Raft

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Frederick Crafter
John Bertram Crafton


	Worcester Evening Gazette	BOY'S PRAYER FOR LIFE ANSWERED New York, April 19- Edward Dorking, an English boy who was on his way aboard the Titanic to an Illinois farm and who saved himself by jumping from the deck, told today of the last minutes of the doomed vessel. "Three of us young fellows were standing...	20th April 1912
	New York Times	HOW J. B. THAYER DIED Swept from Raft to Which His Son Managed to Cling --- The manner in which John B. Thayer, Second Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, met his death along with eighteen or twenty other men was described last night by Mrs. W. C. ...	19th April 1912
	Worcester Telegram	STEAD AND ASTOR CLING TO RAFT New York, April 19- One version of the deaths of John Jacob Astor and William T. Stead was told by Philip Mock, who, with his sister, Mrs.Paul Schabert, were among the survivors. "Many men were hanging on to rafts in the sea," said Mr....	20th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	ISMAY GOT INTO BOAT John R. Joyce, a banker of Carlsbad, N. M., a passenger on the Carpathia, said: "When the Carpathia reached the scene of the wreck, we saw eighteen boats and one raft on the water. The Carpathia picked them all up. Four pe...	19th April 1912
	Washington Times	SAW FUNNEL SWEEP FATHER OVERBOARD Philadelphian Gives Up All Hope of Life of Parent --- PHILADELPHIA, April 22---Richard Norris Williams, jr., one of the survivors of the Titanic, who was coming to this city with his father after having spent many years abroad, is one o...	22nd April 1912
	Galesburg Republican Register	UNKNOWN TITLE Frank Karun, a member of the Austrian immigrant colony in this city, will have some stirring things to tell when he returns to the city of the loss of the big steamship Titanic and his rescue later by the Carpathia . Just at present Mr. Karun is at t...	22nd April 1912
	Camden Post-Telegram	SURVIVOR HERE IN ROLLER CHAIR Titanic’s Barber Tells of His Terrible Experience on Sinking Liner --- SAVED BY RAFT OF CAMP STOOLS --- Augustus H. Whiteman, [sic] whose rescue from the Titanic was told of in yesterday’s Post-Telegram, passed through Cam...	19th April 1912
	New York Times	HEARD DEATH CHORUS FOR OVER AN HOUR PARIS, April 19---Three French survivors---Fernand Omont, Pierre Marechal, son of the French Admiral, and Paul Chevre, the sculptor---jointly cabled to The Matin a graphic narrative of the Titanic disaster, in which they repeatedly insist that mor...	20th April 1912
	War Cry	SALVATIONISTS ON THE TITANIC: TWO RESCUED - Mother spends five hours on raft and sees sons drown - Died Like true Soldiers Commissioner Eva Booth Meets Survivors Indescribably Pathetic Scenes at Wharf - New York Stricken with Grief - Army Shelt...	27th April 1912
	Washington Times	CAPT. SMITH ENDED LIFE WHEN TITANIC BEGAN TO FOUNDER Stories of His Suicide Differ, One Woman Asserting He Shot Himself, and Another Describing His Drowning --- Unable to bear the terrible strain of the disaster that overtook his mighty ship, Capt. E. J. Smith killed himself and gave to t...	19th April 1912
	New York Times	MINIA REPORTS TWO BODIES Ship Returning to Halifax---Patrick O'Keefe's Story of Rescue --- The White Star Line agent at Halifax wired the New York office yesterday that the Captain of the steamship Minia had sent the following message: ["]Returne...	4th May 1912
	Guernsey Evening Press	UNTITLED April/May 1912 In the boat with Mrs. Renouf were the Misses Lillian Bentham (of Jersey) and Miss Emily Rugg. When the boat left the ship's side there were 30 on board, but later 30 men were taken from a raft, of whom one...	1912
	Western Daily Mercury	ARTICLE Frederick Harris, 57, Melville-Road, Mill-lane, Gosport, had also a graphic story to tell. When the last moment came, and it was found that all the boat[sic] were gone and the vessel was going to sink, there was wild confusion. Deck chairs, and anyth...	29th April 1912
	Newark Evening News	BURLINGTON COUNTY MAN WAS BLOWN INTO WATER The story of his remarkable escape was told by Augustus H. Weikman, of Palmyra, Burlington County, when he alighted from the Carpathia last night. Weikman was the ship barber on the Titanic, but he assisted in the work of lowering the lifeboats from...	19th April 1912
	Washington Times	LIKE AWFUL DREAM, DECLARES WOMAN Mrs. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, Tells of Her Experience In Wreck --- NEW YORK, April 19---Among the survivors were Mrs. J. R. Cardeza, her son Thomas, and maid, Annie Ward, all of Philadelphia. "We crashed into the iceberg...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	THOMAS WHITELEY : WIRELESS OPERATOR DIES Philips, the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post until the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life-raft and died before rescuers reached him, according to the story told here today by Thomas Whitely. ...	19th April 1912
