Evening journal., 1912-04-19

You'd better lie down again and 20 10
sleep" replied her room-mate. Il am
goins up and see. am sure something
is wrong insisted Miss Rugg
Prepare for Life Boats.
Miss Rugs dressed hastily and hur-
ried upstairs There she found other
passengers in various stages OF dress
hnrrying to the deck She 1earnoI INIT
the ship had struck an iceberg. that
there was danger and all must be pre-
pared 10 get into tho lifeboats.
Miss Rugg FASTENED back 10 her
stateroom aud found that the young
woman she had aroused had gone
asleep again. She shook her. telling
her that the ship was sinking. that
sho must dress and come mp ON deck,
that there WAS danger a nd delay
might cost their lives. The TWO Young
women aroused the older woman.
Miss Rugg said the older woman was
so hysterical she was helpless and
could not dress and the younger wo-
men had to clothe her. They put on
warm clothing and all three went on
deck
Miss Rugg said that at first III
passengers did not seem TO realiz
their danger. they wero so stunned b.
awakening from dream of pcrfeo
safety into a facing Of a sudden ant
hideOus death She was In the SEQ.
ond cabin She said that in loadlni
ihe life-b boats. while women and chill
drcn were put into them first. IN
loading was done I'm the order of frs
cabin women. first. second cabin. sec
ond. and steerage last She sail
that az first things were comprativel.
calm. but as room in tho life-boah
began TO lessen. and the cruel tru1
that hundreds must sink began 10 b
realized, there were scenes OF th
most horrible panic on board tie shir
PRAY For Chance 10 Live.
Grown men and women were rush
I ing back aud forth, screaming fran
tically. crying. praying. begging pit
eously for a chance TO live. "a charo
TO get into a lifeboat Men Tough
/ like deamons To get into the boats
! regardless Of trampling on wome.
or children. I'm other cases the mel
stood stoically by. with white. 20
faces silently meeting their fate,
assisting the women and children d
get into the boats that manhood for
J bade their entering II was a seem
! that toward the end resembled Dantei
Inferno. relieved and saved bv tn
magnificent courage of hundreds q
men, Women were not lacking il
/ courage, either. Many had to b
forcibly torn from their husbands ant
put into the boats, and others wen
down with husband or brother II
spite Of all efforts 10 save then
I against their own Wills.
Shoot Down Men,.
Miss Rugg was put into the secon,
I boat from tho last, so that she hat
( time 20 see much that went on towari
the end Of the embarkation. She say
/ she was showed forcibly into the boai
With her own eyes she saw two mel
shot down by officers of the boat
These men we're trying to crowd on
the women in the life-boat The OF
iicers went aboIrc with drawn revol
vers and grimly set faces. She sas
one man jump into a life-boat Fl
was pushed back by the officers }
second time insane with terror. n
Jumped into the boat, landing on tol
of little child in the boat Thi
time he was pulled out and shot dead
Miss Rugg remembers being push
ed into a boat she hardly realize
how. with a crowd of weeping wo
men and children. She says tn,
scenes as. women were torn from IN
arms Of their husbands were un
believably dreadful She says thel
boat was Immediately pushed of fror
the Titanic. They left the Titani
with the knowledge that the big shi
would sink with hundreds Of franti
. people on board before help couf
! possibly reach her.
: ''Nearer. NY God 10 Thee
, "The Funeral Dlrrs
| Miss Rugg SAYS they pushed awsi
) 70 about half a mile from the Titanic
I to a distance where there was ~
I danger of their being drawn BY IN
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