FOUGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE DARKNESS.
“With this little glow worm we fought our way through the darkness. I rowed for an hour straight ahead. Then I rested and some one else took my place. Then I grasped the oars again. I have had lots of experience in this form of exercise, and at my place in the Adirondacks am at it continually, so, contrary to stories that have been written, I did not blister my hands.
“I want to say right here that I did not manage the boat. I helped row it and that’s all.
“We had rowed about ten miles when looking over Countess Rothe’s oar I spied a faint light to the rear.
“‘What’s that light?’ I almost screamed.
“One of the sailors looked where I indicated and said: ‘It’s a ship—I can tell by the lights on her masthead.’
“As we passed over the spot where the Titanic had gone down we saw nothing but a sheet of yellow scum and a solitary log. There was not a body, not a thing to indicate that there had been a wreck. The sun was shining brightly then, and we were near to the Carpathia.”
Mrs. K. T. Andrews, of Hudson, N. Y., a first class passenger on the Titanic, said:
“When our boat was away from the Titanic there was an explosion and the Titanic seemed to break in two. Then she sank, bow first. Just before this, I saw Mr. Astor, Mr. Thayer and Mr. Case standing on deck. They were smiling and as we went off they waved their hands.”
Thomas Whitley, a waiter on the Titanic, who was sent to a hospital with a fractured leg, was asleep five decks below the main saloon deck. He ran upstairs and saw the iceberg towering high above the forward deck of the Titanic.
“It looked like a giant mountain of glass,” said Whitley. “I saw that we were in for it. Almost immediately I heard that stokehold No. 11 was filling with water and that the ship was doomed. The water-tight doors had been closed, but the officers, fearing that there might be an explosion below decks, called for volunteers to go below to draw the fires.