THE TITANIC DISASTER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 96, 23 April 1912, Page 6

THE TITANIC DISASTER.

THE CIVILISED WORLD LOOKS FOR AH OBJECT OH WHICH TO VENT STS WRATH.

MR. ISMAY HUNG, DRAWN, AMD QUARTERED BY SN-

DISCREET AMERICANS.

DiD'HE TAKE COMMAND AND CHANGE THE ROUTE:

ALLEGED NEGLECTED WARNINGS REGARDING BERGS.

(By. Elcctrte Telegraph,—Copyright—United Press Association.)

London, April 22. The Olympic has arrived. The ■officers state that they were 500 miles from the Titanic when a wireless message was received through the Celtic. The Olympic’s stokers and engineers worked like Trojans and forced the speed to 24 knots for thirteen hours. The tension was relieved temporarily by a wireless message stating that all on board the Titanic had been saved, but the Carpathia later informed the Olympic of the truth. The Olympic then resumed her voyage. Wireless Messages cease. The Virginia states that she received a wireless message from Cape Race notifying, that' the Titanic was in danger at 12.40,. She was then 17c miles distant. The wireless messages ceased at 1.47 a.m. abruptly. Costly Pearl Necklaces. Three pearl ncckleces the property of survivors, were insured an Lloyd s for £140,000. It is believed that they were saved. Mr Isjrsay Attacked. New York, April 22.' Wild reports,' abetted by excitable members of Congress, declare that Mr Isrnay was responsible for the wreck. He virtually superseded Captain Smith and compelled him to take an unusually high, northern course and maintain an excessive speed. The Civilised World’s Wrath. Referring to Rayner’s violent attack on Mr Isrnay, Senator McCnmber, in the Senate, protested against the trial, conviction, sentencing and execution of Mr Isrnay without fair and honest consideration. When tiic feelings of the civilised world desired a victim upon whom to vent its wrath, the Senate should be particularly deliberate. ' Senator Lodge endorsed Senator McCnmber’s remarks. Alleged Neglected Warnings. Whiteley, a first-class steward, who is in the. hospital sufteringMFom frozen .feet, states that he overheard two of 'the ’ Titanic’s crow’s nest lookouts. One, he said, fifteen minutes before the collision reported to Mr Murdoch, first , officer, on the bridge, that lie fancied he saw! an iceberg. Tv icc afterwards the lookouts gave warning. Mr Murdock was most indignant. "No Wonder He Shot Himself.” No attention was paid to the warnings;: One of the lookouts added, “No wonder that Murdock shot himself.” Whiteley, while assisting to launch the lifeboats, was caught in a rope as il Uncoiled, and was thrown into the sea. , A lifebelt kept him afloat till he found an oak wardrobe, which rose to the surface after the Titanic sank. Two men dropped off exhausted. A Ghastly Opportunity. At daybreak Whitley saw a collapsible raft black with men, all . standing. He swam to it, but was not allowed on board, being told, “It’s thirty-one lives against yours!” “I prayed,” he said,- “that someonfe on the raft might die so that I might take his place. Someone did die, and I was- alloived aboard.” Afterwards those on the raft were transferred to the Titanic’s lifeboats. He believes that the lookouts are returning to England by the steamer Lapland. The Bulkhead Fetich. A deck passenger states that Andrews, one of the Titanic’s engineers, went below and reported to a group of passengers that the was torn to bits below, but would not sink if the bulkheads held. She was ripped by an underlying peak of ice, which tore many of the forward plates from the bolts. He added that it seemed impossible it could he true, and many of the group smiled. The Evidence of Bride. Bride was wheeled to the enquiry room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, owing to his crippled feet. The press protographers exploded a flashlight. The chairman protested that this was intolerable. Bride stated that he intercepted a message from the California announcing that three bergs were in the vicinity. He gave the message to the captain, who acknowledged it. The Frankfurt’S Messages. 1 Bride added that the Franfkurt was, the first vessel to answer his signals of distress. The strength of the current showed that the Frankfurt was nearer the Titanic than the Carpathia by twenty minutes, The Frankfurt’s operator wirelessed, “What’s the matter?” Captain Smith was told of the question, and said, “The fellow’s a fool.” Phillips wirelessed to the Frankfurt’s operator, “You’re a fool! Keep out of it.” Bride explained thata Phillips preferred to reply to the Carpathia, which meanwhile wirelessed that she was hastening towards the Titanic. Icebergs Discussed. Lightoller, the second officer, stated that he discussed the nearness of

