Most of the people went back to bed again, but then came an order `get up and put something warm on, put on a lifebelt, and come up on deck.' So I got one underskirt on, and a skirt, and stockings, and shoes and a coat, and ran up to find a lifebelt, because there were only three in our berth for four of us. The men in the next cabin slipped m their coats and ran up to see what it was, and came and told us the ship had run into an iceberg nearly as big as herself. We were in bed on Sunday night about 11.30, when we felt an awful jerk, and the boat grazed something along its side, and the sea seemed to splash right over the deck. You will like to hear the truth of the wreck from me, for the papers never tell the right news. My nerves are very shattered, I look and feel about ten years older, but I will get over it after a time. You have seen by the papers the wreck of the Titanic, but after the most terrible time of my life I am safe. 'My dear mother and dad, I expect you have been wondering whether you would ever hear from me again. (They then received a letter from their daughter). Ramell have been inundated with congratulations at their daughter's safety, and they have been deeply touched by the many kindly messages received by them. She was a second class passenger on the Titanic and news of her rescue was the greatest relief and gratification to her parents and relatives, and her many friends. She came home last year again but decided to return to the States, and it was really owing to the effect of the coal strike, that she was aboard the ill-fated vessel, for she should have sailed a week previously. Nye is a widow, her husband, a Folkestone man, having died in America. Rammell of 64 Dover Road, was on her way back to America, where she was going to take up an appointment under the Salvation Army. "As was reported a fortnight ago there was one Folkestone passenger on the Titanic that collided with the iceberg, and fortunately she was saved. I had been primarily looking for advertisements for a bioscope show that was touring in the United Kingdom about the tragedy, when I was pleasantly surprised to come across this article: I first became aware of the story of Elizabeth Nye whilst searching through the archive editions of 1912 of the Folkestone Express.
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