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Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
Edited by Logan Marshall

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Pre-Frontispiece Caption: THE TITANIC
The largest and finest steamship in the world; on her maiden voyage,
loaded with a human freight of over 2,300 souls, she collided with a
huge iceberg 600 miles southeast of Halifax, at 11.40 P.M. Sunday
April 14, 1912, and sank two and a half hours later, carrying over 1,600
of her passengers and crew with her.

Frontispiece Caption: CAPTAIN E. J. SMITH
Of the ill-fated giant of the sea; a brave and seasoned commander who
was carried to his death with his last and greatest ship.}

Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
A Detailed and Accurate Account of the Most Awful Marine Disaster
in History, Constructed from the Real Facts as Obtained from Those on
Board Who Survived .. .. .. .. ..
ONLY AUTHORITATIVE BOOK
INCLUDING Records of Previous Great Disasters of the Sea,
Descriptions of the Developments of Safety and Life-saving
Appliances, a Plain Statement of the Causes of Such Catastrophes and
How to Avoid Them, the Marvelous Development of Shipbuilding, etc.
With a Message of Spiritual Consolation by REV. HENRY VAN
DYKE, D.D.
EDITED BY LOGAN MARSHALL
Author of "Life of Theodore Roosevelt," etc.
ILLUSTRATED With Numerous Authentic Photographs and Drawings

Dedication
To the 1635 souls who were lost with the ill-fated Titanic, and
especially to those heroic men, who, instead of trying to save
themselves, stood aside that women and children might have their
chance; of each of them let it be written, as it was written of a Greater
One-- "He Died that Others might Live"
"I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be

remembered." --COLERIDGE

Dr. Van Dyke's Spiritual Consolation to the Survivors of the Titanic
The Titanic, greatest of ships, has gone to her ocean grave. What has
she left behind her? Think clearly.
She has left debts. Vast sums of money have been lost. Some of them
are covered by insurance which will be paid. The rest is gone. All
wealth is insecure.
She has left lessons. The risk of running the northern course when it is
menaced by icebergs is revealed. The cruelty of sending a ship to sea
without enough life-boats and life-rafts to hold her company is
exhibited and underlined in black.
She has left sorrows. Hundreds of human hearts and homes are in
mourning for the loss of dear companions and friends. The universal
sympathy which is written in every face and heard in every voice
proves that man is more than the beasts that perish. It is an evidence of
the divine in humanity. Why should we care? There is no reason in the
world, unless there is something in us that is different from lime and
carbon and phosphorus, something that makes us mortals able to suffer
together-- "For we have all of us an human heart."
But there is more than this harvest of debts, and lessons, and sorrows,
in the tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic. There is a great ideal. It is
clearly outlined and set before the mind and heart of the modern world,
to approve and follow, or to despise and reject.
It is, "Women and children first!"
Whatever happened on that dreadful April night among the arctic ice,
certainly that was the order given by the brave and steadfast captain;
certainly that was the law obeyed by the men on the doomed ship. But
why? There is no statute or enactment of any nation to enforce such an
order. There is no trace of such a rule to be