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tf.r FRIDAY. APRIL 10, 101a STORIES II TAILS 0 ARE AT ARE he: TAYLOR SAVED BY JUMPING IN FREEZING SEA A Philadelphian Tells of H'iafexperiences COL. ARCHIBALD GRACE WENT DOWN WITH THE TITANIC, BUT WAS LATER PICKED UI' AND RESCUED. • New York, April 19.—E. Z. Tay lor, ot Philadelphia, one of the survivors, Jumped Into the sea.Just three minutes before the boat%ank. H e told a graphic story as he came Iron: the Carpathla. “I was eating when the boat struck the Iceberg," he said. "Thera was an awful shock that made the boat tremble from stem -to stern. I did not realise for some time what had happened. No one seem-' id to know the extent of the acci dent. We were told that an lsebfefe bhd been struck by the sbto,'I'fe1t the boat rise, and It ■keehwfa to nip that she, wat rldlnfe .‘over'Ahe Ice. it was a veritable, pea of lee, and * the boat was racking, over It.. J • should Say, that parts it. tho lceberg were ei^jity feet high, bht It had been Into 'sections, probably by p. ' 'v • .. u ' > keg up From Icy Water.. ' broken our ehlp. rjggSsn; “I lntnnn/i l«*rs the AnAdn ftn if WHs ACTS OF HEROISM AND COWARDICE WHEN THE TITANIC MET DISASTER PROBING TITANIC DISASTER The Senate Investigating Committee is Already Investigating the Horror New York, April 19.—Investlga- tlon of tbe Titanic dlaaater by tbe United States senate committee was begun today at the Waldorf-Astoria and It will bertha moat thorough. Charges were made that the Ti tanic had orders to make a record trip and that it disregarded t> warnings against Icebergs and wa WehUg- twenty-one, kaot\ gn hour .when, thp crash^Sm'o, . 1 A'rigid.’Inquiry Will also be made Into the life saving equipment , ot the,ship. , * Bruce 'fanjay, an ^oficir , ot, ,the While Star Line, who waaoii th ship, wap; a^ witness. Under oath before! the committee' ho denied that TIfailc Vas ordered tpr make* a r.ecord trip,.but; he 'admittedyhat knots lint Archibald Oracle, U .8. A., last man slaved, went down with t(te vessel, but was picked up. waa met tonight by hla daughter, who had arrived from Washington, and hla son-in-law, Paul H. Fabri- clue. Col. Oracle told a remarkable story of personal hardship and de nied emphatically the reports that there had been any panic on board. He praised In the highest terms the behavolr of both the passengers and crew snd paid a high tribute to th e heroism of the women paseen- gers. Wouldn't Desert Husband. "Mrs. Isidore Straus,? he ^ald "went to her death because she would not desert her husband. Al though he pleaded with her to take her place in the boat, she steadfastly refused, and when the ship settled at the head and two were engulfed by the wave that swept her.” i Col. Oracle told of how he was (driven to th c topmost deck when the /ship settled, and was the soul sur- / vlvor after the wave that swept her Just before her final plunge had paaaed. Col. Oracle’s Story. "I Jumped with the wave.” ho said, "Just as I often have Jumped with the breakers at the seashore. Py great good fortune 1 managed to grasp the brass railing on the deck shore end.I hung an by might ana When the ehlp plunged ,jjg« forced to let go, and I tried around and around tor seemed to he an Interminable time. Eventually I came to the • surface to And the •«» » nlass of tangled wreckage. "Luckily I w»s nnhnrt end cas*- -- Ing shout managed to seise s wood en grating floating nearby. When I bad recovered my breath I dis covered a larger canvas and cork .Alftsraft which had floated up. A - -man, whose name I did not learn, 1 was struggling toward It from some f wreckage to which ha bad clung. I !' cast off and helped him to get on to the raft, and we then began the. . work of rescuing those who had Jumped Into the sea and were floun- dering |n the water. >. •Thirty or the Raft. • ‘ "%hen ' dawn broke there were . thirty pf us on the raft, standing knee deep l n th e Ire-water and - afraid to itove lest the cranky craft hp * overturned. ’ Bveral unfortunate Wtfre saved and h4‘ stated there were forty-flve people In boat he occupied. GRAPHIC STOR GREAT SHIP W F HOW DOWN VORS—BAND PLAYED OCEAN OPENED ITS VKSS El,—TOWARDS DETAILS ARE BROUGHT IX BY THE "NEARER MY GOD TO TREE” AS WIDE MOUTH AND SWALLOWED WERE SHOT DOWN TO PREVENT TttKM FROM RUNNING OVER WOMEN AND CHILDREN—TWO CHINAMEN FOUND ON LIFE BOATS WERE KILLED AND THROWN OVERBOARD. New York, April 19.