Sinking of the "Titanic"
WITH GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF HUNDREDS SWEPT TO ETERNITY BENEATH THE WAVES; PANIC STRICKEN MULTITUDE FACING SURE DEATH, AND THRILLING STORIES OF THIS MOST OVERWHELMING CATASTROPHE TO WHICH IS ADDED VIVID ACCOUNTS OF HEART-RENDING SCENES, WHEN HUNDREDS WERE DOOMED TO WATERY GRAVES, COMPILED FROM SOUL STIRRING STORIES TOLD BY EYE WITNESSES OF THIS TERRIBLE HORROR OF THE BRINY DEEP BY JAY HENRY MOWBRAY, PH.D., LL.D. The Well Known Author Profusely Illustrated with a Great Many Photographs of Thrilling Scenes in this Fearful Catastrophe To Which is Added Accounts of Other Great Disasters
THE MINTER COMPANY HARRISBURG, PA. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1912, BY GEO. W. BERTRON THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON, D. C., U. S. A.
“WE are as near Heaven by sea as by land,” cried Sir Humphrey Gilbert, ere his ship sank with him; and the hundreds who perished in the ocean within reach of the exultant welcome and the festal preparation of the shore have found Paradise as surely, and in giving “the last full measure of devotion” have gone as brave men would wish to go.
Sorrow that is too deep and strong for words clutches the heart-strings of humanity and the Nation mourns for the heroic dead, who were carried down into the sea with the crushed “Titanic.” They faced death with high hearts, making the Supreme Sacrifice so that the women and the helpless little ones might live.
It is a heart-rending story, redeemed and ennobled by the heroism of the victims. Its details are appalling. The world is full of mournings for the dead. Nature has conquered again, destroying with ruthless hand the most marvelous ship that ever floated on the bosom of the deep.
It is the worst disaster that ever befell any vessel. It is the wrecking of a whole armada within one hull of steel, vaunted as unsinkable.
The sinking of the “Titanic” is an appalling catastrophe, in the contemplation of which any words that can be uttered are as futile as in the presence of the awful majesty of the Angel of Death.
Jay Henry Mowbray
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TALK OF HOME AND FRIENDS AND LIFE.
APPROACHING HOME AND FRIENDS.
THE LOOKOUT’S WARNING CRY.
HARDER TO GO THAN TO STAY.
INSUFFICIENT LIFE-BOATS.
CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE BRIDGE.
“NEARER MY GOD TO THEE.”
ADMIRATION AND CONFIDENCE.
AN AGONIZING SEPARATION.
ECHOING SPLASH OF CHILLY WATERS.
BOATS FOLLOW THE GREEN LIGHT.
THE LAST OF THE LINE OF BOATS.
HOPE REVIVED BY SIGHT OF CATTLE BOAT.
PROUD OF HER HUSBAND’S OARSMANSHIP.
AN OBJECT OF PITYING SIGHS.
THE OFFICERS’ REQUIREMENTS DISCUSSED.
CAPTAIN ROSTROM’S RULE.
SECOND OFFICER ON WATCH.
ALL BOATS BUT ONE GET AWAY SAFELY.
BLOWN FIFTEEN FEET.
SWAM AND DRIFTED NEARLY TWO HOURS.
JUST ABOUT TO TURN IN WHEN CALLED BY C. Q. D.
ORDERED ON DECK AND TOLD TO GET INTO THE BOATS.
EXPERIENCES OF PASSENGERS IN LIFE-BOATS.
MR. ISMAY WILL MAKE A COMPLETE STATEMENT.
WOULD NOT DESERT HER HUSBAND.
DENIES THAT ANY MEN WERE FIRED UPON.
SPEED KEPT UP DESPITE WARNINGS.
ROCKING OVER A VERITABLE SEA OF ICE.
IN THE GENERAL PANIC CAME THE CRY, “LADIES FIRST.”
FALSE REPORT OF PASSENGERS BEING SHOT.
WARNING TOO LATE TO AVOID COLLISION.
THE “UNWRITTEN LAW” OF THE SEA.
THE SHIP HAD STRUCK.
FIRST BOATS TO GET AWAY.
WOMEN HELP WITH THE OARS.
TELEPHONE CALL DOUBTED.
QUESTIONED ABOUT CONDITIONS ON MOONLESS NIGHT.
OFFICERS CONFIDENT EVEN IN THE FACE OF DANGER.
THE CREWS ALLOTTED TO THE BOATS.
SHIP APPARENTLY BREAKS IN TWO.
MURDOCK SHOOTS HIMSELF.
COMPARTMENT WALL GIVES WAY.
INDIVIDUALLY CONFLICTING STORIES OF THE WRECK.
KEPT TOGETHER BY GREEN LIGHT.
