Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-04-18
Loss of the Titanic As Told by
the Wireless.
GRE WOUNDS RACE TO RESCUE
Appeals for Help Caught by Several
Big Liners-The Carpathia Is
the First to Reach the
Scene of Disaster.

WOrId occurred last Sunday night
when the Titanic of the White Star
line. the biggest and finest of steam
ships, shattered herself against an ice
berg and sank with / 500 of her paB-
sengers and crew in less than four
hours.
out Of nearly 1900 people that she
carried only G15 were saved and most
of these were women and children
They were picked up from small boats
by the Cunarder Carpathia which
found, when she ended her desperate
race against time, a sea streWn with
the Wreckage of the lost ship and the
bodies of drowned men and women.
Among the 1920 passengers of the
giant liner were Colonel John j. AS
tor and his wife, Isidor Straus, Major
Archibald w. Butt, George B. Widener
and Mrs. Widener of Philadelphia, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry S. Harper, William T.
Stead, the London journalist, and
many more whose names are known
on both sides of the Atlantic The
news that few besides women and
children were saved caused the great
est apprehension as to the fate of
these.
On her maiden voyage, the colossus
of steamships shattered herself against
an iceberg. Nothing awaited to keep
her atloat. The science of shipbuid-
ing prevails against winds and wealth
ers, but the mighty steel ocean goers
of the twentieth century are as much
at the mercy of fogs and ice as were
the oak bottoms of 100 years ago.
Staggering in the ice field into
which she had been driven at great
speed the Titanic sped call after call
to the hurrying liners of the upper
roadside Cunarder Carpathia, the
Virginian, and the Partisan of the AL
len line. the great Baltic, the Good
Samaritan" of the Atlantic, and the
big Germans that were ploughing their
way between the continents. And
the wireless once more proved Its
worth for the Carpathia and the Vir.
gilman, wheeling in their courses, sped
through the night, venturing unknown
dangers and raced up in time to save
the lives of CTS people.
1t has been many years since the
world was left in such suspense and
dread as followed the first faltering
calls for help of the crushed Titanic,
AT 1890 p. m. the Virginian, speed
ing on her way to Glasgow, picked up
the White Star steamships insistent,
frantic &c. Q. d." the Marconi signal
air of all lesser messages and stops
ships at sea full in their tracks Dash
by dash and dot by dot, the wireless
operator of the Virginia caught the
cry for help,
"Have struck an iceberg; badly dam
aged. Rush aid"
Seward and landward, j. G. Phil,
lips, the Titanic's wire man, was hurl-
ing the appeal for help. By fits and
starts for the wireless was working
unevenly and Phillips
reached out to the world crying the
Titanic's peril, A word or two, scat
tered phrases, now and then a CON
hVN'td SNlbNhNC Ildut up TIE UleS-
sages that sent a thrill of apprehen,
sion for a thousand miles east and
west and south.
Other rushing liners besides the Vir-
ginian heard the call and became on
the instant something more than car.
go carriers and passenger greyhounds.
The big Baltic, 200 miles to the east,
nd
save life as she did when her sister
of the White Star feet, the Republic,
was cut down in a fog in January,
1909. The Titanic's mate, Olympic.
the mightiest of sea goers save the
Titanic herself, turned in her tracks.
All along the northern lane the mira,
Gle of the wireless worked for the dis
tressed and sinking ship, The Ham
burg American Cincinnati, the Paris
ian from Glasgow the North German
Lloyd Prinz Frederick Wilhelm, the
HamburgAmerican liners Prinz Abel
bert and Amerika all heard the &c,
Q. D." and the rapid, condensed ex,
PLANTATION of what had happened
But the Nirginian was nearest. bare
ty l70 miles away and was the first to
know of the Titanics danger. She
went about and headed under forced
draught for the spot indicated in one
of the last of Phillips messages-lat.
40,32 north and long. 61,1S west She
is a fast ship, the Allen liner. and her
wireless has told the story of how she
put in her best licks stretchipr
through the night to set to the Titanic
in time. There was need for all thu
power of her engines and all the a,
perience of her captain The fms
futterins Marcoui messages that wer.
received from the Titanic made it &C.
tain that the great ship With her =.
$50 passengers was filling and in Ges
perate peril.
Farther cut At sea WAS the Car
paths, whicA Lift New York for tie
Mediterranean en- April e and which
had felt the hI N tie air ph.eb 81
sailors know meaas tFe agyNui.y If