“There was not a drop of water on our boat. The last minute before our boat was launched Captain Smith threw a bag of bread aboard. I took the precaution of taking a good drink of water before we started, so I suffered no inconvenience from thirst. “Another thing that I must not forget to mention, it is but additional proof of my charge that the Titanic was poorly equipped. The lamp on our boat was nearly devoid of oil. “‘For God’s sake, keep that wick turned down low, or you will be in complete darkness,’ we were told on leaving. It wasn’t long before these words proved true, and before daylight we were dependent on a cane one of the women had brought along, which contained a tiny electric lamp. FOUGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE DARKNESS. “With this little glow worm we fought our way through the darkness. I rowed for an hour straight ahead. Then I rested and some one else took my place. Then I grasped the oars again. I have had lots of experience in this form of exercise, and at my place in the Adirondacks am at it continually, so, contrary to stories that have been written, I did not blister my hands. “I want to say right here that I did not manage the boat. I helped row it and that’s all. “We had rowed about ten miles when looking over Countess Rothe’s oar I spied a faint light to the rear. “‘What’s that light?’ I almost screamed. “One of the sailors looked where I indicated and said: ‘It’s a ship--I can tell by the lights on her masthead.’ “As we passed over the spot where the Titanic had gone down we saw nothing but a sheet of yellow scum and a solitary log. There was not a body, not a thing to indicate that there had been a wreck. The sun was shining brightly then, and we were near to the Carpathia.” Mrs. K. T. Andrews, of Hudson, N. Y., a first class passenger on the Titanic, said: “When our boat was away from the Titanic there was an explosion and the Titanic seemed to break in two. Then she sank, bow first. Just before this, I saw Mr. Astor, Mr. Thayer and Mr. Case standing on deck. They were smiling and as we went off they waved their hands.” Thomas Whitley, a waiter on the Titanic, who was sent to a hospital with a fractured leg, was asleep five decks below the main saloon deck. He ran upstairs and saw the iceberg towering high above the forward deck of the Titanic. “It looked like a giant mountain of glass,” said Whitley. “I saw that we were in for it. Almost immediately I heard that stokehold No. 11 was filling with water and that the ship was doomed. The water-tight doors had been closed, but the officers, fearing that there might be an explosion below decks, called for volunteers to go below to draw the fires. COULD ALMOST FEEL THE WATER RUSHING IN.