The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-19
TITANIC DISASTER
BREAKS ALL RECORD
Survivors, on Board the Cunarder
carpathia, Are on Their Way
to New York City.

10 new YORK CITY.
New York, April 17.-That the final
roll of the rescued from the Titanic
disaster had practically been made up
was the impression that grew almost
into conviction last night as the hours
wore on without the revision of lists
or addition measurably to total of
known survivors. OF definite news of
the disaster the night added little.
Down the Atlantic coast, fog envelop-
ed in many places, as the reports
showed, crept the Cunarder Carpathia
bearing on her the S66 lives that had
been snatehed from the waters when
the Titanic's lifeboats, laden to their
| limit, one by one made their way from
the giant liner as it became known
that she was soon to take her fatal
plunge.
But although the rescue ship was
reported within wireless range of the
Sable Island station at a comparative
| ly early hour and every wireless ear
was waiting to catch the snap of a
receiver which might mean that the
great secret of the liners death was
about to be given up, midnight came
and went and the night began to grow
old-and still the word had not been
spoken
Carefully compiling the available
lists, the record of the named sur
vivors of the disaster stands signif-
cantly thus:
Men-79.
Women-233
Children-16
Total--32S.
/ OF the remaining $40 known sur
viyors it is estimated that not more
than 100 were seamen, required to
man the boats This would leave ap-
proximately 440 and in the ordinary
proportions, of women and children in
the steerage, where the passengers
in the Titanics care numbered ITO,
| it seems probable that the greater
part of these 440 were women and
their little ones.
Who Should Perish?
Nothing could show more plainly
, the heroism of the crew and the men
passengers who stood by the doomed
ship, facing practically inevitable
death and sent the women and chill
dren away in the lifeboats. Some
would have to be left; that was a GER
tainty Hundreds in fact were left.
But to all appearances the men who
were left stayed behind deliberately,
calmly stepping aside to let the weak
er ones, those of whom they owed pro-
lection, take their way to safety
Sinking by the head. Have cleared
boats and filed them with women and
children"
This was the final message these
brave men sent the world for it was
directly afterwards that their wireless
signals sputtered and then stopped al
together. The picture inevitably that
presents itself in view Of what is
known, is of men like John Jacob
Astor. master of scores of millions;
/ Benjamin Guggenheim of the famous
family of bankers; Isador Strauss, a
merchant prince, William Stead, vet
eran journalist; Major Archibald Butt,
soldier, Washington Roebling, noted
lengineer-or any or all of these men
stepping aside and bravely, gallantly
, remaining to die that the place he
otherwise might have filled could per-
haps be taken by some sabot shod,
Ishawl-enshrouded illiterate and penni-
less peasant woman of Europe.
One to Life-Others to Death.
Thus the stream of women with
toddling infants or babies in arms.
perhaps most of them soon to be wild
owed, filed up from the cabins and
over the side and away to life. The
men-by far the greater part of them
-remainded to die, millionaire and
peasant and man of middle class alike.
bravely, it must have been, sharing
each others fate and going down to a
common grave.
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