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A "TTHTfallE EXPLOSION." NOTHING WAS SAVED. SENATORS RECALL IfflWIEOILL GRAND MEMORIAL MANY LIVES LOST PILOT OF TITANIC PASSES SENATE TO TITANIC DEAD WITHOUT DEBUTE IITIEMPITIL OF MISSISSIPPI

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DJBECT PRIMARIES NEXT TBIBUTE TO 3IAJ. BDTT FEVER BREAKS OUT PETTY OFFICER WILL COME HERE rv & ,. . "3vsLrHissssssi OTHERS GIVE TESTIMONY Bristow Insists. Presidential Totes Prominent Business Men of Wash Army Surgeon Sent by Department WITH TO -, for District --Be Taken Up- ington in Heartfelt Sympathy to Inaugurate Sanitary Measures sBHIIIIIIIslH'K'J Monday. with Movement. in Stricken. Districts. New York, April 20 The Senate committee appointed to investi- - Containing only one amendment by closed of unearthing develop Costing dollars, New Orleans, April 30. Harassed on gate the sinking of the liner Titanic a day commission Is given the right at'Ieast ha!f,amlllton which the and for which Congress will be asked to all sides by the mighty Mississippi, which by having Quartermaster Hichens, of the to hold public hearings, the public util ments of supreme importance appropriate COO.000. - national N monu at the present time Inundates twelve Itles bill, giving the District Commission the outgoing liner Lapland at Sandy Hook and ment will be erected to the memory of prosperous villages In Mississippi near Titanic, taken from era the authority of a public service com- Archjbald-W- . to Presi- Greenville, and handicapped by lack of passed Senate jesterday aft MaJ. .Butt, aid brought back to this city under a subpoena. mission, the and hundreds of other cour- money and facilities with which to battle ernoon by a, voce vote, une dent Taft with 181 other members suss: viva oiu ageous men who their lives the water which Is sweeping over their Hichens had started for Southhampton represented the redrawn amendment to TisvxjSEORGE, surrendered MRS. T. IV. CAVETDISH, women children-aboar- we very homes, the people of Greenville to- vessel, having been released by the com- tbe original measure as Introduced by that the and of the crew of the Daughter of Henry Siegel. the millionaire Titanic might be night have sent out countless messages Senator Galllnger It was passed with sved. every spurce. calling for aid. officers and members the ship's crew had been brought In on John Hals Hammond, who was Inti to available mittee after several of merchant. She was the the approval of Senator Works of Cali Mrs. George D "Wldener. with her maid. A message recetred here saya mately acquainted MaJ. "Butt. Is examination After the Lapland had Carpathia with the rest of the survivors. fornia, who was chief opponent to the was rescued from disaster. with at least 30 000 persons are homeless, and selected to remain for further the Titanic one originators movement. In relating her experiences she said original Galllnger bill. She was returning with her husband, of the of the that many lives have been lost. Some sailed, however, Senator Alden Smith, chairman of the committee, dis- were many preparing which lis the heartfelt ot estimates place the number of dead at "There lifeboats to who wont -- down with the hundreds of Powers of Commission. is understood In 3 This, however, has not been con- new it imperative that Hichens testify. The be launched when my husband and I other heroes, trip to Paris, where the President It that covered facts which made The new bill, as passed, gives tbe Com- from a by Con- firmed. reached the deck. He ran for ope of the Philadelphia society had spent addition to tbe appropriation twenty held until a tug arrived. Hichens is missioners absolute right to determine moan gress country will be given A raging flood covers square wireless was used and the Lapland them and then my husband thrust some weeks In selecting fitting the entire In vicinity, water pouring not only the amount of stock which each a trousseau to mem miles the the wheel when the biscuits into ml hand, kissed me and. daughter, who soon an opportunity to contribute the into two bayous, and Is expected to said to have been at the Titanic's she struck berg. company owns (thereby determining the for her was to be Is lifted me into the boat. In which were married. Parisian dressmakers declare ory ot the military hero, and belief reach the levee at Greenville Before concluded hearing in New York amount of capitalization per mile, on 3200 000 additional The investigating committee its twent) three women. He kissed me again that the creation purchased by Mrs. expressed that morning and told me would be right street car and telegraph companies), but can be raised Twenty-on- e negroes are known to to-d- and subpoenaed Bruce Ismav and other officials of the White that