Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-20
|CARE GIVEN |SMAY
AS WOMEN SUFFER
Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, Bride
Widow, Depicts Conditions
on Carpathia.
"PLEASE DON'T DISTURB"
SIGN PUT ON HIS DOOR
Head Of Company Had Room, She
Says, While Others Slept Anywhere.
AMAZING STORY OF DISASTER
Daughter Of Representative Hughes
Says MfeboatS Were Not All
Filled, Though Men Were Kept
on Titanic.
Head Of Company Had Room, She
Says, While Others Slept Anywhere.
AMAZING STORY OF DISASTER

Ine most amazing story that has thus
Tar come out Of all that has been told of
the sinking Of the Titanic is that related
by Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, formerly Miss
Eloise Hughes. daughter of Representa-
tive Hughes Of West Virginia. Mrs.
Smith, with her father, mother and other
members Of the family, remain in New
York, her condition being such as to rem
der 1t unsafe to remove her.
Describing the collision and the sinking
OF the liner to her father. Mrs. Smith
last night gave a word picture that
places Bruce Ismay. managing director
OF the White Star line, in a still more
unfavorable light Mrs. Smith declares
that Ismay occupied a cabin on the Car
pathia, the rescue steamer, while women
who were taken OF the wrecked vessel
slept on the door. in passageways and on
tables in the smoking rooms and the bill
ards were in constant attendance on Is
may, whose door bore a sign reading
Please don't disturb" Mrs. Smith, bride
widow. with other women, slept on the
floor Of q passageway.
Only when her husband invoked her
marriage promise to love, honor and
obey did Mrs. Smith consent to be placed
In hfeboat while her husband stood
back to permit other women to be res
cued. In the boat in which she escaped
six persons. the boats capacity being
fifty
Telling her story to her father last
night, Mrs. Smith said:
Says Captain Attended Banquet.
"I was asleep when the Titanic
struck. The shock hardly did more
than half waken me. A few minutes
later my husband came into the state
room. He told me to dress. but not to b.
in too great a hurry, as the officers had
assured him there was no immediate dan
ger. He told me the accident occurred
while Capt. Smith and Mr.. Ismay were q,
q banquet given by Mr.. Ismay to thu
chief officers.
1.-TWO boats had been launched when
We reached the deck and there was very
little excitement One of the boats had
scarcely over dozen people in her.
was told to enter the third boat. which
Smith. who was standing by the por,
rail. and asked him to allow my hus-
band to go with me. He said:
No. madam; under no circumstances
will any man be permitted to leave this
my husband treasured me-: Ae tried
to cheer me: he patted the captain on
the back and exclaimed, Good boyv"
Paroxysms, Of hysterical weeping in
terrupted her story. and the girl-widow's
father caught her in, his arms and
soothed her as he would a child, as hi
begged her to cease the narrative. But,
regain1ng measure OF calmness, Mrs
Smith insisted on completing the story
Room for Husband in Boat.
mo father, dear" she exclaimed, 81
must tell; oh, God help US; I must tell II
all: my heart has been heavy with the
secret which I dared not speak aboard
ship. They kept him from me; they
killed him-my husband! There was
room-oh. so much Of It.
II was lifted into the third boat and
lowered over the side. In this boat there
were only twenty-six people and one of
the sailors was drunk. Oh, dear papa
wasn't 1t too bad? And they wouldn't let
my Lucien In. There was room lots of
1t. but Captain Smiths order OF no
man-it will forever ring in my ears.
1.-THE women had to row the boat. One
OF these women was the Countess Rothes,
who rowed four hours. We went three
quarters Of mile away, and through the
clear night could see icebergs all around
US. 1t was like a weird stage setting.
up to that time there was order, bu,
heard two shots right after that and
saw that confusion was beginning. There
was sound as II an explosion, and one
Of the sailors said 1t was a bulkhead Civ
ing away. For nearly two hours we float
ed on the calm sea watching the Titanic
I could not make out any figures, but
could hear shouting.
Two boats were near the one I was
In and in each Of them women were cry.
ing. I remember I was not so fright
ened then because I believed my husband
was saved. I watched the Titanic sinh
after two moro crashing sounds. Ate,