St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-04-20

Probably Not Over Sever
Hundred Rescued.
Ramming an iceberg. the Titanic
largest of all steamships, sank 1O8(
miles from New York early Monday
morning with the greatest loss of lifl
| ever recorded in the history Of marine
disasters.
The Titanic was on ito maiden voy.
age and had passenger list Of 400
including some of the worlds rich.
.est and most notable men and wo.
men, and a crew of $50. OF these
!220O persons, only S66 are known
to have been saved.
HELP COMES TOO LATE.
Wireless calls from the Titanic
|sweryed every steamship within ita
range from its course, all hurrying
to the disabled vessel. The steam
ship Carpathia was the first to reach
the scene, and is reported to have
found only wreckage and life boats.
The Carpathia now is steaming to-
ward New York with the survivors,
and by daybreak should be communi-
eating steadily by wireless with the
shore.
News Of the stupendeous disaster
was delayed by the fact that the IT,
tan;c and vessels nearby were out OF
the zone Of the shore wireless sta
tions. Tidings Of the boat's distress
were delayed from vessel to vessel,
and reached New York soon after
the collision Sunday night. The IT.
tanic sank four hours later. at about
2:2O o'clock Monday morning, and
neither the fact that 1t had sunk nor
the fact that there was loss of life
was known In New York until last
BOAT THOUGHT TO BE UNsINK-
The White Star line officials be-
iieved the boat, which cost 100000
900. and was the last word Of the
shipbuilder's art, was unsuitable,
and reassured the public until it was
certain that the unbelievable had
happened, and that what had been q
floating city was but q ghastly men,
ory.
Crowds surrounded the White
Star line offices in New York all last
night, the men weeping and tho wo-
men hysterical.
Fortunes of first cabin passengers
aggregated more than o half billion
dollars. Many filled great positions
in the world of art, letters, finance
anu commerce.
When the whole story is told it
may be one of the saddcst chapters
in the worlds history.
St. Johns, N. F., April 16.-From
the steamship Bruce, bound for Sgd
ney, come the first detailed reports
tonight of the sinking of the Titanic
and the appalling scenes attending
her end.
The Bruce obtained her story ct
the disaster from wireless messages
picked up from several of the ships
which had been in closest touch with
the last hours of the mammoth White
Star steamship, and which were aft
erward in the zone of communication
with the Bruce's apparatus.
When the Titanic struck the noun
tain of ice that sent her to the bot
tom within four hours after the i'm
pact, she was steaming at the rate
of eighteen knots an hour. This
shcck almost demolished the proud
vessel, which her builders and her
captain had believed nothing could
master.
Hitting this impenetrable ice mass
fairly with her towing bows, the shii
was almost rent asunder at the first
blow. Her decks were ripped and
torn, her sides and bulkheads were
split and shattered as with the ham.
n.es' CT some Titan, from the bow to Z
lrcint almost amidships.
MOUNTS JAGGED ICE; THEN
SLIDES.
Her upper works and some Of hel
boats were splintered, while . shower
Of debris from her spars fell upor
the decks like giant hail. Thougf
| the ship had struck the monster OBJ
struction head on, as her bow ross
clear of the water, smashed to n
unrecognizable mass of bent anS
slliyc-ed steel. the vessel listed heav
lily to port and threatened to tur1
turtle before the recoil slide of wha
vas left of her proud form back I.
an even keel.
The Titanic had forced her gian
bulk away up on submerged spu
Iof the iceburg, phenomenon whicl
is not frequent in the most disas
itrous collisions with these ghostlik
sentinels of the Banks. In mountinl
rpon the jagged ice spur and Il
Isliding hack from her position th
[ship had torn out many Of her bull
plates from the midships section fol
ward to the bow.
COMPARTMENTS ARE SPEBDIL,
FLOODED.
I As q result. her compartment
from amidships forward were speed
lily flooded. She took water ct
rate that defied the efforts Of I'll
pumps, and soon began to settle
the head, listing heavily to port an
Trolling IN the trough Of the sea /
lshe became gradually disengage
from the ice, many tons Of which ha
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