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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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ottom the horrid toll of 1,595 persons. Unequalled in their terrible, thrilling quality, thestories of this disaster; the striking of the iceberg, theloading of the boats, the agonized farewell, the madleaps into the sea, the fearful hours upon the waterbefore rescue, and the bitter revelations of those lost,all these things stir the heart to sympathy and the con- 26 WRECK OF THE TITANIC science to a demand for lawful, law enforced safeguardsthat shall prevent another such grim tragedy. These murdered hundreds were merely another in-stance of the innocent sacrifices offered to the god ofcommercial profit. Some day, it is written, we shallcease this heathen worship; we shall demand proper pre-cautions for our people, even though it be at the expenseof a few paltry dollars. The time is now. Laws shall be made and laws shall be enforced, andthe future millions shall go to sea in ships providedwith adequate safeguards. This is the service per-formed for us by these martyrs of the Titanic.
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—Cleveland Plain Dealer Waiting in Suspense CHAPTER III SPUR OF ICEBERG RIPPED OPENBOTTOM OF THE nr^iVIC Gigantic Vessel Literally Disemboweled by Sub-merged Floe While Speeding—Little ShockWas Felt—Passengers for Half an HourBelieved Damage Was Slight and Took ThingsCalmly—Many Were in Their Staterooms. It was the submerged spur of an iceberg of ordinaryproportions that sent the White Star liner Titanic morethan two miles to the bottom of the Atlantic off thebanks of Newfoundland. The vessel was steamingalmost full tilt through a gently swelling sea and undera starlit sky, in charge of First Officer Murdock, who amoment after the collision surrendered the command toCapt. Smith, who went down with his boat. The lifeboats that were launched were not filled totheir capacity. The general feeling aboard the ship was,even after the boats had left its sides, that the vesselwould survive its wound, and the passengers who wereleft aboard believed almost up to the last moment thatthey

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