The Nome daily nugget., 1912-07-17

that the Nugget service is very ac- curate and reliable, for it gives the salient points brought out. or pub lished by this paper at the time of the wreck. pieced togcthed from day to day as the story developed and was given forth Us news. This story is a review of the whole tragedy published about 1G days after the wreck occurred. Editors note.
 At noon on Wednesday. April 10. the White Star line steamshipj Titanic the biggest vessel ever launched. be- gan her maiden voyage from South- smpton. England. for New York.
 She was ss2 feet long. 94 feet in breadth over all and displaced 66 900 tons She was capable of carrying 2.500 passengers. Her cost was up ward of s7.5Oo ooO.
 On this trip she carried 2.s4O hu- man beings. including 325 first cabin passengers. 2S5 second cabin passen- gers, 'l0 steerage. and the balance consisting of crew and stewards.
 The passengers included an unus- ual number of men of international celebrity There were John Jacob As tor. the New York muiti-m millionaire; Major Archibald Butt. President Tafts aide: W. T. Stead. the noted English publicist: Jacques Futrelle. the novelist; Charles NJ. Hayes, presi- dent of the Grand Trunk railroad; Washington Roebling. son of the builder of the Brooklyn bridge; Isi- dor Strauss. the famous New York merchant Benjamin Guggcnheim. of the great minee- e-owning family: Fran cis b. Millet. the artist: John B. Thayer, vice president of the Penn sylvania railroad. Sir Cosmo and Lady Dum- Gordon. the countess Of Roths and many others.
 The Titanic's Ice Warnings.
 Among them was J. Bruce lStnay. managing director of the line. Sho according to his custom. was making the maiden trip to see how the vns- sel worked.
 The weather was fine. The ship ran at twenty -fifive miles (tweniy-Onc knots) an hour. or more-nearlV her maximum speed.
 By Sunday. April II. she was off the Newfoundland banks, where ice bergs floating down from the Arctic regions are always common anl have been unusually thick this spring.
 By Sunday. April IA. she was ofr the Newfo undland banks, where ice bergs floating down from the Arctic regions are always common and have been unusually thick this spring.
 Several ships informed the Titanic by wireless that a great field of loose ice, interspersed with bergs. lay right across the track which she was fol- lowing. To one of these warnings she replied Thanks" Another she repeated to the photographic office at Washington. Captain Smith gave one of these messages to Mir. Ismay. who put 1t in his pocket
 Told of the Threatening Bergs.
 At o'clock in the afternoon the Hamburg American steamship Amer ika informed the Titanic by wireless that she was passing two bergs in latitude 41.27. longitude 5o.0S. The Titanic's commander might have cal culated that he would reach that spot about II o'clock. He did reach 1t. It was probably one of those two bergs that sank the Titanic.
 In spite of these warnings, the IT. tanic ran on at full speed. At half past eleven o'clock Captain k. J. Smith had gone to his cabin and First the bridge. It was . clear and star lit night.
 How the Titanic Was Ripped.
 At Il:45 the lookout in tho crows nest on the Titanic's foremast. who had no spyglass reported "ice ahead to the officer on the bridge. The off, cer ordered the helm put hard to star board It was afterward learned that the berg was half a mile away when sighted. It was too late to save the Titanic. Even with engines reversed a ship of her size going at full speed will not stop inside half a mile. The manoeuvers ordered made her turn. hort side to the iceberg, at nearly full speed.
 The Titanic crashed into the berg on her port side. An under water shelf of the berg tore through her bottom. filled several water-tight com partments and she began to settle down immediately. The Titanic was then in latitude 4016 and longitude 5O.14, a few miles northwest of the spot where the Amerika reported Ice bergs. Tho shock of collision was