Mary Elliot C. Titanic Facts

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  1. e M.
  2. Cassidy Evans And I am on news now.
  3. Today I'm gonna be inviting of the visitor.
  4. A survivor of the arm s Titanic.
  5. The one and only Cameron Bailey.
  6. Hi. Thank you for having me on you, too.
  7. Oh, I'm so excited.
  8. I'm so grateful that you've got to come here, so
  9. I'll be asking you a couple questions, and I'm gonna
  10. need some answers.
  11. Is that okay for you to dio with me?
  12. Okay. Question number one.
  13. How was the journey before the wreckage?
  14. Well, the journey was being a first class citizen we
  15. had there.
  16. There was a pool, a gym.
  17. The ship even had an onboard newspaper.
  18. There was so much and it was so fun.
  19. There was just so much to do, and so much
  20. to see.
  21. The food was great, and I just loved I love
  22. this trip before it happened.
  23. Can you tell me how many passengers there were?
  24. So there were about to I heard there about 2200
  25. people on this ship and on Lee, about 700 survived.
  26. So that means about 1500 had died.
  27. So it was just so scary because everyone around me
  28. was in the water and there weren't enough people on
  29. the boats.
  30. And there they were just trying to fill up the
  31. boats and get people off the ship and away from
  32. the ship.
  33. So the boats weren't full when they did this.
  34. And I was 13 at the time, since they were
  35. loading Children and mothers First, my father got left behind
  36. and he died.
  37. And then not long after, my mother died of pneumonia,
  38. So I grew up alone.
  39. But the men had to stay on the ship, but
  40. I just thought that was really long.
  41. Wrong separating families?
  42. Yeah, U M.
  43. Okay, well, those air two questions.
  44. We're gonna go take a break.
  45. Um, because I know you've been you just do the
  46. long trip from England here.
  47. Charlotte's. Yeah.
  48. OK, we're gonna take a break now.
  49. Thank you.
  50. Yeah, we're back.
  51. Okay. So I have some more questions from you.
  52. All right.
  53. Did you stay at a hotel before the like boarding
  54. of the passengers?
  55. Yes. We I say that the Ritz Carlton and it
  56. was just It's a grand hotel there.
  57. Just just like the ship.
  58. I think there was just so much to see their.
  59. And I'm glad you like that.
  60. Um what, like just described to me How, like the
  61. boarding of Titanic.
  62. Waas Like, did you meet any friends you haven't seen
  63. in a while?
  64. Yes, I actually met.
  65. There were a lot of people there that I was
  66. not expecting to see their u M.
  67. Just a lot of friends that I have not seen
  68. in a long time because we had moved.
  69. So my there were some friends from, like, my elementary
  70. school, and they were traveling with their parents or their
  71. aunts and uncles or their cousins todo on this just
  72. over and yeah, so I just saw a lot of
  73. people, so that definitely made my trip a lot more
  74. fun. Did you describe like u m?
  75. How old were you during?
  76. Like like when you were starting aboard the Titanic?
  77. I was 13 years old, so it was definitely harder
  78. losing both of my parents because I was so much
  79. younger and and Yeah, hi.
  80. I am.
  81. Yeah, I was 13 years old.
  82. U m So I have two more questions for you
  83. today. You m So could you tell me like what
  84. the Titanic like described me like how the sinking was
  85. the Titanic and deep detail.
  86. So when we this is I really don't I know
  87. what happened with the Titanic, but there's also from what
  88. happened with me.
  89. So this was around 2 a.m. In the morning.
  90. The eso some someone.
  91. I really don't know who it waas because we were
  92. not very worried about that at the time.
  93. Someone spotted the iceberg, but it was too late.
  94. So our captain tried to steer around the iceberg, but
  95. it hit the side of the boat, and at the
  96. time, the Titanic was known as the most unsinkable ship.
  97. So if we thought that just some of the compartments
  98. under the boat would fill up with water, but the
  99. other ones did.
  100. But it just ripped off too much that the boat
  101. started to sink.
  102. The it started to sink in the front, and then
  103. it was just going down too far that it snapped
  104. in half and just one.
  105. So now it's just in two pieces in the middle
  106. of the ocean, and no one knows where it iss
  107. so with me, we had some people running into our
  108. rooms at around 2 a.m. Just yelling, like, get off
  109. the ship like everyone wake up.
  110. You need to get off the ship.
  111. And of course, none of us knew what was happening
  112. because it was 2 a.m. In the morning.
  113. We all thought we were dreaming, So none of us
  114. got up quick, but yeah, um did I have, like,
  115. I do not intend to this question.
  116. But once you told me that there is a defense
  117. that you saw, did any of them die?
  118. Yes. Ah, lot of them could not get on boats
  119. because some of my friends were in lower classes like
  120. 2nd and 3rd.
  121. So a lot of them went down with the ship
  122. or we're in the water.
  123. And not many Children died on this ship.
  124. They're still wear a lot, but not as many Children
  125. died as adults, But it was just yes.
  126. Some of my friends did either catch pneumonia or go
  127. down. Well, she I'm sorry about that.
  128. Thank you.
  129. Well, I think that is all for the for today.
  130. And I hoped I hope that I did not waste
  131. all your time.
  132. Not you, m.
  133. I just I'm really glad that you survived the shipping,
  134. and I hope we could be friends.
  135. Yes. Any time.
  136. Well, I think I have to go on.
  137. Yeah, well, I'll see.
  138. Do you want to do lunch tomorrow?
  139. Maybe. Sure.
  140. Okay. Well, let's go by.
  141. I'll escort you.