The Mena weekly star., 1913-04-17
Titanic Disaster
 Was q edrAgO
Monday Was the Anniversary of the Day When the Great Liner Struck an Iceberg and Sank With 1885 Passengers
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas NltE star
 The Titanic sank a year ago Mon day morning.
 At ll:25 o'clock tle night of April I1i. 1912, the 2,3lO passengers aboard the steamer Titanit, then the larg- est vessel afloat and on its maiden voyage, were shaaen from their beds when the liner. driven at B knots an hour, struck an iceberg of the Grand Banks of Newfound- land. Two hours and half later the sea gulped the big, vessel down, taking with it i.635 of the passen- gers.
 In the hours between the time when the great hole. l5g feet long. was ripped in the bottom of the IT. tanic and the time Whe. 1t sunk. I'll passengers were removed in lifeboats, of which there were not enough for one-half the passengers. Six of those taken of in the boats died, leaving 705 survivors. The Ti- tanic's crew had had no drill with the lifeboatS. and there was no or der in their launching, the result being that 400 hundred went down who might have been taken of in the boats had any order been fol- lowed.
 Women and Children First"
 Capt. E. J. Smith of the Titanic notified his wireless operator inn mediately after the crash to send out the danger signal. It was pick ed up by the Cunard liner, Carpa- thia, only few leagues away. Capt. R. H. Rostron set his boat about and headed for the point of the disas- ter. The Carpathia sighted the lifeboats at | o'clock Monday morn ing, April l5.
 The Carpathia arrived at its pier in New York harbor with the sur viVors on the night of April IS.
 Twelve hundred of those who went down with the ship were men men who had stood back and hur- ried the women and children into the lifeboats. Four hundred were women and children. Many tales .of herOlsm were told by the sur Vivors. Mrs. Isadore Straus linked arms with her husband and went down with him rather than be car ried tO safety and leave him behind.
 Maj. Archibald Butt, military aid to President Taft. made his mem ory glorious by his bravery. Major Butt and Col John Jacob Astor worked side hy side and went down together. Scores of lesser known men worked as gallantly and died as feaTlessly.
 Where the Blame as Laid
 J. Bruce l>may, president of the White Star Company, was pas senger aboard the Titanic, and es- capped in iifeboat. ISmay was not blamed by the United States Sen ate committee which investigated the disaster.
 N'e--HA AAtuA AtAAiiI AdNS anu oVer-rpe administrative boards. were the causes to which the com mlttee attributed the disaster.
 Before the investigating commits tee. Frederick Fleet, who was the lookout on watch at the time the iceberg was struck, said he had sighted lceberes ahead at 10 o'clock. an hour and a half before the Ti- tame struck. and that he notified the ships officers. The speed of the Titanic he said, was not slack ! ened' but she was driven ahead at top speed. Neither were the pas 1 sengers warned of the danger.
 Also. 1t developed in the hearing that the Leyland liner, Californian. ] was within five miles of the Titanic l al the time the S. c. s. signal was l sent out. Capt. Stanley Lord was l blamed by the Senate committee | which gfaid every passenger could l have been saved had the Califor- nian responded II developed that