SALVATIONISTS BRAVE TO THE END
“Those of the Salvation Army who reached the deck after the collision made no outcries,” he said. “None of them seemed afraid, and I heard only a low moan from one woman. There was no trampling of children on the part of any one on the ship that I saw. Of course, in the rush to the deck every one wanted to get up, but many helped others on the way. There was no great excitement.
“We didn’t know for hours after the wreck how many of our party had been saved. All I had on when I reached the rescue ship was an undershirt and a piece of canvas, and I didn’t have the latter until some hours after the accident. One of our men was upon two different pieces of wreckage before being picked up by a boat. One woman, Mrs. Greenaway, on being pulled into a boat exclaimed, ‘Why did you save me? Tom is gone!’ When she was taken to shore she found that Tom had been saved. Husband and wife were reunited. Tom Greenaway had sent her up to the deck and waited to dress. When he got on deck he could not find his wife, and thinking she was dead said, ‘I don’t want to live,’ He clung to the railing as the ship went down. The water tore him loose and he rose to the surface. A table floated under him. Thinking it was not intended he should die he hung on and was picked up to find that his wife Margaret had also been saved.