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Title: Wreck and sinking of the Titanic : the ocean's greatest disaster : a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls : giving exciting excape from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors ; edited by Marshall Everett
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Everett, Marshall
Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) Shipwrecks
Publisher: (S.l. : L.H. Walter)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Photo Underwood & Undftrwond. N. T HOISTING TITANIC LIFEBOAT FILLED WITH RESCUEDABOARD THE CARPATHIA
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HAROLD BRIDEA Titanic wireless operator, being carried ashore from Carpathia.He jumped into the sea and was rescued, but bis feet weredtdly froiti WRECK OF THE TITANIC 49 foot hull, where great plates had been torn apart andhuge rivets were sheared off as though they were somuch cheese. Pumps were started in the engine-room, but thewater poured into the great hull in such torrents throughscores of rents that all knew the fight to save the steam-ship was hopeless. Overhead the wireless buzzed the news to the othersteamships. The little fleet of lifeboats withdrew to asafe distance and the 1,595 left on board with no boatswaited for the merciful death plunge which ended all. WOMEN SAVED FIRST A few spars, a box or two, a few small pieces ofother wreckage, were the only portions of the Titaniccorpse that lived on the water surface to be beheld bythe persons on board the Carpathia when it rushed tothe rescue. It was just breaking day as the rescue workwas completed. So exhausted were the

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