FURTHER ACCOUNTS

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 26, 20 April 1912, Page 5

FURTHER ACCOUNTS

SPEED CHARACTERISED AS CRIMINAL. AFFECTING SCENES AT PARTING i THE WORLD'S ACCOUNT. (Received April 20, 10.30 a.m.) N.EW YORK, April 19. The World publishes passengers' details as follows: Au iceberg eighty feet high was sighted a quarter of a mile away. When the crash came the engines were stopped and the bulkheads wer.e closed almost; siniultianeously by levers Prom the bridge. Captain Smith ordered all to take to 'life-savers and the boats were lowered. The first contained more males, as they were the firstrto .reach the deck. When the women and children appeared the rule' that women should go first was strictly observed. The officers drew revolvers, hut dad not use the min most eases. The impact made a hole in the starboard side, admitting ice iand water, and causing an explosion of the boilers, which broke the ship in two. Mrs Astor liazily raniemibers when amidst the confusion dbout being placel in a 'boat, flier- husband stood nt her sid«. She had no knowledge ofHow he died* . ■* f

] TITANIC 6. Thayer Strausse arid his wife are missing. Mrs Dodge was saved. Mrs Lucing Smith, daughter of Congressman Hughes, and her Irasband are missing. The extreme secrecy in withholding details is severely commented upon. The . Gairip&thia, refused to take cruisers' wireless messages l or supply informatioil. Commenting on the Titanic's wireless knowledge of the proximity of ice, the New York Times says she did not avoid that region, hut steamed: on at a high speed tha4> was not merely imprudent or reckless, but was criminal. TITANIC 7. Mrs Edgar J. Meyer, of New York, daughter of Andrew Says (a. prominent New Yorker), lost her husband. She pleaded with her husband to allow her to remain with him, hut lie threw her into a. life-boat, reminding her of their nine-year-old child at home. Mrs Marvin, who. w,as on her lionevmoon, was prostrated when she learned ashore that her hush and was drowmed. As he placed her in the life-boat he exclaimed, "It's all right, little girl; you go and I will stop." When the l>oat was shoved off he threw her«, kiss; that was the fast she saw of him. Mr Stead was last seen on deck near the smoke-rooiin; another account states that he jumped, overboard after the boats left.