The Cushing Democrat (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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( IMUINU, OKLAHOMA
THE STORY Of A SURVIVOR
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Ktplorera tell us thet there irt *sl
Ublr imI deposits ni lb* south pck
tool lO lli«'III lull the to*
The prodi*1.1 son no longer romM
bnrk to atinrr III the fatted calf ti*
prrferi lo «lr« for s draft
Rom*- ihlnk a Chln«»«< wall ahould
b>* hulli along lhi* Meilcnn border,
and lin n let ll»m ■crop It out
Another blow to the popularity of
th«- turkey trot A Judg* m Connoctl-
cut rul«-a Hint It Is not Imtnoml
The I'ulliwr school of Journalism
baa refused to admit woni'n There |
will, therefore. be no Journalettes
A Missouri man hit his wife with a
pound of butter. He seemed to think
a soft answer would turn away wrath
Scientists say It Is too cold on Mars
to support Mff Perhaps, though, the
planet Is like Hoston—merely Intellec-
tual
Butter can be made directly from
grass, Bays a scientific sharp, and per-
bnps It can We have long had apple
butter
Massachusetts legislators propose
a tax of $5 a yenr on bachelors and
some of them clnlm the freedom Is
■worth It
A Philadelphia citizen says he Uvea
on $1 a week, but he does not say
who feeds and clothes him In the
meantime.
The druggist who boasts that he
has accumulated 175,000 prescription*
has no statistics to show how many of
tbein cured
In Nyack, which Is In New York,
not Tasmania or Saxe-Meinlngen, the
best elective offices are seeking men
to fill them
A London specialist proposes to
cure baldness by grafting hair on the
dome This will create a demand for
Ivory experts
A health expert avers that standing
on the head will clear the brain, but
too much of It 1b likely to develop a
race of flatheads
The average baseball fan cares not
n whit about the malefactions of the
baseball trust as long as the home
team wlnB a pennant.
A Baltimore man has just under-
gone his twenty-fourth surgical oper-
ation. In one way he is qualified to
be the village cut-up.
An astronomer in that dear Paris
Informs us that the earth Is 100,000,-
000 years old What are a few ci-
phers more or less?
Modern court procedure is said to be
a Joke, but the Joke is on the poor
•wretch who has not enough money to
Lire a flock of lawyers
With both poles discovered and
public Interest on the wane. It looks
as if our professional discoverers may
be forced to go to work
The Arctic explorer says dog meat
Js delicious In spite of which expert
opinion It seems cannibalistic to be
rating man's best friends
A preacher man tells us that the
tiaddest hour of the day comes after
sunset, but our saddest hour comes
■when the alarm clock rings
It took a woman to run down New
Tork's taxlcab bandits Next thing
we know we shall hear of the Adven
tures of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
A financier informs us that the man
•who earns $19 25 a week is worth
$25 000 The only trouble is that «om«
financier has charge of the $25,000
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•TIAMIR TITANIC CMAtHCI INTO
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GREATEST OCEAN DISASTER
•INKS ftCFORB HURRYING bit AM
§RS ARRIVB
Only 74ft of (he 2.300 Parsons Aboard
Are Able To Got Away In Life
« Boats To ■* Picked Up
by Carpathta
Now Tor*.—How tbo White Htar
Unor Titanic, the largest ship afloat,
sank off tbo Grand llanka of Now
Foundlaud last Monday morning car-
rying to their (feath 1 601 of tbe 2.304
persons aboard, waa told to tbo world
Id all Ita awful detalla for the flrat
time Thursday night with the arrival
In New York of the Cunard liner Car*
pathla bearing the exhausted sur-
vivors of the cataatropbe. Of tbo
great facts that stand out from the ac-
count of the tragedy, these are the
most salient:
The death list has Increased rather
than decreased. Six persons died af-
ter being rescued. The list of promln-
net persons lost stands as previously
reported.
Practically every woman and child,
with the exception of those who re-
fused to leave their husbands, were
■aved.
Accounts vary as to the extent of
the disorder on board. Not only wan
the Titanic tearing through the night
to her doom with every ounce of
steam crowded on, but she was under
orders from the general offices of the
line to make all the speed of which
she was capable. This was the state-
ment made by J. H. Moody, a
quartermaster of the vessel, and he
said the ship was making 21 knots an
hour and the officers were striving to
live up to the orders to smash the re-
cord.
York.
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MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT
Aide to President Taft, who was lost.
He was returning from Italy, whither
he had gone to regain his health.
"It was close to midnight," said
Moody, "and 1 was on the bridge with
the second officer, who was in com-
mand. Suddenly he shouted, 'Port
your helm!' I did so, but it was too
late. We struck the submerged por-
tion of the berg."
Mr. Ismay* gave out the following
prepared statement on the pier:
"In the presence and under tho
shadows of a catastrophe so over'
whelming my feelings are too deep for
expression in words. I can only say
that the White Star line officers and
employes will do anything possible
to relieve the suffering and sorrow of
the relatives and friends of those who
perished. The Titanic was the last
word in ship building. Every regula-
tion prescribed in the British board of
trade had been strictly complied with.
