TITANIC DISASTER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10634, 13 May 1912, Page 5

TITANIC DISASTER

CHIEF BAKER'S EVIDENCE

EXPERIENCES RELATED.

"(Received Last Niglit, 5.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, May 11

Jonathan, the I'hicF baker on the 'ff!ita.n:c, save evidence that whole- the .vessel was striking ne threw fifty deck chairs ovfirboa-rd. He- then- went to the pantry and drank half a tumbler of kquer." Suddenly tin;re was a '"'.-eraoh. a'.ul t'h? ship buckled. People scurried to get to- the poop. The .ship gave a- lurch,, and even one were pitched down, r.i.:d fell in a-miic;, hundreds .Hieing r'Mcd upon oa-i'h nth,?!'. ■ -Job-ir.'-'hr.!:!- managed t-> clutch the rail wb:-n tl:-.j v-ci.if.cl plunged. He il'ouiicl ' ibjinsc-'lf in. i-lie watarjEa-fcly. with a belt on. F:o padtTal. s> l :ont 'till daybreak, Vwihe-n he reac'hed a colvaipcible, "" which Mr Lightolkr and twe'nty-five nri?-n- -were- rtr/ui'iTig: "T'lic-ro w»* no 'room, and Jonathan was pushed away. He swam, round to the opposite side, when Mevnarcl. t'h? cook, 'recognised 3iim, and supported l>:'-m until the hte'--ihoait rescued them. MR BRUCE ISMAY. ARRIVES AT LIVERPOOL. LOUDLY BY A-S-SEM- , ) BLAGE, (ißlcceived La ft Night. 5.5 o'clock.) LOFTON. May 11. •Mir Bruce Iswry, hi-ad of the White 'Stair Company, lias arrived,at Liverpool. - IHe was loudly cheered by a largo p>ssorcW:ag.?'.