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Titanic's Officers Had Frequent Reports of icebergs in Path OFFICIAL DEATH LIST IS 1635 New Yorkk, April 19 --Enquiry by a coi respondent on board the Carpathia establishes the fact as positively as it could be established considenni, 4fcie silence ot surviving officers are That the Titanic'b officer knew, several houis before the crish, of the possible nearness of the icebeigs That the Uitaiiic's speed, neaily twenty three knots an hour, was not slackened. That the number of lifeboats on the Titanic was insufficient to accommodate more than one-third the to say -nothing ot the crew Most membeis of the crew say there were sixteen liteboats and two none saj there were more than twenty boats in all The 700 who escaped filled most of the sixteen lifeboats and the one collaps able which got away to the Unit of their capacity Impossible Happened. Had the ship stiucb the iceberg headon at whatever speed and with whatever resulting shock, the bullhead system of watertight compartments would probably have saved the vessel As one man expressed it it was the impossible that happened when, with a shock unbeliev aolv nrlci just befoie the ship sank, leaping only after those on the deck had been washed away It is also related that, when a cook later sought to pull him aboard a hteboat, he exclaimed. Let me go," and jerking away went down What became of the meu with hie pieservers is a question abked since the disaster by many persons The preservers did then work of suppoit ing their weareis in the watei until the ship went down. Many of those drawn into the despite the preseivers, did not come up again Bodies floated on the suuace as the last boats moved awav To relate that the ship string band gatheied into the saloon neai the end, and plajed 'Xearei, My God, to sounds like an attempt to give an added solemn color to a scene which was in itself the climax or solemmtv But various and survivors of the crew IP the declaration that they heaid thib music To some of the hearers, itn husbands amors the dying men IP the water, and at the ship's lail, the strain brought their thoughts the 'So, bv my woes, I'll be Nearei, mv God, to Thee, Nearei to ihee In the loading of the flrs boat, re 01 sex weie not made and it seemed to the men who fil'ed in beside the women that there would be Loats enough tor all But the ships officers krew better tnan this and as the spreading tea'- caused 0 general advance toward the susperc 1 ed cralt, the order, omen was heard aid the men pusheu aside lo the scene of the next two hours on those decks and in the waters be low, such adjectives as dramatic and tragic do but pool justice With the knowledge of deadly 1 eril gam splash alter splpsh as passengers and sailois lite pieserveife leaped over and started away to es- the ships side was torn for a length' mg greater power each moment ovei which made the bulkaead system in those men and women, tae nobility effective of the greater part, both among cabin The litanic was 1,799 miles from passengers officers crew and steei Queenstown.

and 1,19,1 sines from age, asserted itseif Ne.v York, speeding for a maiden Isador Straus, supporting his i SCENE OF OCEAN DISASTER 1 JJL v''r fo Atfc 1 v.4. CAPE caa NEW YORK WHERE THE TITANIC MET HER FATE vovage record The night vvab star lit, the sea glassv Lights were out in most of the staterooms, and only or three congenial companions remained in the public rooms In the crow nest, 01 lookout, and on the bridge, officers and members ot the crew were at their awaiting relief at from their two hours' watc 1 Men on Deck First. The crash against the iceberg, which had been sighted at only a quarter of a mile, came almost simul taneously with the click ol the levers by those on the bridge, which stopped the engines and closed the watertight doors Captain Smith was on the bridge a moment later, giving orders for the summoning on the deck of all aboard, and for the putting on of life preserv ers and the low ei mg of lifeboats The first boats lowered contained more men passengers than the latter ones as the men were on deck first, and not enough women were there to fill them When, a moment later, the rush oi frightened women and citing children to the deck began, enforcement of the woman first rule Of ticers loading some ot the boats drew revolvers, but in most cases the men, both passengers and crew, behaved in a way that called foi no such re stramt Rumors of Suicide. Revolver shot, heaid by many per sons, shortly betore the end of the Titanic, caused mmors One that Ciptam Smith shot himself another was that First Officei Mm dock had ended his life Smith, Mur tfo and Sixth Officer Moody, are known to have been lost Ihe surviv ing officers, Pitman, Both all and. Lowe, have made no state Members of the crew discredit all reports of suicide and say Captain Smith remained on the bridge until on her way to a lifeboat, was held back by an inexorable guard Anoth er off cei strode to help her to a.

