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)
None are alive to tell the tale of that short period. Toward 2 o’clock
on Monday morning a green light aboard one of the lifeboats kept the
fleet of craft carrying the survivors together. Through the hours
until dawn the men in charge of the boats hovered about that green
light. Occasionally bodies of men slipped by the lifeboats. A few men,
more dead than alive, were pulled aboard the boats, that were now
overcrowded.
The weather became bitterly cold and the survivors suffered physical
pain as well as mental anguish. Benumbed by the extent of the
catastrophe most of the women sat motionless in their places. The
Carpathia appeared soon after dawn. Not until the big Cunarder was
close by did the realization of what had happened reach the women
survivors.
Many of them became temporarily insane. It was necessary to use force
to place them in swings in which they were hoisted to the Carpathia’s
decks. The officers of the Carpathia knowing the Titanic had gone down,
were prepared for an emergency. Passengers on the Cunarder gave their
cabins to the Titanic sufferers. The captain surrendered his room for
hospital purposes. Stewardesses were compelled to cut the clothing from
some of the women who had jumped into the water and been picked up by
the lifeboats.
Among the survivors picked up by the Carpathia were several babies.
These little ones were tossed overboard by their parents and rescued by
the boats. The identity of these orphans may never be determined. When
the list of persons aboard the Carpathia was checked up it was found
that among the survivors were thirty women who had been widowed by the
disaster.
Nearly all these women, bereft of their life partners, were reassured
by the hope that those who had been left behind had been picked up
by another vessel until they reached New York. For some reason the
impression prevailed on the Carpathia that the Californian had picked
up a number of survivors floating in the sea upheld by life-preservers.
EVERY HUSBAND SAVED SAVES HIS WIFE.
As against the thirty widows stands the record of every married man who
was saved. Each of these men saved his wife also. No wife was left on
the Titanic by a husband who had reached a lifeboat.
Narratives of the various survivors, assembled in a consecutive
narrative, makes one of the most thrilling tales of modern life. It
is a narrative filled with heroism unparalleled--bravery and heroism
performed by American business men. They were men of millions who had
everything to live for and yet, in that crisis at sea, they worked
coolly, steadfastly to save women and children. Then they went down
with the White Star liner Titanic, the greatest ship afloat.
When the Carpathia came into port carrying the more than 700 survivors
of the disaster, the curtain, which had hidden the story of the tragedy
since the first word of it was flashed to a startled world, was drawn
aside. Here is the real tale of the sinking of the Titanic.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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