These men tried to rush the stairway, pushing and crowding and pulling the women down, some of them with weapons in their hands. "Finally some of the women and children were let up, but, as you know, we had quite a number of hot-headed Italians and other peoples who got crazy and made for the stairs. All this time we knew that the water was coming up, and up rapidly.
After the accident, we were all held down in steerage, which seemed to be a lifetime. "I left Queenstown with two girls from my own hometown who were placed in my charge to go to America. This was his first account of what transpired: Blackmarr later took down Daly’s dictation of his experiences as they approached New York on 18 April 1912. Frank Blackmarr, a passenger on board the Carpathia, noted that Eugene Daly was unconscious when carried to his cabin, where he was revived with stimulants and hot drinks. In 1913 evidence he cited two shot dead, but no officer.ĭr. The boat where men were gunned down appears to have been collapsible A, all the way forward on the starboard side since Daly says he then ‘rushed across the deck’ to collapsible B on the port side. 15, all the way aft on the starboard side, which loaded from A Deck and from which he himself was bodily pulled having defied orders. He had previously seen his cousin Maggie and his Athlone neighbor Bertha Mulvihill into lifeboat No. Sonar images show Titanic in its ocean graveĮugene Daly was finally rescued on collapsible B, a life-raft lashed to the roof of the officers’ quarters on the port side until washed off by the onrushing sea.Our craft was not drawn in at all." - (Daily Sketch,, reprint of New York Herald) There was no suction at all that we felt. I thought she would fall over on us, and she seemed to be swinging around, but she did not. Her stern went up and she gradually sunk down forward. "As I stood on the craft I saw the ship go down. At the time I jumped there were a lot of people jumping overboard. About fifteen people got upon her the same way. "When I struck the water I swam for the boat that had been washed over. Everyone was rushing around, but there were no boats. I was up to my knees in water at the time. The ship lurched and the water washed the canvas craft off the deck into the ocean. The water was then washing right across the deck. It was stuck under a wire stay which ran up to the mast. I tried with six or seven men to get it out, but we could not. "Then I rushed across the deck, and there was a sort of canvas craft there.
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