The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-28
Needless of Warnings,
Great LinerW ent Reck-,
lessly to Death.
MANY VESSELS
IN EASY DISTANCE
All on Board Sinking Ship Might
Have Been Saved Had Wise-
less Operators Been Awake,
or Distress Signals An
swered-Tales of Hcroism
and Cowardice.
Wa shinEton.

Washington, April 27.-Hayina
wrested but a meagre part of the
Titanic's dread secrets from the ocean
depths in eight days constant inquiry.
the Senate Investigating committee
adjourned tonight until Monday.
Then the powerful Federal search.
light Will be turned anew into tho
watcry wastes. the sepulchre of tho
ocean titan aud its 1855 victims.
Ten days or two weeks moro of
continuous sessions, Senator Smith
said tonight, may not finish the in
duiry. Even after that an occasional
witness may be called before the Of
fetal report is prepared.
To-days hearing was replete with
dramactic and important testimony.
closing with the simple diffident
stories of the scamcn-stories that
gained in their dramatic intensity be-
cause OF the very crudity and direct
ness Of their telling. They told of
music, gay dinner parties. happiness
and laughter OH that peaceful Sab
bath night aboard tho Titanic. Then
they shifted. with hushed voices. to
tho tale OF death and suffering In the
frozen, midnight sea.
Little incidents of the last moments
alive OF Major Archie Butt, Isidor
Straus. Captain Smith. Astor. and
other notables In tho Titanic's death
list. hlazed their tale deep into tho
hearts OF thcir hearers.
Wireless Log Produced.
| The sailors testimony followed the
wireless record OF tho Titanic's death.
! from Captain James II. Moore, OF the
| steamer Mount Temple. The last
words or tho Titanic flashed through
space TO many ships were told In de-
tail from tho wireless log" Cap
tain Moore also told how he was only
nineteen miles eI
within fourteen miles and was then
barricadcd behind mountains of Ice.
Tonight Senator Smith refused to
release the thirty-hvo officers and
crew OF the Titanic. lie ordered them
to remain here at least until Monday
or Tuesday. They were bitterly dis
appointed. all having testified.
icc-Prcsdent IRA nkiin. of the
White Star Line, Loft Tor New York
this afternoon, but Will return Mon
day. j. Bruce Ismay will remain. Nexn
week some of the THAMES passengers
Will be heard for The First time. Some
have been waiting here for days.
Tonight Senator Sin'tb was te1e-
Sraphed that Harold Br dc, tho wires
less hero of the Titanic, will be here
to testify Monday morning. lie gave a.
brief recital TO the committee in the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel II New York
a week ago. lie is being brought from
n hospital cot in New York with a
broken ankle and his other foot frozen
the mcmcntocs OF his narrow escape
Chief Engineer Sammis. of the Mar
conf offices i'll New York and William
Marconi. the wireless wizard" will
accompany Bride.
Manager Bottomley, of the Marcont
Company. who was asked to come here
Monday. begged off until later.
From Sammis. Senator Smith pros
poses to ascertain details OF the all
legged blood money eSacted for tho
story OF the Titanic tragedy from
Operators Bride and Gotham, tho lat
ter OF the rescue ship Carpathia. Cot
tam admitted that he expected to ses
$500 for his story. told 20 New York
newspaper
Hints Mt Sensation.
Next week. Senator Scith also PLANK
TO unravel the skein OF mystery re-
sarding the alleged denial to grief-
era zed public of the news OF the Tic
tanic's sinking. lie h;nted at fu-
turc sensation to-day in his cxamina-
tion of Vice-Presidcnt franklin, OF tho
White Star Line, when nc asked II any
of the steamship companr's officers or
agents had applied for additional in
surance upon tho Titanic a few hours
before the terrible news OF It's d.
struction.
The inquiry also promises to dis-
pose Of the tale that Captain Smith
ATTENDED mllllDnalre party. a gay
and festive occasion iust before the
Titanic ahmed its oceSn victor.
Senator Smith stated tonight that
he had practically abandoned thought
of bringing Mrs. jonn Jacob Astor
here to testify. respecting her renew
ed burden of grief in the recovery OF
her millionaire husband body by the
Mackay Bennett
Many new laws. governing wireless
operators. navigation and NE saving
devices arc certain to follow the In
quiry.
Toll ignt--nearly two weeks after
the Titanic struck its foatins death
monuments nation stands dumb
founded at the revelations Of the
committee. II has been learned that
the Titanic sped hcadlong. at the rats
OF from twcnty-unc TO twenty-three
/ OF crunchinS ice. apparently needless
of warnings. oth-- testimony indi-
Gates that many vessels were within
| Il few miles OF the sinking liner. but
their wireless operators were asleep
| or ignored the c. .. ID. appeals. Her
rockets. too. were seen and also
! ignored.
| News Suppressed.
Another gruesome indictment is that
| against the White Star Line OF sup 4
| pressing the news. Vice President
| Franklin admitted that he heard tha
| rumor OF the disaster over sixteer
hours and received confirmation from =
the steamer Olympic over six hours n
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