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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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e schedule time, smashing all the trans-Atlantic records? A thoughtless people, who now condemn the tak-ing of a risk which resulted in the death of 1,500 pre-cious souls, would have hailed with hysterical delightthis new conqueror of the waves and yelled themselveshoarse in their demand for more speed and bigger andbetter achievements. REMEMBERED MANHOOD M. M. Mangasarian spoke before the IndependentReligious Society in the Studebaker Theater. He saidin part: Noblesse Oblige—that glorious human precept WRECK OF THE TITANIC 153 was strictly observed by the splendid crew and passen-gers of the stricken Titanic. *Be Britishers! cried theveteran Captain Smith through a megaphone from hisbridge. There is nothing more inspiring in any of theBibles in the world, except it be the more universal andthrilling challenge, Be men! The Titanic episode hasvindicated human nature grandly. Jew and Christianand agnostic forgot race and religion to remember thatthey were men. 154 WRECK OF THE TITANIC
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St. Louis Olohe-Democrat The Tragedy of the Titanic CHAPTER XIX STORIES OF THE RESCUED Scores of First Hand Accounts Reveal More ofTHE Actual Happenings, the Bra^^ry Dis-played, THE Anguish Felt and the DesperationOF THE Situation Than Do the Most GraphicStories of Experienced Writers. On the four days cruise back to New York manywho had realized that their experiences would be awaitedby an anxious world put their stories on paper whiletheir nerves were still at tension from the excitement ofthe disaster they had escaped. Many others were inter-viewed on landing in New York or after reaching theirhomes. While these accounts vary and conflict often asto detail they point unanimously to the universal heroismof crew and passengers that stamped the disaster with acharacter peculiarly its own. MISS hippachs graphic story. Yes, it was terrible. But it already seems like adream to me. So said Miss Gertrude Jean Hippach, aaughter ofMr. and Mrs. L. A. Hippach, of 7360 Sheridan Road,Chicago, wh

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