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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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Major Butt; but women will be at-tended to first or Ill break every damned bone in yourbody. The boats were lowered away one by one, and as Istood by my husband he said to me, Thank God forArchie Butt. Perhaps Major Butt heard it, for heturned his face toward us for a second. Just at thattime a young man was arguing to get into a lifeboat,and Butt had hold of the lad by the arm like a bigbrother and appeared to be telling him to keep his head. How inspiring he was. I stayed until almost thelast and know what a man Archie Butt was. They putme in a collapsible boat. I was one of three women in 72 WRECK OF THE TITANIC the first cabin in the thing; the rest were steerage peo-ple. Major Butt helped those poor, frightened steer-age people so wonderfully, tenderly and yet with such£ool and manly firmness. He was a soldier to the last.He was one of Gods greatest noblemen, and I thinkI can say he was an example of bravery even to the offi-cers of the ship. He gave up his life to save others.
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The Eternal Collision CHAPTER IX THRILLING EXPERIENCES OFSURVIVORS Marvelous Behavior of Men Passengers—A Swed«isH Officer^s Story—Discipline Maintained toTHE End first woman in LIFEBOATS Mrs. Dickinson Bishop, of Detroit, said:I was the first woman in the first boat. I was in theboat four hours before being picked up by the CarpathianI was in bed at the time the crash came, got up anddressed and went back to bed, being assured there wasno danger. There were very few passengers on the deckwhen I reached there. There was httle or no panic, andthe disciphne of the Titanics crew was perfect. ThankGod my husband was saved also. . P. D. Daly of England said he was above deck Aand that he was the last man to scramble into the col-lapsible boat. He said that for six hours he was wetto his waist with the icy waters that filled the boat nearlyto the gunwales. MEN PRAISED BY WOMAN One of the few women able to give an account ofthe disaster was Miss Cornelia Andrews of Hudson, 73 74 WRECK O

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