at All.
II had been in my berth for about
10 minutes when. at about 11:15 p. M.
] felt 9 slight Jar. and then soon after
Il second one. but not sufficiently large
to cause any anxiety to anyone. how
However, the engines stopped imme-
diately afterWard. and my first thought
vas. she has lost a propeller l went
up on the top boat deck in q dressing
gown. and ound only Il few people
there. who had come up similarly to
inquire why we had stopped. but there
was no sort of anxiety in the minds of
anyone. We SAW through the smoking
room window Il game OF cards going
on, and Went in to inquire If they knew
anything. 1t seems they felt more OF
the Jar and. looking through the win
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close to the side of the boat. They
thought we had just grazed it with a
glancing blow ard the engines had
been stopped to see il II damage had
been done. No one, of course. had II
conception that She had been pierced
below by part OF the submerged ice
berg. The Jane went on without any
thought of disaster, and l retired to
my cabin to read until we went on
again. 1 never saw any of the players
or the '%onlookers again.
Nose Dips Water.
"a little later. hearing people going
upstairs. I Went out again and found
everyone wanting to know why the en-
gines had stopped. No doubt many
We're awakened from sleep by the sud
den stopping OF a vibration to which
they had become accustomed during
the -four days We had been on board,
Naturally. with such powerful engines
was very noticeable all the time and
the sudden stopping had the same eff
feet as the stopping of a loud ticking
grandfather'S clock in n room.
@ goirg on deck again | saw there
was an ~undoubted list downwards
from stern to bows. but knowing moth,
Ing OF hat had happened. concluded
some OF the front compartments haG
filled and weighed her down. | went
down again to put on warmer clothes
and as / dressed heard an orde!
shouted: AN passengers on deck Will
life belts on
Put On Life Belts.
I'VE all walked slowly up with then
tied on, but even then presumed thi.
was u wise p%recaution the captain wa:
taking and that We should return in /;
short time and retire to bed. Their.
was Il total absence OF panic or any
expressions OF alarm. and l suppos.
this can be accounted for by the ex
of any sign of the accident. The shil
was absolutely still and except for /;
gentle tilt downward, which l don
thii.k one person in 10 would have no
! ticed at that time, no signs of the APP
preaching disaster We're visible. Sh,
ley just as II she were waiting the or
der to go on again when some trifin,
matter had been adjusted. But in
few moments we saw the covers lifted
from the boats and the crews allotted
to them. standing by and curling VI
by the pulley blocks into the water.
We began then to realize 1t wa
more serious than had been D
and my first thought was to go dow
and get more clothing and some money
but seeing people pouring up the stair
decided it was better to cause no con
fusion to people coming up by dom
so.
All Orders obeyed Promptly.
presently we heard the order. "A
men stand back from the boats and a
4 ladies retire to the ext deck below
(the smoking room deck or r deck
The men all stood away and RENAME
In absolute silence. leaning against tn
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