he all Wldener and nearly entirely designed by J. authorizes the commission to consider Following suggestion MUs Mary have been drowned near Benolt Great y and joined tbe other men as we were one the of Star Line to appear before It In Wash-- the differences In stock and prevent tbe herself was of the most complete loss of life Is believed to have occurred lowered Into the water They all seemed expensive ever bought city S Hamilton, director of the Hamilton lngton at 10 30 o clock Monday morn the "Waldorf This was told by transfer from one company to another ot and la the Institute, a movement was started by In the section between Beulah and ing happy that their wives were being car- of fashion. The unequalcd collection of Greenville Harold Bride, the second wireless oper- ried safely away from the damaged ship. stock held, thereby making the corpora The "Washington Herald yesterday to All available survivors of the Titanic ator of the Titanic. He declared that as tions or the District In any way "de- finery with several thousands of dollars raise funds for the erection of a fitting "Villages re Inundated. 4 and kept calling and reassuring us that W now will be called before the committee. early as JO o'clock the Calif ornian called pendent" on each other worth of Mrs. Idener's wardrobe Is memorial. The towns or Scott. Avondale, CoL him, "Ice report." everything would be all right, that the at the bottom of the sea that ended the meeting held of Including Mrs. John Jacob Astor. with an He said that With the passage of the bill in the At a at the Chamber Wlntervllle, Choctaw, Dunlelth, Archibald Grade, and relatives of all at the time, he was busy writing a ship could not sink The next thing life of her husband, who worked heroic- Commerce a call was prepared for a Hollknowe. Helm. Elizabeth. Napanee, prominent men were lost. and Ignored was that terrible explosion, the horrible Senate It Is entirely probable that the ally In his effort to get all the women mass meeting 3 o clock "Wednesday the who that,he the call - at Stonevllle. and Lenand are several feet German Operator Riled Him. Half an hour later he heard the shrieks and the disappearing of the great House members will force Its'consldera- and children into the lifeboats before the afternoon In the rooms of the Chamber beneath water, the scantll) clad and call the Baltic, begging to give ship The we spent In tlon and require its passage within the great ship went down. for the purpose of discussing prelimi- people In some of them, being Members of the committee expressed time that small desltute her the report. He then took It, d boat after those noble, heroic men went next two weeks. This sentiment was ex nary plans for the erection of such a marooned on the roofs of their houses. to call "every man, It, the determination and gave It to the officer on down of Mr. pressed by Chairman Ben Johnson, of the memorial. A temporary organlxatlon Calls for aid In the delta counties any- bridge. were hours torture I raw hereinafter provided for. a hearing steps will woman and child" who can tell the Titanic's House District Committee. Jesterday provisions, so will be perfected, and be taken north of Vicksburg are hourly grow- so sur- Ismay when he came on board the Car which far as applicable, looking appointment ot a na- thing about the disaster The ouster) which has far Is no question" said Mr John apply to Hearings. to the ing more urgent The relief forces are ope- message, which af10 o clock pathia. He was trembling from head to There shall such The committee, which shall undertake Harold Bride assistant wireless rounded the son. corpora commission shall, within ten days tional working feverishly to send out supplies commit- Monday morning-wa- s bj Bal- foot, and kept mumbling I m Ismay Tmt what a regulation ot aft to by subscription the necessary off rator on the Titanic, told the caught the " er such valuation Is determined, serve raise before rail communication Is shut tee that the German ship tic, giving the first news of the Titanic's I'm Ismay tions In the District is one of the most funds for the memorial. In the rear of the levee are valuable wes dispelled needed laws the present rime. Whether a stateroe.pt thereof upon the public orange Frankfurt responded promptly to the late, when Harold at utility Interested, file a like Call (or Meeting. lands planted In truck, or citrus a In- 3. Cottam, wireless operator measure confers" on the Dis- and shall resulting Titanic distress signal, but that of the the Senate statement wlth.the District Committees meeting will signed groves, and an Inundation rushing to the was put on the stand and gave Commissioners powers necessary The call for the be from, crevasse In the levse will stead of the Frankfurt LICENSE