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that the Virginian was to go out OF
her course to put into st. Johns on
her voyage to Liverpool was taken as
a favorable indication, raising hope
that after all she might have picked
up some of the victims of the wreck
and was bringing them into port.
News of the sinking of the liner
and the terrible loss of life in con-
sequence came early last evening with
all the greater shock because hope
had been buoyed up day by reports
that the steamer, although badly
damaged, was not in sinking condi-
ton and that all her passengers had
been safely taken off.The messages
were mostly unofficial, and none came
direct from the liner, so that a lurk-
ing fear remained of possible bad
news to come.
Ship Had Gone Down
Shortly after Z o'clock last night
there came flashing over the wires
from Cape Race, within 400 miles
of where the liner had struck the
iceberg, word that at 2.3o o'clock
Monday morning, 4:55 minutes after
receiving her death blow, the Titanic
had sunk. The news came from the
steamer Carpathia, relayed by the
White Star liner Olympic, and re-
vealed that by the time the Car
pathia, outward bound from New
York and racing for the Titanic on
wireless call, reached the scene,
the doomed vessel had sunk.
Left on the surface, however, were
lifeboats from the Titanic, and in
them, as appears from the meagre
reports received up to a late hour,
were some CTS survivors of the dis
aster. These, according to the ad-
vices, the Carpathia picked up and
now is on her way with them for
New York.
Biggest in the World
For the rest, the scene as the Car
pathia came up was one of desolation.
All that remained Of the $40 100000
floating palace, on which nearly 1,4OO
passengers had been voyaging luxur-
iously to this side of the Atlantic, were
some bits of wreckage. The biggest
ship in the world had gone down,
snuffing out in her downward plunge,
it appeared hundreds Of human lives.
A significant line in the Cape Race
dispatch was the announcement that
of those saved by the Carpathia near
ly all were women and children.
Should it prove that no other vessel
picked up any passengers OF the SINK
ing liner this might mean that few OF
the men on board had been saved as
the proportion of women and children
among the passengers was large. The
same facts would likewise spell the
doom of practically the entire crew
Of 800.
In the cabins were 230 women and
children, but it is not known how
many there were among the TAO third
class passengers.
In the first cabin there were 12S
women and Is children. and in the
second cabin 79 women and 8 chill
dren.
Notable Persons Aboard
Notable persons, travellers on the
Titanic, whose fate was in doubc IN
the lack of definite advices as to the
identity of the survivors were: Mr..
and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, NAL
Archibald Butt, aide to President
Taft; Charles M. Hayes, president OF
the Grand Trunk Pacific OF Canada,
his wife and daughter; W. T. Stead,
Benz Guggeheim, F. D. Millet, the
artist. and J. G. Widener OF Philadel-
phia; Mr.. and Mrs. Isador Straus, J.
B. Thayer, vice president Of the Penn
sylvania railroad; J. B. Ismay, Henry
H. Harris, the theatrical manager
and Mrs. Harris and Col. Washington
Roebling, Builder of the Brooklyn
bridge.