beat ot safety, but she brushed away his arm and clung to her husband, crying I will not go without you Another woman took her place and her form, during to her luibband biought me part of a pictuie now a indelibly in, many minds er i nor husband, far any one know reached a place oi safety Tragic Parting. Colonel Astor, holding his young wife aim, stood decorously aside as the officers spoko to him. and Mrs Astor and her maid were ushered to seats Mrs Henry Harris pai ted in like mannei from her husband saw him last at the rail beside Col onel Astor Claik ot Los Angeles, nephew or the Montana sen ator, joined the line of men as his voung wife, sobbing, was placed in one of the craits Let him come There is room cried Mrs Emil Taussig, as the men of the hite Star motioned to hei husband to leave her It was i difficulty that he released her hold to permit her to be led to her place George idener, who had been in Captain Smith's company a few minutes after the crash, was another whose wife was paited irom him and lowered, a moment later, to the sur face of the calm Of Maj Butt, a favorite i his iellow touric.s of harleb Hays, president of the Grind Trunk of Benjamin Guggenheim ant) of i ham 1 Stead, no one setms to know whether they tarried too lonj; in then staterooms, 01 whethei thoy loreboic to approach the last filling boats none of them was in the tin on-? which, weary hours afterwai rca cd the Carpathia "As the erd of the Titanic a manifestly but a i ol moments the expected suction Only the haidiebt constitution could endure ioi moie than a tew moments such a chilling bath The fust few strokes to heartbieakmg cues cf Help' Help" and stiffening loims we 1 seen floating, the faces relaxed in death. Says Captain Leaped shots were heard in the ship's last moment I report among the boats was that Cautam Smith had ended Ins life with a bullet Then it said a mate had shot a steward who tried to push his a upon a bolt against ordeis Xone oi these tales have been verified and manj ot tne ciew sav the captain, without a preset vei, leaped in at the last and refusing a cooks offered ii The last of the boats, a rollansible a launched too late to gel waj and turned by the ship sinking Some of those in it all, say some wit- i ses- tourcl safety on a rait or eie picked up by a liteboat In. the Mai com tow ei almost to the last, the click ot the sending instiument was leard ovei the waters Led by tne green light under the ot Siais, the boat? aid the bow then the quarter, tnen the stacks and last the stern of the "laivel ship of a few days betoie passed beneath the wateis Hie i force of the i sinking -was unaided by any violence of the elements and the suction, not so gieat as had been feared, locked but mild ly the group ot boats now a quarter of a mile distant from it Sixteen ooats were in the proces sion whicn entered on the terrible hoi rs of row mg, drittmg and sus pense "tt omen for lost husbands and sons sailois sobbed ror the snio which had been their pride Men choked back teals and sought to comtort the i Perhaps, they said othei boats might have put off in anotner direction toward the Vst The strove, though none too sure themselves, to convince the women of the ceitamtj that a rescue ship woaM appear The Rescue.

Early brought no ship, but not long a A clock the Carpativa, fai out of and making eight een knots instead of her wonted fit- teen, showed her single red and black smokestack upon the horizon In the joy of tnat moment, the heaviest griefs were forgotten Soon afterwaids Captain Rostron and Chiet Steward Hughes were wel coming chilled and bedrasfged arrivals over the Carpathia side The silence of the Carpathia's en gines, the piercing cold, the clamor ot manv voices in the companionwajs had caused me to dress huiriedly and awaken wife ac 5 40 A Mon 1 day Our stewardess, meeting me outside, pointed to a wailing host in the rqoii dining room and saij From the Titanic She at the bottom of the ocean Men of Vast Wealth on Board New Yoik, April 1 Wealth ac- gregatmg something like half a billion dollars is represented by seven of the passergers on the Titanic II calamity betell only a few of these seven it would materially vast business enterprises in the United States and England The seven are Col John Jacob Astor $150,000,000 Benjamin Guggenheim 95,000,000 Isador Straus 50,000,000 George Widenor 60,000,000 J. Bruce Ismay 40,000,000 Co! Washington Roebling 25,000,000 WIFE TOGETHER AS VESSEL Wife Refuses to Leave Husband and Couple Die in Each Other's Arms. ASTOR IS ONE OF HEROES New York Millionaire Puts Bride in Boat, Then Aids Other Women-Goes Down In Ship With Other Men Without Murmur or Complaint ot Treatment. New York, April 19 --A picture of Mr and Mrs Isidor Stiaus clinging to each other after the last boat was gone was revealed by Mrs Schabert of Derbj, Conn who, ith her broth- Mrs Schabert had the stai board side B. Thayer 10,000,000 Total $420,000,000 If the fortunes of the first class pas sengeis alone were placed together they would easily make $1,000 000,000 PREVIOUS BIG SEA TERS.

