The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-18

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light II p. NJ. Tuesday. All WE'LL
Commander Decker Of the Chester.
eetting IN touch 10y wireless with the
Cunaroer yesterday afternoon. transmitted
to Washington this report:
sCarpathia states list of first and second
class passengers and crew sent to- shore.
Chester will relay list third class passen-
gers when convenient to Carpathia
The Chestev had been ordered to obtain
from the Carpatha details Of the wreck
as we'll as II list of the survivors. but ac-
cording TO tho news from Washington
information as to the circumstances OF
the collision was withheld. The only
further word from the cruiser that reached
the Navy Depart ment In the afternoon
was dated Tuesday and said:
"Carpathia expected TO arrive at New
York about eighty-three hours from
yeeterday Monday noon"
Still another message received by the
Cunard Line. received with intense eager
ness but disappointing in i,s vagueness.
came from Winfield Thompson. Boston
newspaper man who il q passenger on the
steamship Franconia. Al 40 y. NJ. MIR.
Thompson's q message came in. 1t was as
follows:
THE steamship Franconia established
communication with the Carpathia at
$40 o'clock. New York time. Wednesday
morning. At that hour the Carpathia
was $50 miles east Of Ambrose light. and
was making thirteen knots. The Car
pathia has 705 survivors OF the Titanic
on board. The Franconia relaying per-
sonal messages from the survivors to
Sable Island"
The White Star officials could not un-
<lerstand the 7O5. unless II referred to
passengers only. Neither could they
understand despatch from the Marconi
.'staion at Camperdown. relayed also from
sthe Franconia and saying:
I'VE are now in communication with
.:the Carpathia via steamship Franconia
iAnd able to announce officially that Titanic
-Vtruck enormous iceberg and sank. Over
.SeOO0 lost. Seven hundred survivors.
mostly women. on Carpathia.
"MARCoNI STATION
There could not nave been 200 persons
On the Titanic.
wireless Work Iampered.
Boston heard through the wireless
operator at the Navy Yard there that the
Chester had tried all day yesterday to get
information from the Cunarder. but that
the cruisers appeal for information was
ignored except for n warning given by
the Carpathia's wireless to the Chester S
for the cruiser to keep out Steana-
ship officials here could not understand
that attitude on the part of the Cunarder's
captain. especially since J. Bruce Is,nay.
the mana ging director Of tho White Star
Line. is among the survivors on the Car
pathia. p. A. S. Franklin. In charge
of the White Star Office here. said that he
had no more information than was con-
tanned in the fragmentary wireless mes-
bages already mentioned.
The air was crowded with shadowy
Fumors out Of which little satisfaction
could he cleaned. There was story that
the Leyland liner Californian. which 10
due in Boston this morning. had been
cruising about the scene OF the
disaster and had recovered a number
Of bodies. This report was uncon-
q firmed by the agents OF the line. who
said that they had had only fragmen-
tary messages from the Californian
and that these messages were not con
elusive In anything. II was not con-
eidered likely here. however, that the
Leyland steamship had found any Of the
drowned. since the virginian and the
Partisan of the. Allan Line both of which
preceded the Californian to the icy waste
where the Titanic met her fate, found
nothing but a sea ''strewn with wrecka ge
and reported that no bodies had been seen
A faint hope persisted that few OF the
Titanic's people might have been picked
up by fishing boats at work south Of the
Grand Banks. hat the probability of tina,
Is so slight "a TO be almost negligible. The
hope vas based on the statement of Capt
Wood of the I.eyland Line freighter
Etonian. who said that as he came along
the track which was followed bv the
Titanic he observed a number OF fishing
vessels in the vicinity of the spot where
the Titanic went down. There was Jus,
the possibility, Capt. Wood thought
that some OF the passengers afioat in life.
belts had been saved by these fishing
vessels. But the E,onian was unable
10 communicate with any Of them.
Questions None Could Answer.
None save Capt Haddock Of the Olym-
pic. his wireless operator. the officers o,
tho Carpathia and the White Star Line
knows whether the Carpathia told the
Olympic The full story of the collision
and what happened in the dreadful! hours
while the women and children who were
saved along with a few Of the men waited
chilled and exhausted. near the spot where
the Titanic had plunged to her grave.
The maddening uncertainty of the
whole business. the inability to know fol
certain how many were saved as we'll az
20 find out If the list supplied by tho Car
pathia was accurate and complete and
TO learn II other ships had picked up sur
vivors. lasted all day. The White Stal
officials could not answer the multitude
OF questions poured on them by tho hun
dreds who besieged their Offices at
Broadway yesterday seeking for scraps
Of news as 10 their loved ones All that
MIR. Franklin and his associates could
say was that they had heard nothing
new since morning and that there was
little on which to base the hope that the
extent Of the disaster would be decrea sed
when details are known
The curious story that n Dated down
from the north that the British steamship
Bruce on her way to Cape Breton had
patched together from many intercepted
wireless messages an account of what
happened when the Titanic colloied witt h
l..r.