Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-04-19

sea.
The calculation was made by an Off
cial of the government marine depart
ment who finds that depth on the
marine chart at point about 500 miles
from Halifax and about 70 miles south
of the Grand Banks where he believes
the Titanic went down.
This location is midway between
Sable Island and Cape Race and in line
with those dangerous sands which, how
ever, might have proved a place of
safety had there been time to run the
Titanic there and beach her.
More than ], 800 persons it is feared,
sank to their death early yesterday
when within four hours after she crash
ed into an iceberg, the mammoth White
Star line steamer Titanic, bound from
! Liverpool to New York on her maiden
voyage, went to the bottom off the
Newfoundland banks. Of the approx
imately 1900 persons on board the giant
liner, some of them of world wide prom
lnenCe, Ollly QUO are hHOWH W nave
been saved. The White Star line Offices
in New York, while keeping up hope to
the last, were free to admit that there
had been "horrible loss of life"
Accepting the early estimates of the
fatality list as accurate, the disaster is
the greatest in the marine history of the
world. Nearest approaching it in mag
nitude were the disasters to the steamer
Atlantic in 1873, when 574 lives were
lost and to La Bourgogne in 1898 with a
fatality list of 81. Should it prove
that other liners, notably the. Allan
liners Partisan and Virgnian, known to
have been in the vicinity of the Titanic
early yesterday, had picked up others of
her passengers, the extent of the ca
lamity would fortunately be greatly re-
duced. This hope still remains.
News of the sinking of the liner and
the terrible loss of lfe in consequence
came early last evening with all the
greater shock because hope had been
buoyed up all day by reports that the
steamship, although badly damaged, was
not in sinking condition and that all
her passengers had been safely taken
off. The messages were mostly unoffi-
cial, however, and none came direct
. from the liner, so that lurking fear
remained of possible bad news to come.
Shortly after seven o'clock last night
| %bora ooY ,a doch;po ovar tho u,irao from,
Cape Race, within 400 miles of which
the liner in the treacherous Newfound-
land banks region had struck the berg
which brought her to grief, that at 2:2C
o'clock Monday morning, three hours
and fifty-fve minutes after receiving
; her death blow, the Titanic had sunk.
The news came from the steamer Car
athia, relayed by the White Star liner
Olympic and revealed that by the time
the Carpathia, outward bound from New
, York and racing for the Titanic on q
wireless call, reached the scene, the
doomed vessel had sunk.
Left on the surface, however, were
, lifeboats from the Titanic and in them
S as appears from the meagre reports
received up to late hour, We're some
: 675 surviv ors of the disaster. These,
according to the advices, the Carpathia
e pick ed up and is now on her way with
them to New York.
: For the rest, the scene as the Car
pathia came up was one of desolation.
y All that remained of the SIC, 00O. 00(
= floating palace on which nearly ], 400
passengers had been voyaging luxuri-
ously to this side of the Atlantic, were
some bits of wreckage. The biggest
ship in the world had gone down, snuff
r ing out in her downward plunge, it ap-
peared, hundreds of human lives.
A significant line in the Cape Race
A despatch was the announcement that OF
| those saved by the Carpathia nearly al
were women and children. Should il
prove that no other vessel picked uI
| any passengers of the sinking liner this
: might mean that few of the men or
: board had been saved, as the proportion
of women and children among the pas.
sengers was large. The same facts
) would likewise spell the doom of prac-
tically the entire crew of $50.
( In the cabins were 280 women anc
! children, but it is not known how many
! there were among the TAO third-class
/ passengers.
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