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205 TITANIC VICTIMS FOUNDBODIES OF COL. ASTOR. ISIDORE STRAUS AND C. M. HAYS RECOVERED.MANY ARE IDENTIFIEDNAMES OF NINETY-ONE PERSONS REPORTED BY CABLE SHIP MACKAY-BENNETT.Western Newspaper t'vilnsi NVw* Service.Now ork.—The bodies of Colonel John Jacob Astor and Isidore Straus, the millionaire merchant of this city, who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster, have been recovered and are on board the cable ship Mackay-Bennett. News of the recovery of the bodies was contained in a dispatch to the White Star Line Company.The body of C. M. Hays, president of .he Grand Trunk Hallway, has also been recovered according to a wireless message from the cable ship Minia.The wireless dispatch which came lo the company from the Mackay-Ben-nett gives the additional identification of forty-nine of the heretofore unknown recovered dead on the cable ship. Of the 205 dead on board the Mackay-Bennett the names of ninety-one have been sent ashore by wire-; less.Washington.—Ablaze with light fnai her salon and cabins, the Titanic 1 dashed full speed to her destruction, according to Ernest Gill, a donkey engine man on the steamship Californian, who testified before the Sena'e committee Investigating the disaster.He said Captain Stanley Lord of the Californian refused later to go to .lie aid of the Titanic, the rockets from which could be plainly seen.This, Captain I^ord denied; but both he and his wireless operator acknowledged having seen rockets. Their ship, they said, was fast in the ice.Gill submitted an affidavit to the committee, and when sworn and put on the stand stuck to his charges against the captain of the Californian.He said he was standing on the deck late Sunday night when he sighted a great ship, sweeping along at top speed, about ten miles off. He did not know it. was the Titanic, but made out readily that It was not a freighter or • a small vessel because of the manner in which it was illuminated.Some time later he saw distress rockets on the horizon. He says the captain was apprised of these signals, but made no effort to get up steam and go to the rescue. The Californian was drifting with the floe. So indignant did he become, said Gill, that he endeavored to recruit a committee of pro- 1 test from among the crew, but the m*n failed him.Captain Ijord entered a sweeping denial of Gill's accusations and read from the Californian's log to support his contention.Cyral Evans, the Californian's wireless operator, however, told of having heard much talk among the crew, who criticised the captain's course. Gill, he said, told him he expected to get 3500 for his story when the ship reached Boston.Evans told of having warned the i i-tanic only a brief time before the great vessel crashed into the berg that the sea was crowded with ice.The Titanic's operators, he said, at the time were working with the wireless station at Cape Race, and they told him to ‘‘shut up and keep out. Within a half hour the pride of the sea was crumpled up and sinking.It developed that one reform which Is certain to spring from the investigation will be enforced in the wireless rooms of ships entering or leaving American ports. This concerns lack of authority over the operators’ pay, hours and freedom from responsibility as brought out by the testimony io date. Senator Smith, its chairman, announced that sueh legislation wasinevitable.A sworn statement that the captain of the liner Californian refused to go to the aid of the Titanic, although only a few miles away, was filed with the committee by Ernst Gill, donkey engineman on the Californian. Gill said that the distress rockets were plainly visible from the deck of the Californian, aiul must have been visi-ble to both the bridge and the look out.
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The Springfield Herald
Springfield, Colorado, US
Fri, May 03, 1912
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