The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, April 26, 1912 Page: 1 of 10
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Attorneys at Lhw
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Will pructice In all thr highet
*nd Interior court*.
THE WOMEN FiRST!
AND MEN STOOD BY
A WATERY GHAVE FOR ASTOR
AND OTHER PROMINENT
AND RICH MEN.
CAPTAIN SMITH A REAL HERO
Weird Tales Tcld of Rescues and
Hours Spent in Lifeboats—Many
Acts of Heroism—Rescue
Ship Sighted.
reived the Inspiration tli.it made him
the mi'.ter of his own extermination
PAUL D. PAGE
Lawyer
Citizens' State iiunk. It (Ntrop, Tex.
General Practitioner
Will practice in ail court*
j. S. JONES
Attorney At Law
Baalrop, Texan
Will practice in all the higher
Mad inferior courts.
JACK JENKINS
Attorney at Law
O* irop,
Only complete Set of Abstract
Souks in the County.
RODT. A. BROOKS
UWYh R AND
MOTAKY PUULIC
Claims Collected. I,and Matters
a Specialty.
Office over Citiii'ita State Batik.
IMiysirians-Sui -t tuts
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PKysician and burgeon
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Physician unci Surgeon
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Office — C. fcriiaid tic Son's Drug
Store. Phone 5y.
Residence East .Bastrop.
J. GORDON BttYSON
Physician and Surgeon
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OI-FICE F.rhardt Huildine. uc xiair>
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Best Rargdn
la r e id I n j roittrr that ynur
munay can buy It y ur u il pa-
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A ta{s of ilia community
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U ka>>w In au antartalnicg way,
will {! • you all tht no < of <a
eanamualty, tt einjf vialt will
jhuu a p,«««ur«; It givra taora
tirn fn!l valua tin t&a pi u«
aakad for It
There's a Way
To defeat the mail order roan's cut
throat «*thod in thin community.
The way la publicity for your business
— It's tho same way he uses. 0u«
aolumna will give your business tki
publicity you need.
New York -Tlu living cared for,
the dead beyond retail, survivors of
tho Titanic disaster are able to see
in calmer retrospect tho tragedy of
the North Ailantic and front their
more normal utterances, slowly un-
folding the full story of how the great
White Star liner, her hand playing tc>
the lust. Hank ot'f tht
with more than l,t 00 souls
From the countess of Uothes, to the
six Chinese coolies who escaped by
hiding under the lifeboat seats, all of
the !50 have been provided with food
and clothing and some, immigrant and
millionaire, are on their way home-—
to Kngland, the continent, or distant
parts of the United Slates. Many,
however, and of these the hospitals
shelter scores, si ill remain in New
York, where the Cunard liner Car-
pat hlu brought them Friday.
Story of the Man at the Wheel.
Robert Hlckena, one of the six sur-
viving quartermasters of the Titanic,
tho man who was on duty at the
wheel when tho ship struck tho ice-
berg. told tho following story:
"1 went on watch at H o'clock Sun-
day night nnd stood by the man at the
wheel until 10 o'clock. At 10 o'clock
1 took the wheel for two hours. 0*\
the bridge from 10 o'clock were First
Officer Murdock. Fourth Officer llox-
IuiII and Sixth Officer Motidy. In
th« crow's nust (lookout tower) were
Fleet nnd'"hfiothor n in wboao iiunie i
don't know.
Temperature About 31 Degrees.
"Secoi'd Officer Mghtoller, who was
on watch while I stood by front 8 to
10, sent me soon after x to tell the
carpenter to look out for tho fresh
water supply, as there might be dan-
ger of freezing. The temperature vus
then about ^!1 degrees llo gave 'lie
crow's nest strict order to look out
for small Icebergs.
"Second officer I.ightoller was re
lieved by First Officer Murdock at lvi
and 1 took ihe wheel then. At 11:40
three gonis sounded from the crow's
neat, the sigtiul for 'something right
ahead
"At the same time one of the men
In the next telephoned to the bridge
that there was a luige iceberg right
ahead, Ah Officer Murdock's hand
was on the lever to stop the engines
the crash came, lie stopped the en
glnes and then immediately, by an-
other lever, closed the water-tight
doors.