—With traglo details, the complete atory ot the Ti tanic disaster, with Its grotesque horror was told by survivors who arrived lest night aboard tbe Car pathla. After striking the Iceberg that towed 160 feet above the water, the Titanic eank slowly. As the Icy! Othh waters rushed Into the engine room,| H 100 HAVE PERISHEEi IN FLOOD Some women refused to leave and were taken by rorce Into the boats Mrs. Jwidor Strauss clung to her husband absolutely refusing t 0 leave him. They died togother. Men In the steerage rushed to thajpeoplo hav bc/nts without regard to the Biif’ty stricken dl of the women. Some were shot and • ^ero forced hack. A'chle Butt, William Stead, the boilers exploded with tei+tfiejH* f Journalist, Col. Aator results, breaking the ship’s back, *nd t her* rendered valiant serv- nnd the largest ship that was everJlco. The work of roscuo waa ln built, sank in water two miles deep, lidding the male passengers and Reports at Memphis To* day Tell of Suffering and Starvation on Mississippi Memphli forcing the women to the front. WireleK* Operator Went Down, .wireless Operator Phillips re mained at his keys, sending out ap peals for aid until the water rushed Into the cabin and rendered the ap paratus useless. He died a hero. 1$. FUTRELL TELLS OF COWARDS She Says Many of the Men Were Heroes, but Cow ards Saved Selves New York, April 19.—Mra. Jaqttes Futrell, a survivor of the Titanic, whoa© husband, the noted novelist, wan drowned, stated emphatically that the men who wer© saved, ex cept those who manned the life boats, sneaked Into the boats. She praised the heroism of the men who died that the women and children might live as magnificent beyond description. The FutrellH were natives of Atlanta. Mrs. Fu- trell said Janucs rushed Into the cabin Immediately after the collls- Ion, saying “get dressed at one?, the boat Is going down.** They found everything on deck confusion. The women were screaming and rushing frantically about calling for their husbands*and children, while the officers were roaring orders. The behavior of the men waa magnificent, except a few cowards, who tried to rush on the boats. Most of them were thrown back, thought she saw Jaqueg wave to her as the boat went down. As tho water closed over the T1 tanicUtJ?© hand o n the upper dock played’'“Nearer My God to.The*. “ Cnp't. Smith stood on the bridge, ralthful .unto death, sinking with the ehlp. ;• •* '* * H Tho Final Dip of Death. ^ • Listing more and more bj^hend j ’ Hmce Tsmay, a maimulng diree- and nose, the great leviathan','iiluRg- tor of the International Maritime into‘the sea; her-stern rising Marine Company, owning tho White h*gh from the. water, a'swlri ' of star Line, the survivors Bay, clira- water rushed Into a maolStroPi and ored .nto the third boat that put the* Titanic disappeared! Seven h^r- nv . ay from tho Titanic after rwmr. dred and five had escaped? mostly tng inquirers that thc shin could rot *• \J * „ i IX £ ’• the lost were loading menVf T En*- ; bH*htfW the .kies. In'tbe bottom land and America. 'of oflB i l0 ,t two Cblnamen were |Ae the boat* rode away from the f ound w)th faces d own , The oflloor sinking Titanic, eome cries wore' ln charge of tSe ^ , hot both OI heard of those etniggllng In the thc . m and helTed them OTerboa rd to water, but these soon died awair and j mal[B room tor thB womOTi I nothing more was heard. Stories of heroism unparaPoled succor, with Whlto 6ank ofT foundland ... Th 0 great her linnd to death cargo of •six Otbei To this awful sons wer© added. O omen and children, men, cahlo and boat ,, other llv© stock have been without food for forty-eight hours, t Tho government is sending aid from Memphis. Many small towns and villages are ten feet under water. April 19.