EVERY HUSBAND SAVED SAVES HIS WIFE.
UNDER FULL HEAD OF STEAM.
PHILLIPS POUNDS OUT THE S. O. S.
THE GAP INCREASES.
STRAINS OF MUSIC DROWNS ALL CRIES.
“THE SHIP CANNOT SINK.”
BRIDE SWEPT OVERBOARD.
SHIP DISAPPEARS FROM VIEW.
MRS. W. J. CARDEZA’S NARRATIVE.
WELCOMES EXHAUSTIVE INQUIRY.
AN OFFICER’S COMPLETE ACCOUNT.
THE CREW TOLD WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THEM.
IMAGINE THEIR HUSBANDS PICKED BY OTHER VESSELS.
HENRY E. STENGEL’S STORY.
DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE HER HUSBAND.
LITTLE DISORDER ON BOARD.
PISTOL SHOTS FIRED.
DID NOT SEE ANY SHOTS FIRED.
“GET BACK OR GO OVERBOARD.”
PICKED UP BY THE CARPATHIA.
IT WAS LIFE OR DEATH.
DID NOT ANTICIPATE TROUBLE.
WARNED TO PULL AWAY FROM SHIP.
DOES NOT DESERVE CRITICISM.
HARROWING AND TERRIBLE.
LAD PULLED INTO LIFE-BOAT.
DEAD BODIES OF BRAVE MEN.
FLOATED FOR FOUR HOURS.
NEW YORK PHYSICIAN’S ESCAPE.
TWO DISTINCT SHOCKS.
OCCUPANTS OF THE SAME BOAT.
ASSURANCE OF NO IMMEDIATE DANGER.
WAIFS FROM TITANIC RESTORED TO MOTHER’S ARMS.
TRIED TO CLIMB FROM THE BOAT.
CAPTAIN SMITH DIED A HERO
THE SAME STORY REPEATED.
UTTERLY EXHAUSTED FROM HER EXPERIENCE.
WRITER GOES DOWN WITH THE SHIP.
LIFTED INTO A LIFE-BOAT AND KISSED.
HELPED WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
SENDS A MESSAGE TO HIS MOTHER.
MIGHT HAVE PERISHED.
SHIP GOES DOWN AT 2.30 O’CLOCK.
BUMPED INTO FLOATING BODIES.
VESSEL LISTS TO PORT.
MR. WIDENER PARTED FROM HIS WIFE.
PICKED UP BY CARPATHIA.
APPEALS TO CAPTAIN WERE IGNORED.
HELPS HIS WIFE TO A PLACE IN THE BOAT.
DIED TO SAVE WIFE’S MAID.
TOO OVERCOME TO BE QUESTIONED.
NOT AS MUCH SUCTION AS EXPECTED.
STAYED ON BOARD UNTIL SHE SANK.
MET AT THE CUNARD PIER.
JUMPED AS THE LINER WAS GOING DOWN.
“FRANKFURT” MUCH NEARER THAN CARPATHIA.
THE CRIES WERE HEART-RENDING.
CRAWLED ON TO CAKE OF ICE.
GRAVITY OF THE TITANIC’S CONDITION.
AS COOL AS THE ICEBERG.
MAJOR BUTT A MAN TO BE FEARED.
TOGETHER ALMOST TO THE END.
WHIMPERING WITH COLD.
TITANIC GOING DOWN TO HER DOOM.
THE FIRST STAMPEDE.
EMERGENCY BOATS MADE READY.
BETTER PUT ON LIFE PRESERVERS.
EIGHT MEN THROWN OVERBOARD.
SWAM THROUGH THE ICE.
DR. LEEDER’S LETTER.
LIFEBOAT BEGINS TO FILL.
WOULD NOT BE SEPARATED.
ORDERED TO PULL FOR THE LIGHT.
FOUGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE DARKNESS.
COULD ALMOST FEEL THE WATER RUSHING IN.
BOAT HALF UNDER WATER.
THERE WERE TWO EXPLOSIONS.
PACKED LIKE SARDINES IN THE BOAT.
DISCIPLINE WAS PERFECT.
MRS. PAUL SCHABERT’S STORY.
WENT DOWN OFF SABLE ISLAND.
THERE WAS NOTHING TO FEAR.
EVERYONE FIGHTING EVERYONE ELSE.
NEARLY AN HOUR BEFORE RELIEF CAME.
SCENE THAT HARDY WITNESSED.
DID NOT THINK IT SERIOUS.
IT WAS APPALLING.
MAJOR BUTT AN OFFICER OF THE TITANIC.
NO CHANCE OF ESCAPING.
THERE WAS GREAT EXCITEMENT.
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF.
KEPT AFLOAT BY FUR OVERCOAT.
