ALLEGED WILD DISORDER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1912, Page 5

ALLEGED WILD DISORDER

PASSENGERS STRUGGLE FOR THE BOATS. Other accounts allege that there was wild disorder and a maniacal struggle for the boats by hysterical passengers. Passengers who would not give their namee declared that the captain and engineer committed suicide. These stories, owing to confusion on landing, could" not be confirmed. A mass of ice, it is said, ripped the Titanic s side, like a gigantic can-opener, from stem to engine room, and shortly before ehe sank the vessel broke in two abaft the engine room, carrying down hundreds of persons grouped on the decks. The cries of these were pitiable. DETERMINED TO DIE CAPTAIN SMITH'S DEATH. NEW YORK, 19th April. Im a statement to Router's correspondent one of the passengers says that Captain Smith shot himself on the bridge. Some of the officers had previously -wrested hie revolver from him in the library, but he broke away and dashed to the bridge, where he 6hot himself through the mouth. The chief engineer likewise committed suicide. The band was playing the hymn "Nearer, My Uod, to Thee" wlien the ship went down. (Received April 20, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, 19th April. Mr. Braden, a passenger, paid the captain was standing alone once, when a wave upset him. Then, as the boat eank another wave knocked him down, and ho disappeared. HOW THE~rIsCUE WAS . EFFECTED PASSENGERS' GREAT FORTITUDE FIVE WOMEN SAVED, ONLY TO DIE. LONDON, 19th April. The Carpathia sighted sixteen boats at 3 o'clock on Monday morning. The little children were hoisted aboard in bag© and adults by ropes. Some of the boats were crowded, and a few were not half full. There were husbands who were wifeless, wives who were husbandless, and children who were parentless, but not a sob was. heard. Five women died soon after the rescue, and «erb buried at sea. One died in one of the boats. The list of prominent persons who are missing is unaltered. Mrs. Candee, of Washington, had both legs broken, in getting into a lifeboat. She states that most of the men saved were picked up after they had plunged overboard, and declares that Major Butt and Colonel Astor died like heroes. AFFECTING SCENES THINLY-CLAD AND SHIVERING WOMEN THOUGHTFUL STOCK EXCHANGE MEMBERS. (Received April 20, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, 19th April. Among the most affecting scenes at the landing was the sight of the women steerage passengers, thinly clad and shivering, with eyes red with constant vveeping, whom the charitable organisations speedily succoured. Members of tho New York Stock-Ex-change brought 20,000 dollars to the dock for distribution amongst the neediest of the survivors.