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747 SAW THE TITANIC SINK WITH 1,595, HER BAND PLAYING;
HIT ICEBERG AT 21 KNOTS AND TORE HER BOTTOM OUT;
'I'LL FOLLOW THE SHIP,' LAST WORDS OF CAPT. SMITH.
MANY WOMEN STAYED TO PERISH WITH HUSBANDS

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Rescue Ship Arrives --- Thousands Gather At the Pier.  
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FOUR BODIES BROUGHT IN
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206 of the Crew and 4 Officers Are Among Those Rescued.
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THREE LIFEBOATS LOST
Two Filled with Women Were Drawn Under and One Was Swamped.
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SURVIVORS HURRIED AWAY
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Many Among Then ill as a Result of Long Hours Spent in Open boats.
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MOW BRUCE ISMAY ESCAPED
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Several Versions of This---One Is that He Was Persuaded by Women in a Lifeboat to Go.
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 The Cunard liner Carpathia not only a rescue ship. but a hospital ship as well steamed slowly up the harbor last night and ??????

Fourteenth Street and North River at 9:35 o'clock. She brought with her the first definite authentic news which has been received since Monday of the sinking early on that morning of the giant White Star Liner Titanic, the biggest steamship afloat.

                For hours the pier to which she made fast echoed with the shrieks of women and even of men, who seemed driven

temporally insane by their experiences of the last few days. But finally these facts were learned from the rescue ship:

                The sinking Titanic carried with her to death 1,395 persons.

                Those who were rescued number just 745.

                More than this number were picked up from the Titanic’s boats and from pieces of wreckage to which they clung but four died of exposure after having been transferred to the Carpathta and were buried at sea.

                Of the 745 who reached here last night 210 were members of the crew, most of then stewards and firemen Only four officers were saved.

Two Versions of today's escape.

                A great deal of interest among the crowds awaiting to greet survivors centred in how J. Bruce Ismay left the Titanic. Various tales of his going were told. one having it that he was a passenger In Lifeboat 1.

                In this boat also were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Duff Gordon and only nine other persona. and some of the survivors

spoke of It last night at "The Millionaires' Special." It was said that Mr. Ismay later had the crew of this boat

photographed aboard the Carpathia and that he liberally rewarded them.

                Another version, according to a statement said to have been made by M. Cardesa of Philadelphia In the lobby of the Rits-Carlton last night, was that Mr. lsmay had been persuaded to enter one of the lifeboats by the women who had already embarked in It.

                The hardships of those who were rescued were extreme. Dozens of women! were taken from the Carpathla last night ill and almost deranged for the Moment

Band Played As Titanic Sank.

Survlvors said that the lifeboats in which they floated for hours were not stocked with food or water and that this  added greatly to the hardship which the exposure to rain and cold

                Two of the lifeboats which put off from the 'Titanic were sucked beneath the waves by the sinking of the giant liner. Another, loaded, a were the other two, with passengers, mostly women, was swamped as she tried to get away from the Titanic

                Many persons were picked up by the lifeboats after the Titanic had sank.

                The big steamship want down with the band playing "Autumn." Every soul remaining aboard the vessel had

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  THRILLING STORY BY TITANIC'S SURVIVING WIRELESS MAN

Bride Tells How He and Phillips Worked and How He Finished a Stoker Who Tried to Steal Phillip's Life Belt -- Ship sank to tune of "Autumn"
BY HAROLD BRIDE SURVIVING WIRELESS OPERATOR OF THE TITANIC

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Col. Astor Went Down Waving Farewell to His Bride
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SOME STORIES OF PANIC
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Others Say Order Was Maintained -- Mrs. Straus Clung to Husband's Side.
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SHOCK CALLED "SLIGHT JAR"
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Card Playing Continued In the Cabin and None Realized the End Was Near,
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SOME HEARD SHOTS FIRED
A False Rumor of Captain's Suicide and of Shooting of Men Rushing for Boats.
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MEN LEAPED INTO THE SEA
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Col. Gracie Saved Another with Himself -- Says Titanic Did Not Blow Up.
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                In a clear starlit night that showed a clear. deep blue sea for miles and miles the Titanic, an hour after she had struck a submerged iceberg at full speed and head on. sank slowly to her ocean grave. The bottom of the big ship had been ripped open. Her band, lined on deck. was playing pleasant music as she sank in full view of the boatloads of her wretched survivors. and those left of her passengers and crew fully two-thirds--stood quietly and resigned on deck. awaiting the final plunge. The bow went under first and then the huge hulk slowly settled until she stood nearly upright, with 15 feet showing out of water.  There she hung, a fascinating but fearful spectacle, and then dropped slowly out of sight.

Captain Refused to Be Rescued.

