The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-18
Worlds Greatest Steamship Goes Down With
Majority Of Male Passeneers--Most Of
Rescued are Women and Children.
Rescue Ships Pick Up Life Boats and Find Wreckage Steam
Ship Official Comedies Terrible Loss of Jacob
AStor and His Bride; Maj. Butt, Taft's Aid, Ben
jamin Gusgenheim and Other NotabIes Aboard

Titanic. the worlds greatest steam.
ship, has gone down some 500 miles
off Cape Race with $40 of her 1900
passengers and her full crew of $50
men on board.
That the greatest catastrophe OF
marine history has occurred to n yes.
sci of their line is admitted by the of.
flcials of the White Star Steamship
company in New York The liner Car.
pathia the first vessel to come within
sight Of the Titanic, rescued all the
Titanic lIfeboats In which were go
persons, most of them women and
children. Many women and children,
however, have persisted.
When the Carpathia reached the III
fated vessel no sign of life was to be
seen anywhere. the mountainous ocean
swells giving mute evidence TO the
stupendous disaster.
Early reports stated that all the
passengers and the crew of the Titan
ic had been taken off by the Allen
liners, the Virginian and the Partisan,
and the Carpathia. but wireless mes.
sages received here dlscredit these re-
ports in every detail.
Carried Most Notable List.
No hope Is held out at the Offices OF
the White Star line that any man on
board has survived to tell the story OF
the final sinking OF the leyiathan.
though some OF the women in the
boats may have witnessed the sink
ing.
Only by miracle, II Is pointed out,
could any person who stood by the
ship escape the great vessels power.
ful suction as she sank to the bottom.
The Titanic carried the most not
able list Of passengers ever borne
across the Atlantic by one vessel
Homecoming American tourists ar.
ranged their sailings weeks ago 80 as
TO ride the new wonder of the seas on
her maiden voyage.
Dispatches state that the Titanic
went down at 2:20 O'Clock Monday
morning The delay In the transmits.
sion of the news is attributed to the
fact that all dispatches have been
subject to difficult relays.
coIlides With an Iceberg
She was a day ahead of her SEIZED.
ule and 1t is considered probable that
an attempt to make n record.brcaking
voyage was the hope of her crew
when she entered the ice field
Her forward plates were completely
wrecked. gaping wound opening be-
low her water line and letting the
water into her forward compartments.
In the meantime the lifeboats were
manned and into them were placed as
many of the women and children as
they could hold These boats were
put off while there was yet some hope
of holding the Titanic afoat until
her wireless messages could summon
held
Later and more comprehensive mes.
sages tell of great bravery on the
part OF the men passengers. There
was a minimum of disorder John
Jacob Aston, Who with his bride. was
returning from their long honeymoon
abroad, saw his bride placed on a life
boat safely away. Colonel Astor was
drowned
Captain Acts BraveIy.
The work of getting the lifeboats
away, the work Of allaying the fears
of the great crowd of passengers as
much as possible, the work of keeping
the pumps in operation and the en-
gines throbbing-these tasks and
countless others were directed by Cap.
tain Smith, tho venerable commander
of the Titanic, and before her advent
the commander of the Olympic, who
displayed almost superhuman power
OF mind and body as the worlds most
horrible sea disaster crowned his long
and honorable service on the high
seas
A wireless message from the Nir-
ginian states that the occupants OF
the small boats which she picked up
have been transferred to the Carpa.
thia, which is proceeding to New
York.
The Titanic struck the iceberg at
1925 Sunday night and foundered at
2:20 Monday morning. At daybreak
the Carpathia arrived on the scene
and her passengers and crew beheld
only the small boats with their pre-
.cious human cargoes and a dismal
scene of wreckage.
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Said Much In Little.