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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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elated that in the last moment,when the lights went out, no shrieks were heard nor criesof terror from the group where the faithful pastorsserenely and devoutly sought to comfort those aboutthem. VETERAN LAKE CAPTAIH WARNS Another story of self-possession and undauntedcourage in the face of death was that of Capt. E. G.Crosby, of Milwaukee, veteran Lake Michigan navi-gator and president of the Crosby Transportation Com-pany. Better dress; all the other passengers are doingit, were his calm V\^ords to his wife and daughter as heentered their stateroom shortly after the collision. Capt.Crosby was lost, but his wife and daughter were saved. The majority of those who perished were caughtsound asleep in their berths, according to Miss Crosby. The warning to his wife and daughter given, Capt. 184 WBECK OF THE TITANIC Crosby hurried on deck to assist the other men. Thatwas the last seen of him by Mrs. Crosby or her daughter*They were helped into the next to the last boat that leftthe vessel.
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—Cincinnati Post CHAPTER XXION THE ROLL OF HONOR Splendid Public Tributes to Well-Known MenAmong the Heroes of the Titanic isidor and ida straus Who that hereafter vmtes of Isidor Straus can failto write of Ida Straus? Linked in loyal life they werejoined forever in a noble death. If Isidor Straus was a great merchant, a great phi-lanthropist, a clear-headed economist and a noble citizen,Ida Straus was a great woman, also a great philanthro-pist, a noble mother, a loyal, loving wife. If Isidor Straus was the patriarch and honored headof a great family, Ida Straus was the serene and indis-pensable mistress of an honored home. If Isidor Straus was a civic and commercial power,Ida Straus was a social and domestic force. If Isidor Straus, after a life of honorable living,died a heros death, so Ida Straus, after forty years ofloyal loving, found of her own choice a heroines end. The beautiful examples of noble living and of noblerdying meet in these remembered names. In an age of materia

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