ISSUED trict the in Congress " prominent" men a entail relief of the British ship, the German his testimony of the happenings that to make this power adequate Is a mooted by about fifty business a loss of many thousands of dollars, Eliminates Section. officials 'Washington. IlUodreds-o- t Uvea hun- steamers wireless operator repeatedly areaarui Sunday night. hoestlon- - which we cannot, determine untjl Mnr and of besides endangering the of was Cottam had told the .committee that he new postal Jhe'roeet-ta- 'residents. asked what the matter TITAHIG-SDRYIY- the NU has been carefully consiaerta. un- The' roeattireJettmtnates the section dreds of message OR SU. were So persistently tw nils'-- Inquiry, had sent a to the Baltic; telling questionably the vmepjyrcJUflLhe t ab- - bjrh. 8eturtorTWorks leclkred 'tdv'be which prwrcd. win be Vicksburg. iliss.. April Reports pounded ears of Phillips, the" sinking city-H- of the drowning of Into the oi the of,the Whiter star liner . Bf.M)T, ttflMilhrtbeTriKhtyad rat broadcast througbsatthe. its recelrertR5V s tioto-ln-- of rhe"Jiearlng-to--- 1 Hi? "" a persons In Bolivar County, Mis-s- when Titanic chlgyoexalorr t 1 power? of. the utilities commission. morning v dignantiy replied to tne uerman aaj, senator bmltb. Issued a formal state- l'len for Prlronrles. Jt suggestion a. the town was swept b) the flood which, la 101 sections In lei gtli. as compared That the io erect memorial "Ion are a fool" ment In which he reviewed the evidence Prior to the consldreatlon of thr bill men who died on tbe Titanic followed the collapsing" of the levees Hot 10S Galllnger bill to Slide's testimony also Indicated that! alread) acquire and declared that the English GirL Does Let Catas Senator Bristow of Kansas made a fer- to the sections of the has touched a responslv was evi- near Brulah. the FranKmrt was nearer to tne Ti- facts gathered so far are encouraging vid plea for the consideration of bis bill and the 10S sections of the bHl as Intror denced )esterda when" a 'Washington Five thousand refugees at Cleveland tanic than the Carpathia. enough to warrant going deeper into this trophe Interfere with Her duced by "Representative Oldfleld In the reporter Interviewed several have exusted practically all their food a engineer giving the District the right of a direct oy Herald Alexander Gordon former last mjstery of the seas. primarv vote when iTes,-- House and recommended benator prominent business men and clv)c work- supplies of the White Star Line declared Original Plan. Preldentlal the Works as complete amendment to the Memphis, Tenn April JO The that I.lst of "Witnesses. Identlal and "Vice Presidential votes of a ers, it as the consensus of opinion that Inlted the hlte Star officials knew as early Galllnger bill oy sud- - States neamer Stlmson. with 530 CCO He New Vork, Alxil a Saved from a the two great national parties are to be memorial should be erected as 3 50 o clock Monday morning that then read the list of witnesses Man) sections duplicating those intro scrlptlons from, all over the countrv pounds of supplies for flood sufferers, ar was sinking whom he said had alread) been ater) grave when the Titanic was sent taken duced In other places have been elimi y These supplies will b the Titanic served In his remarks Senator Bristow de It Is believed the movement to raise rived here If It shall prove necessary In order with subpoenas to Insure their attend- to the bottom by a monstrous Iceberg, nated from the new bill subscriptions should be national in char hastened to places where Immediate help to deflnitel) time the Miss Marlon Wright, Somer clared that there had been a systematic Is needed. poor are determine the ance In Washington, which Is outside of of leovll policy on acter Inasmuch as disaster Hundreds of families fetar officials in New York re- ot obstruction the part ot the starving 75 towns now are sub White the Jurisdiction of New Tork set County. England, obtained a Republican which Is one,, that )s felt eyeorwhereand not Over ceived news the Titanic regular Senators must NO" WRECKAGE N- merged. l estimated the first that Besides Ismay license for her marriage to Arthur stop reply, Senators SEE- confined to. an). iocautyjr as It that had gone down the benate iniesttgaUng and Franklin, this list In several of the - 09,000 are homeless and the loss to plan- Includes Bride. Ihe a fruit grower, ot Portland, Oreg. regular Republican faction declared Washington" Is the- Capital .of the Ration omm ttee will subpoena the officers or Titanic s operator. BY PASSING SHIP It Is conceded that the memorial should tation property reaches millions. Thou- lioth telegraph companies to produce all Cottam, the Carpathian operator C H Wolcott, who was born In England. themstlves willing immediate!) to