Tho master, officers and crew were tho
most experienced and skillful In tho
British service. I heartily welcome the
most complete and exhaustive in-
quiry and any aid that I or my as-
sistants or our builders or navigator*
can render is at the service of the pub-
lic and nf the governments of both tho
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lor wommt nod
only • question ut
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ly tilted straight «o
is fact, after dinner on Hundaj
log It waa altooat too cold tu bo mil
on deck at kIL I bad bw»« In my berth
for about too miaul** * hen. at about
11:11 p m.. I felt » J*' »nd tb»n
soon after a secood one, but not auf
Ariently large to cause any a«*l»ty
However, the enginee stopped Hume
dlately afterwarda and my first
thought waa she had lost a propeller.
1 went ap on tbe top (boat) deck In
a dreaalng gown and found only a few
people th«re who had come up sim-
ilarly to Inquire why we had stopped,
but there waa no sort of anxiety In tbe
minds of any of us
"A little later bearing people going
upstairs I went out again and found
everyone wanting to know why the en-
gines had stopped. No doubt many
s Is thla
as and pi
a n
d ti
id as abe did tbo llgbta In tbe t ablna
id saloon, which bad not flickered
oment stare we left, died out.
i agata for a single flash and
sent altogether. At the same
ie machinery roared down
the veesrl with a rattle and a
l was and presently I sroenmg that could be hoard for mllea.
ih *1 the weirdest sound that surely could
""•Any *more ladleaT he beard In the middle of the ocean, n
"Looking over tbe aide of the ablp. thousand miles away from land. Hut
I aaw the boat numb-r 1$ swinging this was not quite the end.
lrvel with fl deck, half full of ladles "To our ama*emi.nt she remained
As iin the call waa repeated: In that upright position for a time
"•Any more ladles'- • which I estimated at Ave mlnutee;
-I saw none come on and then one "there In the boat less, but It waa
1 of tbe crew took It up and aald j certainly some minute -while we
"•Anv ladiea on your deck, air?* watched at least 17,u feet of the TI-
"•No.* I replied.' Mania towering up above the level of
"•Then you had better Jump.' j the sea.
| -I dropped and'fell In the bottom aa 1 Then with a quickly slanting dive
FIRST rHIP AT SCENE OF DISASTER
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The steamship Carpathia, the ocean liner which was the first to arrive at the scene of the terrific disaster after
the Titanic went down and picked up some of the passengers on board the doomed vessel who succeeded In get-
ting into the life boats, which were being tossed about on the sea when the Carpathia arrived. The Carpathia
reached New York at 9 p. m. Thursday.
were awakened from sleep by the sug-
den stopping of vibration to which
they become accustomed during the
voyage. Naturally with such powerful
engines as the Titanic carried, the vi-
bration was very noticeable all the
time and the sudden .stopping had
something of the same effect as the
stopping of a large ticking grand-
father's clock in a room.
"On going back again I saw that
there was an undoubted list down-
wards from stern to bows but knowing
nothing of what had happened, con-
cluded some of the front compartment
had filled and were bearing her down.
I went down again to put on warmer
clothing and as I dressed heard an
order shouted:
*' 'All passengers on deck with life-
belts on!'
"We all walked slowly up with them
tied over our clothing, but even then
presumed this was a wise precaution
the captain was taking and that we
should return in a short time and re-
tire to bed. There was a total absence
of any panic or any expressions of
alarm and I suppose this was ac-
they cried, 'Lower away.' As the boat
began to descend two ladies were
pushed hurriedly through the crowd on
the deck and heaved over into the
boats, and a baby of ten months was
passed down after them. Down we
went, the crew calling to those lower-
ing which end to keep her lever, 'aft,'
•stern,' 'both together,' Until we were
ten feet from the water
"We drifted away easily as the oars
were got out and headed directly away
from the ship. The crew seemed to
me to be mostly cooks in white jackets,
two to an oar with a stocker at the
head,
"The captain-stocker told us that he
had been at sea twenty-four years and
had never yet seen such a calm night
on the Atlantic.
"As we rowed away from the Ti-
tanic we looked back from time ti
time to watch her and a more strik-
ing spectacle it was not possible for
any one to see.
"In the distance she looked an enor-
mous length, her great bulk outlined
against the starry sky, every porthole
and saloon blazing with light. It was
she disappeared beneath the waters
"And then with all there, there fell
on the ear the most appalling noise
that human being ever listened to—
the cries of hundreds of our fellow
beings struggling in the icy cold water
crying for help with a cry that we
knew could not be answered
"We tried to sing to keep the women
from hearing the cries and rowed hard
to get away from the scene of the
wreck, but I think those sounds will
be one of the things the rescued will
find it difficult to efface from memory.
"Presently low down in the horizon
we saw a double light. They proved to
be the mast head and deck light be-
low on a rescuing steamer. We swung
around and headed for her. The steers-
man shouted:
" 'Now boys, sing now,' and for the
first time the boat broke into song
with 'Pull for the Shore Sailors,' and
for the first time tears came to the
eyes of us all as we realized that
safety was in hand
The above account of the disaster
was given by L. Beasley, a Cambridge
university man.
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