"WOMEN FIRST."
THE ORDER STRICTLY OBSERVED
(Rec. April 20 10 a.m.) LONDON, April 19. The "World" publishes passengers' details.
These state .that an iceberg 80 feet high was sighted a quarter of a mile away. When the steamer crashed into it the engines were stopped and the bulkheads were closed almost simultaneously by levers from the bridge. Captain Smith was on the bridge, and he ordered all to take life savers. The boats lowered first contained more males as they were the first to reach the deck. When the women and children appeared the rule, "Women first," was strictly observed. The officers drew revolvers, but they were not used. There were more impacts and a hole was made in the starboard side, admitting ice and water, causing the explosion of tho boilers, which broke the. ship in two. Mistress Astor hazily remembei's when amidst the confusion about she was placed in a boat, and her husband stood by her side. She has no knowledge of how he died.
Thayer Strauss' wife is minting, Mistress Dodge was saved.
Mistress Lucing Smith, daughter of
Congressman Hughes, was rescued but her husband is missing.
The Government is in receipt of world wide messages of sympathy.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 20 April 1912, Page 5
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