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H,.- The Great Liner Titanic Went Down With Her Band Playing A despatch from New York says : The C'unard linear Carpathia, a ship of gloom and succor, came into New York on Thursday night with first news direct from the great White Star liner Titanic, which aank off the Grand Banks of New- foundland early on Monday morn- Ing, the lath in*t. The great liner went down with he? >and playing, taking with her ta death all but 745 of her human cargo o 3.340 souls. SIX OF RESCUED DIED. To this awiil death list six per- sons wc,re a<lded. Oa sJied in the life-boats which were pat off from the liner's side and five subsequent- ly succumbed on the rescue ship Carpathia. * The list of prominent men missing stands as previously reported, and the total death list, as brought to port Thursday night by the Carpathia, is 1,601. Survivors in the lifeboats hud- dled in the darkness* at a safe dis- tance from the stricken ship and saw her go down. As to the scene on board when the liner struck, ac- counts disagree widely. Some maintain that a comparative calm prevailed ; others say that wild dis- order broke out and that there was a maniacal struggle for the life- boats. That the liner struck an ice- berg, as reported by wireless, was confirmed by all. SENSATIONAL RUMOItS. Sensational rumors told by hys- terical passengers who would not give their namo, said that Captain Smith had killed himself on the bridge ; that the chief engineer had taken his life, and that three Ital- ians were shot in the struggle for the boats. These rumors could not bo confirmed in the early confusion attendant upon the landing of the survivors. Ripped from stein to engine-room by the yjreat mass of ice she struck amidships the, Titani^'s side was laid open as if by a gigantic can- opener. She quickly listed to star- board and a shower of ice fell to the forecastle deck. TITANIC BROKE IN TWO. Shortly before she sank she broke in two abaft the engine room, and as she disappeared beneath the wa- ter the expulsion of air caused two expli.siuns which were plainly heard by the survivors adrift. A moment more and the Titanic had gone to her doom with the fated hundreds grouped on the after deck. To the survivors they were visible to the last, am! their cries and moans were pitiable. GRAPHIC STORY. E. Z. Taylor, of Philadelphia, one of the survivors, jumped into the ea just three minuses before the boat sank. He told a graphic story as he came from the Carpathia. point of sinking with thirty passen- gers aboard, most of them in scant night clothing. They were rescued just in the nick of time. Some died on the way to the Carpathia. HOW CAPT. SMITH DIED. Geo. A. Brayden told of how Cap- tain Smith met his death. "I saw Captain Smith while I was in the water. He was standing on tho deck all alone. Once, he was swept down by a wave, but managed to g'et his feet. Then, as the boat 'Sank, he again was knocked down by a wave, and this time disappear- ed from view." ELEVEN^MONTREALERS LOST. A despatch from Montreal says : It is now certain that eleven Mont- re,.:ers los-t their lives on the Titan- ic. Owing to their prominence in the financial, u'-justrial and socinl life of Montreal, the -nhole, .city is plunged into mourning. Following is the latest revised list of those lost and those saved : THE LOST. Mr. C'has. M. Hays. Mr. H. Markland Molson. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. C. AllisoT and daughter, Lorraine. Mr. Thornton Davidson. Mr. Quigley Baxter. Mr. Vivian Payne. Mr. R. J. Levy. Miss Anne Perrault. Mrs. Hays' maid. THE SURVIVORS. Mrs. C. M. Hays. Mrs. Thornton Davidson. Mrs. James Baxter,. Mrs. Frederick C. Douglas. Hudson Trevor Allison. Eleven months' old son of Mr. H. J. Allison. 