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)
“The women were shoved into the lifeboats,” said Dr. Vincent. “The crew
did not wait until the lifeboat was filled before they lowered it. As
a matter of fact there were but twenty-six people in the boat, mostly
all women, when an officer gave instructions to lower it. Mr. Smith
was standing alongside the boat when it was lowered. There was plenty
of room for more people to get into the lifeboats, the capacity being
fifty.
APPEALS TO CAPTAIN WERE IGNORED.
“Mrs. Smith implored Captain Smith to allow her husband in the boat,
but her repeated appeals, however, were ignored. This lifeboat was
permitted to be lowered with but one sailor in it and he was drunk. His
condition was such that he could not row the boat and therefore the
women had to do the best they could in rowing about the icy waters.
“As the boat swung out from the side it was evident that the three
men knew absolutely nothing about rowing and Mrs. Kenyon said she and
another woman seized the oars and helped the sailors to pull clear.
Gradually the small boat was worked away from the Titanic. The boat had
gone quite a distance when suddenly all heard a terrific explosion and
in the glare which followed they saw the body of a man hurled from the
bridge high in the air. Then darkness fell. At 6.30 the boat was picked
up by the Carpathia.”
Mrs. Elizabeth Dyker, of Westhaven, Conn., a bride whose husband
perished, lost besides her husband all her worldly possessions.
“When the crash came,” said Mrs. Dyker, “I met Adolph on deck. He had a
satchel in which were two gold watches, two diamond rings, a sapphire
necklace and two hundred crowns. He couldn’t go in the boat with me
but grabbed a life preserver and said he would try to save himself.
That was the last I saw of him. When the lifeboat came alongside the
Carpathia one of the men in it threw my satchel to the deck. I have not
seen it since.”
Kate Mullin, of County Longford, Ireland, told of how stewards had
tried to keep back the steerage women. She said she saw scores of men
and women jump overboard and drown.
Bunar Tonglin, a Swede, was saved in the next to the last boat which
left the Titanic. Before getting into the boat he placed two hysterical
women in another boat. Then he heard a cry, and, looking up, saw a
woman standing on the upper deck. The woman, he said, dropped from her
arms her baby, which Tonglin caught, and gave to one of the women he
had put in the boat. Then he got into his own boat, which was lowered,
and shortly afterwards came the two explosions, and the plunge downward
of the Titanic. Tonglin declared that he had seen numerous persons leap
from the decks of the Titanic and drown.
HELPS HIS WIFE TO A PLACE IN THE BOAT.
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