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Denver Post, April 19, 1912: Large Number of Crew Saved by
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align="alignright" width="197"] This story as it originally
appeared in The Denver Post, April 19, 1912. In an interesting
story Miss Margaret Hays of New York, a survivor of the Titanic,
gave one version of the manner in which Colonel Astor met his
death. “Colonel Astor, with his wife, came on deck as I was
being assisted into a lifeboat,” said Miss Hays, “and both got
into another boat. Colonel Astor had his arms around his wife
and assisted her into the boat. At the time there were no women
waiting to get into the boats and the ship’s officer at that
point invited Colonel Astor to get into the boat with his wife.
The colonel, after looking around and seeing no women, got into
the boat and his wife threw his arms about him. “The boat in
which Colonel Astor and wife were sitting was about to be
lowered when a woman came running out of th