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)
“Mrs. Astor refused to listen to her husband’s entreaties until he
assured her that he would follow on the next boat, although all the
time he knew that he would sink.”
“The following horrors have never left me, day or night,” Mrs. Brown
continued.
DEAD BODIES OF BRAVE MEN.
“I saw dead bodies of brave men float past the lifeboats. I heard the
death cries of women and saw the terrible desolation of the wreck by
dawn.”
In the boat with Mrs. Brown were her two sisters, Mrs. Robert Cornell,
wife of Judge Robert Cornell, and Mrs. S. P. Appleton.
They followed each other down the long, roughly constructed rope
ladder, a distance of more than fifty feet, into the tenth lifeboat.
All were thinly clad. They had retired for the night and were tumbled
from their berths when the crash came.
When the Titanic sank and the first news came of the disaster, there
appeared in the list of first cabin passengers the name of “Washington
Logue.” Until J. Washington Logue, of Philadelphia, could be found to
explain that he was not on the high seas, many of his friends feared
that he had been on the Titanic.
When he landed from the Carpathia, Washington Dodge, of San Francisco,
was told how his name had been confused in the wireless reports from
the Olympic. He said he congratulated Mr. Logue on having been no
closer to disaster than this.
Mr. Dodge, who is a millionaire; Mrs. Dodge and their four-year-old
son, Washington Dodge, Jr., were among the first to land on the dock
from the Cunarder. Mr. Dodge carried a life preserver of the Titanic as
a memento.
“Nearly all the passengers had retired when the crash came, about
twenty minutes passed 10 o’clock,” said Mr. Dodge. “The liner was
struck on the starboard side, near the bow. The bow, it seemed,
withstood the crash, but water rushed into several compartments at the
same time.”
“There was complete order among the passengers and crew. We really
didn’t think there was any danger. We were assured that the ship would
float and that there were plenty vessels in the reach of wireless to
come to our aid if that should become necessary.
“Then the sinking of the Titanic by the head began and the crew was
ordered to man the boats. There was no panic. The officers told the men
to stand back and they obeyed. A few men were ordered into the boats.
Two men who attempted to rush beyond the restraint line were shot down
by an officer who then turned the revolver on himself. I could see Mrs.
Isador Straus. She clung to her husband and refused to leave him.
FLOATED FOR FOUR HOURS.
“We floated for four hours until we were picked up. Mr. Ismay left the
Titanic on a small boat.
“I did not see the iceberg. When we got into the boat she was gone.
“As the Titanic went down, Major Archibald Butt was standing on the
deck. I saw him.”
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