DISAS- Oate. Name. Lost April 1873, Atlantic 585 May 1875, Schiller 312 January 1883, Cambria 389 October 1892, Utopia 563 August 1893, Victoria 360 January 13, 1895, Elbe 330 July 4, 1898, Bourgogne 535 July 3, 1904, Norge 750 September 12, 1905, Mlkasa, 599 June 15, 1904, Gen Slocum 959 Feb. 12, 1907, Larchmont 183 Fob 21, 1907, Berlin 150 April 25, 1908, Gladiator 30 July 28, 1908, Ying King 300 Aug 24, 1908, Folgenfonden 70 Nov. 6, 1908, Talsh 150 Jan.

23, 19C9, Republic 6 Feb 2, 1911, Abenton 70 April 10, 1911, Iroquois 20 April 23, 1911, Asia 40 Sept. 5, 1911, Tucapal 81 Oct 2, 1911, Hafield 20 April 3, 1911, Kcombuna 150 Mrs Villoi, ot Davtni'Oit, th i who tinned a uui. i i the oarbrnen pulled then boats ol.ne stove in i i hen i and the chilling waters began to echo (lie I irom her Accounts by Passengers Veritable Sea of Ice. J2. Taylor of Philadelphia, one of survivors, jumped into the sea just three minutes before the boat sank He told a graphic story as he came from the Carpathia "I was eating when the boat struck the iceberg," he said There was an awful shock that made the boat tremble from stem to stern I did not realize for some time what had happened.

No one seemed to know the extent of the accident We were SPAPLR told that an iceberg had been struck by the ship I felt tho boat rlis and it seemed to me that she was over the ice I ran out on and all I could see was a veritable sea of ice and the boat was rocking over it I should say that parts of tho ice berg were eighty feet high, but it had been broken into sections, prob ably by our ship "I jumped into the ocean and never expected to see land again I waited on board the boat until the lights went out It seemed to me that the discipline on board was wonderful" er, was rescued state'oom 28 on amidships "It was a crash, but not a great one, It seemed to me, that aw akened me," she said "When I went on deck I said to a steward- 'Are going down' He answered, calmly, 'Madam, I guess we are' "An officer on the bridge or near it was shouting out, as the lifeboats were being got ready. 'Women and children first 1 Saves Her Brother's Life. "They tried to get me away from my brother and put me in a boat I refused to go without him Finally my brother and I stood alone in our part of the ship A boat was just leaving that had room for two more passengers The officers in charge said to me 'Well, if you won't leave your brother, he may come, too' "We got into the boat and by hesi itating, I saved my brother's life "Mrs Straus had had a chance to be saved, but she refused to leave her husband As our boat moved away from the ship--it was the last boat of all--we could plainly see Mr and Mrs Straus near the rail with their arms around each othei "The lights of the Titanic were all burning and the band was playing To me the most affecting episode of Hays Prophetic Words. Before I i haul Colonol Gratie, I had i long chat i harles president of Grand Tiunk railroad One of tne last things Mr Flays said th The White the C'uuard and tho Hamburg Ampru ,111 lines are le- i their attention and in vifing with the other to attain the supremacy in luxurious ships and making speed recouls. The time will soon come when this vv ill checked by some appalling disaster' Poor fellow, a few hour 1 late- he was dead John Jacob Astor the whole disaster was that final glimpse of this elderlj couple await Ing the end together Three sailors of the Titanic, who i standing near Mrs Schabert, spoke up at this moment to say "You know the Titanic just crawled up on that iceberg and broke in two Astor Is One of Heroes.

