The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-04-19
GREAT STEAMSHIP TITANIC SINKS
AFTER STRIKING AN ICEBERG
WHEN STEAMERS THAT ANSWER rs. So REACHED
PLACE WHERE ACCIDENT OCCURRED THE TITANIC
HAD SUNK BITS OF THE
WRECKAGE
THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE TAKEN OFF FIRST
Wireless Message carpaha
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the titanic,

New York.-More than one thou
sand five hundred persons, it is fear
ed, sank to death when, within less
than four hours after she crashed
into an iceberg, the mammoth White
Star Line steamship Titanic, bound
from Liverpool to New York, on her
maiden voyage, went to the bottom
off the Newfoundland banks.
OF the approximately twenty-five
hundred persons on board the giant
liner, some of them of worldwide
prominence, only 8G6 are known to
have been saved. The White Star
Line offices in New York, while keep
ing up hope to the last, were free to
admit that there has been horrible
loss of life"
Accepting the early estimates of the
fatality list as accurate, the disaster
is the greatest in the marine history
Of the world. Nearest approaching it
in magnitude We're the disasters to
the steamship Atlantic in 1873, when
574 lives were lost, and La Bourgoyne
in 1898, with a fatality list of 571.
Should it prove that other lines, no.
tably the Allan liners, Partisan and
Virginian, known to have been in the
vicinity of the Titanic, had picked up
other of her passengers, the extent
of the calamity would be greatly re-
duced. This hope still remains.
News of the sinking of the liner
and the terrible loss of life in conse-
quence came with all the greater
shock because hope had been buoyed
up all day by reports that the steam
ship, although badly damaged, was
not in a sinking condition and that
all her passengers had been safely
taken off. The messages were most
" unofficial, however, and none came
dreLt frnm the liner, so lurking fear
remained of possible bad news
There came flashing over the wires
from Cape Race, within 400 miles Of
which the liner had struck the ice
berg, word that at 2:20 o'clock, Mon
day morning, three hours and fifty
five minutes after receiving her death
blow, the Titanic had sunk.
The news came from the steamship
Carpathia, relayed by the White Star
Liner Olympic, and revealed that by
the time the Carpathia, outward bound
from New York and racing for the I'll
tanic on a wireless call, reached the
scene the doomed vessel had sunk.
Left on the surface, however, were
life boats from the Titanic and in
them, as appears from the meager re-
ports received were some S66 sur
vivors of the disaster. These, accord
ing to the advices, the Carpathia pick
ed up and is now on her way with
them to New York.
For the rest, the scene as the Car
pathia came up was one of desola-
ton All that remained of the $1O,-
100000 floating palace, on which near
ly fourteen hundred passengers had
been voyaging luXuriously to this side
of the Atlantic, were some bits OF
wreckage. The biggest ship in the
world had gone down, snufting out
in her downward plunge, 1t appears,
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 have been saved,
as the proportion of women and chill
dren among the passengers was large.
The same facts would likewise spell
the doom of practically the entire
crew of about eight hundred and
sixty.
In the cabins were 23O women and
children. but it is not known how
many there were among the 74O third
class passengers.
In the first cabin there were 12S
women and Is children, and in the
second cabin 79 women and eight
children.
Liner Was Insured for $5,ooo,ooo.
Iondon.-The Titanic was insured
at Lloyds for $5,OO0OOO No definite
information is obtainable as to the
amount of valuables on board, but 1t
is generally understood that the yes
sci took diamonds of the estimated
yame of S5,OOO,OOO, consigned to deal
ers. She also took large amount
of bonds. A member of prominent
firm of underwriters said: Even If
the Titanic reaches port her owners
will have to calculate on a loss of
at least S75O,OOO, but if she becomes
a total loss it will be an extremely
serious matter.
Futrelles Aboard the Titanic.
Atlanta.-Among the passengers
aboard the Inflated liner Titanic were
JACQUES Futrelle, the author, former
Albanian, and his wife, who was a
Miss May Peel, an Atlanta girl. The
Futrelles were returning to America
to take up their summer abode in
their home at Cciuate, Mass. They
visited Atlanta during the past Christ
mas holidays, and went aboard as
soon as they returned to New York
from the South about the middle OF
January. They visited Gibraltar. It
aly, London and Switzerland on their