The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-16
|SINk|NG OF TITANIC GREATEST
MARINE DISASTER IN THE WORLD
More Than One Thousand Lives Were Snued Out When Giant
Liner Went to Bottom Of Atlantic Ocean
After Striking an Iceberg
0NLY 1855 PERSONS ARE KNOWN TO
HAVE BEEN SAVED FROM THE VESSEL
With Two Thousand One Hundred and Seventy Souls Board Nearly
Two Thirds Of That Number Perish in the Seattle Whole
Country Stunned by the Enormous Loss Of Lille
Many Prominent People Among Dead
Associated Press Special.

Associated Press Special.
New York, April 16.-Yesterday'
reports as to the safety of the pas
sengers of the White Star liner,
Titanic, which collided with an ice
berg off the New Foundland coast
three hundred and fifty mile south
of Cape Race, were erroneous.
The Titanic sank at 2.20 O'Clock
Monday morning, three hours and
fifty-five minutes after striking the
iceberg, and 1T is now believed that
the death list following this terrible
disaster will reach nearly 14o0.
Practically all hope was abandon
ed of there being any other survi-
vors except those aboard the Car
lpathfa when shortly before ten o.
lclock this morning other steamships
iknown to be searching the sens fol
possible survivors in the vicinity 0
1.-THE Titanic's wreck reported b.
wireless that they had no survivors
The total number of rescued OF
were on board the Titanic, including
the crew, about 2100 people.
! Yesterdays report that all were
saved was probably due to a mes
Usage sent from the Titanic immedi-
ately after the collision while hope
was still high and before the amount
of damage to the ship was really
known
Not until last night did any YES
sci with sufficiently powerful wire
less apparatus to flash the news
learn the extent of the disaster.
Heavy fogs are reported today off
the New FoundIand Banks with Il
heavy thunderstorm, which Travelled
eastward last night. With sucn
weather conditions there is little
hope for the rescue of any other
survivors who may still be adrift
The Carpathia wired New York
this morning that she would steer
for that port rather than selecting
some nearer harbor on account of
the great quantities of drifting ice.
The Carpathia at the time of sending
this message, was in field of ice
twenty miles in diameter and con-
tanning several icebergs.
The Parsian, another one OF the
steamers on which rescue hopes has
been pinned, reached wireless COM
|munication this forenoon and re-
ported no survivors aboard.
The yirginian, which carried even
higher hopes of making additional
rescues, merely wired that she ear
rived on the scene of disaster too
late to be of service" and that the
virginian is proceeding on her way
to Liverpool.
Among the known survivors on
board the Carpathia is the bride OF
John Jacob Aston, who was Miss
Madalene Force, j. Bruce Ismay,
president of the International Mer-
camille Marine, which owned the tt
tanic, is among the survivors on
! the Carpathia. F. D. Millet, the ia
nous artist, may be among the list
of saved, name resembling his be-
ing wired from the Carpathia.
Captain E. J. Smith, commander
fof the Titanic, went down to the
grave with his stricken vessel. That
he and the crew rigidly enforced the
unwritten law of the sea--women
and children first-is plainly indi-
Gated by the few names of men ap-
pearing in the list of survivors sent