The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-19
MANY BREAK DOWN
UNDER THE STRAIN
Women swoon When They Go
Tor News to White Star
Office.
ANOTHER DAY OF ANGUISH
Haggard Clerks Can Do Moth
ing But Point TO List OF
Survivors.
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ne" YORK. April lS.-tireater thronp 8
than on any day Since the news OF In.
Titanic disaster throuyyd the White
Star Line Offices today. and scenes or
woe and anguish were intensified,
scores breaking down from the strain
OF forty-eight hours UNINTERRUPTED
anxiety. Reports that scores of the
survivors were badly Injured and
would require hospital attention
brought back hosts OF relatives and
friends OF the known survivors, whose
Faces bore acute testimony OF hhe
blasted hopes as they storlned the In
formation counters
me tired and haggard clerks shook
their heads and despairlngiy pointed
to the rosters OF survivors They had
no news OF any sort 10 :.npart. What
ever news the officers az the line had
received during the night was bottled
UP in the inner sanctuns and III.
clerks wero Instructed to answer no
questions aside from me bald test.
mony az hand In the shape OF surviv-
orE' lists.
Beginning at an early hour lower
cession of automobiles ana taXicabs
which discharged their woe bcgone
passengers In an cver-increnstu.-
swarm. The bleak and drizzling day
served to thin out the crowds OF curl
GUS on The pavemcnts, and there were
very Few who struggled within the en-
trance Of No. 8 Broadway whose faces
did not contain mute evidence OF their
distressing errand.
Women In Majority,
Women were vastly in the majority
again to-day. and while the many
fought braHcly TO control their emo
lions. there were many pathetic scenes
az the narrowed inqulrcrs turned away
from the counters and stumbled sob
bling. TO chair
AS tho fourth day of the grim vigil
began at the White Star office at
southampton. many women among
those clamoring Tor news. collapsed
from grief and exhaustion. One wo-
man, shrieking that her husband. her
con, two brothers ana four cousins
were among the crew Of the Inflated
ship. dropped to the noor unconscious
snd was borne away to a hospital
Relatives OF Benjamin Gugscnhe!n
OF colonel -tstor. OF the Widencrs and
OF scores OF other prominent men and
women whose names do not appear on
the survivors list returned again to
forlorn hope inspired by private mes
sagcs that told of survivors whose
names had not been sent ashore AS
the day wore along and the published
reports that many survivors would
require hospital attention became
widely read and discussed, the rush 10
the White Star offices Augmented. and
the nature OF the inquiries became
frantic and hysterical
Likewise, multitudcs OF kilograms
poured into the offices from almost
every city In America. and the tele-
phones were again taxed to the limit
Men and women from distant cities
Kept coming In ever greater number
many OF them hystcrical and scarcely
abie to articulato their inquiries some
so feeble they had TO DO supported to
tho counters and then re almost car
ried out to waiting vehicles.
Relatives and friends OF Storage
passengers whose names had not ap-
peared on the list obtained by tho
fight their way into the damned Of
fees and wall their quests for infor-
nation. In this phase OF the thronS a
dozen nationalitics were represented,
and a babel OF tongues added to the
din. There were Italians. Slavs. Greeks,
Armenians. Transylranians. Russians.
Turks, Polaks. Germans, French and,
tion in Europe and Eastern Asia For
many Of these there were no interpre-
ters. and they chartered and wept and
walled In vain.
Relatives OF But. Call
A dozen women relatives OF Major
Archibald Butt visited the White
Star Offices ct different times to-day,
begging for information concerning
the vague reports that President Taft's
military aide had been saved. Mrs. j.
e. Butt, of Washington, was the first
OF the army mans relatives to arrive.
and she was barely able to gropo her
way back to her taXicab after she had
been informed that no word Ind been
heard Of the fate OF her relative. An
other cousin, Miss Butt. Of Plymouth,
Mass, swooned where she stood when
che heard that there was no veriiica-
ton OF the rumor that Major Butt had
been saved
little later three elderly women
relatives of the major. who have been
frequent visitors at the White Star
Offices since Monday. returned and
begged for some tidings. They depart
ed weeping and cllngins to one an
other for support.
These three women would not give
their names. though they said their
homo was In Washington.
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