The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-04-21
icebergs in the vicinity of the Cali
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DELIVERED MESSAGE,

personally" Bride said.
Under a fire of questions, Bride &C
knowledged that a half hour previous
ly, or at 4:30 Sunday afternoon, he
was working on his accounts in the
wireless room when he heard the
California trying to raise the Titanic.
He did not respond, he said, because
he was busy
"You had the telephone apparatus
at your ear?" inquired Senator
Smith, in surprise.
Yes, sir
and you did not respond to the
CALI"
"Then a half hour later on. or
about five hours before the disaster,
you took the message when 1t was in
tended for another vessel, the Baltic?'
Yes
In an effort to determine whether
the signal &C. d. o. might have been
misunderstood by passing ships. Sena-
tor Smith called upon Mr.. Marconi.
The C. d. a." said Mr.. Marconi,
els an international signal which
meant that all stations should cease
sending except the one using the call.
The ID was added to indicate danger.
The call, however, now has been
superseded by the universal call
IS. o. s..
Senator Smith then resumed the d.
rect examination of Bride, who had
said the North German Lloyd Frank
furt was the first to answer the IT.
tanic's distress signal.
Have you heard it said that the
Frankfurt was the ship nearest to the
Titanic?" the senator asked.
Yes, sir. Mr.. Phillips told me
that
How did he know?"
by the strength of the signals,
said the witness, who added that the
Carpathia answered shortly after.
The witness said that twenty min
utes later the Frankfurt operator in
terrupted to ask what was the mat
ter"
What did you reply?''
TOLD HIM TO KEEP OUT.
Phillips said he was a fool and told
him to keep out
There was no further effort to get
the Frankfurt's position.
Time again Senator Smith asked in
varying forms why the Titanic did not
explain in detail it's condition to the
Frankfurt.
amy operator receiving &C. d. o.
and the position of the ship, If he is on
the job said Bride, would tell the
&c plain at once"
ASK him If it would have taken
longer to have sent you are a fool
keep OUT than we are sinking, sug
eested Senator Reed.
Was your object in dismissing the
somewhat tardy inquiry of the Frank
furt due to your desire to hang on to
a certainty, the Carpathia?" inquired
Senator Smith.
The witness said that it was.
Would you still make the same
reply If you were told that the Frank
furt was twenty miles nearer to you
than the Carpathia?'
Bride replied that the Carpathia was
then on it's way with its life boats
ready.
MARcONI TEsTIFIEs.
Mr.. Marconi again testified to the
distress signals, and said that the
Frankfurt was equipped with Marconi
wireless. He said that the receipt
Of the signal &C. d. o. by the Frank
furt's operator should have been al
sufficient to send the Frankfurt to the
immediate rescue.
Bride said that undoubtedly the
Frankfurt received all of the urgent
appeals for help sent subsequently to
the Carpathia.
why did you not send the messages
to the Frankfurt as well as to the Car
pathia?" asked Senator Smith.
"The witness said that before leav-
ing the cabin ten minutes before the
ship went down Phillips sent out the
final &C. d. q" There was no re-
Spouse, Bride saying the spark was
then so weak that it probably did not
carry.
When Bride and Phillips stepped out
on the boat deck he said they found
persons rushing around in confusion
They were seeking life-belts.
There were no big life boats
aboard at that time" said Bride
There was a life-raft over the off,
| GERS quarters, which later was LOST
The witness then told of his expert
ence with a small boat beneath which
| he nearly was drowned before he could
extricate himself. With a number OF
| other survivors he clambered on the
| overturned boat.
"One of these was Phillips" said the
witness HE died on the way to the
Carpathia and was buried later al
| sea-"
When Bride gained the bottom Of
the boat he found between thirty five
| and forty men already there.
Il was the last man invited aboard,
said Bride.
Did any others seek to get on?"
yes, sir dozens. We couldn't takt
them
The witness said he did not see ]
| Bruce Ismay, and that the last hi
| saw Of Captain Smith was in the &C
| OF jumping from the bridge just a!
| the ship went down. He said he wa!
| swimming within $50 feet Of the shiI
when 1t went down and that he fel
no suction.