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. Fred R. Kenyon, of Southington, Conn., was one of the Titanic’s
survivors. Her husband went down with the vessel rather than take the
place of a woman in a boat. Mrs. Kenyon said that when the call was
given for the women to take places near the boat davits, in readiness
to be placed in the boats as they were swung off, Mr. Kenyon was by her
side. When it came her turn to enter the boat, Mr. Kenyon helped his
wife to a place and kissed her good-bye. Mrs. Kenyon said she asked him
to come with her, and he replied: “I would not with all those women and
children waiting to get off.”
In an instant Mr. Kenyon had stepped back and other women took their
places and the boat swung clear and dropped to the water. In the boat
Mrs. Kenyon said there were one sailor and three men who had been
ordered in because they said they could row.
Mrs. John B. Thayer, whose husband, the second vice-president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, went down with the Titanic, after heroically
standing aside to allow his wife’s maid to take his place in the
lifeboat, and whose young son, John B. Thayer, Jr., was pulled aboard a
lifeboat after being thrown from the giant liner just before she sank,
seemed too dazed by what she had gone through to realize the awful
enormity of the tragedy when she reached her home at Haverford, Pa.
After reaching the Thayer home Mrs. Thayer was put to bed and the
greatest precautions were taken to see that neither she nor young
“Jack” Thayer was disturbed. Detectives from the Pennsylvania Railroad,
assisted by two members of the Lower Merion police force, guarded the
house both front and rear. All callers were told that both Mrs. Thayer
and her son were too much overcome by their heart-breaking experience
to see any one.
DIED TO SAVE WIFE’S MAID.
Mrs. Thayer, young John B. Thayer, junior no longer, Miss Eustis,
a sister of Mrs. Walter B. Stephenson, of Haverford, and Margaret
Fleming, Mrs. Thayer’s maid, for whose safety Mr. Thayer sacrificed
his own life, all arrived at the Haverford Station at 12.30 o’clock.
They had made the trip from Jersey City in a special train consisting
of an engine, baggage car and Pullman, with two day coaches to add the
necessary weight to make the train ride easily. The special left the
Pennsylvania Station at 10.16 and drew up at the Haverford Station just
two hours and fourteen minutes later.
Harry C. Thayer, of Merion, a brother of Mr. Thayer, met his
sister-in-law and nephew at the New York pier where the Carpathia
docked, together with Dr. R. G. Gamble, of Haverford, the Thayers’
family physician. Mrs. Thayer, though seemingly composed, is really
in a very serious condition, according to Dr. Gamble. Her hours of
exposure in an open boat, her uncertainty as to the fate of her son,
whom she saw jump overboard, just before the Titanic sank, carrying her
husband to a watery grave, was more than any woman could be expected to
bear.
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