The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-18
SKY WAS CLEAR
ALL THAT NIGHT.
Never Had There Been Such Perfect
April Night OFF the New Found
land Coast as on
Sunday.
UNHEARD OF ICEBERG
Captain HaInes Does Not Think It ls
Possible That Submerged
Mass Of leo Could
Wreck Ship.
UNHEARD OF ICEBERG

United ress Leased Wire Service.] |
HALIFAX. April 1S.-It was believ-
ed here today, following the arrival
OF the steamer Partisan and the re-
ceipt Of many wireless dispatches that
when the Titanic was wrecked Sun
day night she was proceeding at a
fast rate of speed. Captain Haines
and Wireless Operator Sutherland Of
the Partisan insisted today that the
night was clear and that therefore
Captain Smith WAS undoubtedly hold
ing to his course and making good
time II this is 80, 1t would account
for the magnitude of the tragedy as
the Titanic must have struck the berg
fearful blow which shattered her
/ entire forward structure.
| Captain w. R. Haines and Wireless
| Operator D. s. Sutherland, OF the
Allan liner Partisan, which docked
here today, enroute from Glas-
gov to Boston, declared today that
/ Captain Smith, of the Titanic, must
have known all day Sunday and Sun
day night that gigantic icebergs. the
! largest seen in years, were floating
fully hundred miles south of the
! dangerous ice line usually observed by
4 Atlantic navigators. Sutherland says
that the Titanic was 100 miles astern
of the Partisan on Sunday. He was
! himself in wireless communication
4 with Operator Jack Phillips. of the
\ Titanic on Sunday evening.
4 Il knew poor Jack Phillips very
WE'LL" said Sutherland, but I had not
seen him for some months. l sent him
word of greeting and then put
through message for Captain Haines
concerning the ships business. Later
IL got the Atlantic transport liner
; Mesaba on the wireless and reported
having sighted more huge icebergs
, The Mesaba was at this time running
between the Titanic and the Partisan
and was relying my messages concern
ing icebergs to the Titanic
THE weather was clear and WI
could see the bergs clearly Sunda.
q hight"
Il Sutherland said that his last com
9 munication with the Titanic direct wa
at 10:3O p m. (ship's time) on Sun
n day AS the official statement of th
$ White Star line is that the Titani
o struck at 1920 p. m. New York time
e the last wireless communication fror
o the Titanic to the Parisiaa was onl
e about an hour before the Titanic struc
il against the side of floating mountai
n OF ice.
e The Partisan carries only one wire
s less operator. He had been at hi
p key for Is hours when he sent hi
d final message to the Titanic. H
then went to bed and was aslee
y when Phillips was frantically fiasl
e Ing the fateful IS. o. 81
le While Operator Donald sutherlan
~ slept, his friend and colleague. JAG
70 Phillips, signalled the death cries {
ID more than a thousand souls, vainl
20 so far as the Partisan was concerne
al If Captain fIaines had received tt
ie IS. o. S. his ship could have rushe
OF to the scene, doubtless arriving thel
before the Carpathia.
- Sutherland awoke late Mondf
=. - morning He put his wireless cap {
= and heard the Carpathia wirele
- operators description of the Titanic
~ !, two mile plunge into the deep. T
- i. told Captain Haines what had happe
ed.
The PARTISAN had gone off her cour
searching for the tamil ship Deutsc
- land which was helpless Having be,
y short of coal, Captain Haines decid
80 he could not reach the Titanic in tir
- to be of service and went on chasil
-. :. after the tank in the hope of saliva
=, fer giving her tow to Halifax. Ca
:. tain Haines was asked today: "Wou
= 1t be possible that an iceberg wou
- lie so low in the water that it wou
: be impossible to see 1t in Gle
al, al, night?"
n He answered: II have never hea
- o,ff~al,, orhy, irnhoro