'I was eating when the boat etruek the iceberg." he said. "There was an awful shock that nude the boat tremble from stem to stern. I did not -realize for some time what had happened. No one seemed to know the extent of the accident. We were, told that an iceberg had been struck by the ship. I felt the boat rise, and it seemed to me that she was riding over the ice. I ran out on de<;k and then I could sec ice. "It was a veritable sea of ice, and the boat was rocking over it. I horld say that parts of the iceberg wro eighty feot high, but it had been broken into sections, probably by our ship. "I jumped into the ocean aiul was picked up by one of the boats. I GEO. E. GRAHAM LOST. A despatch from Toronto says: A private wire from New York on Thursday night from Mr. Harry McGee. of the T. Eaton Company, Mated that Mr. George E. Graham, buyer for the T. Katon Company, was not on the Carpathia, and was to be numbered amongst those drowned" The word was received by the late Mr. Graham's brother, who lives in Toronto. In the list of survivors as received by wireless Mr. Graham was mentioned as among those saved. OFFICIAL INQUIRY. New York, April 10. The official Government inquiry into the wreck of the Titanic began thi.s .afternoon at the Waldorf-Astoria, with Sena- tor William A '.Jen Smith of -Michi- gan as Chairman of tb'> United Si. -ites committee conducting the injiiiry. The first witness called was J. Bruce Ismay, President of the In- ternational Mercantile Marine. He was severely interrogated by the members of the Investigating Com- mittee. Though obviously ill, he answered .every question succinctly. He said he always accompanied his company's liners on their maiden voyages. Hc was in bed when the collision took place and did not see the iceberg. "How long did you remain on the injured ship?" he was asked. "That would be hard to esti- mate,'' he re .piu;..led. ''Almost un- til she sank. Probably an hour and a quarter." Describing how he left the Ti- tanic, Mr. Ismay said he only look- ed round once. The boat was afloat at that time. "I did not want to see her fro down. 1 was rowing in the life- boat all the time until we were Captain, "the whole thing. Our wireless operator was not on duty, but as he was undressing he had the apparatus to his ear. Two min- utes more he w--iild have been in bed, and we n^er would have heard." Senator Newlands asked about the lifeboats at great length. "Take the Titanic," he said, "whose tonnage is three times that of the Carpathia ; how many addi- tional lifeboats could she accommo- date without inconvenience?" "I don't know the ship," said Captain Rostron, "but if she couldn't carry moi\j than twenty she could be made to." Questioned as to the Titanic's la- titude Captain Rostron said : "She was in what we call the southerly route to avoid icebergs." "Do you think that the route is a practical one?" "Quite so, but this is a notable exception." "Would you regard the course taken by the Titanic in this trial trip as appropriate, safe and wise at this time of year?" th.3 Senator continued. "Quite so." "What would be a safe, reason- able speed for a ship of that size and in that course?" "I did not know the ship," the Captain said, "and therefore, can- not tell. I had seen no ice be-fore the Titanic signalled us, and I knew from her message that there was ice to be encountere-d. But the Carpathia went full speed ahead. I had extra officers on watch and some others volunteered to watch ahead throughout the trip." Captain Roatron waa asked about CUSTOMS RKVE>TE. Increase in (.'oiled ions of Twelve C'itii's Lust War. A despatch" from Ottawa says : The official comparative statement of the Customs revenue of the twelve largest ports of the Domin- ion for the fiscal years ending March, 1911, and March, 1912, shows tremendous gains made by all the great ports of entry in the country. Strikingly large gains 'S Dramatic Story Told by Bride, the Young Operator York, April 21. The corn- devoted its entire day to an nave""been mad"-' by^WimlipVand j investigation of the connection, of Vancouver, and Fort William is th wireless with the disaster. H. this year for the first time number T - Cottam, the operator on the ed among the twelve largest ports, Carpathia, was the first witness, replacing St. John, N. B., which ' Senator Smith sought to establish has been forced out of the running. certain testimony he had given on The comparative statement foi- , the stand yesterday, and this soon lows, the first mentioned figures qtl was ended. Then came the "star' 1 each city being those for 1910-1911 ! witness of the day. and the second for 1911-1912: Seated in an invalid s chair, Montreal $18,330,183.22 $19,9o5,5S9.75 Bride was wheeled to the end of the long table at which the committee sat. He was hollow-cheeked and -.' irtfimf Vancouver Halifax . Windsor Victoria Calvary Qiiolwc Fort William Ottawa 5.499.7J6.65 7,221,682.1* 1.443,720.51 1.539,875.87 Z.117,luV.S9 1,560,069.09 i'.265,457!J7 Not among the first twelve. 