TITANIC WRECK.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1424, 26 April 1912, Page 5

TITANIC WRECK.

» TWO OFFICERS EXAMINEDFARCICAL PROCEEDINGS. QUARTERMASTER IN CUSTODYMR. ISMAY UNWILLING TO LEAVE THE SHIP. I By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright, (lice./ April 25, !U0 p.m.) Washington, April 25. Lowe, the fifth officer, in his evidence stated that tho collision did not awaken him. Senator Smith asked him if he was intemperate. Lowe indignantly denied this. Senator Smith said he was obliged to ask tho question because a uoto had just been passed up which stated that it was reported that Mr. Lowe was drinking on the night of the disaster. Mr. Lowe: That is impossible, as I am a total abstainer. When he. awoke he found the boats being prepared, the vessel tipping at an angle of fifteen degrees. The only confusion was due to passengers interfering with the lowering gear of tho lifeboats. Otherwise tho discipline was excellent. He told one passenger, who was excitedly saying "Lower away": "If you went to hell wo would get tho boats away." The passenger stepped back, and ho afterwards learnt it was Mr. Ismay. Mr. Ismay's fault -was that he was overanxious. He was helping all he could. NO DISCRIMINATION. When no more women came forward the male passengers were put in tho boats; there was no discrimination between classes, or against stewardesses. One lifeboat was launched with forty passengers because ho was unable to find anyone waiting to go. The passengers seemed not to care to get into the boats, and there was no time to drag the women from their husbands. Oho Italian, with a shawl over his head, sneaked into a boat full of women and children. After the Titanic sank he waited near the edge of tho scene until the cries ceased. Then he transferred his passengers to other boats, and called for volunteers to row back to the wreckage. He had forty-five in his boat when the Cnrpathia picked them up, including twenty-one from a collapsible. It would have been suicidal to take the boat into the struggling mass.

MR. ISMAY'S RESCUE. Mr. Lightoller, second officer, was recalled. He stated that when ho saw Mr. Israay on the Carpathia lie seemed obsessed with the idea that ho should have gone down with the ship, as women had been drowned. Ho had to Teceivo medical attention. The chief officer actually put Mr. Ismay into (lie boat, telling him there were no more women to go. Mr. Lowe, in further evidence, stated ho was afraid to crowd his boat lest it should break in the davits. Ho sawItalian steerage passengers during the lowering of the boats glaring like wild beasts over the railings, ready to spring. He fired his revolver time©"to frighten them. QUARTERMASTER'S EVIDENCE. Hitchings, one of the Titanic's quartermasters who was served with a subpoe.ia aboard the Celtic in New York/arrived at Washington in custody. Hitchins denied that when the passengers asked that his boat should return and rescue the drov.ning, ho said: "We're not going back aft?r those stiffs." Nevertheless, it was impossible to return.