Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Part 28

ROLL OF THE DEAD--SECOND CABIN (CONTINUED)

MANGIOVACCHI, E.

McCRAE, ARTHUR G.

McCRIE, JAMES M.

McKANE, PETER D.

MUDD, THOMAS.

MACK, MRS. MARY.

MARSHALL, HENRY.

MAYBERG, FRANK H.

MEYER, AUGUST.

MYLES, THOMAS.

MITCh.e.l.l, HENRY.

MATTHEWS, W. J.

NESSEN, ISRAEL.

NICHOLLS, JOSEPH C.

NORMAN, ROBERT D.

OTTER, RICHARD.

PHILLIPS, ROBERT.

PONESELL, MARTIN.

PAIN, DR. ALFRED.

PARKES, FRANK.

PENGELLY, F.

PERNOT, RENE.

PERUSCHITZ, REV.

PARKER, CLIFFORD.

PULBAUM, FRANK

RENOUF, PETER H.

ROGERS, HARRY.

REEVES, DAVID.

SLEMEN, R. J.

SOBEY, HAYDEN.

SLATTER, MISS H. M.

STANTON, WARD.

SWORD, HANS K.

STOKES, PHILIP J.

SHARP, PERCIVAL.

SEDGWICK, MR. F. W.

SMITH, AUGUSTUS.

SWEET, GEORGE.

SJOSTEDT, ERNST.

TAYLOR, bandsman.

TURPIN, WILLIAM J.

TURPIN, MRS. DOROTHY.

TURNER, JOHN H.

TROUPIANSKY, M.

TIRVAN, MRS. A.

VEALE, JAMES.

WATSON, E.

WOODWARD, bandsman.

WARE, WILLIAM J.

WEISZ, LEOPOLD.

WHEADON, EDWARD.

WARE, JOHN J.

WEST, E. ARTHUR.

WHEELER, EDWIN.

WERMAN, SAMUEL.

The total death list was 1635. Third cabin pa.s.sengers and crew are not included in the list here given owing to the impossibility of obtaining the exact names of many.

CHAPTER XIII. THE STORY OF CHARLES F. HURD

HOW THE t.i.tANIC SANK--WATER STREWN WITH DEAD BODIES--VICTIMS MET DEATH WITH HYMN ON THEIR LIPS

THE Story of how the t.i.tanic sank is told by Charles F. Hurd, who was a pa.s.senger on the Carpathia.

He praised highly the courage of the crew, hundreds of whom gave their lives with a heroism which equaled but could not exceed that of John Jacob Astor, Henry B. Harris, Jacques Futrelle and others in the long list of first-cabin pa.s.sengers. The account continues:

"The crash against the iceberg, which had been sighted at only a quarter mile distance, came almost simultaneously with the click of the levers operated from the bridge, which stopped the engines and closed the water-tight doors. Captain Smith was on the bridge a moment later, summoning all on board to put on life preservers and ordering the life-boats lowered.

"The first boats had more male pa.s.sengers, as the men were the first to reach the deck. When the rush of frightened men and women and crying children to the decks began, the 'women first' rule was rigidly enforced.

"Officers drew revolvers, but in most cases there was no use for them.

Revolver shots heard shortly before the t.i.tanic went down caused many rumors, one that Captain Smith had shot himself, another that First Officer Murdock had ended his life, but members of the crew discredit these rumors.

"Captain Smith was last seen on the bridge just before the ship sank, leaping only after the decks had been washed away.

"What became of the men with the life-preservers was a question asked by many since the disaster. Many of these with life-preservers were seen to go down despite the preservers, and dead bodies floated on the surface as the boats moved away.

"Facts which I have established by inquiries on the Carpathia, as positively as they could be established in view of the silence of the few surviving officers, are:

"That the t.i.tanic's officers knew, several hours before the crash, of the possible nearness of the icebergs.

"That the t.i.tanic's speed, nearly 23 knots an hour, was not slackened.

"That the number of life-boats on the t.i.tanic was insufficient to accommodate more than one-third of the pa.s.sengers, to say nothing of the crew. Most members of the crew say there were sixteen life-boats and two collapsibles; none say there were more than twenty boats in all. The 700 escaped filled most of the sixteen life-boats and the one collapsible which got away, to the limit of their capacity.

"Had the ship struck the iceberg head on at whatever