Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-04-24

were In an ice field that they say was
from fifty to hundred miles In
length. The iceberg we ran into was
clearly to be seen. 1t had two enor-
NOUS peaks, and it appeared to be very
huge The quartermaster, who was on
the bridge at the time Of the accident
and who was at the helm of our life
boat, said they were making full speed,
and, although the night was clear, they
had absolutely no idea Of any danger.
The first they knew Of the proximity
of the iceberg was when the crash
came They were under orders to
make $40 knots. Early the next morn
ing we were taken up by the Carpa-
'thia."
Saw No Evidence Of cowardics.
'.rhe crash came at 140," said one
woman. 1.-The lights of the Titanic
went out at 2:2O o'clock. saw no evil
dences of cowardice.''
"Women and children. frightened by
the prospect of being set adrift upon
the dark and ice strewn ocean. refused
to enter the lifeboats." said another of
the rescued passengers. ''Some of the
boats were launched with only fifteen
or twenty on board them, although they
could have held seventy-fve."
Passengers Shot by Officers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Washington Dodge of
San Francisco declared that some of
the passengers fought with such des-
peration to get into the lifeboats that
the officers shot them and their bodies
fell into the ocean. They said also that
they saw John Jacob Astor and Major
Butt standing together on the Titanic's
deck and that they must have gone to
death together. Mrs. Isidor Straus re-
fused to leave her husband. they said.
Many passengers agreed in the state
ment that 668 were rescued and that
| four died in the lifeboats and two died
on board the Carpathia. One Of the
steerage passengers was buried at sea-
| Stories of all agreed that the Titanic
struck the iceberg at II As o'clock, that
she sank at 2:25 and that they were
picked up by the Carpathia at 4:30.
Four Lifeboats Drawn Down.
! William Jones. Titanic stoker, who
| manned one of the lifeboats, said he
| was 700 yards away when the vessel
sank and that he saw four lifeboats
! filed with women drawn down. Two
women in his boat died of exposure.
| Margaret Hayes of New York city
said when l was put into life
boat l found a two-year-old baby girl
in my arms. l do not know who placed
it there. nor who it's mother is. have
been taking care of it ever since"
Daniel T. Bailey. who lives at the
Marlborough hotel in New York city,
said: II was adrift alone on raft for
six hours. l saw woman in night
clothing near by. swan to her side
and dragged her to the raft. She was
unconscious and slipped off into the
water and was drowned"
Mrs. Regina Steinert of New York
city. who was a passenger on the Car
pathia, said that when the Carpathia
reached the scene of the disaster six
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found floating in the sea of ice. AL
were taken on board and passengers
We'd with the crew in rendering aid.
"The survivors were lying in the bot
tom of the boats, all alive. but the ma
jority of them unconscious" she said
MANY were suffering terribly from
the exposure. and many were already
frozen That afternoon about twenty
Of the survivors died, and four were
given burial at sea Immediately"
Statement by ismay.
J. Bruce Ismay, president of the In
ternational Mercantile Marine com