117.18 1.549.712 >1 1.474.5i8.-;0 WHOLE FAMILY WIPED OTT. I-'levei! Members of One Household on Titanic. wan, and had just come from a phy- sician's care. His hands were nev- er quiet and he locked and hiter- i.ji.;i.>,9 1 i^^d hi,. nn g ers incessantly. Like Cottam, who is twenty-thre? years old, Bride is merely a hoy, a year younger than Cottam. Neither had any telegraphic experience previous to taking up wireless tele- graphy, and both told tales of I 13 hours at low wages and days a . nights spent without sleep. Their inexperience and the me:: A despatch from London says : tal condition of the young opera John Sage, who caine to England tors were the two points on which from Saskatchewan three months Senator Smith bore penristently. ago to fetch his wife and family ' : He had put Cottam through a back to Canada, is believed Lo have perished in the Titanic wreck with his wife and nine ohildreu. grueling examination, in which I youth testified that he had not slept more tha.i oi^ht or ten hours be- THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS OF THE STEAMSHIP TITANIC m never expected to see. land again.; , ii i .v L. ji. picked up, hc continued-. I waited on board the boat until the * T J_'_ : ., iV _ lights went out. It seemed to mo that the discipline- on wonderful." board was HEROIC CONDUCT. A young English woman, who re- quested that her name be omitted, Mr. Ismay said there was n<i ev- plosion on board. He estimated the speed of- the ship when she struck at twenty-one knots. If the ship had struck head-on she would have floated. C'apt. Rostron of the C.arp.ithi-i said that when thev found the Ti- the lifeboat with but one officer and one seaman in it. This was tho boat from which Reprisentative James A. Hughes' daughter, Mrs. L. P. Smith, was rescued. At least two women were rowing in this boat. In another lifeboat he saw women at the oars, but how many he could not tell. One boat was described as overcrowded, having on board the passengers wrecked lifeboat. from a (HTIDIIM HIT BKR. Slcamor W.-s Run Into Shoal Water Before She Sank. A dospatch fr nn Flcnsbtirg, Prussia, says: The steamer Occi- dent collided with an iceberg in the Baltic Sea off Riga. Her entire bow was shattered, but her managed to run water before she her into began to shoal sink. and her passengers and crew vvre safely taken off. FIRK AT BOYS' 110MK. SiiperiiUpiidonC's llesidonpe mid a New Barn Destroyed. A despatch from Shawbridge, Que.,. says: The Shawbridge Boys' Farm and Home here, the Protest- ant Reformatory of the district, was attacked by fire on Wednes- day, and the residence of the sup- erintendent, Mr. G. M. Marshall, and the new barn destroyed. The loss is $5.000, partly covered \>\ < su ranee. fought the fire, pwve.it' m ii fr ' n Rp_readii!u; to other buildings. All the live stock was saved from the barn. The earliest mention of coal ip in the writings ' of Thoophrastus, a Greek philosopher, who lived about 300 B.C. And if some i?irls never married llvy would never get over being .itic. twoeii Sunday night when the Ti- tanic called for help, and Thurs- day night, when the v>sel docked here with its load of unnerved men and hysterical women. Br.de 's. story was one that bore out vividly all that Cottam's had established, except that his was one of nervous strain and worry an*l high-keyed suspense. *THE FINAL SCENE. and proceeded to his bridge. Then we began to unofficially keep in communication with the Carpathia. ALMOST A PANIC. "From time to time either Mr. Phillips or I would go on deck to observe the situation. The last time I went on deck I found the passengers running around in con- fusion and there was almost a pan- ic. They wore seeking for life- boats. All of the large lifeboats were gone, but there was one life- raft remaining. It had been lashed on the top of the quarters on the boat deck. A number of men were striving to launch it. "I went back to the wireless oa- bin then. Mr. Phillips was striving to send out a final 'C.Q.D.' call. The power was y<j low that we could not tell exactly whether it was be- incc carried m 1 not, for we were in i closed cabin and we could not hear ilie crackle, of the wireless at the mast. Phillips kept on send- ing, however, while I buckled on lii.