The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-04-30
BY Patrick Gallagher in San Francisco
Gall.

NEW YORK, April 1s.-Clothed in
a white mist of fog, drenched by
drizzling rain, the Carpathia, grief ship
and floating hospital, stole like black
snake into port tonight to land its suf-
fering hundreis-all that is left of those
who sailed on the first voyage of the
lost Titanic.
The hull lay low down in the water
weighted by the ssddest freight that
ever ship carried; it's speed was the
funeral note off seven knots, just half
of its steaming capacity; its ensign
trailed at half pole, wet with the tears
of elementary nature for natures grim
conquest of marine man.
Surgeons overtaxed.
Almost every stateroom was sick
bay. The call of the sick and suffering
had broken down even the heroic nerves
of the ships surgeons. They were dizzy
and faint from doing, striving with all
their might to keep alive the living
which the death doomed Titanic IS life
boats committed to their care.
Manfully they defed nature, fighting
off the WEAKNESS of brain and hand
and foot. They. stayed by their posts,
going from stateroom to stateroom, from
cabin to cabin, from berth to berth, ad-
ministering to rich and poor alike, with
out thought of preference or recon-
pense.
AS far as they could, the men and
women who sailed from New York on
the Carpathla offered willing and cheer
full help, turning themselves into nurses
at moment s notice, giving up suite
and berth without thought of their
own comfort.
Demands Too Great.
Great and vital has been their aid;
yet, for all that, sorrow and sickness
have exceeded the desire and the power
to soothe.
Many of the more delicate women
were piercing the deck with their
screams when not kept under the in
hhuence of thought-stilling opiates, and
the doctors were dealing out their
stores of medicines during the sorrow
| full voyage in fear that more urgent
need for their use might disclose itself
before the last sufferer was placed with
in the ambulances lined up at the
Cunard pier. The scene on every deck
was awe inspiring, fearful.
Suffering Of Girls.
Some of the younger women are the
most difficult to compose. And this is
particularly true of those who were
taken off in the first boats which were
lowered from the Titanic Is davits-dei-
cate girls who hitherto had known sor-
row but from hearsay; who were rear
ed in the lap of luxury, waited on
and petted; their least thought man
data poor preparation for their haE-
rowing experience in the boats, many
of them fresh from their beds and in
their night clothes, with but thin
wrapper or raincoat between shivering
body and biting wind.
Clothing was cheerfully offered them
when they were raised over the rails
of the Carpathia, but in most cases the
offers were unnecessary. They were
J unfit to leave the cabins generously
J bestowed upon them by the Cunarder Is
! first class passengers Wrapped around
} with blankets, tended to by the doctors
; and the volunteer nurses, they have
, passed from one delirium into another.
: And, sad to tell, some of them do not
, yet know the worst.
Facts of Disaster Withheld.
To many, both conscious and uncon.
scious aboard the Carpathia, even the
limited facts which were sent to land
by wireless were unknown. Until the
arrival of the rescue ship here some
did not know that the Titanic is lying
:, at the bottom of the Atlantic a hope
less wreck, and that those who re-
manned aboard have been lost. And
the doctors and ships officers dared
not tell them.
Many of them will remain in ignOr-
ance of their losses, the deaths of their
nearest and dearest to them, until they
have been nursed back to health and
strength, and can bear the blow they
must suffer-perhaps weeks or months
from now.
The life and the ultimate sanity OF
more than one is in grave jeopardy
8 Those who have held their nerve
D through the fearful experience suffered
, q terrible shock when they learned
! what was known ashore. And thi.
shock was re.echoed by the shattered
, hopes of the hundreds who had counted
the hours and minutes here In New
York, hoping against hope that theii
sister, wife, daughter or cousin, or dear
friend, was among the number of those
rescued and yet unnamed.
Terrible Suffering.
The suffering of those thus far saved
/ is in many cases physical as well al
mental. The hours Of exposure TO the
lee chilled elements while in the boats
! have been succeeded by pangs Of fever
and the pain of pneumonia. II Il
doubted whether II will not be fata
10 remove some among these patients
from their warm beds IN the impTo yised
hospital amidships,
Frost bitten, bruised and marked by
wounds sustained while huTFying from
their berihs In the wTeekage atTeWI
eaEFldapa and anuauuuinu - ths