Never Saw Him Again

Alice Frances Louisa Phillips

Second-class passenger

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Miss Phillips said she was asleep in her berth when she was awakened by a crash. She asked the steward what was the matter and received a reassuring reply. A short while after her father came down and told here there had been an accident, and warned her to hurry. She was partially dressed and wore a life preserver. Her father took her on deck, and she got into a lifeboat and never saw him again.

Later in the night the boat she was in picked up a raft containing 17 people and one dead person. The night was bitterly cold and all suffered greatly from exposure.

"There was no confusion," she said. "Everything was very orderly when I left, and there did not seem to be any occasion for great alarm. Father said he would be with me later."