The Forrest City times., 1912-04-26

r1ere l saw the last or John K. mayer and George B. Widener of Philadel- phia"
 Mrs. Astor Not In Danger. While utterly exhausted from her experiences. Mrs. John Jacob Astor was declared tonight by Nicholas Bid dle, trustee of the Astor estate. to be in no danger whatever. Her physi- clans. however. had given orders that neither Mrs. Astor nor her maid. who was saved with her. be permitted to talk about the disaster" On landing from the Carpathia. the young bride. widowed by the Titanic's sinking told mem oers of her family what she could recall of the circum- stances of the disaster.
 Thought Husband by Her Side.
 Of how Colonel Astor met his death, she had no definite conception She recalled. she thought, that in the con- fusion as she was about to be put into one of the boats the colonel was standing by her side.
 After that, as Mir. Riddle recounted her narrative. she had no clear recol- lection of the happenings until the boats were we'll clear of the sirkiLg steamer
 Mrs. Astor. 1t appears. left in one Of the last boats which got away from the ship. It was her belief that all the women who wished to go had then been taken of. Her impression was that the boat she left in had room for at least fifteen more persons.
 Clear and stariit.
 Mrs. Edgar J. Meyer of New York said:
 Tt was a clear and starlit night. When the ship struck we were in our cabin. My husband went out on the deck 10 see what was the trouble. He came back and said we had hit an iceberg. but that 1t did not amount to much. said I was nervous, We went on deck for a walk. More peo- pie said the accident was of no im- portance. It would only delay our ar rival.
 T was afraid and made my husband promise If there was trouble he would not make me leave him. We walked around the deck while. An officer came up and cried: All women into the lifeboats'
 My husband and discussed It and the officer said: You must obey or iers.
 Decided to Separate. We went down into the cabin and we decided. on account of our baby, to | part He helped me put on warm things. I got into boat. but there Were no sailors aboard. We called to the ship that there were no men in the boat They sent a sailor down.
 An English girl and I rowed four hours and a half Then We were picked up at six o'clock fin the morn ing. We were we'll away from the steamer when it went down, but we heard the screams of the people left on the boat
 There were about seventy widows on the Carpathia and all were won- derfully brave. The captain of the Carpathia and the passengers did all they could for us. Mrs, Harris says my husband and MT Harris and MT. Douglas lowered the last boatload full calm.
 Fights to Save Wife.
 Mrs. Daniel w Marvin of this city. who was on a honeymoon trip with her husband. was almost prostrated when she reached the dock and learned her husband had not been picked up by some other boat.
 My God, don't ask me too much. she said; tell me. have you any news from Dan? He grabbed me in his arms and knocked down men to get me into the boat As I was put in the boat he cried:
 Its all right. little girl: you go and I will stay while. I'll put on life preserver and jump of and follow your boat
 AS our boat showed of he threw kiss at me, and that Is the last I saw of him"
 MT. and Mrs. H. J. Allison of Mon- treal and their daughter were drowned. their ten-months-old baby, boy, and his nurse were saved. Mrs. Allison was just about to jump into a lifeboat where the nurse and baby were when she discovered her husband was not with her She went back to look for him and did not return.
 Jumped Into Sea; Picked Up.
 E. Z Taylor of Philadelphia, one Of the survivors, jumped into the sea just three minutes before the boat Sank.
 T was eating when the boat struck the iceberg" he said There was an awful shock that made the boat trem- ble from stem to stern. 1 did not req lize for some time what had hap pened No one seemed to know the extent of the accident. We were told that an iceberg had been struck by the ship.
 T felt the boat rise and it seemed to me that 1t was riding over the ice. I rah out on deck and then l could see the ice. It was a veritable sea Of ice and the boat was rocking over 1t. I should say that parts of the iceberg