                Capt. Smith died a hero's death. The unwritten law of the sea. which holds with tradition's force all the men who go down to the sea in ships, had cast its spell about him while his great craft was plunging to her doom.

                It was left to a fireman of the Titanic to tell the story of the death of Capt. Smith and the last message he left behind him. This man had gone down with the vessel and was clinging to a piece of wreckage about half an hour before he finally joined several  members of the Titanic's company on the bottom of a boat which was floating among other wreckage.

Harry Senior the fireman, with his eight or nine companions in distress, had just managed to get a firm hold on the upturned boat when they saw the Titanic rearing preparatory to her final plunge. At that moment. according to the fireman's story, Copt. Smith Jumped into  the sea from the promenade deck of the Titanico with an infant clutched tenderly in his arms.

It only took a few strokes to bring him to the upturned life boat, where a dozen hands were stretched out to take the little child from his arms and drag him to safety.

                “Capt. Smith was dragged on the upturned boat," said the fireman. "he had on a life buoy and a life preserver. He clung there a moment and then he, slid off again- For a second time he was dragged from the icy water. Then he took off his life preserver. tossed the life buoy on the Inky waters and slipped into the water again with the words:

"I will follow the ship"

                At that time there was only a circle of troubled water and some wreckage to show the spot where the biggest of all ocean steamers had sunk out of sight

                Among those who remained on the shlp ware at least six women who, passengers to go into the lifeboat, had resolutely refused, preferring to meet death hand in hand with the husbands who could not accompany them and share life with them more.

                  On deck, leaning over the rail and waving his band to his bride of not many months ago, stood John Jacob Astor. His wife arrived here safely last night and is now at her home, 840 Fifth Avenue.

                While utterly exhausted from her severe experiences, she was declared by Nicholas Biddle, a Trustee at the Astor estate. to be in no danger.  Her physi –

(This statement was dictated by Mr. Bride to a  reportor for THE NEW YORK TIMES, who visited  him with Mr. Marconi in the wireless cabin of the Carpathia a few minutes after the steam ship touched her pier.)
(Copyright, 1912. by The  New York Times Company )

In the first place, the public should not blame anybody because more wireless messages about the  disaster to the Titanic did not reach shore from the Carpathia. I positively refused to send press dispatches because the bulk of personal messages with touching words of grief was so large. The wireless operators aboard the Chester got all they asked for. And they were wretched operators.

They knew Amcrican Morse but not Continental Morse sufficiently to be worth while. They taxed our endurance to the limit.

                I had to cut them out at last, they were so insufferably slow, and go ahead with our messages of grief to relatives. We sent 119 personal messages to-day, and 50 yesterday.

                When I was dragged aboard the Carpathia 1 went to the hospital at first. I stayed there for ten hours. Then somebody brought word that the Carpathia's wireless operator was "getting queer" from the work. They asked me if I could go up and help. I could not walk. Both my feet were broken or something, I don't know what. I went up on crutches with somebody helping me.  I took the key and I never left the wireless cabin after that. Our meals were brought to us. We kept the wireless working all the time. The navy operators were a great nuisance. I advise them all to learn the Continental Morse and learn to speed up in it if they ever expect to be worth their salt. The Chester's man thought he knew it, but he was as slow as Christmas coming.

                We worked all the time. Nothing went wrong. Sometimes the Carpathia man sent and sometimes I sent. There was a bed in the wireless cabin. I could sit on it and rest my feet while sending sometimes.

                To begin at the beginning, I joined the Titanic at Belfast. I was born at Nunhead, England, 22 years ago, and joined the Marconi forces last July. I first worked on the Hoverford, and then on the .Lusitania. I joined the Titanic at Belfast.

Asleep When Crash Came.

I didn't have much to do aboard the Titanic except to relieve Phillips from midnight until some time in the morning, when he should be through sleeping. On the night of the accident I was not sending, but was asleep. I was due to be up and relieve Phillips earlier than usual. And that reminds me -- If it hadn't been for a lucky thing, we never could have sent any call for help.

                The lucky thing was that the wireless broke down early enough for us to fix it before the accident.

                We noticed something wrong on Sunday and Phillips and I worked seven hours to find it. We found a "secretary" burned out, at last,

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and repaired it just a few hours before the iceberg was struck.                 Phillips said to me as he took the night shift. "You turn in, boy, and get some sleep, and go up as soon as you can and give me a chance. I'm all done for with this work of making repairs."                 There were three rooms in the wireless cabin. One was a sleeping room, one a dynamo room, and one an operating room. I took off my clothes and went to sleep in bed. Then I was conscious of waking up and hearing Phillips sending to Cape Rice.  I read what he was sending. It was  traffic matter.

