The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-26
MOUNT TEMPLE WAS
HURRYlNG TO TITANIC
Denial Made That the Vessel Was the
One Said to Have Seen the Dis
tress Signals of the Sink
ing Liner.

st. John r. b.. April 26.-Captan
Moore of the Canadian Pacific railway
steamer Mount Temple left for Washing
ton last night to give evidence before
the Senate committee investigating the
Titanic disaster and to brand, he says,
as false and cruel, the stories that
he refused to 90 to the Titanic's as
sistance
J. Durrant Marconi wireless operator
on the Mount Temple, last night told
the following story of the wireless calls
he picked up from the sinking Ttanic
II was lying in bed reading with the
telephone over my ears at lO:25. ships
time. or 1911 New York time. when ]
caught the first call. | answered, ask
ing the position of the ship. This was
sent back with the addition Come at
once, have struck berg
''l notified the captain, who doubled
The watch of firemen below, called all
hands on deck and changed the ships
course towards the position of the Ti-
tanic. | did not call the Titanic again
because other ships, which Judged to
he closer, were working and | did not
wish to jam ther. At 1921 heard
the Carpathia answer the C. @. d. calls
of the Titanic, and at 1884 | heard
the Frankfurt answer.
"All this time the C. @. d. message
was being sent out incessantly from
the sinking liner and at l;06 | heard
the Olympic answer the call. To this
steamer, the Titanic said: Captain says
get your boats ready. Going down fast
by the head Five minutes later the
Frankfurt struck in with Our captain
viii go for you
cat l:2l the Olympic sent another
message which the Titanic answered,
saving, we are putting the women off
in the boats Another five minutes of
anxious waiting passed when the agon
lied C. @. d. again cut the air ac-
companied by the words Engine room
flooded The Olympic again asked How
is the sea around your to which the
reply was The sea is calm Six min
utes afterward the Olympic sent mes
sage to the Titanic by the code letter
RID That was the last message |
heard.
Meantime everything that was pos
sible was done on the Mount Temple.
All hands were on deck, the boats were
swung clear of the davits and gang
ways and ladders were got ready. 1t
was 4:40 a. m. when we arrived at the
position Of the Titanic having been much
delayed by the thick field ice. At that
time we saw no sign of the ill-fated
ship. nor any wreekage.
"At 5:ll | had call from the Cali
fornian and told that boat of the dis
aster Shortly after, the Frankfurt also
called me. About 40 minutes later,
we saw the Carpathia and California
with the Russian steamer Birma. There
was also tramp steamer cruising about,
but as she had no wireless we could
moi find out what she was.
"As soon as | saw the Carpathia /
asked for news of the Titanic but got
no reply. Other ships asked the same
question hut she kept silent to all. II
was not until $3.50 that the Csrpathia
gave out anything and then the only
information was that she had picked
up 20 boats. There was not a word
As to the number of survivors.
AT the time received the first mes
sage ! would Judge the Mount Temple
to be 50 miles from the Titancs posi-
ton and when the big ship went down
there we're still 20 or p miles between
us"
London Sympathy With Ismay.
London, April 20 All the London
underwriters. who are connected with
the insurance on the Titanic and who
themselves are losers to the amount
OF nearly S4,OO0000 by the disaster,
have signed message of sympathy
which has been forwarded to J. Bruce
Ismay.
Several morning papers severely at
tack the American inquiry. The Stand
arl hopes that there will be a speedy
termination of the investigation at
Washington Senator Smith, it says.
IS rather less qualified for such
task than any individual picked up in
an American street car
The Morning Post says: "A school
boy would blush at Senator Smiths ig
norance," and adds: Honest Americans