MINING OF KING EDWARD VII

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 12 January 1916, Page 5

MINING OF KING EDWARD VII

A SURVIVOR'S ACCOUNT. ENTIRE ABSENCE OF PANIC. ; • ..O V-«r.-i, S'i . <■? Hut.. OFFICERS* SPLENDID EXAMPLE. (Rec.., Jan. 12, ialrti.)'. s. , . , liONDON, ■ Jan. 11j>. v A survivor from the battleship .<* [King Ed-ward VII. states that'th disasters occurred on Thursday; at 11 in-'the mo»n4 ing. The weather, "Wa3'moderate") the wind was high. • All- Moors were' (closed. The - shock.. lights, and N it was some time before other; lights were going- ■ every' (boat was got out within'half an hour. Meanwhile a collier came up,-and ..began to tow the battleship, and an hour later four destroyers responded to th'o wireless appeals and took a tow ;' jbuthjeavy. seas- sprang -up, rendering towing,! diflffc cult and dangerous. First ono -hawser, and then another parted' until all were gone. * ' ; ' '•■■'- .Jw' 1 ;^- The captain, at 3 o'clock,:*:. seeing *fr was hopeless to save. tlia. ship-, otdMeq) every man to save himself and, at the same time ordered the destroyers to stand alongside. ~,.,. _* The stokers remained at their-posis until the last, keeping the dynamos going? All were got off safely by six o'clock, and the captain left the hridgo at 7.30. Ten minutes later'the" b&ttle- , ship disappeared ■.. -".i-'- ,: - > . . There was an entire albsence of panic, the officers setting a splendid exampl ■.