—Or > perished In trlct in the li four hours, according to the gov ernment engineers’ reports. Som© were drowned, som© died of exhaustion and starvation. "Whole families were wiped out. The levees standing at Hoa-daH and points below broke. Crowds of SHIP OF Titanic ork DR. MANY MSA AND KOMI I New ‘*+**+++*++++4 died in the darkness at a sal ♦ I tnnee from the stricken ship * I IGV’HF.S SHOW HOW * saw her go down, >. Captain Commends Wireless Men. About 2 o’clock In the morning, cud deed, performed by American , doom ,„ unqlie „ business men and member, of the! t , onably had ^ rescued that were poaatble and the boat, nil gone, £apt. Smith tild the wlreleaa men brokenly, “Men, you have done your toll duty, yon can do no more. Abandon your cabin. R la now ev ery man tor hlmaelt." Phllltpa clung to the key, and perieted. The othera Jumped from ■mi •» following Uhulallon ot the * paaaflngern and crew on board 4 4> the Titanic, together with thoee 4 4 laved and loat haa been com- 4 4 piled trom the flgurea In a 4 4 atatement laauad by a commit- 4 4 tee ot paeiengen. 4 4 Approximate number ot paa- 4 4 aengera aboard: Flrat claaa. 4 4 330; aecond claaa, 320; third 4 4 claaa, 760. 4 4 Officer, and craw, 940. 4 4 Total. 2,340. 4 4 Number ot paaaengen aaved 4 4 by Carpathla: Flrat claaa, 4 4 210; aecond elaaa, 126; third 4 4 claaa, 200. 4 4 Total panengerd aaved. ,593. 4 4 Member, ot crewi aaved: 4 4 Officers, 4. aeamen, 39; atew- 4 4 ard, 90; flremen, 71. 4 4 Total member* ot crow aaved 4 4 210. 4 liner's sld 0 nn d live sulwoq succumlbcd on tho re path la. The list of missing elundH as pn|v ported and the total death list, brought to port last night by Cnrpathta, Is 1,601. Survivors In tho life bosle hud- * L ‘ ■ wft j 0 d | H- and saw her go down. f. Slort.-H at Varlanec. to t y Scene nil 1 ,.i Alti'C crow were bronghi by tbe survivors. Men of millions worked cooly sav ing tbe women and children with out a thought of self. Ship Wa* Throbbing With Joy. The Titanic waa athrob with Joy end life Sunday night whan with out warning It Jammed against the Iceberg. It was a glancing blow and _ . _ „ , non. realised tho full damage. The, 1110 and-were Anally reacnod. ship waa making twenty-one knots Bn,t ' A,tor •"« Dled ' ’ an hour , | At the last moment John Jacob The officer, who had been reaeanr-' Aytor ’ *t a i°r Archie Butt, C. M. Ing the passengers assumed a atern W ' .¥• cl ‘ r , K ,nA others + Totn , gayed , pagien g en i and 4 mien and rigid discipline as the life "Pfang from the ship's aide, swim-. ^ crew , .p nnd death work began. * u,n * strongly for awhile, but the | + Totat num ber perished, 1,- 4 Tho Carpathla had answered the ‘<T waters soon numbed them nnd . 59B # ’1 for help and started for tho tbSY ’"nk to rlse.no more. ♦ Six of thoso rescued diet 4 scene of tho disaster. Other ships 1 Water Filled With Mon. ! 4 later. 4 had answered tho call, but wore loo f The wator was tilled with hun- j + Kirat and second cabin paa- 4 far away to render assistance. The j deeds of stiffened men, awlmmlng, 4 gengern, 669. 4 Carpathla waa the only vessel *rrlv|clammorlng upon the wreckage ami; ^ a nd .second cabin pas- 4 Ipp In time to rescue any of tho un- trying to climb up on tho Ice enkes. ganger, aaved, 336. 