four of the poor fellows who succeeded
in safely getting away from the doomed vessel only to perish later from
exhaustion and exposure as a result of their gallant efforts to bring
to safety the passengers placed in their charge in the life-boats. They
were:

"W. H. Hoyte, Esq., first class passenger.

"Abraham Hornner, third class passenger.

"S. C. Siebert, steward.

"P. Lyons, sailor.

"The sailor and steward were unfortunately dead when taken aboard. The
passengers lived but a few minutes after. They were treated with the
greatest attention. The funeral service was conducted amid profound
silence and attended by a large number of survivors and rescuers. The
bodies, covered by the national flag, were reverently consigned to the
mighty deep from which they had been, alas, vainly, saved.

"Most gratifying to the officers and men of the Carpathia is the
constantly expressive appreciation of the survivors."

He then told of the meeting of the survivors in the cabin of the
Carpathia and of the resolution adopted, a statement of which has
already been given in another chapter.

CHAPTER XIX. HOW THE WORLD RECEIVED THE NEWS

NATIONS PROSTRATE WITH GRIEF--MESSAGES FROM KINGS AND
CARDINALS--DISASTER STIRS WORLD TO NECESSITY OF STRICTER REGULATIONS

YOUNG and old, rich and poor were prostrated by the news of the
disaster. Even Wall Street was neglected. Nor was the grief confined
to America. European nations felt the horror of the calamity and sent
expressions of sympathy. President Taft made public cablegrams received
from the King and Queen of England, and the King of Belgium, conveying
their sympathy to the American people in the sorrows which have followed
the Titanic disaster. The President's responses to both messages were
also made public.

The following was the cablegram from King George, dated at Sandringham:

"The Queen and I are anxious to assure you and the American nation of
the great sorrow which we experienced at the terrible loss of life
that has occurred among the American citizens, as well as among my own
subjects, by the foundering of the Titanic. Our two countries are
so intimately allied by ties of friendship and brotherhood that any
misfortunes which affect the one must necessarily affect the other, and
on the present terrible occasion they are both equally sufferers.

"GEORGE R. AND I."

President Taft's reply was as follows:

"In the presence of the appalling disaster to the