the icebergs with Captain Smith, who did not tell him to slow up. Inhuman Treatment. London, April 22. Thomas McCormick is in the hospital, suffering from wounds on the head. He declared that he jumped when the Titanic was sinking, and got iiis hands on the gunwale of a lifeboat. The. members ,qf the crew struck him on the head and tore his hands loose. After repeated efforts he swam to another boat and got the same reception. Finally, two sisters, named Mary and Kate Murphy, pulled him aboard, despite the crew’s efforts. Tragedy Hard to Realise. Mrs J. Brown, wife of a Denver mine-owner, states that while things were, so informal it was difficult to realise the tragedy. Men and women talked and laughed in little groups. “I was looking at the boats,” she said, “when two men seized me and threw me in, saying ‘You’re going, too.’ After tucking the women in, many men went into the ship’s restaurant to smoke. Knowing how cold the water was I took off-my lifebelt, because in tiie event of drowning 1 did not wish to linger. I then took an oar, which kept me warm, rowing. We saved many lives. Soon a great wave came, and I knew the Titanic was gone. One man began to complain that we had no food or/ water and no compass. I called to him to he quiet or go overboard. Dawn revealed a wonderful sight. At first it was grey, but then a flood of light and a ball of red fire illuminated forty miles of icebergs,” The Relief Funds. London, April 22. The Daily Mail fund has reached £13,000, and the Daily Telegraph fund £9749. --—The- Olympic is shipping sufficient collapsible boats for all aboard. Bodies Recovered. New York, April 22. The steamer Mac Kay Bennet reports that she recovered sixty-four bodies identifiable, and others unrecognisable. They were buried at sea. The Frankfurt’s Actions. Bremen, April 22. The captain of the Frankfurt denies Bride’s statement. He states that he immediately steamed 140 miles, and arrived on the scene of the wreck at 10.40 a.m. Memorial Services. London, April 19. The Lord Mayor, members of the Cabinet, Sir William Hall-Jones, Ambassadors, shipping representatives, and 5000 others attended the memorial services at St. Paul’s and the Roman Catholic services at Westminster Cathedral. New York, April 19. Hundreds attended Mr W. T. Stead’s memorial service in the Carnegie Kail. Memorial Services General. (Received 23, 8.5 a.m.) London, April 22. A memorial service for the Titanic was held on all British battleships, also throughout Canada, South Africa, the United States! Many congregations sang “Nearer My God to Thee.” Six Hundred Families in Need. The disaster has placed six hundred families in necessitous circumstances in Southampton. . STRICT ENGLISH INQUIRY. (Received 23, 10.20 a.m.) London, April 22. Mr Buxton, in the House of Commons, said stops were being taken to constitute the strongest possible court of inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Fearless Engineers. Lord Charles Ucreafonl, in a letter to the Times, said the fact that the lights were burning a few minutes before the last plunge shows that the engineers remained at their posts for two hours after it was known that a terrible death awaited them at any minute through the .bursting of a steampipo. American Committee Condemned. Shipping circles at Liverpool are indignant at the American committee’s methods of examining Mr- Isrnay, especially by inuendoos. They emphasise that during Ids management of the White Star line ho has consistently studied the passengers’ safety and comfort. His aim in accompanying the Titanic on her maiden voyage was largely confined to that consideration. Mr Isrnay Justifies Himself. In a further statement Mr Isrnay said: “The only reason I wished the crew to return homo was for their own benefit. When wirelessly ordering their return I was not aware an

quiry was contemplated. When I entered the boat with Carter (passenger) no women or other passenger remained on deck. The disaster proved the futility of unsinkahle vessels. The present legal requirements are inadequate and must ho changed. T he owners have placed too much reliance on watertight compartments and wireless. Steamers must have lifeboats and rafts for every soul, with men to handle them.” Gaiter’s Testimony. William Carter, interviewed at Philadelphia, emphasised that injustice is j done to Mr Isrnay. The boat they cs-j caped on contained two seamen and forty steerage women and children. He continues: “Mr Isrnay, 1, and several officers walked up and down the deck for several minutes shouting, ‘Any More Women.’ There was no response. The officers then told Mr Ismay he could enter the boat if he rowed. This he did until the Carpathia was sighted.” Germans on tho Alert. (Received 23, 10.20 a.m.) Berlin, April 22. Herr Delhrnck, in the Reichstag, said the precautions for the safety of passengers were under active revision. Austria Also Alive. (Received 23, 10.20 a.m.) Vienna, April 22. Tlie Government is equipping all liners with wireless. A Sensational Stcry. (Received 23, 11.0 a.m.) London, April 22. New York newspapers report Whiteley as saying that a boat was lowered on the starboard side before the officers issued orders. It contained an American millionaire, his wife and child, two valets and seven firemen, whom they bribed, each receiving £5 when aboard the Carpathia. Unknown Orphans. Two French children, Lolo and Louis Hoffman, are among those saved. Their parents are unknown. Amateur Wireless Operators. There is a general demand in America that every liner should have adequate lifeboats and for standardisation of wireless. apparatus under Government supervision Dy marine operators. Ruthless control by amateurs'in violation of regulations was a criminal offence. Tlie confusion of the earlier stories respecting the safety of all passengers arose from the picking up of fragments of wireless messages. Cellular Sides. (Received 23, 11.35 a.m.) London, April 22. ft is Understood that the plans for the White Star gigantic liner now being built at Belfast have been altered to provide for cellular sides for the engine room and stokehold and also provide cellular sides above the water- line in other holds. Direciiom of Affairs Denied. (Received 23, 11.25 a.m.) London, April 22. Mr Isrnay emphatically declares that lie was simply a passenger and was not consulted either regarding speed or navigation. Neither did he make suggestions nor exercise his privileges. He saw the captain only occasionally and was never in Iris room nor on the bridge until after the accident. He said it was unqualifiedly false that he wished to make a record. The only infqrmatioh that ice was sighted was the Baltic’s message on Sunday, the captain informing him of this in the dveiling and posting it for officers’ information. An Elaborate Tribute. (Received 23, 11.45 a.m.) As a tribute to the memory of Mr Hays, President of tlie Grand Trunk Line, who was among the victims of the Titanic, every wheel along the line of the Grand Trunk Company in Canada and the United States will cease turning during the bourse of a memorial service to the deceased president.