http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0384724
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-10-22
issued: 1912-04-19
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note: Eight pages 50 cents a month VOL. 11 NELSON. B. C. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL .1.9. 1912 APHIC STORIES OF TITANIC DISASTER TOLD BY SURVIVORS is Splendid Discipline as Women Placed in Boats INO ALARM WHEN TITANIC STRUCK Survivors Saw Gigantic Liner Rear on End for Final Plunge—No Panic (Bjl Dally News Leased Wlrcl NEW YOKK, April 18.—Following fs Itbc account of tho Titanic disaster as ■given by Mr. Beustey of London: "The voyage from Qucenslown had Iboen quite uneventful; very fine ■weather was experienced nnd the sea ■Was quite calm. The wind had ..been ■westerly to southwesterly the whole Itime but very cold, particularly the Ilast day; In fact, after dinner on Sun I day evening It wns almost too cold I to be on deck at all. 1 had been in my ■ berth for about 10 minutes when, at I about 11:15, I felt a slight jar and I then soon after a second one, but not [sufficiently to cause any anxiety to 1,'o.nyone, however nervous they may [.have been. However, tho -engines I Btopped immediately afterward and I my first thought was 'She hus lost a I propeller.' I went up on the top J (boat) deck in a dressing gown and I found only a lew people there, who I had come up similarly to inquire as to I why we had stopped, but there was I no sort of anxiety in the mind of I anyone. We saw through the smok- I Ing room window n game of cards go- ling on and. went in to inquire if they I know anything; It seems they had, J felt more of the jar, and looking I through the window hud seen a huge I Iceberg go by close by the side of the I boat. They thought we hud just I grazed It with a glancing blow and I that the engines had been stopped to I see If any damage had been done. No lone, of course, had nny conception Ithat she had been pierced below by ■ part of the submerged Iceberg. The Igume went on without any thought of Idlsaster and then I retired to my cabin | to read until we went on again. I I never saw any of tbe players or the I onlookers again. "A little later, hearing people going…

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