take sands of bales of totton heM In store up the consideration of the bill be creeled here t e business that dealt witli that subject Llghtholder, second office- - II J was hurrying East to meet his fiancee H Warntr treasurer of the com houses for higher prices are ruined. scene In the dining room on when he heard the first news of the dls It was then ngreed that the District Nova April Many floated awa) when the breaks In That the third officer. J G BoxhalL fourth primary bill should come up Halifax Scotia. S The mittee which raised the funds for the fcunday night was the gajest or the e aster He did not learn that Miss with the from Longfellow the levees came All railroad traffic be- officer., and H. G Lowe fifth officer, all unfinished business and un- "White Star liner Laurcntlc Liver- memorial ald he believed It as has been persistentl) reported Wright had escaped until some Is duty of the citizens "United tween Memphis and other points to the by survivors of the Titanic time less the present strength of the Senate pool, arrived fehe. passed the the of the was confirmed late Assistant! following later, and It was not until yesterday, btates to erect a memorial to the men center of th flood districts has been w hi tie), who told ot The of the crews were sub- weakens It seems entlrel) probable that scene of the disaster, but found no off ot are Steward Thomas poenaed V. all of hos- who died on the Titanic shut Thouands of feet track tli dinne- - 7 which Perkins P Archer. W H after he had searched the It will pass. bodies. served at ocloe. at Taylor. VV washed awa) was The" might Ti- Brjce, E. Bulle). S Hem- pitals In vain, that he found her at The onb important amendment to the "We saw neither bodies nor wreck- Will Find Support. Feirlng epidemic or the general toast ming. O said that an of fever Much wine was disposed of, and F Evans, T Jones, Frank O the home of Mr and Mrs Henry Milne Senate bill on public utilities was Intro age." Capt Mathlis There were feel sure the project to erect a me other diseasei mav develop among the tanic Oemon. G Moore. H Cunningham. went to Milne s home to ask as duced b) 'Galllnger, Is as many Icebergs, towering, and huge fields I reparations had been made for a ban- F He for Senator and morial to those courageous men who died sufferers of the Mississippi Valle flood upon Klret. A Oliver. G Simmons, J Haardy. sistance In his search, and was greeted IO1I0WS of pack Ice right In the track of navi- Col It. Kean Army quet in New Tork the arrival of G Hoge on the Titanic Is one that win meet with Jefferson of the g Albert Haines, A J Crawford, at the door by his fiancee. before final determination of gation Medical Corps who up Cuba and the Titanic to celebrate the VV That hearty response and support ever) where cleaned trip the greatest ship in the Burke. E. Wheelton. F Clinch k The couple were married later at St such value the commission shall after The cable boat Macka) Bennett was Panama and conquered )ellow fever, was of Ha). G Crow, C Chapel. dis- right and proper that the world. Vndrews, J Christopher's After a few da) notice of not less than thirty das to scheduled to reach the scene of the It it memor) dispatched to the scene )esterda) sightseeing In New Tork the Wolcotta the public utility hold a public hear- aster She will proceed to New of those brave men, who. had they been Not "speed. Continued on Page Three. Col Kean s flrst stop will tie at Bowl to Redorr will leave for Oregon. ing as to such valuation In the manner Tork with any bodies found. Continued on Page Four. ing Green K) , where he will confer to The c unard Line announced that the morrow morning with the State Board of peed of their ocean greyhounds, the Health, bj arrangements made with tbe Mauretania and the Lusltanla, would not Governor of Kentuck) jesterday From be reduced on account of the accident, there he will proceed with members of J. BRUCE ISMAY TESTIFYING BEFORE INVESTIGATORS. Columbus, but that their hlps would take a more the board to Hickman. ind Increasing trip other heavily stricken points along th9 southerly course, thus the Mississippi Then he will go to New about ISO miles Madrid. Mo thence to Tlptonvllle Mem- Although Vice President Ismay brand- phis, In Ma Godfrey and other places Tennessee, to ed the stor) as absurd. , and thence on down the Peuchcn of Toronto has reiterated his Helena Ark was Mississippi In the wake of the flood a charge that the managing director tide to Vicksburg and other points where criminally negligent In not making an great suffering Is reported effort to avoid Icebergs Phyalclnn The Lapland, which left New Tork Ire &cnree. tor England, had 1.4 passengers 3jk&$ 3BBsMLlBBHBswHBflBBHtLfcSBliaDfi This action was taken b) the War on board. She Is equipped