Sinking of the "Titanic" : $b most appalling ocean horror; with graphic descriptions of hundreds swept to eternity beneath the waves ...Mowbray, Jay Henry
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Sinking of the "Titanic" : $b most appalling ocean horror; with graphic descriptions of hundreds swept to eternity beneath the waves ...
Mowbray, Jay Henry
Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean -- History -- 20th century; Titanic (Steamship)
“It was awful cold in the boat, but I was dressed warm, like we dress
in Norway. I had to put on my clothes, when my papa told me to on the
big ship. I couldn’t talk to anybody, because I don’t understand the
language. Only Mr. Madsen talked to me and told me not to be afraid,
and I wasn’t afraid. Mr. Madsen was shivering in his wet clothes, but
he got all right after the Carpathia came.”
A bright-faced boy of eight walked up and down in front of Blake’s Star
Hotel at No. 57 Clarkson street, New York, the day after the Carpathia
arrived. He was Marshall Drew of Greenport, L. I., one of the survivors
of the Titanic.
“It all seems just like the bad dreams that I used to have,” he
confided. “I never want to go to England again. I went over there with
my uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. James Drew, to Visit my grandpa. We had
a good time in England and started back on the Titanic.
“The night of the wreck my aunt woke me and said she was going to dress
me and take me out on deck. I was sleepy and didn’t want to get up. I
could hear funny noises all over the ship and sometimes a woman talking
loud out in the corridor. My aunt didn’t pay any attention to what I
said but hurried me into my clothes and rushed me with her up to the
deck.
“There every one was running about. Some of the men were laughing and
saying there was no danger. They were taking all the women and hurrying
them into the boats along with the children. We could not see what for.
I thought at first that we had got home.
WAS HURRIED INTO A BOAT.
“Aunt Lulu put me into the boat and then stood back with Uncle James,
and in a moment some one had hurried her into the boat, too, and we
went down the side, Uncle James waving his hand at us and Aunt Lulu
standing up and looking at him.
“Then the boat pulled away from the ship and there was a lot of talk
and screaming. We were a long time on the water and were finally picked
up by the Carpathia.”
Marshall and his aunt were saved. They were met at the pier by his
grandfather, Mr. Henry P. Christian, of Greenport, and with his aunt
were taken to the hotel along with other survivors of the second cabin.
Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, told a
graphic story of the sinking.
Miss Rugg, who was one of the second class passengers, was met in New
York by her uncle, F. W. Queripel, a grocer. The young woman was on her
way to visit relatives.
She was asleep when the ship struck the berg, and the jar aroused her.
Looking out she saw a mass of ice. Throwing a coat about her, she went
on deck and saw lifeboats being lowered.
Returning to the cabin, she dressed, and then went to an adjoining
cabin and aroused two women friends.
Following this Miss Rugg ran up on deck and was taken in charge by some
of the crew, who dragged her toward a lifeboat. She was lifted into the
third from the last which left the ship.
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