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"Our steamer was hove to about two and a half miles from the edge of
this huge iceberg. The Titanic struck about 11.20 P. M. and did not go
down until two o'clock. Many of the passengers were in evening dress
when they came aboard our ship, and most of these were in a most
bedraggled condition. Near me as I write is a girl about eighteen years
old in a fancy dress costume of bright colors, while in another seat
near by is a women in a white dress trimmed with lace and covered with
jaunty blue flowers.

"As the boats came alongside after the first two all of them contained
a very large proportion of women. In fact, one of the boats had women
at the oars, one in particular containing, as near as I could estimate,
about forty-five women and only about six men. In this boat two women
were handling one of the oars. All of the engineers went down with the
steamer. Four bodies have been brought aboard. One is that of a fireman,
who is said to have been shot by one of the officers because he refused
to obey orders. Soon after I got on deck I could, with the aid of my
glasses, count seven boats headed our way, and they continued to come up
to half past eight o'clock. Some were in sight for a long time and
moved very slowly, showing plainly that the oars were being handled by
amateurs or by women.

"No baggage of any kind was brought by the survivors. In fact, the only
piece of baggage that reached the Carpathia from the Titanic is a small
closed trunk about twenty-four inches square, evidently the property of
an Irish female immigrant. While some seemed fully dressed, many of
the men having their overcoats and the women sealskin and other coats,
others came just as they had jumped from their berths, clothed in their
pajamas and bath robes."

THE SORROW OF THE LIVING

Of the survivors in general it may be said that they escaped death and
they gained life. Life is probably sweet to them as it is to everyone,
but what physical and mental torture has been the price of life to those
who were brought back to land on the Carpathia--the hours in life-boats,
amid the crashing of ice, the days of anguish that have succeeded, the
horrors of body and mind still experienced and never to be entirely
absent until death affords them its relief.

The thought of the nation to-day is for the living. They need our
sympathy, our consolation more than do the dead, and, perhaps, in the
majority of the cases they need our protecting care a