Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-04-15
argest Vessel in the World
Crashes Into Iceberg in Mid
ocean and Twenty Two
Hundred People Have Mar
row Escape from Death.
|AsSENGERs TAKEN IN
SAFETY FROM STEAMER
nOoth Seas and Calm Wealth
er Render Task Of Transfer
Comparatively Simple; Hope
of Saving the Ship Il
Abandoned.

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New York, April 15.--Vice- y
president Franklin Of the White .
STAR Lane said al o'clock that .
RlN had definite information that =
HM the passengers had been y
transferred from the Titanic =
3He had received nothing. how .
ever, indicating the extent Of the Q
damage 10 the liner. .
vessel sun Afloat. .
Montreat April lB.--.Maneser =
Mice here denled 1 report cred =
ated 10 his office that the Titanic q
.hhd SINK. Mr. Mitchell sRid as .
FAR ~ he knew, the filanic still 9
WAS afloat and was naking for .
nalfAx under her own steam. y
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Wv York. April Wireless dis
ines up % noon today showed that
Passengers of the White star liner
&taiic, which struck an Iceberg OFT
Z Newfoundland coast last night,
II being transferred aboard the
aner, The carpashia. Cunardcr.
READY twenty boat loads had been
fsferred and. allowing forty 20
u persons az the capacity of each
boat, some 500 % 1900 paasenRers
q been transferred.
attest reports Indicate that the
nsfereneo is oelnR carried on safe
The sen u smooth aud the wea-
calm. II Is probable that all pas
gers OF the Titnnic are safe.
sVhlle badly damaged. the Titanic
il afloRt and Is reported to be
king her WAY toward Halifax un-
her own steam
'he Titanic Is this largest steamer
e built. She Is Ss2 feet long and
sG,32S tons displacement. She
launched last May and this was
maiden trip Among the passen.
s are Colonel and Mira John Jacob
or. Alfred G.. Vanderbilt, Major
hibald Butt, military aide 20 Pres
nt Tart, r. y. Miliet. the artist; Mr.
Mrs, isador straus. President
ps Of tie Grand Trunk railway. D.
Bruce lsmay, managing director
the White star llne. W. r. stead
others.
he liner carried 1900 passengers
crew of 500.
nother liner, the Partisan. OF the
n company, which sailed from
Agow for Halifax on April ia al
W close az hand ana assisting In
work OF fescue
he Battle and Nirglblan also are
r the scene aud the olympic ap-
ntly Is near az hand. ha the wire-
information concernlnR The trans
ZONES from Captain Haddock OF
olympic.
accident occurred az 1925 last
about 400 miles south og Cape
N ~, and about 100 miles east
W York
wireless message from the IT,
received shortly after midnight.
nclng the liner had struck an
on the banks of Newfound-
ana was iH a sinking condition.
D Ter of the passengers 20 the life
began az once. The accident
red al 1895 o'clock last night.
hours later the ships wireless
fatua. which had been working
idly as TO permit Of only inter-
snt fragmentary mesaasos, failed
plctely.
pe last words sent BY the operator
that the vessel was apparently
ned. sinking BY the head" and
the women paasengeps we're he-
uehoa into tho life boats. A re-
rlng feature was that the weather
falm and clear. aud help only q
hours away
Titanic's nrtt =. o. 8. message
received by the Allan liner Vir-
n. which, according 90 the posi-
given by the Iilanlc'a operator
not more than iTo miles away.
captain OF the Vlraininn at once
ed his beat az full speed for enc
of the disaster. announcing 90
rother oillcor on che bridge or tho