Henry Freeman and his wife were to spend two months abroad, visiting their old home in England. Freeman was head of the blacksmith department of the Allis-Chalmers Company and was to transact company business abroad. He refused to run for re-election as alderman of West Allis, Wisconsin, in April, because of his contemplated trip abroad. He was president of Common Council and one of the directors of the First National Bank of West Allis.
P. C. Averdierck and A. G. Brandon, of Manchester, England, had been in New York for several days regulating the business of the American Thread Company, the American branch of Jones, Crewdson & Youatt, of Manchester, and were returning on the ill-fated steamer.
George C. Richards, president of Lower Vein Coal Company, of Terre Haute, Indiana, was born in England in 1843, and took a degree in geology and mineralogy at the Bristol School of Mines. Mrs. Richards, daughter of Ben J. Street, Sheffield, England, came to America in 1879.
CHAPTER XII
List of Survivors and Roll of the Dead
MANY and varied were the reports of the numbers lost and saved in the great disaster; but the final official figures were as follows:
| Total Sailing | Rescued | Dead | |
| First Class | 87 | 36 | 51 |
| Second Class | 256 | 47 | 209 |
| Third Class | 717 | 140 | 577 |
| Crew | 415 | 174 | 241 |
| Total | 1,475 | 397 | 1,078 |
The lists of survivors and dead have been compiled from all available sources.