7 a a Hobokea. T«»-dB.T, cloudy. 10. 1912.-«SIXTEEN" PAGES PRICE ONE CENTfa^l»wWB¿WofaíSl i70U LXXII....Na 23,896. To-«norr«i»*i, fair; we«t wind«. NEW-YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL HIT BERG Afll^KNOT SPEED CARPATHIAN STORY OF TITANIC5 L055, WITH THRILLING DETAILS OF RESCUE THE CARPATHIA, WiTH TITANIC SURVIVORS, ARRIVING AT HER DOCK LAST NIGHT. Mrs. Straus Refused to Leave Her Husband; SOME 150 PAS¬ SLUNG ON HER SIDE ARE THREE OF THE TITANIC S LIFEBOATS, FROM WHICH WERE RESCUED Butt and Colonel Astor SENGERS OF THE ILL-FATED LINER. THESE BOATS HAD TO BE LOWERED AND TOWED AWAY BEFORE Major Together THE CARPATHIA COULD BE BROUGHT ALONGSIDE THE CUXARD PIER. as Steamer Sank.Captain Smith Reported To Have Shot Himself. MEN IN I ST AND 2D CABINS CALM; ITALIANS SHOT TO KEEP ORDER Survivors Agreed That, Despite Promise to Contrary, Vessel Was Speeding, and Struck Berg on Clear Night.No Searchlights. SAVED FROM THE TITANIC.775 LOST " " " .1565 Saved. First cabin passengers . 330 . 240 Second cabin passengers 320 . ... 125 ...» 200 Steerage passengers . 750 .... Officers and crew . 940 210 2340 775 The maximum capacity of the life boats was less than one-third of the complement of the vessel in passengers and (crew, and they carried 80 per cent of their capacity away from the s-nking ship. The Cuiiard liner Carpathia reached New York last night, bringing the survivora of the wreck of the giant White Star liner Titanic, with the firs, authentic accounts of the loss of the Titanic. Among the many tragic and heroic incidents of the wreck .hat of the heroism of Mrs. Isidor Straus, who refused to he ¡saved and leave her husband to drown, stood out. Mrs. Straus was in one of the lifeboats which was about to put off from the Titanic. She railed for her husband to join her. He waved his hand in goodby and smilingly refused to boat take the pla*ce of a woman who might be saved. Before the could «be lowered into the water Mrs. Straus scrambled out and half fell at the feet of her husband. Xo urging could maku¬ the lier take a place in another boat, and she went down on Titanic with Mr. Straus. COL. ASTOR DIED BRAVELY, Colonel .lohn Jacob Astor and Major Archibald Butt ALL DARK AFTER CRASH; NUN ON BRIDGE to the stood side by side as the Titanic sank, and waved goodbv PLACE TO WOMAN on sra. RUSHING CROWD INSANE GIVING small boats hardly to be seen a mile away the starlit OF COLLIll When the order was first given for the passengers to take TELLS - Left His Bride's Side and Stepped from th< to the lifeboats Major Butt had defended the passage from a Banker, Going Top Speed. Titanio Quai the with an iron bar against the maddened rush oï the Robert W. Daniel, Philadelphia 21 Knots. 'The Ladies Will steerage termaster Savs, Lifeboat, Saying: panicstricken men in the steerage and saved the lifeboats for Describes Scene on Great Liner After Warned as to Though Have to Go First" the women and children. She Crashed Into the Ice Fields. Mrs. Churchill (andre, of Washington, one of the rescih d, Iceberg. her in a boat and re¬ to be in th» said last night that Major Butt placed the first survivors to leave the Carpathia was Robert W. Stories from the suivivors of the wreck seem agreed Among RENDS VESSE mained on the Titanic's deck himself. a banker. The majority of the survivors were [EXPLOSION main that Colonel John Jacob Astor met death heroically. According Daniel, Philadelphia facts stand 4 with 304 East 83d street Prom the stories told by survivors these salient dazed. The gangway was thronged ambulance surgeons. Pourin to one story, told by Miss Margaret Hays, of No. at 10:20 o'clock This, Caused by Water Daniel said the Titanic collided with the iceberg himself chose death to save an unknown woman who came alon£ out: in Hull to the Astor one on and sank at 2:20. He was in bed at the time. He Through Gaps The Titanic struck an iceberg from fifty to hundred Sunday night Boilers, Caused Catas¬ just as the lifeboat in v/hich he had a place because of the absence oi into a boat and was picked up five hours later. blow was not head-on, but rather a leaped collapsible Sur¬ to be lowered. feet high. The glancing the steamer Mrs. Lucian P. trophe. Some any more women was about Mr. Daniel carried from Carpathia one. It thus the great sides and made useless the vivors Believe. It was a in which Astor had drawn a fortunate num¬ ripped ship's Smith, daughter of Congressman Hughes, in a fainting condition. Mrs. grim lottery, most