STUCK TO HIS POST.
HOW THE WIRELESS OPERATOR DIED. HIS LAST CALL. (Rec. April 21, 5.5 p.m.) New York, April 20. Mr. Phillips, tlio wireless operator on the Titanic:, stuc); to his post until the dynamo ceased working ami water invaded the room. "With Mr. Bride, his assistant, he was trashed overboard*
Mr. Bride, who was picked up, and is among tho saved, had both his feet injured. Hβ bore testimony to Mr. Phillips's courage. He strapped a lifebelt on Mr. Phillip3 while tho latter was informing the Olympic that tho Titanio was sinking. The water was then entering the wireless room. A stoker attempted to remove Mr. Phillips's belt, but Mr. Brido knocked him down. Mr. Phillips went to the after-bridge, and was clinging to it as he (Mr. Bride) wns washed overboard. The sea was dotted with people who wore- depending on thoir lifebelts. Another witness states that he saw Mr. Phillips die on a. raft from exposure. Mr. Comtan, the wireless operator on the Carpathia, states that Mr. 'Phillips's last message was: "Como quickly. The engine-room is filling to the boilers."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 22 April 1912, Page 5
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184STUCK TO HIS POST. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 22 April 1912, Page 5
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