Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean; Titanic (Steamship)
SLEMEN, R. J.
SOBEY, HAYDEN.
SLATTER, MISS H. M.
STANTON, WARD.
SWORD, HANS K.
STOKES, PHILIP J.
SHARP, PERCIVAL.
SEDGWICK, MR. F. W.
SMITH, AUGUSTUS.
SWEET, GEORGE.
SJOSTEDT, ERNST.
TAYLOR, bandsman.
TURPIN, WILLIAM J.
TURPIN, MRS. DOROTHY.
TURNER, JOHN H.
TROUPIANSKY, M.
TIRVAN, MRS. A.
VEALE, JAMES.
WATSON, E.
WOODWARD, bandsman.
WARE, WILLIAM J.
WEISZ, LEOPOLD.
WHEADON, EDWARD.
WARE, JOHN J.
WEST, E. ARTHUR.
WHEELER, EDWIN.
WERMAN, SAMUEL.
The total death list was 1635. Third cabin passengers and crew are not
included in the list here given owing to the impossibility of obtaining
the exact names of many.
CHAPTER XIII. THE STORY OF CHARLES F. HURD
HOW THE TITANIC SANK--WATER STREWN WITH DEAD BODIES--VICTIMS MET DEATH
WITH HYMN ON THEIR LIPS
THE Story of how the Titanic sank is told by Charles F. Hurd, who was a
passenger on the Carpathia.
He praised highly the courage of the crew, hundreds of whom gave their
lives with a heroism which equaled but could not exceed that of John
Jacob Astor, Henry B. Harris, Jacques Futrelle and others in the long
list of first-cabin passengers. The account continues:
"The crash against the iceberg, which had been sighted at only a quarter
mile distance, came almost simultaneously with the click of the levers
operated from the bridge, which stopped the engines and closed the
water-tight doors. Captain Smith was on the bridge a moment later,
summoning all on board to put on life preservers and ordering the
life-boats lowered.
"The first boats had more male passengers, as the men were the first
to reach the deck. When the rush of frightened men and women and
crying children to the decks began, the 'women first' rule was rigidly
enforced.
"Officers drew revolvers, but in most cases there was no use for them.
Revolver shots heard shortly before the Titanic went down caused many
rumors, one that Captain Smith had shot himself, another that First
Officer Murdock had ended his life, but members of the crew discredit
these rumors.
"Captain Smith was last seen on the bridge just before the ship sank,
leaping only after the decks had been washed away.
"What became of the men with the life-preservers was a question asked by
many since the disaster. Many of these with life-preservers were seen to
go down despite the preservers, and dead bodies floated on the surface
as the boats moved away.
"Facts which I have established by inquiries on the Carpathia, as
positively as they could be established in view of the silence of the
few surviving officers, are:
"That the Titanic's officers knew, several hours before the crash, of
the possible nearness of the icebergs.
"That the Titanic's speed, nearly 23 knots an hour, was not slackened.
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