Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-19
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New York; April 1a.--tiow the White
Star Liner Titanic, the largest ship
af'oat, sank off the Grand Banks of
New Foundland. on Monday morning
lest, carrying to their death 1901 Of ths
234o persons aboard was told to the
world in all it's awful details for the
first time, tonight, with the arrival in
New York of the cunard Liner Car.
pathia bearing the exhausted survivors
of the catastrophe. Of the great facts
that stand out from the chaotic ac-
count of the tragedy these arc tho
most salient:
The death list has been increased
rather than decreased.
Six persons died after being rescued.
Tho list of prominent persons lost
stanos as previously reported.
Practically every woman and child,
with the exception of those women
who refused to leave their husbands.
were saved Among the latter was
Mrs. Isador straus, wife of the New
York millionaire merchant.
The survivors in the lifeboats saw
the lights on the stricken vessel elim-
mer to the last, heard her band play
ing and saw the doomed people on her
deck and heard their groans and cries
when the vessel sank. The reports
vary as to the extent of the disorder
aboard.
Not only was the Titanic tearing
through the April night to her doom,
but she was under orders from the
general offices of the line to make all
the speed OF which she was capable.
This was that statement made to-
night, by j. H. Moody, a quartermas-
Ter and the helnsman on the night of
the disaster. He said the ship was
making q knots an hour and the off,
GERS were striving to live up to the
orders to smash a record.
1T was close to midnight" said
Moody, and l was on the bridge with
the second officer. who was in COM
mand. Suddenly he shouted: Port your
heim!' | did so. but it was too late. We
struck the submerged portion of the
berg"
OF the many accounts given by the
passengers most of them agree that
he shock when the Titanic struck the
iceberg, although it ripped her great
sides as giant can opener would, did
not greatly jar the vessel. for the blow
was glancing one along her side.
The accounts also agree substantially
that when the passengers were taken
on the lifeboats there was no seri-
Gus panic and that many wished to
lals
sinllable
The most distressing stories are
those OF passengers who were in life
boats. These tell not only of their own
suffering. but give the narrowing de-
tails of her as they saw the great hulk
If the Titanic plunge to the bottom As
this awful spectacle was witnessed by
the groups of survivors in the boats.
they plainly saw many of those whom
they had just left behind leaping
from the decks into the water
j. Bruce Ismay, managing director
of the International Mercantile Ma
rine Co.. owners of the White Star
Line, who was among the 70-odd men
saved; p. A. S. Franklin, vice presi-
dent of the White Star Line, and
United States Senator William Aldin
Smith, chairman of the Senate nves-
tigating committee, conferred aboard
the Carpathia soon after the passen-
gers had come ashore. tonight. After
nearly an hour, Senator Smith came
out of the cabin and said he had no
! authority to subpoena witnesses at
present, but would begin an investiga-
ton into the cause of the loss of the
Titanic at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.
tomorrow. He announced that Mr.. Is
may had consented TO appear at the
hearing and that Mr.. Franklin and
the four surviving officers of the IT,
tanic would appear for examination
By the Senate committee. He said that
the course the investigation would
follow would be determined after the
preliminary hearing.
The arrival of the Carpathia brought
a vast multitude of people TO the
lCIptipita1 an papa TuaIya