Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-21
WILL NEVER KNOW NUMBER OF VICTIMS ALTHOUGH OCEAN LINER HAS BEEN DOWN NEARLY | WEEK
 MUCH OF STORY UNTOLD.
NUMBER FIXED AT 7O5
Ample Provisions For Survivors Is Being Made And All Will
 Be Cared For.

sank in midocean. Much of her story is still untold. The number of dead probably never will | be exactly determined. The number of survivors is fixed at 705 by the re- port of Captain Rostron of the Car pathia. The White Star Line officials believe the death list tctaled approxi- mately 1885. The narratives gather ed piecemeal from the liners 7O5 sur yivors pyas a tribute without preced ent to the courage of the men and wo- men of these modern days, a bravery of impulse, unstudied, unassuming and instinctive alike in steerage pas sengers, stoker and millionaire
 Ample provision for the needy sur vivors is rapidly being made The relief funds being gathered in New York and London already total well up in the hundreds of thousands. Most of the steerage passengers who reached New York destitue and penni- less have already come to realize the generosity and hospitality of Ameri ca. Clad. fed and housed, they will be given ample time to recover from the shock of their experience and will start their life in the new world with ample funds.
 The most complete story of the Iii tanic's fate yet obtained is being gath cred in New York by the members of the Senate investigatinA committee
 The. burden of the testimony thus for given emphasizes the unquestion- ing faith of the Titanic's officers in her unsuitable character, the reck- lessness of steaming full speed through a sea where dangerous ice bergs were known to threaten, and the remarkably calmness- with which doomed passengers and crew faced their last moments.
 The Titanic's fate has inspired prompt action by tfl trans Atlantic lines to insure liners hereafter talk ing a course far to the south away from the iceberg danger. There is lit tie disposition to critieise Captain Smith for having followed the ocean lane in which he met disaster. He showed unusual caution, according to naval Photographers, ill steering a course well to the south of the reg ular southern lane.
 The new route eastbound provides that steamships shall dip to latitude 3S.2O on the first third of their course, making a total distance as now reckoned 2,S5S miles. Liners will thus be carried 270 miles below the route heretofore followed. The loss of time or the new coure will be about nine hours for a 24-knot boat. There was some criticism among the survivors here today of the Titanic crew inability to handle the lifeboats.
 "The crew of the Titanic was a new one, of course,' declared Mrs. George N. Stone, of Cincinnati, and never been through a lifeboat drill, or any training in the rudiments of launch ing, manning and equipping the boats. Scores of lives were thus ruthlessly wasted, sacrifice, to inef- ficiency Had there been any sea running instead Of the glassy calm that prevailed, not a single passen- ger would have safely reached the surface of the water. The men did l not know how to lower the boats; the 1 boats were not proyisioned; many of the sailors could not handle an oar with reasonable skill
 Albert Major, steward on the Ti- tanic, admitted that there had been no boat drills and that the lifeboats were poorly handled.
 Another story told by members of the Titanic crew which did not have a bearing in the investigation into the rapid sinking of the ship, is the fire which is said to have started Ill one of the coal bunkers Of the Ves- sels soon after she left Southampton, and which was not eXtlngulsheu uhii Saturday afternoon. The story as told by fireman follows:
 Tt had been necessary to take the coal out of sections 2 and 5 on the starboard side. forward, and when the water came rushing in after the crash with the ice, the bulkheads would not hold because they did not have the supporting weight of the coal Somebody reported to Chief Engineer Bell that the forward bulk head had given way, and the engineer said, My God. We are lost The en- gineers stayed by the pumps and went down with the ship. The firemen and atokerS Mere sent on deck five min