"Close Emergency Doors."
"The skipper (Captain Smith) catne
from th>* chart room onto the bridge.
His first words were 'Close the
emergency doors.'
" The\ are already closed, sir,' Mur-
dock replied.
" 'S''iul to the carpenter und tej| him
to sound the ship.' was the skipper's
next order The message was sent to
the carpenter. The carpenter never
came up to report.
"The commutator showed the boat
carried five decrees list to starboard.
She was then rapidly settling forward
All the steam sirens were blowing, lly
the skipper's orders, the engines were
put to work at pumping out the ship,
distress signals were sent by Marconi
and rockets weer sent up All hands
were ordered on dei k and lifebelts
were Hewed onto every passenger.
There Was No Panic.
"Tho stewards and other hands
helped the sailors In getting the boats
out. The order, 'Women anil children
first," was given and enforced. There
was no panic
"I was at the wheel until 12:25. It
was my duly to stay there until re-
lieved. 1 was not relieved by anyone,
but was simply sent away by Second
Officer Ughtollor, who told me to take
charge of a certain boat and to load
It with ladirti
"1 did so, and there were thirty two
ladles, a sailor and mysijlt In the boat
when it was lowered some time after
1 o'clock.
"The Titanic had sixteen lifeboats
nnd two collapsible boats. All got
away loaded except one of the collap
Bibles, which did not open properly
and was used as a raft. Forty sailors
and stewards who were floating in
the water got on this raft and were
pi< keil up on Ihe lifeboat* Some were
floating about on chairs wliiu picked
up.
Boats Fully Loaded.
"Every boat, ao far as 1 {.;w, was
tuii wh«u loaded and every boat that
set out reached the Carpathiu. The
green light on the boat helped to keen
lis together. There were other lights.
One was an electric flashlight soum
one carried in his pot Uct.
"Our boat w.ih 4ou yards away
when our ship went down. Tho suo
tion only rocked us a little
"I heard revolver shots, as every
I one did. I can not say who fired any
of them."
In Water Two Hours.
O, Whlteiimn of I'alymra, N. J.,
v.ti« blown off the deck by the second 1
of the two explosions ol the boiler —- i
was in the water more than two hour* i
| before he was picked up by a raft.
I "The explosions," Whiteman said,
"wcic caused by the rushing in of tho
■ icy waters on the boilers \ bundle
of deck chairs roped together was
blown off the deck with me and struck
my back, injurin;" it.v spine, but it
served as a temporal) raft
"After the water had filled the for- j fot
i ward compartments the one«t at the
i stern could not save her. They did tie-
lay ihe ship's going down. It it wasn't
I'r-ind Banks for l'ie eompaiiinenta hard!) anyone
aboard' ;could have «0'
Too Cold to Swim.
"The water was too cold for me to
swim and I was hardly
C.irp.ithia'8 Captain Makes Report.
,\.'w Vork Captain I < A Itostron
of the Carpathla addressed an official
r«'port, giving ills account of the Car
p'Hhla's rescue work lo the general
ii auager of the Cunard line, 1,1 ver-
pool. The report lead
I iieg m report that at 12 35 Mon-
«ln . 15th instant, | was informed of
yi ur general message from the Tl*
i inic, with her position. 1 immedlnto-
lv ordered ship turned around and
put her in course for that position,
we being then fifty eight miles from
her, had heads of all departments
> lied and issued what I considered
the uecessur) orders i i he In prepara-
tion for any emergency
Takes Precaution.
' At 2 to a. m saw flare half a nomt
on port bow Took ibis for granted to
le ship Shortly after wr- sighted
our first iceberg | had previously
had lookouts d.nihled, knowing that
i'anic had struck i<and so took
• very care and precaution We soon
id ourselves In a field of burgs,
i i re and small, and had to alter
course several times to clear bergs.