^ lifebelt and put on my own. Then we both cared for a woman who h;;d faLiU-d and who had been brought into our cabin. LAST SIGHT OF CAPT. SMITH. ''Then, about ten minutes before (he ship sunk, Captain Smith gave word for everyone to look to hia own safety. I sprang to aid tho" men struggling to launch the life- raft, and we had succeeded in get- ting to the edge of the boat when a giant wave carried it away. I went with it and found myself un- deriH-ath. Struggling through an eternity I finally emerged, and was swimming 100 feet from the Titanic^- when she went down. I felt no suc- tion as the vessel plunged. "I did not see Mr. Ismay at all. Captain Smith stuck to the bruise. and, turning. I saw him jumping just as the vessel glided into 'I 1 !!- depths. He had ii"t donned a life- belt, so far as 1 could see. and went down with the ^hip." The witness shoSvocl so plainly the iiHMit-i! "id phvsical strain un- der whi'.-h he was laboring lint both Seuai.irii Ncwla-ids a. id Reed i Se !'ii,.!- Smith t<i axe him. \t'ti->- ii f.-v. Mi.ire i'llen tkms Senator .SmJ'i did MI. "I rerei extremely having had to subject ynn to "i-h a.i ird'-a!," he said, nddvessini; IJriile, "lie- cause- of your n. I would i\ ;!ed it 'i possible, but ilie tha'ik-.i y<ui m ist heart- ily for the forbearance you '' slnrtvn nn<! the frankno.-s of your ;noliv." -* <;. T. P. PAKTI.Y OPKK.UKD. Nearly Five Hundred Miles nf (!)< Ititail Is Now Oncnril. A despatch from dtir-. L Bays: Between the en-tern :: ; ' we-stori ends of the O'r:in:! Trunk Pacific Railway, so far .;.'is=.tniet.-<l, tlu-rn is a gap of lyO miles U;II.M >\ ii i rails are yet to be laid 'o complete tho 1'ne throiiL'h (o the l':n i,- coast. This ii the rep .i-t which is brought buck by Coiling* '! Under insistent. if''' tiomng, The "bovs" turned out :nd Bride. began 1 that he I for the Government, 'run a tour told a thrilling story of her experi- tanic's boats they were in the ence in one of the collapsible boats 5eld. which had been manned by eight of j "By the time I Rot the boats the crew from the Titanic. The ; aboard day was breaking. On all boat was in command of the fifth j s jd es O f , ls Xve! . e iceberg, some officer, H. Lowe., whom she stated twenty were 150 to 20(1 feet high and saveJ the lives of many people. Before the lifeboat was launched, * passed along the port deck of the i .HM-, commanding the people there were numerous small or 'growlers.' Wreckage was strewn about us," he said. The committee is seokin.n to ]in>\ ; > not to jump in the boats and other- that thp T ; tanic : s boats belonged \tri c^i i'i,c r 1*11 1 1 1 11 r -t- n ft in T i. irr tu* i vi*i _ wise restraining them from swamp- ing the craft. When the collapsible was launched. Officer Lowe succeed- ed in putting up a mast and a small jail. He collccte-d'the other boats together. In Some cases the boats wen- short of adequate crews, and he directed an exchange by which each was adequately manned. He threw lines connecting the boats to- gether, two by two, and all thus moved together. Later on lie went back to the wreck with the crew of one of the, boats and succeeded in picking up some of those who had jumped overboard and were swim- ming about. On his way back to the Carpathia he passed ore of the I to another vessel. Asked concern- ing this, ('apt. Rostron said they were towed away last night; where he did not know. "What was the last message you got from the Titanic?" asked a Senat-of, "The last message was, 'Ivigine- room HP.irly full of water.' " In discussing the strength of the Carpathia's wireless, Captain Kos- tron said the Carpathia was only fifty-eight miles from the Titanic when the call for help cam*?. "Providential:" exclaimed Rep- resentative Hughes, no longer able to control his emotion. collapsible boats which waa on the "Providential," repeated the WHS OF THE. TITANIC Prof Wood Holds It Improbable Bodies Will Come To Surface A ..'es|ialch fr&m Ij.iltiniore says : j victims who were not carried down "Tho bof! ; es of the victims of the j with the boat followed until the very Tiiu'iie disaster are at the bot'oni ! bottom of the sea was reached. collap::r. 10 Se!':i;. >; Smith ended the wireless i.'i'jiie n .> i :n .