Milford chronicle., 1912-04-19
ONLY ONES RESCUED
Other Ships Reached Scene of
Disaster Too Late.
MANY NOTABLE MEN MISSING
Most of Those Saved Are WO-
men and Children.

The appalling magnitude Of the
wreck OF the giant liner Titanic has
been but little mitigated by the frag-
mentary information which has so far
altered in.
The Titanic struck the iceberg off
the Newfoundland banks at 1925 Sun
day night and went down at 2.2O Mon
day morning. She sank in water two
miles deep.
The rescuing steamer Carpathia has
s6S survivors on board, according to
the latest news received at the offices
Of the White Star line in New York.
This increases the list of those saved
by about 200 from the number first
reported. Except for this, the favor
able details are insignificant compared
with the supreme fact that the Titanic
Is at the bottom of the Atlantic and
that the shattered wreck took with
her about 1850 victims to their death
A rigid investigation is to be made
into the report that the Titanic was
not equipped with sufficient lifeboats
and RATS to save her passengers and
crew. The assertion is made that the
vessel did not carry anything like ade-
quate life saving appliances to meet
such a disaster as that which over
took her. 1t is probable that both the
British and American governments
will insist on thorough inquiry in.o
this phase of the wreck.
The first reports giving the total
survivors at 675 were varied by more !
favorable news, first from Captain |
Rostron, of the Carpathia, who gave
the number at about 500 and later by
the positive announcement of the
White Star line that there are S6S sur
vivors of the Titanic on board the Car
pathia. But with these revised figures
there remain 1341 persons, passengers
and crew of the Titanic, who are un-
accounted for and apparently lost.
Hope clung desperately to the belief
that the steamers Virginian and Par
isian, of the Allan line, might have
picked up survivors in addition to
those on board the Carpathia, but this
was practically dispelled when the
Sable Island wireless station reported
that the Partisan had no survivors on
board, and when the officers of the
Allan line in Montreal issued a state
ment that the captain of the Virginian
had sent them wireless message say
ing that he had arrived at the scene
Of the disaster too late to be of SER
vice" Both the Virginian and the
Partisan therefore appear to hold out
no hope Of further reducing the extent
of the calamity. The Virginian has
proceeded on her way to Europe.
The Partisan steamed through much
heavy field ice looking for passengers
from the nl-fated ship. No life RATS
or bodies were sighted among the
floating wreckage, which covered a
large area. The Partisan reports that
the weather was cold and that even
If any persons had been on the wreck
age they would in all probability have
perished from exposure before they =
could have been picked up.
The Carpathia, having on board the 81
0nly survivors accounted for, is COM cl
ng in slowly to New York All hope q
or details of the tragedy and its ef- Il
'ects are centered on this ship. She CT
will reach New York some time dur
ng Thursday night. &C
London, Paris and New York are &c
,rief stricken and overwhelmed by ez
he news of the disaster. fearful tn
rowds Of relatives and friends of pas ic
engers on board the Titanic thronged Ca
he steamship offices in all three tn
tiles, waiting hour after hour for a.
ews that, more often than not, when
does come means bereavement and wi
orrOw. tir
OF the survivors on board the Car
athia by far the larger number are ha
romen and children.
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Prominent Men Lost. me
It is practically certain now that fro
early all Of the men of the Titanics riv
went down with the ship wo
hen she plunged two miles toward beC
le ocean floor. or that they perished fro
iserably while clinging to wreckage wa
!. life preservers in the icy waste pla
lat betrayed them. They gave up life riv'
thin sight Of the little, rocking boats
at held their women and children. It her
nnot be doubted now that among mu
ese we're Colonel John Jacob Astor, riai
ador Straus. Major Archibald w. Tbs
itt, aide to President Taft; George shil
Widener, Of Philadelphia: Karl H. app
shr, the tennis champion; Jacques wOr
itrelle, the writer; William T. Stead, erai
9 London editor Francis D. Millet reas
Q American artist, and many, many mer