UNJUST TO MR. ISMAY.
WATER POURING INTO THE SHIP.
THE CARPATHIA SIGHTED.
FATHER LOST SIGHT OF FOREVER.
SAYS GOOD-BYE TO EACH OTHER.
SANG A HYMN AND SAID THE LORD’S PRAYER.
TOOK CARE OF HIM IN THE LIFEBOAT.
THE LAST BOY SAW OF PAPA.
WAS HURRIED INTO A BOAT.
SHIP TAKES ITS FINAL PLUNGE.
THE LAST PASSENGERS ON TOP DECK.
BLOWN TO SAFETY BY EXPLOSION.
PROMPT IN RESCUE WORK.
THE MAJORITY OF THE WOMEN LOSE THEIR HUSBANDS.
LIKE A FUNERAL SHIP.
CARPATHIA’S WELCOME RETURN.
CLASPED IN EACH OTHERS ARMS.
CAPTAIN KEEPS EVERY BODY IN GOOD SPIRITS.
ALL THE MEN ACTED CALMLY AND CHEERFULLY.
MAD WITH EXPOSURE.
HAD NO IDEA THE SHIP WAS SINKING.
HAD HOPED ALL ON BOARD WOULD BE SAVED.
“THE MILLIONAIRES BOAT.”
CONTINUALLY BUMPED INTO DEAD BODIES.
SHIP’S END ONLY A QUESTION OF MINUTES.
CRUISED AMONG ICE FOR TWO HOURS.
AN AWFUL CHORUS OF SHRIEKS.
FIFTEEN BRIDES LOSE THEIR HUSBANDS.
A SEAMAN’S NARRATIVE.
TITANIC SETTLES IN THE WATER.
SUFFERED FROM EXPOSURE.
A MAN WITH A HIGH SENSE OF DUTY.
A MOTHER’S FATEFUL DREAM.
THE BOAT’S MUSICIANS.
DISCIPLINE DESCRIBED AS PERFECT.
A CLEAR S. O. S. SIGNAL.
PROMPTNESS IN HANDLING LIFEBOATS.
AVOIDS CRASHING INTO SHIPWRECKED PASSENGERS.
A NARRATIVE ON THE TUG BOAT REYNOLDS.
SPEEDED FASTER THAN USUAL.
NEARLY ALL BOATS TAKEN FROM WATER.
COMPARATIVELY EMPTY BOAT WITHOUT WOMEN.
CAPTAIN ROSTROM’S DENIAL.
ICEBERGS REPORTED.
MR. ISMAY’S REMARKS.
NO INDICATIONS OF TITANIC’S BREAKING.
ICEBERGS ON EVERY SIDE.
WOMEN AT THE OARS.
LIFE-SAVING EQUIPMENT INSPECTED.
DIED AND SLIPPED OFF INTO THE WATER.
DIFFICULTY IN FINDING WOMEN.
UNCERTAIN AS TO THE KIND OF WORK.
SENDING MESSAGES TO THE TITANIC.
SENATE TO PROBE FALSE MESSAGE.
THE LAXITY OF THE WIRELESS
BOTH CARED FOR A WOMAN
SENATE REPEATS THE OATH.
BETTER SEND OUT A CALL FOR ASSISTANCE.
MEANING OF DIFFERENT CALLS.
BRIDE INTERROGATED.
THE LAST MAN ABOARD.
THE BODY OF ISADORE STRAUS IDENTIFIED.
THE UNNAMED DEAD.
ONLY 106 BODIES PRESERVED.
A FEW MORE BODIES RECOVERED.
WATCH FOR MEN WITH CAMERAS.
THE DEAD LAY EVERYWHERE.
NOT MR. WIDENER.
QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY.
CERTIFICATE FOR THE DEAD.
OUR JOURNEY SLOW.
COMMIT HIS BODY TO THE DEEP.
LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS INADEQUATE.
BOAT CARRIES 58 PERSONS.
A PUZZLING QUERY.
PERILS MINIMIZED.
STEAMING AT 21 KNOTS.
UNAIDED BY SEA GLASSES.
MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED BY SEARCHLIGHT.
UTILITY OF WATER-TIGHT COMPARTMENTS DOUBTED.
TITANIC COMMITTEE’S REPORT.
LACK OF DISCIPLINE ARRAIGNED.
PASSENGERS AND CREW STUPEFIED.
OVERCONFIDENCE AND NEGLECT.
MEN RUDELY SILENCED.
CRITICISM FOR CAPTAIN LORD.
PRAISE FOR CAPTAIN OF CARPATHIA.
FIRST CABIN
SECOND CABIN
THIRD CLASS—S
OFFICIAL LIST OF PASSENGERS RESCUED.
FIRST CABIN
SECOND CABIN
