The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-02
DRAMATIC STORY
| Of TITANIC WRECK
NoInan Survivor Describes
Scenes Incidental to Recent
Ocean Disaster.
DNE OFFICER SHOOTS
Sharges Company With Gross
Negligence and Inefficient
| Management.
Cable 10 The Tribune,

becial Cable TO The Tribune.
LONDON. June lone Of the most
\ szmstic stories of the wreck yet told
; Irecounted by Mrs. Ester Hart In the
. 1lford Graphic. -
Mrs. Hart, with her husband and
sear-old daughter Eva, was on her
hy to Canada, where they were look
Ag forward to making p new home.
hit this disaster came-Mr. Hart was
fowned and Mrs. Hart has returned
18th her fatherless child to the old
huntry. She is now living at Slinfold,
yihadweIl Heath
I"I have no coherent recollection Of
hat happened she writes, in describ-
he the wreck, ~ know that there
Jas a cry of 'She's sipkingl' I heard
houts Of Women and children firstl'
nd then from boat to boat we were
hYried only to be told Already full!
bur boats We tried, and at the fifth
here was room, Eva was thrown IN
: trst and l followed her.
~ just then man who had previous
Z tried to get in, succeeded in doing
" DuL W d. Oul, anu VIC ~
Ger fired his revolver into the air to
every one see it was loaded and
louted out, Stand back, ] say! The
-szt man who puts his foot IN this
lat | will shoot down like dog!'
f' Ben (Mr. Hart), who had been do
q what he could TO help the women
I'd children. said quietly, m not
lung IN, but for Gods sake look after
wife and child! And little Eva
Q He'd out TO the officer with the re-
waiver:
Don't shoot my daddy You
In t shoot my daddy!
IT That was the last / saw OF my
!. br lost dear-no farewell kiss, no
md word-but in !, moment he had
luhe and we were hanging over the
{ Nifty or sixty feet above it, and
. In there we're two or three horrible
as the boat was lowered from the
WITS, and We were in the water, so
~ DIVIDED that we could scarcely move.
,StfThe officer in charge Of our boat
ID hs standing on that raised part Of 1t
YRht at the end. We were all women
I'D children aboard (at least ] thought
then, but we were not, as / Will
fesently tell you). and we were all
wing and sobbing; and the officer
tYfd, not roughly, but with d kindly de"
re to keep our minds off the terrible
opne we had gone through:
~ Don 4 cry-please don { cry. You
III have something else to do than
d ie oars. For God 8 sake stop crying.
~ J had not the responsibility Of look
usi5g after YOU / would put bullet
Trough my brain.
y q So we got away from the ship for
6afe distance, for there was no doubt
,b W. about her sinking. The front por-
u pn OF her was pointing downwards,
hsld she appeared TO be breaking in
.nu = yves: Then, with n mighty and tear
'Tg sob, as of some gigantic thing in
danct with life, tho front portion
aFed.
chf An inky blsckness now settled over
a, and not soul In our boat had a
tkets an electric torch, which he
pt flashing, shouting out all the time,
Sep together-it' s our only chance
The duty that the officer allotted to
~ was TO bail the water out Of the
At. While sitting there had the i'm
ission that there was somebody near
j VINO ought not to be there. So, when
eould get my elbows free / put my
nd down under the seat and touched
81 mman form
- II was poor wretch or man VINO
smuggled himself into tho boat,
had sat there during all that dread
Ivs time. under the seat, in about six
Enes OF water. When We got him out
was SO stiff he could scarcely move.
SC 1t had got little lighter now. and
~ officer had collected nearly all the
Il Fts together; and he called from one
q the other, How many in yours
SE many in yoursN and then he dis
~ fered that there was room in those
~ tcr boats to put the whole Of our
NE-hve In, so we were transferred to
fm, and the officer collected a few
men In his now empty boat and
'Eed away to SEQ what he could find.
GO with proper management, an
r h1ty,five people could have easily
Ihere we sat the wearv night
pngn, until at in the morning the
pathla came on the scene. ] ALWAYS
pght that these ship boats had to
GI1vlsIoned beforehand in view of
Eib'e accidents. but there was no
sf' nor were there biscuits. in the
>A an oversight, l suppose; but
IN IfrauGht with terrible consequences
~ not the Carpathia arrived in good