essential. OH lh> a woman whose name is not watertight compartments Smith was rescued by the Carpathia. She was hurriedly taken from Quartermast» t Moody ITM ber, which he later fteely surrendered to of the Tltani«* on Sunday OVMI The Titanic was at full speed at the time. the her father. bridge known. The as told Miss Hays was as follows: going pier by ling. Tin- ihlr *h" thon tnakiiiK h<- story by no were when were assisted I Promises had been made to the passengers that attempt Two-thirds of the survivors dazed they top .speed, uri*«*(l to her utfnost t1 "When the Titanic struck I did not feel the shock very much. w««ild what th the record in the Atlantic. on to the Some of the women passengers screamed hysterically. demonstrate to the was excitement, and was would be made to break crossing pier. could do. Th«- «hip irai made my way to the deck, where everything The ambulance surgeons were unable to care for those who needed gr«at«-st «hip these the ship was urged ahead at full making not hSBO than twenty-un«- knots assisted into a lifeboat that was waiting to be lowered. Despite promises immediate medical attention. the «*<*iiiviii«-iit of more than twenty from the time she left Daunts Rock. than five bun "Colonel Astor, with his wife, came out on deck at that moment, speed Mr. Daniel also said: thre«' land mile», or mor«« ice had been seen the <lre«l miles ii da\ into another boat. Colonel Astor had his arms about his No during day. "I had just left the music room and disrobed, and was in my bunk, and both got Captain Smith bad been wain.-«l i.j wife and assisted her into the boat. At the time there were no women It was a clear and starlight night. when there was a terrifie crash. The boat quivered and the lights went vessels <<l the <«f I several proximity the officer at that invited was not on the when the I rushed on deck almost naked. There seemed i«*e fiel«), and had replied ii waiting to get into the boats, and ship's point K. J. Smith bridge ship out. In the darkness dangerous with his wife. The colonel after Captain to be and in the dark, and then at least <«ne of them, the Mesal«a, of tin Colonel Astor to get into the boat struck the thousands fighting shouting they got Transport i-ln»*, trou »Londoii into the boat and his wife iceberg. that us a little Atlantic around and seeing no women got was the storage batteries going, and gave light. his appre'iatlo;* of the w««rning. 0*9 looking The first officer in charge. threw her arms about him. "Captain Smith was the biggest hero I ever saw. He stood on the Bunda) evening the Titanic, which ba«j Fifteen minutes after the ship struck the ice the berg had smooth irater and boat in which Colonel Astor and his wife were sitting was bridge and shouted through a megaphone, trying to make himself heard. i>t*t-n ronnlng through "The view. beneath a brilliantly starlit sky. eut« r«-«l when a woman came running out of the com- from The crew his orders as well as could be expected. about to be lowered disappeared obeyed a llgLI l«'K bank. an«l th.- t.-mp.-ratur«. his Colonel Astor stopped the The Titanic struck the iceberg on her starboard bow and fell. panionway. Raising hand, preparations EVERYBODY SEEMED INSANE. out assisted the woman into the seat in her side. The ship's ..ii li«-stra was playing an«! to lower his boat, and stepping a great hole was ripped wer«« them¬ wanted to out of the "Five minutes after the crash everybody seemed to have gone th«* passengers diverting he had occupied. Mrs. Astor cried out and get The were at first assured that the ship was in selves with cards, Looks and In the varl- on the and passengers women bit and scratched to be in line boat with her husband, but the colonel patted her back said insane. Men and fought, for the <«us ways customary to seagoer«-*, ¡-««m.- and was unsinkable. tone of voice. As the boat was being lowered I 110 danger promenading the decks, when the man something in a low was struck at 11:.'J5 m. < ontlnued on fourth vage, sixth column. abov«- first.' The ice p. in th»* <-row s-nest, far up th«* heard him say : 'The ladies will have to go out: minutes later the were called oil deck pntmena«!«* deck, suddenly criad Another story, told by Colonel Gracie, revealed Astor as a devoted Fifteen passengers SAYS SAYS BIG MEN CAUSED ¦.Berg ahead! Port your helm!" terror, to save his bride on life ISMAY PICKED CREW PANIC .Moody instinctivel«, husband, seeking only, in that hour of young and told to put preservers.