Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1912-04-25

the Carpathia's passengers sleeping on
the floors OF the saloons. IN the bath
rooms and on the tables throughout
the ship in order to let the survivors
OF the wreck have as much comfort
as the ship Afforded.
One woman came aboard with a
six-months' baby she had never seen
until the moment IL was thrust into
her arms as she swung into the life
boat. Nothing could equal the gen
erosity and helpfulness OF the Carpa-
this's passengers
Doubted Word st First.
Mrs. Louis Mansfield Ogden OF Man
haitian described how she felt when
she heard the Carpathias whistle
sounding early In the morning Mrs.
Ogden asked her husband ~ there vas
a fog Mr.. Ogden had left the state
room. however. and did not explain
until some ten minutes later The
ship had then slowed down perceptt-
bly,. and Mrs. Ogden was pretty uerv-
oua
Then her husband returned and told
her that there had been 4 great acct
dent and that the Carpathia xas going
TO help.
The passengers are asked 10 Keep
10 their rooms be said There isn't
any need Of being frightened. There's
bene no IRE on our boat. but there
has been an accident to the Titalie--
Mrs Ogden thought that an acct
dent TO the Titanic vas quite too
ridiculous to think Of and In tnat she
shared the impression which. 30 she
learned aftervard. vas current upop
the Titanic after the latter had struck
Mrs. Ogden dressed hastily and vent
o. deck.
Boats Filled With survvers-
4 saw there on the bosom Of the
ocean," she said. "A boat full OF NO
men and children. I suppose there
must have been sailors there. too. but
I did not see them. There we're only
one or two women in evening dress.
but most Of them were clad in fur
coats over their kimonos or night
gowns. They had on their evening
slippers and silk stockings. Some OF
them wore hats.
Far in the distance we're two or
three other black specks which We
made out also to be boats. As day
light grew we made out more and
more boats. three on one side Of our
ship and i've on the other. still later
We picked up more.
Here ond there on the oceaO surf
ace among the field OF ice were bits
OF wreckage from the broken Titanic.
and there were in sight many bergs
eighty and ninety feet high. The pas
sengers OF the Titanic were taken
aboard the Csrpathia ooatIosd by
boatload up sea ladders.
Most Women Hoisted Aboard.
The women. most OF them, were
hoisted to the decks OF the Carpathia
In swings. but a few were hardy
enough 20 climb aboard by the sea
ladders. The ocean all this time was
calm as q lake and IL was not a DIM
cult task 70 take the excess passen-
gers aboard
Some OF the women helped out in
the rowing in the Iifeboats them
selves"
Jumped Into q Small Boat.
Abraham Hyman. Q steerage passen-
ger from Manchester. England. won
his safety by leaving the steerase
and going into the first cabin.
Il got alongside OF a boat" he said.
and they lowered IL, full Of passen-
gers Just crowded in beside the
man at the tiller. They could have
taken Is more people in our boat.
There was no commotion in the rrst
cabin. heard that a man was shot
in a panic in the steerage- When our
boat got into the water il drifted un-
der the exhaust OF the Titanic and we
were nearly swamped- We rowed on
for about half q mile and then saw
the lights on the Titanic sink gradu-
ally out of sight As the boat sank
the lights went down. one after an
other"
Hyman said he heard Of one man
who had been sitting on a pile OF deck
chairs when the last explosion came
who was blown OF with the deck
chairs. The man was found in the
ocean on the deck chairs
Boiler Blast Split Vessel.
Mrs. z. W. Carter left the Carpa-
thia terribly shaken by her experience
She was met at the pier by Albert b.
Ashforth. Mrs. Carter could not talk
Of the collision and the wreck. but
Mr.. Ashforth said that what had i'm
pressed her was the last boiler explo-
sion.
Mrs. Carter said that the shock OF
the collision was nothing said Mr..
Ashforth, but the last boiler explo-
sion tore the ship TO pieces. She was
in the last boat on"
What impressed z. Taylor OF Phila-
delphia most was the lack Of excite
ment when the ship struck. He said
he was on deck when the Titanic hit
the iceberg and that he did not see
any iceberg and did not think that
anybody else did Mr.. Taylor said
that he saw Mr.. Ismay get into a boat
fifteen minutes before the Titanic
sank.
Then came an oftcer." said Mr.
Taylor. -and said: This boat is for
women only and Mr.. Ismay got our
wit'out raising any disturbance"