Olaus Abelseth, Third Class Passenger:
"I was standing there, and I asked my brother-in-law if he could swim
and he said no. I asked my cousin if he could swim and he said no. So we
could see the water coming up, the bow of the ship was going down, and
there was kind of an explosion. We could hear the popping and cracking,
and the deck raised up and got so steep that the people could not stand on
their feet on the deck. So they fell down and slid on the deck into the
water right on the ship."