THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TITANIC BY COLONEL ARCHIBALD GRACIE AUTHOR OF THE TRUTH ABOUT CHICKAMAUGA SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS [Illustration] NEW YORK MITCHELL KENNERLEY 1913 _Copyright 1913 by_ _Mitchell Kennerley_ _Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company_ _East Twenty-fourth Street_ _New York_ [Illustration: COLONEL ARCHIBALD GRACIE] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Last Day Aboard Ship 1 II. Struck By an Iceberg 14 III. The Foundering of the “Titanic” 51 IV. Struggling in the Water for Life 64 V. All Night on Bottom of Half-Submerged Upturned Boat 87 VI. The Port Side: Women and Children First 114 VII. Starboard Side: Women First, But Men When There Were No Women 225 Concluding Note 325 ILLUSTRATIONS Colonel Archibald Gracie _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE The _Titanic_ 2 The Promenade Deck of the _Titanic_ 12 Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus 24 First-Class Smoking Room 28 Bedroom of Parlor Suite 40 Suite Bedroom 40 James Clinch Smith 48 Boilers of the _Titanic_ arranged in Messrs. Harland & Wolff’s Works 52 Thomas Andrews, Jr., Designer of the _Titanic_ 58 Joseph Bell, Chief Engineer 58 The Last Photograph of the _Titanic’s_ Commander and Three Officers 60 Passengers of the _Olympic_ awaiting Events 104 The Overturned Engelhardt Boat B 110 The _Titanic_ narrowly Escapes Collision at Southampton 134 Fifth Officer Lowe Towing the Canvas Collapsible 158 The Canvas Collapsible 158 Captain Rostron of the S. S. _Carpathia_ 180 Photographed from the _Carpathia_ 242 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE “TITANIC” CHAPTER I THE LAST DAY ABOARD SHIP “There is that Leviathan.”--Ps. 104:26.