The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24
DETAILS Of WRECK
OBTAINED FROM SURVIVORS ON
The CARPAThIA.

GEi HIlskD NUnk OOAAEAs OAC oi'
The CARPAThIA.
TELLS Of HEROIC ACTS
Staff Correspondent OF New York
Newspaper, Passenger on Rescue
Ship, Gives Graphic Description Of
Terrible Scenes Enacted Before
Monster of the Sea Disappeared.
How the Titanic sank is told by
Charles F. Hurd, staff correspond
ent of the New York Evening World,
who was a passenger on the Car
pa-hia. He gives the number Of lives
lost as LOO. He praises highly the
courage of the crew, hundreds OF
whom gave their lives with a hero
ism which equalled, but could not ex-
ceed, the account says, that OF John
Jacob Astor. Henry B. Harris, JAG
cues Futrelle, and others in the long
list Of first cabin passengers.
1t was the explosion Of the boilers,
according to Mr.. Hurd's account,
which finally finished the Titanic's
career. The bulkhead system, though
probably working, prevailed only to
delay the ships sinking. The posi-
ton Of the ships wound on the star
board quarter admitted icy water,
according to Hurd's story, which
caused the boilers to explode and
these explosions broke the ship in
two.
'The crash against the iceberg,
which had been sighted at only a
quarter mile distance, came almost
simultaneously with the click Of the
levers operated from the bridges,
which stopped the engines and closed
the water-tight doors. Capt. Smith
was on the bridge moment later,
summoned all on board to put on life
preservers, and ordered the lifeboats
| lowered. The first boats had more
male passengers, as the men were the
first to reach the deck. When the
rush of frightened men and women
and crying children to the decks be-
San. the women first rule was rigid
ly enforced.
''The officers drew revo've.s. but
ir most cases there was no use for
them. Revolver shots heard shortly
before the Titanic went down caused
many rumors, one that Capt. Smith
had shot himself, another that First
Officer Murdock had endel his life.
but members Of the crew discredit
these rumors. Capt. Smith was last
seen on the bridge just before the
ship sank, leaping only after the
decks had been washed away. What
became Of the men with the life pre-
servers was a question asked by many
since the disaster.
Dead Bodies on Surface.
MANY Of these with life preserv-
ers were seen to go down despite
the preseryers, and dead bodies float
eG on the surface as the boats moved
away. Mrs. Isador Straus refused to
leave her husbands side and both
perished together. Harold Cotton,
Marconi operator on the Carpathia,
did not go to bed at his usual time
Sunday night and, as a result, caught
! the first message Of the Titanlc's
plight. which was responsible for saw
ing the hundreds Of rescued who
were landed in New York. 1t was
testified by several survivors that
the Titanic was going % knots an
hour when she crashed into the ice
berg.
That the Titanic's officers knew
several hours before the crash Of the
possible nearness of the icebergs.
That the Titanic's speed, nearly %
knots an hour, was not slackened.
That the number Of lifeboats on the
Titanic was insufficient to accommo-
date more than one-third Of the pas
sengers, to say nothing OF the crew.
Most members Of the crew say there
were sixteen lifeboats and two col
Iapsibles; none say there were more
I,t w, a
who escaped filled most OF the six
teen lifeboats, and the one collapsible
which got away, to the limit OF their
capacity.
IN the crows nest, or lookout and
on the bridge, officers and members
of the crew were at their places,
awaiting relief at midnight from their
two hours watch. At Las came the
sudden sound Of TWO guns, a warn
ing Of immediate danger. The crash
against the iceberg, which had been
sighted at only a quarter Of a mile,
came almost simultaneously with the
click of the levers operated by those
on the bridge, which stopped the en-
sines and closed the water-tisht
doors.
Captain at His Post.
capt. Smith was on the bridge a
moment later, giving orders for the
summoning of all on deck and for
putting on OF life preservers and the
Towering of the lifeboats. The first
boats lowered contained more men
passengers than the latter ones, as
the men we're on deck first and not
enough women were there to fill
them.
"When. moment later, the rush
OF frightened women and crying chll-
+: dren to the deck began. enforcement
C the women first rule became 1.s-
id. Officers loading some Of the boats
~, " raynlvere h,;f in most cases the