Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-16

of the balance Of the passengers and
the crew."
The wireless dispatch from Cape
Race, Newfoundland, telling Of the
sinking. also gave the information that
the steamship California was remain
ing and searching the vicinity Of the
disaster.
Many Thrilling Experiences.
The brief wireless dispatches SO far
received show that the passengers and
crew passed thru thrilling experiences
from the very moment that the monster
Titanic crashed into the iceberg in the
dead Of night until the Carpathia. sew
eral hours later. reached the scene and
rescued the survivors from life boats
floating in a sea Of ice. The collision
occurred at time when most Of the
passengers had retired or were about
to so to bed. The shock Of the COL
lision sent many Of the passengers to
the decks partly dressed.
Many SeantiIy Clad.
wireless dispatch came thru Cam
perdown. Nova Scotia, saying that the
passengers were ordered to life boats
at once and that many were scantily
clad as they took their places in the
boats. This would indicate that the
Titanic's condition was such that no
time could be spared to return to state
rooms for additional clothes.
Ice Handicap.
Danger still confronted even those
who were 50 fortunate as to be put
aboard the life boats. Huge quantities
Of field ice covered the ocean. A wire-
less dispatch says that in the darkness
the crews had to guide their boats with
the greatest caro- to prevent being
TANNED and overturned The ice was
So heavy that the life boats CO lid not
force their way thru 1t and as a result
the boats became widely separated. The
air was biting cold and the chill that
rose from the ice foes caused the pas
.eneers to hover close together to keer
warm. All thru the night the life boats
bobbed helplessly between the shifting
cakes of ice white the survivors prayed
for dawn to come.
Big Ship Dives Into Sea.
Shortly after o'clock the sinking
Titanic made her great dive into the
sea. carving with her hundreds Of per-
sons to death.
DAYLIGHT came and with It arrived
the Cunarder Carpathia, which found
onlv the score Of life boats filed with
crew and passengers floating helplessly
about the vicinity where the Titanic
had passed under the waves.
Worst In History.
Accepting the early estimates OF the
fatality list as accurate. the disaster Is
the greatest in the marine history OF
the world. Nearest approaching 1t IN
magnitude were the disasters to the
steamer Atlantic in 1873. when el4
lives were lost, and to La Bourgosne III
1895. with a fatality list of o7l.
Should it prove that other lines. not
ably the Allan liners Partisan and Vir-
ginian, known to have been IN the VI
cinity of the Titanic early yesterday
had picked up others Of its PASSENGERS
the extent of the calamity would pe
greatly reduced. This hope still re-
mains.
Hope 10 Dispellsd.
News of the sinking Of the liner and
the terrible loss of life In consequences
came early last evening with all the
greater shock because hope had been
buoyed up all day by reports that the
steamship, altho badly damaged. was
not in a sinking condition and that all
its passengers had been safely taken
off. The messages were mostly unof-
ficial. however, and none came direct
from the liner, so that q lurking fear
remained of possible bad news to come.
Shortly after o'clock last night
there came flashing over the wires
from Cape Race, within 400 miles Of
which the liner had struck the iceberg.
word that at 2:20 o'clock Monday
morning. hours and 5s mintues after
receiving the death blow, the Titanic
had sunk $50
675 Are Rescued.
Left on the surface, however. were
lifeboats from the Titanic and in them.
as appears from meager reports re-
ceived up to a late hour. were some 675
survivors of the disaster. These. ac-
cording to the advices. the Carpathia
picked up and is now on its way with
them to New York.
For the rest the scene as the Car
pathia came up was one of desolation.
All that remained Of the $1O.00O,000
floating palace. on which nearly 1,400
passengers had been voyaging luxuri-
ously to this side Of the Atlantic, was
some bits of wreckage. The biggest
ship in the world had gone down, snuff
ing out in it's downward plunge, Is ap-
peared. hundreds Of human lives.
Women and Babes Saved.
A significant line in the Cape Race
dispatch was the announcement that Of
those saved by the Carpathia nearly all
were women and children. Should 1t
prove that the other vessel picked up
any passengers of the sinking liner
this might mean that few Of the men
on board had been saved. az the pro-
portion Of women and children among
the passengers was large, The same
facts would likewise spell the doom .of
,,ro ct1callv the entire crew Of S(O sess4s5-