HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 7

HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR

WORKED UNTIL THE LAST. DEATH FROM EXPOSURE. NEW*YORK, 20th April. Mr. Phillips, the chief wireless operator, stuck to his poet till the dynamo ceased to supply current and water invaded his room. Then, with Mr. Bride, his assistant, he was washed overboard, and Mr. Bride was saved. In telling the etory of his escape, Mr. Bride, who had both his feet injured, bore testimony to Mr. Phillips's courage. Bride strapped a. lifebelt on Phillips while the latter was informing the Olympic that -his ship was sinking and water then entering th« wireless room. A stoker attempted to remove Phillips's belt, but Bride knocked him down. Phillips went to the after bridge and clung thereto. As they were washed overboard the sea was dotted with people depending on lifebelts. Another witness stated that h« saw Phillips die on a raft from exposure. Mr. Comtun, wireless operator on the Oarpathia, states that Phillips's last message was: "Come quickly. Engineroom filling to boilers.' ENDEAVOUR TO SAVE THE MAILS POSTAL CLERKS WORK TO THE END ALL LOSE THEIR LIVES. (Received April 22, £.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 21st April. Some of the survivors state that five Postal clerks continued carrying 200 sacks of registered mails to the upper deck until the last. None of them were saved. SUPERSTITION SAVES A WOMAN REFUSED TO TRAVEL IN THE TITANIC. (Received April 22, b.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, 21st April. Superstition- caved the life of Mrs. Fison, a resident of Vancouver, who is visiting England. When reading an almanac she saw that a great sea disaster was likely to occur about the middle of 4.pril, and she refused to return, although her husband urged her to come aboard the Titanic.