While
most people know Rose and Jack in Titanic, very few people know the
story of true love life has been unraveling the day Titanic met its fate
in the Atlantic. The ship sailed from England hit an iceberg in the early hours of April 15, 1912 , and 1,523 people died. Only 711 people survived . Many notable people have been killed , but the story of a newly married couple is still relatively unknown.
Eloise Hughes Smith and her husband, Lucien , were first-class passengers on the Titanic. While Lucian was playing bridge with three French , his wife Eloise slept in the cabin. The
couple married there are nine and a half weeks and after spending their
honeymoon in Europe, Egypt and the Middle East, they were back in the
United States. Lucian was born in Morgantown , West Virginia, and came from a wealthy family who owned coal mines in Pennsylvania . Eloise was the daughter of the Congress of West Virginia, James A. Hughes, and was Huntington .
While men were playing bridge , suddenly heard a squeaking noise that has everything to a standstill . Many passengers were on the bridge and one of them was Lucian . Then
they heard a man shouting that the ship had hit an iceberg , which had
managed to make a hole 300 meters long on the starboard side of the
ship. The
water began to rush into the first of the 16 watertight compartments
Titanic was equipped , but the crew did not seem alarms or sirens. However, the news about the water hole and spread like wildfire on the boat.
Eloise was awakened by the creaking from the ship, but she stayed in bed. Suddenly, the cabin lights came on, she saw her beloved husband , standing on the bed , smiling . He spends reported that the ship had struck an iceberg and the captain wanted women to go on deck. Eloise did not realize the seriousness of the issue , that her husband was very quiet. He dressed and went to the bridge with her husband. Along the way, she wanted to return to the cabin to pick up some jewelry , but her husband was arrested . Eloise So just take your favorite ring bedpost , then headed to the deck with Lucian .
Initially,
Lucian and Eloise stayed in the gym on the bridge, but then realized
that the distress rockets are fired vessel illuminating the night sky . It is then that they and most of the other passengers they realized the seriousness of the issue . Women and children were put first in the lifeboats. Many women refused to leave their husbands or husbands wanted to join them. Therefore, they were forced into lifeboats. Eloise begged the captain to accompany her husband , but in vain.
Finally , Lucian intervened and asked Eloise to enter the lifeboat and said he was going to catch up later. He said the Titanic was well equipped and all the people would be saved. Thus, the couple kissed for the last time and the lifeboat fell into the icy waters . The time was 1:00 on April 15 . She looked at the boat away from the ship and saw her husband standing on the railing of the bridge waving at her .
At
02:15 , the ship was sinking and perpendicular in the water, and in
five minutes the whole ship had sunk into its watery grave . Eloise was upset that her husband and had never used a lie to convince her to get on the lifeboat. However, it has retained a search of her husband in the water, hoping against hope that he had managed to survive. But it could not be.
May
12, 1912 , Eloise a ceremony was held in memory of her late husband in
the same church where they were married just three months ago. And this year, she gave birth to a son, Lucien P. Smith , Jr.
What
happened to Eloise after the birth of your child is a different story ,
and there will be a time and place of the story too.
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