. J. J. Brown,
who had cowed the driveling quartermaster, said:

"Then, knowing that we were safe at last, I looked about me. The most
wonderful dawn I have ever seen came upon us. I have just returned from
Egypt. I have been all over the world, but I have never seen anything
like this. First the gray and then the flood of light. Then the sun came
up in a ball of red fire. For the first time we saw where we were. Near
us was open water, but on every side was ice. Ice ten feet high was
everywhere, and to the right and left and back and front were icebergs.
Some of them were mountain high. This sea of ice was forty miles wide,
they told me. We did not wait for the Carpathia to come to us, we rowed
to it. We were lifted up in a sort of nice little sling that was lowered
to us. After that it was all over. The passengers of the Carpathia
were so afraid that we would not have room enough that they gave us
practically the whole ship to ourselves."

It had been learned that some of the passengers, in fact all of the
women passengers of the Titanic who were rescued, refer to "Lady
Margaret," as they called Mrs. Brown as the strength of them all.

TRANSFERRING THE RESCUED

Officers of the Carpathia report that when they reached the scene of
the Titanic's wreck there were fifty bodies or more floating in the
sea. Only one mishap attended the transfer of the rescued from the
life-boats. One large collapsible life-boat, in which thirteen persons
were seated, turned turtle just as they were about to save it, and all
in it were lost.

THE DOG HERO

Not the least among the heroes of the Titanic disaster was Rigel, a big
black Newfoundland dog, belonging to the first officer, who went down
with the ship. But for Rigel the fourth boat picked up might have been
run down by the Carpathia. For three hours he swam in the icy water
where the Titanic went down, evidently looking for his master, and was
instrumental in guiding the boatload of survivors to the gangway of the
Carpathia.

Jonas Briggs, a seaman abroad the Carpathia, now has Rigel and told
the story of the dog's heroism. The Carpathia was moving slowly about,
looking for boats, rafts or anything which might be afloat. Exhausted
with their efforts, weak from lack of food and exposure to the cutting
wind and terror-stricken, the men and women in the fourth boat had
drifted under the Carpathia's starboard bow. They were dangerously close
to the steamship, but too weak t