The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-19

and retired / was awakened by a
long grinding sort of shock. 1t was
not tremendous crash, but more as
though some one had drawn giant
finger along the side of the boat.
| awakened my husband and told him
thought we had struck something.
There was no excitement that l could
hear but Sir Cosmo went up on deck.
He returned and told me that we had
hit some ice, apparently a big berg,
but that there seemed to be no dan
ger. We went on deck.
No one apparently thought there
was any danger. We watched num-
Der of women and children and some
men going into the life boats. At
last one of the officers came to me
and said: Lady Gordon, you had bet
ter go in one of the boats" / said
to my husband, well, we might as
we'll take the boat, although l think
it will be only a little pleasure ex-
cursion until morning
The boat was the twelfth or thir-
teenth to be launched. 1t was the cap
tains special boat. There was still
no excitement. Five stokers got in
and two Americans. a l.. Solomon,
whose address is No. 245 Broadway,
New York City, and l.. Stengel of
Newark. Besides these, there were
two of the crew, Sir Cosmo, myself
and a Miss Frank, an English girl.
Doomed Men Joke.
There were number of other pas
sengers, mostly men, standing near
by, and they joked with us because
we were going out on the ocean.
1.-The ship can't sink" said one of
them. You will get your death of
cold out there in the ice
We were siung off and the stokers
began to row us away. We cruised
around among the ice for two hours.
Sir Cosmo had looked at his watch
when we went off. 1t was then ex-
actly 1915 a. m, and l should think
Is minutes after the boat struck.
| did not seem to be very cold.
There was no excitement aboard the
Titanic.
Sees Ship Culver.
Suddenly l clutched the sides of
the life boat. l had seen the Titanic
give curious SILVER The night was
perfectly clear. There was no fog
and / think we were afraid to look
away. Everything could be clearly
seen. There were no lights on the
ship except a few lanterns which had
been lighted by those on board. I'M
mediately after the boat gave this
SILVER we heard several pistol shots
and great screaming arose from the
decks. Then the boats stern lifted
in the air and there was a tremendous
explosion. After this the Titanic
dropped back again. The awful
screaming continued. Two minutes af-
ter this there was another great eX-
plosion. The whole forward part of
the great liner dropped down under
the waves. The stern rose a hundred
feet almost perpendicularly. The
boat stood up like an enormous black
finger against the sky. Little figures
hung to the point of the finger and
dropped into the water. The scream
ing was agonizing. | never heard
such a continued chorus of utter des-
pair and agony.
Then there was another great ex-
plosion and the great stern of the til
tanic slowly sank as though a great
hand was pushing it gently down I'M
der the waves. AS it went, the
screaming of the poor souls left on
board seemed to grow louder. 1t took
the Titanic perhaps two minutes to
sink after that last explosion. 1t went
down slowly without ripple
Sees Monster Sink.
We had heard Of the danger of sue
ton when one of these great liners
sinks. There waseno such thing