ood-bye to each other and jumped up on the rail.
He put his legs over and held on a minute and asked me if I was coming.
I told him I would be with him in a minute. He did not jump clear, but
slid down the side of the ship. I never saw him again.

"About five seconds after he jumped I jumped out, feet first. I was
clear of the ship; went down, and as I came up I was pushed away from
the ship by some force. I came up facing the ship, and one of the
funnels seemed to be lifted off and fell towards me about 15 yards away,
with a mass of sparks and steam coming out of it. I saw the ship in a
sort of a red glare, and it seemed to me that she broke in two just in
front of the third funnel.

"This time I was sucked down, and as I came up I was pushed out again
and twisted around by a large wave, coming up in the midst of a great
deal of small wreckage. As I pushed my hand from my head it touched the
cork fender of an over-

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SENATORIAL INVESTIGATION--ISMAY ON THE GRILL

J. Bruce Ismay, Managing Director of the........}

turned life-boat. I looked up and saw some men on the top and asked them
to give me a hand. One of them, who was a stoker, helped me up. In a
short time the bottom was covered with about twenty-five or thirty men.
When I got on this I was facing the ship.

{illust. caption = SKETCHES OF THE TITANIC BY "JACK" THAYER

These sketches were outlined by John B. Thayer, Jr., on the day of the
disaster, and afterwards filled in by L. D. Skidmon, of Brooklyn.}

"The stern then seemed to rise in the air and stopped at about an
angle of 60 degrees. It seemed to hold there for a time and then with a
hissing sound it shot right down out of sight with people jumping from
the stern. The stern either pivoted around towards our boat, or we were
sucked towards it, and as we only had one oar we could not keep away.
There did not seem to be very much suction and most of us managed to
stay on the bottom of our boat.

"We were then right in the midst of fairly large wreckage, with people
swimming all around us. The sea was very calm and we kept the boat
pretty steady, but every now and then a wave would wash over it.

SAID THE LORD'S PRAYER

"The assistant wireless operator was right next to me, holding on to
me and kneeling in the water. We all sang a hymn and said the Lord's
Prayer, and then