Titanic: One Newspaper, Seven Days, and the Truth That Shocked the World by Stephen Hines

Author:Stephen Hines
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Electronic Books, 20th Century, Modern, General, History
ISBN: 9781402256677
Publisher: Cumberland House
Published: 2011-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Slowly, and with her speed continually decreasing as New York came nearer, the Carpathia advanced to port. The reporters refrained from the futile task of hurling questions at the silent and sorrowful ship, and were soon left behind in the gloom. They lingered long enough, however, to see the rescuing ship before the rest of New York, and also to see the weeping and sobbing women on deck.

Some of the Carpathia’s saloon passengers had left the upper deck, and were visiting the disconsolate steerage passengers from the Titanic. To some, however, who had lost their husbands, and others who had lost brothers or children, human consolation just then seemed little worth while. One had a glimpse of a richly-clad lady trying to cheer up a poor stricken woman from the Titanic with words of sympathy, and herself breaking down and sobbing.

Strangers in a strange land, it is hard for emigrants to disembark at New York cheerfully at the best of times, and the sorrows of the Titanic’s rescued passengers had accumulated beyond measure. Men who saw the Slocum burn to the water’s edge in the East River, New York, and heard the cries of burning women and children were present in the newspaper boat at the meeting with the Carpathia at sea to-day, and the first glance of the stricken people on the lower deck revived the same pangs of anguish and feelings of helpless commiseration. One consolation remains. New York has risen to the emergency in a manly way, and the survivors of all ranks will find themselves amongst a host of earnest friends and generous helpers as soon as they put foot on American soil.

That the Carpathia is practically a hospital ship is indicated by the scraps of information caught indirectly by the wireless operator at Norfolk, Virginia, early to-day. Some 175 women rescued from the Titanic, according to the report, are confined to their cabins, and had not left the same since they were picked up frantic terror-stricken, and suffering from exposure in the Titanic’s lifeboats. Many of the survivors were in an hysterical state from being bereft of their husbands or other loved ones, and were constantly under the care of the ship’s surgeons, some in delirium, while others had not recovered from the rigours of eight hours 25 in the lifeboats on a cold and foggy sea. Cases of pneumonia are mentioned, and children lying almost at death’s-door.

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