with twenty-fo- following a report from MaJ lifeboats, having a capacity of 1.S00 Miller, ti . arm surgeon In rharge. at people The Lapland was cleared as Vicksburg A few davs ago MaJ Miller O K by the Lnited States InspecUon asked for a large consignment of medical Service of the port or New Tork. supplies, which were sent He reports Scene Mondaj. th.it they have been of little benefit, r, Shifts owing to the lack of phjslclans Survivors of the Titanic disaster will A large amount of fever is reported all be taken away from all Influences which through this territory, and there Is much might hamper the freedom of the evi d)senit.r) and other ailments. It now dence they have to give, and on Monday develops b) these reports that more live morning will appear before the Senate have been, lo't by disease following ex- Investigating committee In Washington. posure end privation than by the waters This decision was reached late themselves after a session which developed surpris- Concentrate In Sioatll. ing details in the failure of the greatest Keports from the army engineers re- piece of naval construction the world ceived yesterda) Indicate t while has ever known, and which sank In are improved at Northern points, early Monday morning, carrying - they are growing worse farther south with her to death more- than 1.500 souls The flood having now assumed Its most In announcing his Intention of moving dangerous condition In the Lower Missis- the scene of the Federal probe to the sippi, the efforts of the Lngineer Corps National Capital Senator Smith saM "Washing are being concentrated In that quarter. that he has decided to call to MaJ Smith, in charge of the Memphis ton not onlv j Bruce Istna, President district, reported )fsterday that he had of the White Star Line. Vice President already spent K,000. Capt A. S. Franklin, surviving Sherrlll. In r and all the New $.-00- 0. officers of also the Orleans district, has spent the Titanic but has Capt Woodruff. In charge of the selected from the of the crew a ffviSs1BBSSSStBSBBiSSslESBBBBBS .iBiiiBBBBslBilBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl survivors "SHQEeJHL Vt iMfSlEmUIEKEEBE$S&l3?&UmKBfoSrBB&P& if Vicksburg district, has spent p3,C0O. This score of seamen whose stories of how V7BBS9BHEf expenditure the Titanic met her fate, he believes, will has bcn necessar) Tor the worth recounting men, he purchase of sacks and sandbags for the be These topping of levees, strengthening the said, were chosen as" witnesses after sides and rear slopes of levees, for sleuths In the employ of the committee to transport had wormed their way Into the confi- steamboats the material, dence of the seamen. and for labor hire witnesses, Amer- Although a large amount of work al- In additicn to these all accomplished, ican survivors of the wreck will be sub- read) has been much more poenaed as witnesses before the com- remains to be done Secretary of War mittee In "Washington Stlmson is deeply Interested and Is re- Chairman Smith. f the committee, to- ceiving detailed .telegraphic report day officially declared that, "Mrs. J J. every day from the officers In charge.' Astor will be brought before the com. mlttee provided her condition is such Provides Store Lifeboat. that sbe-ta- travel, London. April 30. All of the ocean Kntir of Icebergs. liners In. the service of the Canadian Pacific Railway will Immediately have That the Titanic' officers were cog- their quota of lifeboats Increased as a nizant that three mammoth Icebergs result of the Titanic disaster This an- menaced their pathway, and that they nouncement was made here In a, were given more than six hours' warn-t- he cablegram from the main oftce of the Sunday afternoon by the,Callfornlan, Canadian Pacific in Montreal to Its Lon- was one of the Important bits of evi- don manager dence which came out at the session aj The photograph shows the managing director of the White Star Line fitting at the end of the table, his hands- reAtingin front of him, testifying before the Senatorial investi- 9L3 Baltimore and Ttetara Best Service to California. gating committee which .went in with onlv living, survivors of the Titanic dis- Baltimore and Ohio. Standard or tourist Latter personally from Washington and began proceedings tjie daj after the Carpathia arrived, New York the Every Saturdar and Eundav Good to? conducted five times weekly "without aster. In answer to Senator Newlands' iceberg, Ir. Ismaj said: understand was- twenty-on- e return until train Monday All Washington-Sunse- question regarding the speed of the Titanic at the time it crashed into the "I it Jam. change Berth. P t -- trains, both ways. Including the Kara! route. A. J, Fonoc. SOS F 6t 70 Jith St. Knots, or a little oVer twenty-si- x milcsan hour' -. Limited.