( i|iie:-it.!of>ej him illiolit, the :"uial scenes aboard ti'o Tit mi. . Hride and his superior, Phillips, were among the last, to le.ne and were witnesses of the closing scenes on the boat-deck, the topmost of the deep, never to leave it," de- clared Prof. Robert W. Wood, of the chair of experimental ph\ -i< :. of Johns Hopkins University, on Wednesday. "It is altogether im- Thc.re was no such thing as their stopping in their downward com SB ! confusion a half miK a mile, or at any other ! ',",'"' '' point. "Great changes have necessarily dcck of the lost ship. Bride's story WM-- fri.unieutary. because it \* i drawn from a memory Unit had not, ceased to -ee the actual livinu; hor- r n-^f it. Without Senator Smith's interrogations, it ran about as fol- lows : ' We 'I'd not feel the shock when the ship struck. In fact, i *was asleep at the time and was not ovo i awakened by the impact. \\lio i ',he engines stopped, Mr. Phillips called me, and 1 put on the '. i j <' ph me apparatus while ho went out to see what wa:- the troiiMi-. A little later he came buck. H<; snid things looked '(pieer.' Hy 'ijiu-er' I suppose he meant that <;vervtlii.]g was not as it should be. "At this lime, however, neither of us worried a hit. When h:> htvlid Ml the deek I Wrllt -Ml ind when I returned as !-|;.p.'ct !"!! "f the (.!. T. I'. Mr. Bchrieber went through far as Tel;- .Iciin'ie Cache, a point fifty miles bevolid, the Yellowhoad I'-i .-. The line is now railed foi J7S miles '-'. I'klnionto;!- iiaiiic- ly. l;> a point 30 miles wrsi of Yel- lowhejul. From Prince Rupert e:!stv. M id rails are lax! for a dis- i.nee .if HM miles. The int.'i'\ K.'ip docs not present any very dif- fie'.lll engineer"!;; 1 problems. In f'let, I fniind Mr. Phillips n<::ldi!U[ out ai y,!),,., Mr. Sc-lii-"il)er says, it is probably t'ie li ; ;lite<t seetion of the mountain district. From the western U-nimi- in of steel radiii!{ is completed for a further dist:i'iee of >;> miles, over which portioi! 01" tin: line trac'c -lay- ing sh.iiild l)e finis'ncil iiv ihe . n I of this month. Beyo'id Thai, are some oi.uhl -leajn at work ii)>on the grading. At ihc tilhi'r end the contractors are work- ing iij) to the -j-ifith mile cast, ol I'r'iuv Rupert, or within :i mile or two of the villnse "t' A'llerme.'e. While there !ipj:e:irs lo be no .actual ncarcity of labor, the contraclois are -.iniewluu linmpei cil li\- its un- settled co'id<rion. "The me' i oon) and go in hundreds." said Mr. probable that any of the oorpnea I been wrought in the vessel itself by ^ i; raised the Frank, will ever return to the surface of | the enormous pressure i.o which it j then the C:irpat hia :ii I me enormous pres t.he water, as is the case'with bod- has been subjected. ies drowned 'in shallow water. At No effect was the depth of two miles the pn>s:,uve of til-" \v:iler is soinethintt like ti.OOO pounds to the. square inch, which is fir too great to be overcome bv bnovanc.v ordinarily given drown'-d bodies by the gases that, arc gener- ated in lime. "That the bodies sank to the bot torn of the <. -i there is no .ues- tion," he continued. "The Tita.nic's produced on a:'iy portion or com partment or room to whose inside as well as outside walls the \vatiM- has access. In such instances the pressure from one side neutralized that from the other. Hut wherever there was an air-tight or water- j',i\ ins mi 1 position. Frankfurt first TK! iid the Mii'tV. 1 have said, we did not t r\ fov the Frankfurt for any length of lime, but oone:>n! riled our the Grand 'I'nink Paci- fic is now being operated for public trnflie from Wi nnipeu, to l'it/h.i!? ! i. :1 dislauee ..i I .o_s miles, .n ,]ir : i !'! end. and Hi) miles, from Prince Kupert at tho west .'nd. 'i'i!s sa-cs on the CarpaMiia. which had miteage does no1 figure in the .,f answered that she was nwhing to. 4 i*l statistics of completed r.ai 1 - iid "The "Hptain cuiiH' int. i the wire- less e.'jhin from the deck who.i i'ie way. The reason is that the road tight coinpartment the 0,000 pounds | Carpal h:a adxised us ".i her posi- to a square inch pi'essuiv of water | t! m, :nv.! (inured out the i nnr when had crumpled those wall.-, of i'le.t.lni nessel iir. lialir. wn'.i'd -irrive. vessel as if they were tissue paper." ( Ho left wh?n that, was disjms.-d of being not as ihe ....,111- . pany's line, but in ihe public : nte.-- <.-! -is a contractor's unfinished road, that, \ii-i\t-j, Hie e\'eui ,,f 1),.. permission granted by tha Govern- ment.