leah aks was a lady from england and had a child.der: so here she is, trying to get up the stairs, trying to go up into the aft well deck. andrew wilson: there were some reports of when people in steerage, third class, tried to get up from the bowels of the ship. some of the gates were locked to the top deck, where they could find a lifeboat. [metal rattling] tim maltin: and they were shaking the gate and asking for the gates to be opened. [indistinct shouting] shelley binder: there were hundreds of people pushing their way up there, and there was a logjam. leah literally had to fight for her life. and nobody was sort of on top of it. the one that lady duff-gordon got into with her husband-- they only had 12 people in a boat that should have had 60. it wasn't so much evil as a kind of incompetence that saddens me that so many more people died than need have. julie cook: there were a good 2 and 1/2 hours, three hours before it sank, and so you have all this time to be fearful, to be terrified. and i think that's the true horror of wha

leah aks was praying that somebody had rescued her boy and that somehow, somewhere she would be able to meet him again. my great grandmother leah, she was just walking around in a kind of dissociative state, when out of the corner of her eye, she sees a baby reaching out for her. and she goes, that's my baby. but this woman was not going to just hand over this baby. and they said, ok, take both women and the baby up to captain rostron's cabin. he's like, how can you tell me this is your child? well, he has a strawberry birthmark on his chest. and he did indeed have those markings. and so leah aks was able to reunite with her baby on the carpathia. it took several days before a cable-laying ship called the mackay-bennett stocked with ice and embalming fluid went out to the wreck site and recovered a number of the bodies. the mackay-bennett was based in halifax. and it was the first ship that was chartered by the white star line to recover the bodies of titanic's dead. john jacob astor, the richest man in the world died in the tragedy. his body was recovered. he had the modern day equiv