Weather tine and clear, lipht air on
sea, beautifully clear night, though
dark.
"We stopped at 4 n m , thus doing
distance in three hours and u half,
more than otia J picking up the first boat nt 4:10 n. m.
The First National Bank
Or 5A5TROP, TEXAS
Capital, $50,000.00 Svrplvs, $20,000.00
DIRECTORS
H. D. ORDAIN. Preaid-nt W. A. McCord, Vlc*-Pre«lde«
tll«4TKB RRHARD, Cashier
II P. Lnckett. W B. Rnnsome, A. C. Erbard, B. J. Uaalct
CAPITA!,, SORPI.US, INDIVIDUAI, RRSPOMSIBILITV
of the stockiioldera and conarrvativc mauagciucnl
are the strength of a bunk.
Organized, developed and conducted alonR proRretsiv# line*.
Governed by the same principle. With twenty ye«r •ue-
cessful Lusiness recorti, with ample capital, with «v«ry
facility to pruperly care for a!! bu«ine entnuted to It,
and operated along conservative linea, it expect*
tinue to grow both in ability and eapadty to serf*
hundred feet away when the ship went I Boat In charge of officer, and lie re-
down The suction was not what one I ported that Titanic hud foundered. At
would expect and only rocked the I S 30 a. m. last boat picked up All
water around me. I was picked up
after two hours"
To most of the passengers the mid-
night crash against the mountain did
not seem of terrible force. Many were
so little disturbed by it that they hesi-
tated to dress and put on life pre-
servers, even when summoned by the
thundering knocks and shouts of the
stewards. Bridge players In the smok-
ing room kept on with their game.
Confidence In Boat Fatal.
Once on the deck, many hesitated to
enter the swinging liftboats. The ab-
sence in the first fovv moments of
intense excitement gave them the feel-
ing that there was only a silght mis-
hap that those who got into the boats
would have a chilly half hour below
and might later lie luuabed a .
The admiration ' -lt bvr the pas ecu- \
cerr. and crew tor the matchless!.! up- j
pointed vessel was trained in those j
few moments into a confidence which 1
for some proved deadly
K. M Williams, a Philadelphia youth
on his way home from England, to
take the Harvard entrance examina
tions, was one of the few saloon pa.--
sengers at the rail excluded by the
"women first" order from the boats
w ho was saved. 11 is father, D.iano
Williams, was lc«t
Captain Died Death of Hero.
New York Consensus of testimony
gathered Saturdav from pa .-sengers
and crew of the Titanic shows thai
Captain Smith, tht gallant commander
of tho vessel, did not commit suicide,
but sank to a sailor's grave.
Survivors say the captain did every-
thing possible to sa^e the lives of
thoso committed to his care and that
his last act was to leap from the deck
to place a young girl on u raft llu
then swam back, after refusing to en-
danger the lives ol' others by overbur-
dening the trail craft to which they
were clinging.
Mrs. Elizabeth Nye, who belongs to
the Salvation Army and is a friend
of Miss Eva Booth, said that she had
this account from one of those who
was on the raft. The girl whom the
captain saved died half an hour later,
and all except two—a young man and
a young woman—who were on the raft
died from exposure.
Other passengers say the captain
was swimming not far from where the
Titanic went down. He wore oilskin .
which weighed htm down, and ho
seemed so exhausted that he could
barely keep afloat.
Arthur McMiken, a steward who was
saved, says lie was in a boat which
floated near O.e captain. It was seen
that to take the captain into the boat
would endanger tho lives of all on
hoard. Several men, however, reach-
ed out for him and as they did so he
disappeared from view.
Officer Murdock Ends Life,
New York. It was First Officer
Murdock of the Titanic and not Cap-
tain Smith who stood upon the bridge
is the ice-strewn waters lapped over
higher over the ship's sides and gath-
ered in their hundreds of struggling
souls and sent a leaden bullet trash-
ing through his brain.
