The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-04-18


200 persons, IL Is feared, sank to
tea.h early Monday. when within
,4.- hours after she crashed into an
.-.5erg, the mammoth White Star
Inc Steamer Titanic, bound from
r-yergOol to New York on her maiden
,ovage. went to the bottom of the
<.r Foundland Banks. OF the ap-
r-ax.mately 1900 persons on board
,t. giant liner, some OF them of
rar.d-wide prominence. only 675 are
Known 10 have been saved The White
-.ar Line Offices in New York, while
saeptng up hope to the last were free
20 admit that there had been "horri-
bic Joss Of life"
Accepting the early estimates of
.fe fatality list as accurate, the dis
a-ter is the greatest in the marine
history of the world. Nearest ap-
preaching 1t in magnitude were the
disasters TO the Steamer Atlantic in
1873. when 574 lives were lost and
the La BOurgeogne in 1898, with a
fatality list Of ST..
Should it prove that other liners,
notably Allan Liners Partisan and
Tirginian, known to have been in the
vicinity Of the Titanic early yester-
day. had picked up other of her pas
sengers, the extent of the calamity
would be greatly reduced. The hope
still remains.
al n ~
and the terrible loss of life in conse-
Quence came early last evening with
all the great shock because hope had
been buoyed up all day by reports
that the steamship, although badly
damaged, was not in sinking condi-
ton and that all her passengers had
been safely taken off. The messages
were mostly unofficial and none came
direct from the liner, so that a lurk-
ing fear remained of possible bad
news TO come.
Shortly after Z o'clock last night
there came flashing over the wires
from Cape Race, within 400 miles
of which the liner had struck the ice
berg, word that at 2:20 o'clock Mon
day morning, three hours and fifty
FIVE minutes after receiving her death
blow the Titanic had sunk.
The news came from the steamer
Carpathia, relayed by the White Star
Line liner Olympic, and revealed that
By the time the Carpathia, outward
bound from New York and racing, to
Titanic on wireless call reached the
scene, the doomed vessel had sunk.
Left on the surface, however, were
most appeared from meagre reports
received up to late hour, were some
90 survivors of the disaster. These,
according to the advices, the Carpa-
thla picked up and is now on her way
with them for New York.
For the rest, the scene as the Car
pathia came up was one of desola-
ton. All that remained of the $1O,-
100000 floating palace, on which
nearly 1,400 passengers had been
Voyaging luxuriously to this side of
The Atlantic, were some bits of
Wreckage. The biggest ship in the
world had gone down, snuffing out in
her downward plunge, it appeared,
hundreds of human lives. A signif1-
cant line in the Cape Race dispatch
was the announcement that of those
saved by the Carpathia nearly all
were women and children. Should it
prove so that no Their vessel picked
up any passen gers of the sinking liner
'nlS might mean that few of the men
on board had been saved, as the pro-
portion of women and children among
tne passengers was large. The same
Idcts would likewise spell the doom
VI practically the entire crew of 500.
IN the cabins were 23O women and
'Hlldren, but it is not known how
many there were among the TAO
'HIfd-class passengers. In the first
'aoin there were 12S women and Is
1nIluren, and in the second cabin 70
women and eight children.
Notable persons, travellers on the
titanic whose fate was in doubt in
.ne lack of definite advices as to the
identity of the survivors, were Mr..
aHu Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Major
aIchloald Butt, aide to President
lat; Charles NJ. Hays, president of
N!dnd Trunk Pacific of Canada, his
we and daughter; W. T. Stead, Ben
!"imln Guggenheim, F. D. Millet, the
lSI, and ]. G. Widener, of Phila--
qeipnla; Mr.. and Mrs. Isidor Straus,
D. Thayer, vice-president of the
pennsylvania Railroad; J. Bruce Is
"S' Henry B. Harris, the theatrical
- ager, and Mrs Harris, and Col.
naSnlngton Roebling, builder of the
brooklyn Bridge.
e rarlsian Did Not Pick Up Any of
the Survivors.
- 1ldllIax' N. S., April 16.-In reply
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