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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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hat afternoon after a few hours WRECK OF THE TITANIC 125 rest, but without having gone to her home, she returnedand again took up tlie answering of the endlessinquiries. The greater proportion of them she referredto clerks, but every one had to be looked into first byher. And when the clerks were all occupied she herselfmet the brunt of whatever words of sadness or criticismcame over the wire. Miss Downey had no idea how many phone callsshe answered or made, but she knows that there areeleven trunk lines coming into the White Star offices,and that it was only during the hours of the night thatthese were not all in use. The newspaper men who stayed around day andnight appreciated as much, if not more, than any oneelse the service which Miss Downey rendered. Forinstance, when Mr. Franklin announced that theTitanic had sunk there were nearly a dozen reporterswho rushed to office phones. Within a minute each hadhis own office on the wire and was flashing the news. 126 WRECK OF THE TITANIC
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-Toledo News-Bee ** Nearer, My God, to Thee J) ^ ^ CHAPTER XVII WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD, SCHOLAR,DREAMER AND HUMANITARIAN;THE GREATEST AND MOST NO-TABLE MAN ON BOARD THETITANIC WHEN SHE SANK Born in Poverty, He Rose by His Natural GeniusEOR Accomplishment to Be a World Power; Always Original, Always Independent, TrueTO His Ideals, First a Worker and Always aBeliever in Good Books And you shall be kicked to death in the streets ofLondon! So said the clairvoyant. So prophesied the seer intothe future, the gazer into the crystal bowl—but thecrystal and the future were wrong. W. T. Stead, world figure, human question mark,the man of the automatic hand, who rose and rose androse into the world from a beginning of nothing; abeliever in the occult in the voices of the spheres, was notkicked to death in the streets. London did not see himdie, as the clairvoyant had said. For it was in the whirl-ing suction which followed the burial of the Titanic, in 127 128 WRECK OF THE TITANIC the rush and s

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