	The Times	STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH'S HEROISM After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per...	29th April 1912
	Camden Post-Telegram	ISMAY PRAISED BY TITANIC SURVIVOR Ship's Head Barber Tells Camden Elks of His Thrilling Experience. --- BLAMES DISASTER ON WIRELESS JEALOUSY --- Bruce Ismay was defended last night by Gus Weikman at the home of Camden Lodge of Elks in Mr. Weikman's recital...	15th May 1912
	The Times	THE FINDING OF A TITANIC LIFE RAFT BODIES RECOVERED BY THE OCEANIC A letter has been received in Birmingham from Mr Harry C.Church, of Moseley, who was on board the Oceanic on May 16, in which he describes the finding of one ...	30th May 1912
	New York Times	COL. GRACIE DIES, HAUNTED BY TITANIC "We Must Get Them All in the Boats," Last Words of the Man Who Helped to Save Many --- SAW PARTING OF THE ASTORS --- And Testified to the Devotion of Isidor and Ida Straus, Who Preferred Death to Separation ---...	5th December 1912
		LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO DOROTHY OCKENDEN Richmond County Country Club, N.Y.: ''Dear Dorothy (Ockenden), I was so pleased to receive your letter and to find you had not forgotten me. I had intended writing to you before but I was ashamed of my writing. You see ...	9th May 1912
	Unidentified Newspaper	WILLIAM LINDSAY William Lindsay was one of the few saved from the Titanic on which he was a dynamo attendant. William Lindsay says he feels too upset to write much and his brother here hopes to hear more from him within a couple of weeks. The survivor of the great c...	22nd April 1912
	Washington Times	WASHINGTON MAN TELLS HARROWING DETAILS OF WRECK Col. Gracie Describes Scenes on Titanic After the Accident --- Last of the survivors to leave the sinking Titanic, Col. Archibald Gracie, of Washington, tells a story of horrible hardship in the icy waters after he was swept, clinging t...	19th April 1912
	Folkestone Herald	ELIZABETH NYE : FOLKESTONE PASSENGER'S GRAPHIC ACCOUNT Mrs. Nye's account of the catastrophe Captain Smith and the little girl His last words: 'I must go with the ship'. Mrs. Elizabeth Nye, daughter of Mr. Thomas I. Ramell, coach builder, Dover Road, Folkesto...	4th May 1912
	Washington Post	TITANIC'S WIRELESS CHIEF DIED ON A LIFERAFT New York. April 19.—Philips [sic], the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post till the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life raft, and died before rescuers reached him, according to th...	20th April 1912
	The Toronto Daily Star	LAST MAN TO LEAVE TITANIC WAS COLONEL GRACIE, U.S.A. ------------------- Was in That Last Awful Swirl That Followed When Monster Sank------Came to Surface Aft...	19th April 1912
	The Times	OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...	20th April 1912
	Washington Herald	LIFEBOATS WOULD HAVE SAVED MORE Titanic's Steward, in Giving Story, Says Great Loss of Life Was Due to Their Absence --- SHIP'S ENGINEER, CAUGHT IN DOOR, BEGS TO BE SHOT TO END AGONY --- New York, April 18---The following statement made to-day by Alfred ...	19th April 1912
	Hampshire Magazine	DID THIS MAN SURVIVE THREE DAYS IN THE ICY OCEAN? By far the most exciting story concerning a Titanic crewman has survived through Mrs. Louise Parker of Golden Grove, a surviving daughter of greaser George Prangnell. The story of Prangnell's escape is truly incredible, and is told here in print for ...	1980
	Washington Times	MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my...	19th April 1912
	Evening World	TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li...	22nd April 1912
	Galesburg Evening Mail	TELLS OF RESCUE FROM TITANIC Frank Kurun of Galesburg Tells How He Saved Himself and Daughter WAS IN A BOAT FIRST PICKED UP Jumped from Lower Deck Into Life Boat As It Was Being Lowered His Brother Drowned Frank Kurun,...	23rd April 1912
	Gare Maritime	THE PRICE OF FAME : ROSE ELLEN MURRAY, THE LUSITANIA'S TITANIC SURVIVOR Jim Kalafus and Michael Poirier Rose Ellen Murray, of Dublin and Philadelphia, became a minor celebrity after she survived the Lusitania disaster. However, her celebrity proved to be her undoing twenty years after the vessel was destroyed. Mrs. Murray'...	7th May 2010
	The Charleroi Mail	MRS. HIRVONEN TELLS STORY OF HARROWING SCENES IN LATEST GREAT OCEAN DISASTER. SAW BIG STEAMER SINK Hundreds Leaped Into Water When Gigantic Steamer Went Down ---Says Ismay Was In Same Boat Shuddering as she recalled the awful scenes of Monday morning when the fated steamer Titanic sunk with over 1,700 person...	23rd April 1912