Identifier: wrecksinkingofti00ever (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
e doctors were throughwith him. JUMPED FROM THE DECK Storekeeper Prentice, the last man off the Titanicto reach the Carpathia, swam about in the icy water forhours, but soon was restored. He said he had leapedfrom the Titanic^s poop deck. Mrs. James Baxter and her daughter, Mrs. P. C.Douglas of Montreal, Canada, when rescued were wear-ing the evening dresses that they had on at the Sundaynight concert on the Titanic, having lost all their otherwearing apparel. A ROMANCE OF THE WRECK In the midst of death and horror, Cupid played alittle game and won. One of the girl survivors of the Titanic, MissMarion Wright of Somerset, England, was married inNew York the day after landing, to Arthur Woolcottof Cottage Grove, Ore. She came alone from her homein England to meet her fiance and he had been in New WRECK OF THE TITANIC 109 iYork for nearly a week anxiously awaiting her arrival.The pair were schoolmates in England and becameengaged before Mr. Woolcott left to become an Oregonfruit grower.
Text Appearing After Image:
Gettin* the Lesson —Indianapolis Newa HYMN FOR SURVIVORS OF THE TITANIC By Hall Caine To the tune of *God, Our Help in Ages Past.Lord of the everlasting hills,God of the boundless sea,Help us through all the shocks of fateTo keep our trust in Thee. When natures unrelenting arm Sweep us like withes away.Maker of man, be Thou our strength And our eternal stay. When blind, insensate, heartless force Puts out our passing breath.Make us to see Thy guiding light. In darkness and in death. Beneath the roll of soundless waves Our best and bravest lie;Give us to feel their spirits live Immortal in the sky. We are Thy children, frail and small, Formed of the lowly sod.Comfort our bruised and bleeding souls. Father and Lord and God. 110 CHAPTER XV THE TERROR OF THE SEAS By Fred S. Miller. There is one, and but one, danger to navigationagainst which the ingenuity of navigators is absolutelypowerless, and this danger is formed by the vast ice-bergs—jSoating ice-prairies, some of them—^which

Note About Images