Preparations for the voyage--Scenes of gayety--The boat sails--
Incidents of the voyage--A collision narrowly averted--The boat on fire--
Warned of icebergs

CHAPTER IV
SOME OF THE NOTABLE PASSENGERS

Sketches of prominent men and women on board, including Major
Archibald Butt, John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Isidor Straus,
J. Bruce Ismay, Geo. D. Widener, Colonel Washington Roebling, 2d,
Charles M. Hays, W. T. Stead and others

CHAPTER V
THE TITANIC STRIKES AN ICEBERG!

Tardy attention to warning responsible for accident--The danger
not realized at first--An interrupted card game--Passengers joke among
themselves--The real truth dawns--Panic on board--Wireless calls for help.

CHAPTER VI
"WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST"

Cool-headed officers and crew bring order out of chaos--Filling the
life-boats--Heartrending scenes as families are parted--Four life-boats
lost--Incidents of bravery--"The boats are all filled!"

CHAPTER VII
LEFT TO THEIR FATE

Coolness and heroism of those left to perish--Suicide of Murdock--