TITANIC INQUIRY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 5

TITANIC INQUIRY.

SIMPLY WAITING FOR DEATH, | SIXTV MINUTES ON THE POOP, A THOUSAND IN THB WATER. r By Telejriph—Prom Association—OopyricM fltoc. May 10, 10.30 p.m.) ' j London, May 10. The inquiry into the wreck of the j Titanic by the special Admiralty Court . was resumed. 1 Dillon, a trimmer, described the sixty s minutes' wait on the poop for tho Titanic j to eink. Inhere was no commotion, they j were eimply waiting for death. Dillon | Baid ho wm eucked down two fathoms, and then he Beomed to get lifted, up. Ho estimated that there wore a thousand people in the water, but he 6aw no women. A boat picked him up, but ho was unconscious. Hendrickson, a fireman, in Wβ evidence, Baid that he and five other firemen and j two eeamen were aboard tho emergency boat with Sir Cosmo and Lndy Duff-Gor-don, and three others. They were two hundred yards from the Titanic when sho • eank. They heard tho agonising cries, 5 end he urged them to go back, but Lady ' Duff-Gordon said that if they returned " tho boat would be swamped. Sir Cosmo' ! Duff-Gordon supported his wife'e protest. ' Not going to help tho drowning was duo 1 to Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon's protest. When ' the Carpathia was sighted, Sir Cosmo Duff- ' Gordon promised to reward them, and afterwards gave the crew five pounds apiece. Counsel suggested that the boat was intended for forty, but Hc-ndriekson disagreed with the suggestion. Johnson, a steward, was Qboard the fourth officer's boat, which got full. He said the wreck was half to three-quarters of a mile away when they hoard the cries of distress. The officer iiskcd : "Shall wo go back?" but the ladies Teplied, "No, it is dangerous." (Rcc. May 10, 10.30 p.m.) New York, May 10. Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff-Gordon have jailed for England.