Arizona republican., 1912-04-20
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I.4sSociatcd Press DiSPatchI
 NEW YORK. April 19.-The living cared for. the dead beyond recall, the survivors of the Titanic disaster are able for the first time today, to see in caImer retrospect Mondays tragedy Of the North Atlantic and from their more normal utteranCes there IS slowly unfolding the full story of how the great White Star liner, her band playing to the last, sank off Grand Banks. with more than l,5o0 souls aboard. From millionaires to four Chinese coolies, who escaped bv secreting themselves beneath the seats Of the lifeboats. all the IO7 sur Vivors have been provided food and many immediately started for the homes in England. on the continent. or to distant parts Of the United States. Many. however. remain ip hospitals. where they were taken last night. Even after all that has been told of the disaster. the death list remains approximate. Last nights total estimate was 1895: today the White Star line issued statement placing the official death list at 1.635 Exactly how many died never will De known. It is established def initely. however that the Titanic was travelling 3l knots an hour when she hit the iceberg. Notwithstanding this. not one of the survivors. from saloon to steerage has as yet con dcmned Captain smith. who went down with the ship The Titanic's rate of speed. which is equal to 21l2 land miles. was brought out today from the lips of J. Bruce Ishmay. president of the International Ner- cantile Marine who also appeared &s a witness before the senate inves- tigating committed. nervous, but not in tears. as was Captain 4. H. Ros- tron. of the Cdrpathia. who followed him on the stand. Ishmay told in whispers of his escape from the sink ing liner. from the time he pushed away in a boat with the women un- til he found himself clad in pajamas aboard the Carpathia. He was not sure in what boat he left the Titanic nor was he sure how long he re- mained on the Titanic after she struck He added. however. that be- fore he entered the life boat, he was
  deck He denied there had been any censorship of messages from the Car pathia. From Washington tonight came the statement from the hydro graphic office that no blame COuli be attached to Captain Smith for tho disaster for charts showed, aware o the presence of the bergs. he haC stcercd sixty miles to the south Out of the course. in order to avoid them By an order issued tonight from tho hydrographic office, the route is nov made 1SO miles to the south. which, ] is believed. is far out of the path O the bergS
 After giving his testimony before the senate committee Captain ROs- tron took charge of his ship. the Car patha, which later in the day saile, on her delayed voyage to the Med itorranean Before she departed. ad hiring survivors of the Titanic pre- s"nted him with great silver lov ing cup. Although several consisten accounts of what occurred aboard tn Titanic have been secured from sur Vivors. it is manifestly impossible fo anyone fully to take cognizancc O what occurred on her decks. fOu city blocks in length. and thus thos who maintained there were severa suicides may be correct. All agre Captain Smith went down with tn ship. but some declare First Office Murdock shot himself before the shi sank The work of caring for tn third class women and children pas senGers. who in nearly all cases ar destitute and not able to speak Eng fish. has been taken up by the Y. W C. A. and all are receiving every at tcntion possible
 NEW YORK. April 19.-The Unite
 States senate's committee. investiga-
 ing the Titanic disaster, met today
 the Waldorf Astoria. The committe
 is composed Of Smith, of Michigan
 chairman; Borah. of Idaho: and New