Quartermaster Moody, commanded
lo man one of the lifeboats, while lie
stood beside Murdock on the tall
bridging superstructure, saw Mur-
dock s fl'.uie outlined against the
starry wall of the horizon as he whip
ped a gleaming bit of metal from bis
pocket, deliberately placed It to his
temple and pulled the trigger.
Murdock never for a moment left
his post on the supei tructure, never
abandoned hi futile talk of directing
the mechanism of a sinking Hulk, and
when he saw at last that he was mere
ly guiding the monster of the deep
down to the bottom of the
survivors aboard and all boats ao
counted for. viz , fifteen lifeboats, one
boat abandoned; two berthon boats
alongside (saw one floating upward
among wreckage), and according to
second officer (senior officer lost),
one berthon boat had not been launch-
ed. It having got Jammed, making six-
teen lifeboats and four berthon boats
a.'counted for. By the time we had
cleared first boat it was breaking day
and I could see all within an area of
four miles. We also saw that we were
surrounded by Icebergs, large and
small, and three miles to the north-
west of us a huge field of drift !ee,
with large and small bergs in It, tho
lee field trending from northwest
round west and south to southeast as
•'/ * us we could either way.
CallfAritlan Arrive!!.
"\t 8 a. tn the I.eyl ■ I steamer
f'alito.iiiati mine up. j gavo him tho
prh'cip&l news and asked him to
search and ! would proceed to New
Vork; at K no proceeded mil speed.
While researching over vicinity of dis-
astei and while we were getting peo-
ple aboard I gave orders u> et spare
hands along nnd swing in nil of our
boats, disconnect and hoist, up as
many Titanic boats as pos ibl in our
davits; also got some on lo'castlu
heads by derricks We got thirteen
lifeboats, six on forward deck and
seven In davits After getting all sur-
vivors aboard and while searching I
got a clergyman t offer a short pray-
er of thankfulness for those saved and
also a short burial service for their
loss, in saloon
"Before deciding definitely where
to make for I conferred with Mr. ls-
inay, and be told me to do what 1
thought best. I informed him, taking
everything into consideration, I con-
sidered New York best 1 knew we
would reijuire blankets, provisions and
clean linen, even il we went to the
scene, as most of the passengers saved
were women and children, and they
were hysterical Knowing wliat medi-
cal attention they might requlrj,
thought it best to go to New York.
Difficulty In Transmitting.
"We have experienced great diffi-
culty in transmitting news, also names
of survivors Our wireless is very
poor, and ag:iln we have had so many
nterruptiont from other ships and also
messages from shore (principally
press, which we ignored), 1 gave in-
structions to send first all of the
messages, (hen names of pat.sengeiA,
'lien survivors' private messages We
hail haze early Tuesday morning for
several hours, again more or less on
Wednesday from 3:30 a. m. to 5 p. m.
A strong south-southerly wind and
clear weather Thursday with inodep
lite rough sea.
Survivors Are Plucky.
"I am pleased to say that all sur-
vivors have been very plucky. The
majority of the women, first, second
and third class, lost their husbands,
and considering all, have been won
derfully well. Tuesday our doctor re
ported all survivors physically well,
Our first i lass passengers have be-
haved splendidly, giving up their cab-
ins voluntarily and supplied the ladles
With clothes, etc. We all turned out
of our cabins and gave them to sur-
vivors; saloon, smoking rooms, li-
brary. etc., also being used for sleep-
ing accommodation. Our crew also
turned out to let the crew of the 'ii-
tai ic take their <|uarters. 1 am pleased
to state that ov ing to preparations
made for the comfort of irvivors
none were the wot tie for exposure, etc,
I i eg to specifically mention how will-
ing and cheerful the whole of tne
ship's compauv henaved, the
highest praise from everybody And i
sea whilu!,al1 a*hll,'e >m| ' k1" v®'> proud to
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The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, April 26, 1912, newspaper, April 26, 1912; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206037/m1/1/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.