d been supplied them in their need and everything
had been done to make them comfortable. One of the party said that the
collision occurred at 9.45.
Following closely the Cornell party was H. J. Allison of Montreal, who
came to meet his family. One of the party, who was weeping bitterly as
he left the pier, explained that the only one of the family that was
rescued was the young brother.
MRS. ASTOR APPEARED
In a few minutes young Mrs. Astor with her maid appeared. She came down
the gangplank unassisted. She was wearing a white sweater. Vincent Astor
and William Dobbyn, Colonel Astor's secretary, greeted her and
hurried her to a waiting limousine which contained clothing and other
necessaries of which it was thought she might be in need. The young
woman was white-faced and silent. Nobody cared to intrude upon
her thoughts. Her stepson said little to her. He did not feel like
questioning her at such a time, he said.
LAST SEEN OF COLONEL ASTOR
Walter M. Clark, a nephew of the senator, said that he had seen Colonel
Astor put his wife in a boat, after assuring her that he would soon
follow her in another. Mr. Clark and others said that Colonel and Mrs.
Astor were in their suite when the crash came, and that they appeared
quietly on deck a few minutes afterward.
Here and there among the passengers of the Carpathia and from the
survivors of the Titanic the story was gleaned of the rescue. Nothing in
life will ever approach the joy felt by the hundreds who were waiting in
little boats on the spot where the Titanic foundered when the lights of
the Carpathia were first distinguished. That was at 4 o'clock on Monday
morning.
DR. FRAUENTHAL WELCOMED
Efforts were made to learn from Dr. Henry Franenthal{sic} something
about the details of how he was rescued. Just then, or as he was leaving
the pier, beaming with evident delight, he was surrounded by a big crowd
of his friends.
"There's Harry! There he is!" they yelled and made a rush for him.
All the doctor's face that wasn't covered with red beard was aglow
with smiles as his friends hugged him and slapped him on the back. They
rushed him off bodily through the crowd and he too was whirled home.
A SAD STORY
How others followed--how heartrending stories of partings and of
thrilling rescues were poured out in an amazing stream--this has all
been told over and over again in the news that for days amazed, saddened
and angered the entire world. It is t
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