The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-16

were some 90 Survivors OF the dls-
aster. These, according to the adj
vices, the Carpathia picked up, and is
now bringing them to New York. For
the rest, the scene as the Carpathia
came up was one of desolation. All
that remained of the S10,000,000
floating palace, on which nearly 400
passengers were luxuriously travel
ing to this side of the Atlantic, were
some bits of wreckage. The biggest
ship in the world had gone down,
shutting out in her downward plunge,
il appeared, hundreds of human lives.
Probably Few Men Saved.
A significant line in the dispatch
from Cape Race was the statement
that of those saved by the Carpathia,
nearly all were women and children.
Should no other vessel have picked
up any other passengers OF the sink
Ing steamer, it may mean that few
of the men on board were saved, for
the proportion of women and children
among the passengers was large.
This would almost certainly mean
the loss of practically the entire crew
of $50. In the two saloons were 230
women and children, but it is not
known how many there were among
the 740 third.class passengers. In
the first saloon there were 12S wo-
men and IS children, and in the sec
ond ~ women and eight children.
Notable persons, travellers on the
Titanic, whose fate was in doubt In
the lack of definite advices as to the
identity of the survivors, were Mr.
and Mrs. John Jacob Aston, Mai
Archibald Butt. aid to President Taft
Charles NJ. Hays, president OF the
Grand Trunk Pacific of Canada, his
wife and daughter, w. T. Stead, Ben
jamin Guggenheim, f. G. Millet, the
artist, and j. G. Wildener OF Philadel-
phia, Mr.. and Mrs. Isidor Straus, j.
b. Thayer, vice-president Of the Pen
nsylvania railroad, J. Bruce lsmay,
Henry b. Harris, the theatrical man
ager and Mrs Harris and Col Wash
ington Roebling, builder of the
Brooklyn bridge.
A ray of hope appeared shortly be-
fore IL O'Clock last night in mes
sage to New York from the operator
at the Marconi station at Sable is
land near the scene Of the disaster.
To an inquiry regarding the delivery
of wireless messages to the passen-
gers of the Titanic he replied that II
was difficult to deliver them, 'as the
passengers are believed to be dis.
persed among several vessels Even
this faint indication that other YES
sells than the Carpathia had picked
up survivors was eagerly seized up
on by thousands of relatives and
friends of those who set sail on her
for this country.
Even the survivors of the Titanic
disaster have gone through hardships
] of exposure and peril which may
have left many of them in a serious
condition. A dispatch announced at
the White Star offices at New York
late last night said those rescued by
the Carpathia were picked up from a
small fleet" of lifeboats at 1880 o.
clock yesterday morning. II was
eight hours before that, that the I'll.
tanic is reported to have gone to the
bottom, In the opinion of Vice.Presi.
dent Franklin, the Carpathia will
hasten with all possible speed to
New York, in order that those sur.
vivors suffering worst from exposure
may be able to obtain proper medical
attendance. The dispatch accounted
for 675 survivors on the Carpathia.
The dispatch which first told OF
the sinking of the Titanic came last
evening from Cape Race, n. f. II
said: "The steamer Olympic re
ports that the steamer Carpathia
reached the Titanics position at day
break today, but found boats ant
wreckage only. She reports that tn,
Titanic foundered at about 2.20 o'clocl
a. m, in latitude 41.16 north ant
longitude 5O,14 west The messag,
adds that all the Titanics boats wer,
accounted for and about 675 soul
/ saved, crew and passengers, latte
nearly all women and children" Tn,
report from the Olympic said tina
the Leyland liner Californian wa
remaining and searching the vicinit,
of the disaster The Carpathla.
was stated, was returning to Ney
York with the survivors.
The following statement was give,
out at the White Star Offices at Ne,
York last evening:
+ Capt Haddock Of the Olympi
I sends a wireless message to tn
|, White Star offices here that IN
4 steamer Titanic sank at 2.2O a. m. a
1 ter all passengers and crew had bee
lowered to lifeboats and transferre
! to the Virginian. The STEAMSHIP
. Carpathia with several hundred pa
p sengers Of the Titanic is now enrout
for New York" Vice Preader
I. Franklin said that he had oancele
arrangements for Me special trai
I which they had planned 10 send {
Halifax TO bring the rescued passer
gers to New York city by rail, as
was believed that the boat which IN
\ Titanic passengers on board woul
: steam direct for New York.
The text OF the message receive
- from Capt. II. J. Haddock OF IN