The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-04-19
Titanic Had Gone to Bottom
When Fist Of Rescuing
Fleet Reached Scene.
SURVIVORS SUFFER GREATLY
Put Into Lifehoats ScantiIy Clad
and Spent Many Hours
In Bling Cold,

New York, April 1.-THE tidings
that the Titanic had sunk came in a
bref wireless dispatch 10 Cape Race.
n F., from he White Star liner olym-
pic, which reported that the Titanic
had foundered al about 2:20 a, m.
Monday morning in latitude tl:16
north and longitude SOFA west.
The message added that the steam
| ship Carpathia, then on her way to
Naples. had reached the scene of the
wreck at daybreak and found only
boats and wreckage and that all the
1itanic's boats We're accounted for and
"about 615 souls saved, crew and pas
sengers, latter nearly all women and
children
This news was confirmed shortly
atterward by officials OF the White Star
line here, who announced that the
Olympic had sent them wireless dis
patches that the Titanic had sunk.
A wireless dispatch received later
Olympic from the Carpathia. stated
that the Carpathia had S66 of the Ii
| tanics passengers on board, mostly
women and children, concluding with
the words:
Grave fears are felt for the safety
OF the balance of the passengers and
the crew."
Thirteen Hundred Missing.
Out of the 1900 souls on board this
would make it appear that 1914 had
perished, or at least are unaccounted
for.
The wireless dispatch from Cape
Race telling of the sinking also gave
the information that the steamship
California was remaining and search
ing the vicinity Of the disaster.
That the Virginian may have some
Of the shipwrecked passengers of the
Titanic on board was indicated in a
telegram received here from St. Johns
which stated that she would bring to
st. Johns such survivors as she may
rescue" Inasmuch as the Virginian
was bound for Liverpool she would
hardly return to the Newfoundland
port unless for humanitarian reasons.
The brief wireless dispatches re-
ceived show that the passengers and
crew passed through thrilling expert
ences from the very moment that the
monster Titanic crashed into the ice
berg in the dead of night until the
Carpathia, several hours later, reached
the scene and rescued the survivors
from lifeboats floating in sea of ice.
Danger still confronted even those
who were so fortunate as to be put
aboard the lifeboats. Huge quantities
of field ice covered the ocean. a wire
less dispatch says, and in the dark
ness the crews had to guide their
boats with the greatest care to pre-
vent being iammed and overturned.
, Many Passengers Had Retired.
The collision occurred at a time
when most of the passengers had re-
| tired or were about to go to bed. The
shock of the collision sent many Of
: the passengers to the decks partly
) dressed
) A wireless dispatch came through
, Camperdown, n. S., saying that the
, passengers were ordered to the life
boats at once and that many were
scantiy clad as they took their places
in the boats. This would indicate that
the Titanic's condition was such that
10 time could be spared to return to
: staterooms for additional clothes.
The ice was so heavy that the life.
boats could not force their way
4 through it and as result the boats
, became widely separated. The air was
lifting cold and the chill that rose
from the ice foes caused the passen
gers to hover close together to keeI
warm. All through the night the life
boats bobbed helplessly between the
s shifting cakes Of ice while the sur
e vivors prayed for dawn to come.
: Shortly after o'clock the sinking
y Titanic made her great dive into the
: sea, carrying with her hundreds Of
!, persons to death.
u Daylight came and with it arrived
e the Cunarder Carpathia, which fount
n cnly the score of lifeboats filled witt
k crew and passengers floating helpless
i, ly about the vicinity where the Titanic
had passed under the waves