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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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ned and we would not have known what happened.To him the survivors owe their lives, and no tribute wecan pay would be too great. What he has done to safeguard the lives of thosewho travel on the seas should not be underestimated,and his inventions have made him one of the greatfigures in the world today. I should like to see a monu-ment erected to him while he lives so that he may seethat the world appreciates what he has done forhumanity. ESCAPED ON ICE A huge cake of ice was the means of aiding EmilePortaluppi, of Aricgabo, Italy, in escaping death whenthe Titanic went down. Portaluppi, a second-class pas-senger, was awakened by the explosion of one of the 234 WRECK OF THE TITANIC boilors of the ship. He hurried to the deck, strapped alife preserver around him and leaped into the sea. With the aid of the preserver and by holding to acake of ice he managed to keep afloat until one of thelifeboats picked him up. There were thirty-five otherpeople in the boat when he was hauled aboard.
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—Detroit Netcs. Waiting CHAPTER XXVIII VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS OF HOW THETITANIC DISAPPEARED Every Survivor Was Left With a Vivid Impres-sion or THE Shifts Tragedy—End or TitanicAppalling. One of the most stirring accounts of the wreck andits after effects was told by WiUiam Smith, assistantmanager for L. E. Waterman, 115 South Clark street,Chicago. With tears gushing from his eyes, though he triedto wink them away, Smith told of the thrilling experi-ences of Mrs. Harry CoUyer of Bishopstoke, nearSouthampton, England, and her eight-year-old daugh-ter Marjorie. The Collyers numbered the husband, Harry CoUyer,thirty years old; his wife and daughter. They hadbooked passage on the steamer New York, which wasdelayed because of the British coal strike, and they weretransferred to the Titanic, Collyer, who perished on the Titanic^ had purchasedthrough tickets for the family to Payette, Idaho, where 235 236 WRECK OF THE TITANIC he intended to buy a half-interest in a ten-acre appleorchard. T

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