"The conduct of Col John Jacob Astor was deserving of the highest praise," said Colonel Oracle of the regular army who narrowly escaped drowning "The millionaire New Yorker he said "devoted all his en ergies to saving his young bride, who was in delicate health "Colonel Astor helped us in our efforts to get her in the boat said Col onel Grjeie "I lifted her into the boat, and as she took her place Col onel Vstor lequesled permission of the second officer to go with her for her own protection "'No, sir' lepllerl the officer not a man shall go on a boat until the worn en aro all Goes to Aid of Other Women. "Coloml Astor inquired the number of tho boat which was being lowered away and turner! to the work of clearing the other bolts and in rr issuiing the frightened and neivous women "TH this time the sh began to list i i to port This booirne so dam nrous that the officer or del 1 evorv one to rush to starboard his did and found tho crew i ing to get a boat off in tint quarter Ilore saw thp Inst of Tohn TS Thayer and George Widener of Philadel phia Mrs Astor Not Danger. While utterly exhaustpd fiom her experiences Mrs Tohn Tnoob Astor was declared tonight by Nicholas Hid die a trustee of the Astor estate to he in no danger whatever Her physi clans, however hid given orders i neither Mrs Astor nor her maid who was with her, be permitted to talk about the disaster" On landing from the Carpathia the young bride, widowed by the Titanic's sinking, told members of her family what she could recall of the circumstances of the disaster Thought Husband by Her Side. Of how Colonel Astor met his death, she had no definite conception She recalled, she thought, that in the confusion as she was about to be put into one of the boats the colonel was standing by her side After that as Mi Biddle recounted her nanative, she had no clear recollection of the happenings until the boats were well clear of the sinking steamer Mrs Astor, It appears, left in one of the last boats which got away fiom the ship It was her belief that all the women wished to go had then been taken off Her impiesslon was that the boat she left in had room for least fifteen more peisons Clear and Starlit Mrs Edgar Mejei of New York said 'It WPS a clear and starlit night When the ship stiuck weie in our cabin My husband went out on the deck to see what was the trouble He came back and said we had hit an icebeig but that it did not amount to much I said I was nervous We went on deck for a walk More peo pie said the accident was of no im poitance It would onlv delay our arrival I as afraid and made my husband promise if there was trouble he would not me leave him We walked around the deck a while An officer came up and cried 'All women into the lifeboats "My husband and I discussed it and the officer said 'You must obey or ders Decided to Separate. "We went down into the cabin and we decided on account of our baby, to part He helped me put on warm things I got Into a boat, but there weie no sailors aboard We called to the ship that there were no men in the boat They sent a sailor down "A.n English girl and I rowed four hours and a half Then we were picked up at six o'clock in the morn ing We were well away from the steamer when It went down, but we heard the screams of the people left on the boat "There were about seventy widows on the Carpathia and all were won derfully brave The captain of the Carpathia and the passengers did all they could for us Mrs Hairis sajs my husband and Mr Harris and Mr Douglas lowered the last boatload full of omen All three were perfectly calm Fights to Save Wife.

Mrs Daniel Marvin of this city, who was on a honejmoon trip with her husband, was almost prostrated when she reached the dock and learned her husband had not been picked up by some other boat "My God don't ask me too much," she said, "tell rne have you any news from Dan' He grabbed me" in his arms and knocked down men to get me into the boat As I was put in the boat he cried "'It's all right little girl, you go and I will stay a while I 11 put on a life preserver and jump off and follow your boat' "As our boat shoved off he threw a kiss at me, and that is the last I saw of him Mr and Mrs II Allison of Mon treal and their daughter were drowned, their ten months old baby, a boy and his nurse were saved Mrs Allison was just about to jump into a lifeboat where the nurse and babv were when she discoveied her husband was not with her She went back to look for him and did not return Green Lantern Saves Many. Henry Stengel of Newark said it was only the forethought of a member of the boat crew who was quick-wit ted enough to snatch up thiee green lights that saved a number lives of those adrift in the tiny 1'fe boat "These green lights' he said 'shining through the darkness en abled the other boats' crews to keer close together In the ice filled wa ters Mr Stengel put his wife in a boat and then followed He said that early the next morning, shortly after they had been picked up, they saw floating far away a gigantic iceberg, with two peaks shining in the morning sun This was the berg that sent the Ti tanic to the bottom, he thought Into Sea; Picked Up. Taylor of Philadelphia, one ot the survivors jumped into the sea just three minutes before the boat sank He told a graphic story as he came from the Carpathia "I was eating when the boat struck tne iceberg he said There was an awful shock that made the boat trem ble from stem to stern I did not rea- lise for some time what had hap pened No one seemed to know the of the accident We were told that an iceberg had been struck by the ship "I felt the boat rise and It seemed to me that It was riding ovei tho lee I ran out on deck and then I could see the ice It was a veritable sea ol ice and the bolt was rocking over It I should say that parts of the iceberg eighty feet high, but it had been broken into sections, probably by our ship "I jumped Into the ocean and wa picked up by one of tho boats never expected to see land again 1 waited on board the boat i lights went out Tt seemed to me that the discipline on board was wonder- SUFFERED EVERYTHING For Fourteen Years. Restored To Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

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