GAVE ALL THEY HAD TO RESCUED PASSENGERS
“I think it was five minutes later that I heard screams and cries, and I shouted to my husband, ‘Oh, they are calling.’ At first it seemed as if the cries were coming from shore. The captain gave orders to go in that direction and proceeded very slowly. Everywhere around me now I could hear screams. My husband gave orders to send out all the life-boats, and that could not have been ten minutes after the vessels had collided.
“I gave all I had to the passengers and have only what I am standing up in. My husband gave two suits and other clothes away.
“The first woman to come on board was a Salvation Army member, clad only in her night dress. When she was brought into the cabin she ran to me and putting her arms around my neck said, ‘God bless you, angel, if you had not been here we would have gone to the bottom.’”
Mrs. Andersen went among the rescued passengers with stimulants. All the cabins were packed with shivering survivors.