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)
In the hospital and the public rooms lay, in blankets, several others
who had been benumbed by the water. Mrs. Rosa Abbott, who was in the
water for hours, was restored during the day. G. Wikeman, the Titanic’s
barber, who declared he was blown off the ship by the second of the two
explosions after the crash, was treated for bruises. A passenger, who
was thoroughly ducked before being picked up, caused much amusement on
this ship, soon after the doctors were through with him, by demanding a
bath.
Storekeeper Prentice, the last man off the Titanic to reach this ship,
was also soon over the effects of his long swim in the icy waters, into
which he leaped from the poop deck.
The physicians of the Carpathia were praised, as was Chief Steward
Hughes, for work done in making the arrivals comfortable and averting
serious illness.
Monday night on the Carpathia was one of rest. The wailing and sobbing
of the day were hushed as the widows and orphans slept. Tuesday, save
for the crowded condition of the ship, matters took somewhat their
normal appearance.
Tuesday afternoon, in the saloon, a meeting of survivors was held and
plans for a testimonial to the officers and crew of the Carpathia and
the survivors of the Titanic’s crew were discussed. It was decided that
relief of the destitute should first be considered, and the chairman
of the meeting, Samuel Goldenberg, appointed a committee consisting of
I. G. Frauenthal, Mrs. J. J. Brown, William Bushnell and George Stone
to raise a fund. The first subscriptions were for $100 each, and the
amounts were paid largely in travelers’ checks or personal checks, cash
being somewhat scarce among the refugees, who had kept their currency
in the purser’s safe.
Resolutions were adopted praising the Titanic’s surviving officers
and crew and the officers, crew and passengers of the Carpathia,
and declaring that a memorial is needed for “those who in heroic
self-sacrifice made possible the rescue of so many others.” One speaker
suggested that a memorial fund be raised by popular subscription,
mentioning the “World” as a suitable medium. This and other suggestions
were left to the committee to develop.
Rain and fog marked the Carpathia’s homeward course, and those who were
not seasick when New York was reached were none the less sick of the
sea.
CAPTAIN ROSTROM’S RULE.
Captain Rostrom’s rule that personal messages should take precedence
of press messages was not relaxed, even when Tuesday a message from
Guglielm Marconi himself asked the reason why press dispatches were not
sent. The captain posted Marconi’s message on the bulletin board, and
beside it a bulletin stating that no press messages, except a bulletin
to the Associated Press, had been sent. The implication was that none
would be sent, and the most urgent and respectful appeals failed to
change his determination, which, he seemed convinced, was in the best
interest of the survivors and their friends.
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