I remembered how tired he was and I got out of bed without my clothes on to relieve him. I didn't even feel the shock. I hardly, knew it had happened after the Captain had come to us. There was no jolt whatever.

I was standing by Phillips telling him to go to bed when the Captain put  his head in the cabin.

" We've struck an ice berg," the Captain said, " and I'm having an inspection made to tell what it    has done for us. You better get ready to send out a call for assistance. But don't send it until I tell you."

                The Captain went away and in 10 minutes, I should estimate  the time he came back. - We could hear a terrible confusion outside, but there was not the least thing to indicate that there was any trouble. The wireless was working perfectly.

                "Send the call for assistance." ordered the Captain, barely putting his head in the door.

                "What call should I send?" Phillips asked.

                "The regulation international call for help. Just that."

                Then the Captain was gone. Phillips began to send "C.Q.D." He flashed away at it and we joked while he did so. All of us made light of the disaster.

Joked at Distress Call.

                We joked that way while he flashed signals for about five minutes. Then the Captain came; back.

                "What are you sending? " he asked.

                " C. Q. D.," Phillips replied.

                The humour of the situation appealed to me. I cut in with a little remark that made us all laugh, including the Captain.

                “Send ' S. O. S.” I said. "it's the new call, and it may be yours last chance to send it."

                Phillips with a laugh changed the signal to "S. O.S.' The Captain told us we had been struck amidships, or just back of amidships. It was ten minutes, Phillips told me, after he had noticed the ' Iceberg, that the slight jolt that was the collision's only signal to us occurred. We thought we were a good distance away.

                We said lots of funny things to each other in the next few minutes. We picked up first the 'steamship Frankfurd. We gave her our position and said we had struck an iceberg and needed assistance. The Frunkfurd operator when away to tell his Captain.

He came back and we told him we were sinking by the head.  By that time we could observe a distinct list forward.

                The Carpathia answered our

signal. We told her our position ,and said we were sinking by the head. The operator went to tell the Captain, and in five minutes returned and told us that the Captain of the Carpathia was putting about and heading for us.

Great Scramble on Deck.

                Our Captain had left us at this time and Phillips told me to run and tell him what the Carpathia had answered. I did so, and I went through an awful mass of people to his cabin. The decks were full of scrambling men and woman. I saw no fighting, but I heard tell of it.   I came back and heard Phillips giving the Carpathia fuller directions. Phillips told me to put on my clothes. Until that moment I forgot that I was not dressed.

I went to my cabin and dressed. I brought an overcoat to Phillips. It was very cold. I slipped the overcoat upon him while he worked.

                Every few minutes Phillips would send me to the Captain with little messages. They were merely telling how the Carpathia was coming our way and gave her speed.

                I noticed as I came back from one trip that they were putting off women and children in lifeboats. I noticed that the list forward was increasing.

                Phillips told me the wireless was growing weaker. The Captain came and told us our engine rooms were taking water and that the dynamos might not last much longer. We sent that word to the Carpathia.

                I went out on deck and looked around. The water was pretty close up to the boat deck. There was a great scramble aft, and how poor Phillips worked through it I don't know.

                He was a brave man. I learned to love him that night and I suddenly felt for him a great reverence to see him standing there sticking to his work while everybody else was raging about. I will never live to forget the work of Phillips for the last awful fifteen minutes.

                I thought it was about time to look about and see if there was anything detached that would float. I remembered that every member of the crew had a special life belt and ought to know where it was. I remembered mine was under my bunk. I went and got it. Then I thought how cold the water was.

                I remembered I had some boots and I put those on, and an extra Jacket and I put that on. I saw Phillips standing out there still sending away, giving the Carpathia details of just how we were doing

We picked up the Olympic and told her we were sinking by the head and were about all down. As Phillips was sending the message I strapped his life belt to his back. I had already put on his overcoat.

                I wondered if I could get him into his boots. He suggested with a sort of laugh that I look out and see if all the people were off in the boats, or if any boats were left, or how things were.

The Last Boat Left.

I saw a collapsible boat near a

funnel and went over to it. Twelve men were trying to boost it down to the boat deck. They were having an awful time. It was the last boat left. I looked at it longingly a few minutes. Then I gave them a hand, and over she went. They all started to scramble in on the boat deck, and I walked back to Phillips. I said the last raft had gone.

Then came the Captain's voice: "Men, you have done your full duty.       You can do no more. Abandon your cabin.     Now it's every man for himself.    You look out for yourselves.                I release you.                That's the way of it at this kind of a time.                Every man for himself."

I looked out. The boat deck was awash. Phillips clung on sending and sending. He clung on for about ten minutes or maybe fifteen minutes after the Captain had released him. The water was then conning into our cabin.

