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Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters by Unknown
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Women forced into the life-boats--Why some men were saved before
women--Asked to man life-boats.

CHAPTER XVII
WIRELESS OPERATOR PRAISES HEROIC WORK

Story of Harold Bride, the surviving wireless operator of the Titanic,
who was washed overboard and rescued by life-boat--Band played ragtime
and "Autumn".

CHAPTER XVIII
STORY OF THE STEWARD

Passengers and crew dying when taken aboard Carpathia--One woman
saved a dog--English colonel swam for hours when boat with
mother aboard capsized.

CHAPTER XIX
HOW THE WORLD RECEIVED THE NEWS

Nations prostrate with grief--Messages from kings and cardinals--
Disaster stirs world to necessity of stricter regulations.

CHAPTER XX
BRAVERY OF THE OFFICERS AND CREW

Illustrious career of Captain E. J. Smith--Brave to the last--
Maintenance of order and discipline--Acts of heroism--Engineers died at posts
--Noble-hearted band.

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