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American
Inquiry
Testimony of Harold Lowe,
Page 408
Mr. LOWE. Yes. Then I went
off and I rowed off to the wreckage and around
the wreckage and I picked up four people.
Senator SMITH.
Dead or alive?
Mr. LOWE. Four
alive.
Senator SMITH.
Who were they?
Mr. LOWE. I do
not know.
Senator SMITH.
Have you ever found out?
Mr. LOWE. I do
not know who those three live persons were; they
never came near me afterwards, either to say
this, that, or the other. But one died, and that
was a Mr. Hoyt, of New York, and it took all the
boat's crew to pull this gentleman into the
boat, because he was an enormous man, and I
suppose he had been soaked fairly well with
water, and when we picked him up he was bleeding
from the mouth and from the nose. So we did get
him on board and I propped him up at the stern
of the boat, and we let go his collar, took his
collar off, and loosened his shirt so as to give
him every chance to breathe; but, unfortunately,
he died. I suppose he was too far gone when we
picked him up. But the other three survived. I
then left the wreck. I went right around and,
strange to say, I did not see a single female
body, not one, around the wreckage.
Hoyt
was buried at sea from the Carpathia.
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