![]() We sighted a bright light soon and we all watched it so anxiously. along, looking for a vessel of some kind and waiting for the dawn. There were three or four young babies there without their mothers, and how they. We had not enough clothes on I had no blouse and others had no stockings or underclothes. We were drifting all amongst the icebergs for hours, and oh it was so cold. How the few men worked on our little boat, and how they kept up I don't know. He swam back through the icy waters and died at his post. He said 'Good-bye boys, I must go with the ship'. They pulled him on, too, but he would not stay. ''Just before the ship went down the Captain, the same Captain Smith of the twin ship Olympic, jumped into the sea and picked up a little girl who was hanging to the ship, and put her on the raft. This man was on it for six hours and then saved. He says the men were pushed off to make it lighter. Only one fellow, about 21 years old, is alive from the raft. Several men were on a raft that was thrown out, and their cries for help were so pitiful for so long. Twenty lifeboats were lowered, and only fourteen boats were picked up. ''There were not enough boats for so many people. There was a sickening roar like hundreds of lions, and we heard no more but THE MOANING AND SHOUTING for help from the hundreds of men and a few women who went down with her. Then the lights went out, and the boilers burst and blew up. ![]() We watched the port holes go under until half the ship, only the back half, stuck up. ''When we got away from the ship we could understand the hurry and the order to get half a mile away as soon as possible. It seemed to be the last one lowered with women in it. They put all ladies and children in first. I thought I should get back to get more clothes on and get a few other things, but we were put into the lifeboats, and pushed off at once. We did not have time to go back to our cabins again to get anything, and we did not dream it was serious. A boy from the next cabin stole one from ours, but he went down with it poor boy. ''Most of the people went back to bed again, but then came an order 'get up and put something warm on, put on a lifebelt and come on deck.' So I got one underskirt on and a skirt, and stockings, and shoes and coat, and ran up to find a lifebelt, because there were only three in our berth for four of us. The men in the next cabin slipped on their coats and ran up to see what it was, and came and told us the ship had run into an iceberg nearly as large as herself. We were all in bed on Sunday night at about 11.30, when we felt an awful jerk, and the boat grazed something along its side, and the sea seemed to splash right over the deck. ''You will like to hear the truth of the wreck from me, for the papers never tell the right news. My nerves are very shattered, I look and feel about ten years older, but I will get over it again after a time. You have seen by the papers the wreck of the Titanic, but after the most terrible time of my life, I am safe. "My dear mother and dad, - I expect you have been wondering whether you would ever hear from me again. The letter, which is dated ''Royal Mail Steamship Carpathia, Tuesday, April 16th, is as follows:. Ramell, coach builder, Dover Road, Folkestone, has sent to her father and mother a thrilling story of the foundering of the Titanic and the manner in which she was rescued. What happened to the Titanic and why is it still famous?. ![]() ![]() How many passengers and crew were there on the Titanic?. ![]()
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