                While he worked something happened I hate to tell about. I was back in my room getting Phillips's money for him, and as I looked out the door 1 saw a stoker, or somebody from below decks, leaning over Phillips from behind. He was too busy to notice what the man was doing. The man was slipping the life belt off Phillips's back.

                He was a big man, too. As you can see, I am very small. I don't know what it was I got hold of. I remembered in a flash the way Phillips had clung on -- how I had to fix that life belt in place because he was too busy to do It.

                I knew that man from below decks had his own life belt and should have known where to get it.

                I suddenly felt a passion not to let that man die a decent sailor's death. I wished he might have stretched rope or walked a plank. I did my duty. I hope I finished him. I don't know. We left him on the cabin floor of the wireless room and he was not moving.

Band Plays in Rag-Time.

                From aft came the tunes of the band. It was a rag-time tune, I don't know what, Then there was "Autumn." Phillips ran aft and that was the last I ever saw of him alive.

                I went to the place I had seen the collapsible boat on the boat deck, and to my surprise I saw the boat and the men still trying to push it off. I guess there wasn't a sailor in the crowd. They couldn't do it. I went up to them and was just lending a hand when a large wave came awash of the deck.

                The big wave carried the boat off. I had hold of an oarlock and I went off with It. The next I knew I was in the boat.

                But that was not all. I was in the boat and the boat was upside down and I was under it.  And I remember realizing I was wet through, and that whatever; happened must not breathe, for I was under water.

                I knew I had to fight for it and I did. How l got out front under the boat I do not know, but 1 felt a breath of air at last.

                There were men all around me  -- hundreds of them. The sea was dotted with them, all depending on

their life belts. I felt I simply had to get away from the ship. She was a beautiful sight then.

                Smoke and sparks were rushing out of her funnel. There must have been an explosion, but we had heard none. We only saw the big stream of sparks. The ship was gradually turning on her nose --just like a duck does that goes down for a dive. I had only one thing on my mind -- to get away from the suction. The band was still playing. I guess all of the band went down.

They were playing "Autumn" then. I swam with all my might. I suppose I was 150 feet away when the Titanic, on her nose, with her after-quarter sticking straight up in the air, began to settle slowly.

Pulled Into a Boat

                When at last the waves washed over her rudder there wasn't the least bit of suction I could feel. She must have kept going just so slowly as she had been.

                1 forgot to mention that besides the Olympic and Carpathia we spoke some German boat,- I don't know which, and told them how we were. We also spoke the Baltic. 1 remembered those things as I began to figure what ships would be coming toward us.

                I felt after a little while, like sinking.  I was very cold. I saw a boat of some kind near me and put all my strength into an effort to swim to it. It was hard work. I was all done when a hand reached out from the boat and pulled me aboard. It was our same collapsible. The same crowd was on it.

                There was just room for me to roll on the edge. I lay there not caring what happened. Somebody sat on my legs. They were wedged in between slats and were being wrenched. I had not the heart left to ask the man to move. It was a terrible sight all around -- men swimming and sinking.

                I lay where I was, letting the man wrench my feet out of shape. Others came near. Nobody gave them a hand. The bottom-up boat already had more men than it would hold and it was sinking.

                At first the larger waves splashed over my clothing. Then they began to splash over my head and I had to breathe when I could.

As we floated around on our capsized boat and I kept straining my eyes for a ship's lights, somebody said, "Don't the rest of you think we ought to pray?" The man who made the suggestion asked what the religion of the others was. Each man called out his religion. One was a Catholic, one a Methodist, one a Presbyterian.

                It was decided the most appropriate prayer for all was the Lord's Prayer. We spoke it over in chorus with the man who first suggested that we pray as the leader.

Some splendid people saved us.

                They had a right-side-up boat, and it was full to its capacity. Yet they came to us and loaded us all into it. I saw some lights off in the distance and knew a steam-ship was coming to our aid.

I didn't care what happened. I just lay and gasped when I could and felt the pain in my feet. At last the Carpathia was alongside and the people were being taken up a rope ladder. Our boat drew near and one by one the men were taken off of it.

One Dead on the raft

One man was dead.  I passed him and went to the ladder, al -

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  1,595 Went to Death on the Titanic.        

      NUMBER ABOARD                            THE SAVED                
First Class  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  330      First Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   210
Second Class . . . . . . . . . . .  320      Second Class . . . . . . . . . . . .   125
Third Class  . . . . . . . . . . . .  780      Third Class  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   200
Officers and Crew  . . . . . .  940      Officers and Crew  . . . . . . .   210
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           Total  . . . . . . . . . . . 2,340                        Total  . . . . . . . . . .  745

           Of the members of the crew saved, 4 were officers, 39 seamen, 96 stewards and 71 firemen.