4 fortunate,. |Tlic terrible cold soon overcame' Astor'a Promise to Hla Wife. them and they found watery graves.:* 31S John Jacob Aator and hla wire | Amidst the acres and acre, ot dc- vere walking on the deck when hia'brls hundreds of bodies .floated, wire wa, notified to leave the ship, many man being still dreaaed In ly. Soldo ; maintain that a cefln- paratlve calm prevailed; others sny that wild disorder broka out, and that there whs a maniacal struggle for tho life boats. That the liner struck an Iceberg, at reported by wlreleaa, waa^bnflrmed by all. Sensational Shooting Stories. Renaatlonal rttmora told by hyster ical passengers who would not give their names aald that Captalji Smith had killed himself on the bridge; that chief engineer had taken bin life, and that three Italians wen shot In the struggle tor th« bouts. These rttmora could not beconflrm- od l n the early confusion attendant on tho landing of th, survivor,. Opened Aa If By Can-Opener. Ripped from-stem to engine room by the great mean of Ice aha stock, tho Titanic's side was laid open as If by a gigantic can-opener. 8h# quickly listed to starboard, and a shower of lee fell Into the forecam tale deck. Shortly before she sank jaho broke l„ two abalf tho engine, and ns sho disappeared beneath tha water the expulsion of air caused two explosion*, which were plainly hoard by the survivor* adrift. A moment more and the Titanic bad gone to her doom with the fated bun- Total cabin pnseenger. lost, 4| dredl aroupe< , m the afterdeck. To * I the survivor, they were visible to * | the Uat, and, their crleo and mdans were pitiable. She demurred, but her husband In sisted and told her that he would Join her after the women and a’hli- dren were rescued. Their parting vas final.. Central Missouri Teachers. Warrensburg, Mo., April t9. •- Warrensburg Is entertaining for two days the annual convention of th© Central Missouri Teachers’ Abs-icIh- tlon. A large attendance and an at tractive program combine to give promise of one of the most profits hi© meetings ever held by the as*o- ciatlon. benumbd and half dead besought uh to save them, and one or two made an effort to reach us, but we had to warn them away. Had we made any effort to save them, w« all might have perished. “The hours that elapsed before thef- evening clothes. When the Carpathla came up at dawn, the boats had scattered, but the survivors were soon tgfcen on board that ship. MR8. ASTOU COLLAPSES. Young Widow, who Survived the Titanic, Is In SerlouM Condition New York, April 19.—Mrs. John Jacob Afltor, one of the survivor* of tho Titanic, Buffered a collapse this afternoon and her condition U rojiorted seriovt. ITALIAN WARSHIP SUNK. Story of the Sinking of the Rout In Confirmed Today. Constantinople, April 19.—Confir mation was received today of the sinking of the Italian warship dur- we were picked up by the Carpathla j »'ng the, bomnardment of the forts at were the longest and most terrible Koumalke, at the entrance of the that I ever cpeM. ‘ | Dardanelles yesterday. TO BUY EXPRESS COS. A Tllll to Take Them Over liy Gov ernment In Reported. Washington, April 19.—A bill tor the purchase by the government of ( ell “Express Companies was favor* ably reported today by tho com mlttee of. the Interestate and for eign commerce. It provides that l^o prices shal h© fixed by arbitration. who McNAVGHTON IS DENIED. Taft to Talk to Lawyers. Washington, April 19.—President] Taft ha* made arrangement* to go Vo New York tomorrow to apeak at the annual dinner of' the Wretches- *d apostolic delegate to the ter Bar Association. The dinner Is Slates In succession to Cardinal Fal- to be given at Delraonico’s tomorrow onto, departed from Naples today night. ! for New York. Now Trial Before Judge Rawlings l B Swalashora. ' Swalnshoro, April 19.—Judge Rawlings hha denied a new trial to Dr. W. J.’ McNaughlon .under sen tence of death for killing Fred Flanders .of Swalnshoro, by poison ing him. A n extraordinary motion for a new trial war filed by Me- Naughton’a attorney, last week and argued at length. McKaugton la In Jail In Savannah. Ha Is not ap parently east dow n by tha decision of Judge Rawlings, according to new* from’ Savannah. He and hla attorneys aar th, real fight for hla life la to coma In tha Georgia supreme court McNaughlon- la under sentence to be hanged on May 10, bnt the ap peal to the higher court will necco- Ijeltate a respite. Turpentine Market Today. Savannah, G*.. April 19.—Tnr. pentlna unchanged. Rosin |(.40 to mo.