, 1912-04-24
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New York, April 195h-Mr Bride, the I'll
tanic's surviving wireless operator interview
ed by IL Times re porter, describes his colleague
PhilIips's heroic performance OF duty, not
ceaaing even when a man, whom Bride killed
in the act, tried to steal Il ~lifebuoy Bride had
fastened on Phillips, who continued wire
lessing throughout the scene. Bride last
saw Phillips, Wlrelesslng after Captain Smith
had ordered every man to look for himself.
Quartermaster Moody, in an interview,
states the Titanic was steamlng twenty one
knots, under orders for q good maiden pas
sage. He ported the hem when the iceberg
was sighted, but 100 late, and she struck the
submerged position.
Colonel Grannie,o of the United States army,
says the Titanic steamed five hundred and
forty SIX knots on the fourteenth, she was ex-
pecting to surpaas that on the fifteenth and
there was no slowing after the warming Of an
iceberg, He describes the shock, which SEEM
ed Slight, coutradicts the reports Of u panic.
He declares the revolvers were fired for pur-
poses of warming merely, tn Ire was no neces-
sity to kill anybody as the boats we've taken
quietly and orderly.
Other passeng rs testify sensatiOnallv to n
display OF black eyes and cut faces, in
PROOF u WILL tiGN tGGitiO WIS ii CiHGt
struggle for life. Previous and contradictory
witnesses of a higher class are more credible,
frighlful stories are told by stokers and 9TH
els, bat they are doubtful.
Lady Duff Gordon, in an interview, says
she was dIataut about Il thousand feet when
she saw the Titanic give II curious SILVER,
Immediately heard pistol shots and screams
and II tremendous explosion occurred, follow
od in two minutes by another. Her forward
part dropped beIenth the waves and her
stern rose perpendjcuIariy like an enormous
black finger, with liJtle fingers hanging on
and dropping screaming. Size never heard
such II chorus of despair, finally the Titanic dis
appeared without Il ripple or trace OF Suction.
1t seemed amazing that her last moments
were SO gentle. After her disappearauce
there was another chorus of walls from those
floating, lasting for an hour, dying grudu-
ally away into an awful silence. There vas
great suffering among the survivors, some
were frozen to death IN the boats, and
others rescued with their clothing frozen to
their bodies. She disbe.ieve5 that Captain
smith committed suicide.
Mr.. Bruce Ismay, interviewed, denies the
Titanic was ever run at full spec /, she never
made her full number OF revolutions, and no
effort was made for Il mliden record, he
left in the last boa. Questioned re-
garding the sufiaiency Of !ifeslvins APP
plratus, he declined to answer, but he well
coined an Investigation by a com nit ee
of United States s~enators, who met hin on
board the Carpathia, to assure his Attendance
before the committee, to whom he had al
ready communicated his impressions inform
ally.
New York, April 20th-Mr. Bruce Ismay
was the first witness before the Senate Com
mite and testified he took the last boat
because there were no more women there
when the boat was ready, otherwise he testi-
fled us already telegraphed.
The Captain Of the Carpathia, Rostrom,