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a have little doubt that sooner or later when the travelling public is
not 50 fastdous about going up and down stairs, and when they do not
require to walk practically more than half the length of the ship without
opening a door, and when the Board Of Trade makes it compulsory not to
have any watertight compartment open either in the hold OF between decks
between sunset and sunrise, then an enormous amount of risk at present
existing in ships may and can be eliminated.
"f the pohnts as to the closing Of the watertght compartment doors
and the carrying Of boats are carried out the public will be so per cent
safer"
The White Star Company has received messages of sympathy from
the German Emperor and Prince Henry of Prussia.
MARINE INSURANCE WILL GO UP.
The loss of the Titanic is so serious to the underwriters that It is
asserted that the prices of marine insurance will be sifened greatly all
around.
The disaster has overwhelmed with grief not only New York but.
London and Paris. In the English and French capitals great crowds
throng around the bulletin boards, c!amoring for news that is so hard
TO get. In Southampton, England, where nearly all the officers and men,.
brs of the crew of the Titanic lived, wild grief is apparent on every hand,
and hundreds of homes are desolate. Grief in this seaport is the more
poignant because those who sailed on the Titanic were all picked men and
proud Of the honor of helping to navigate the biggest and newest OF
ships. eel
aser in the number of lives lost W S the sinking of La Bourgogne of the
French Line, in collision with the bark Cromatyshire in 1898. When La
Bourgogne went to the bottom she carried 81 with her, a great many
being women. Dsgraceful scenes attended the sinking of this ship, the
survivors telling stories Of men brutaly pushing women aside in the
rush for the lhfeboats, and of members of the crew savagey fighting with
passengers for places of safety. This disaster occurred not far from
where the Titanic went down on the Graveyard of the Atlantic"
In 1873 the liner Atlantic was wrecked on Mars Rock. About s74
lives were lost. The list of victims Of both these caamites does not to-
tai the number of dead in the laundering of the Titanic.
The property loss entaied by the sinking Of the Titanic will reach,
il is believed, s2OOOo,OoO. The vessel was valued at SiOOoo,OOO. the
cargo, including a great quantity OF diamonds at s5.OOoOO0 more. The
personal belongings and jewehy OF the passengers are figured in to bring
up the total.
Hope that there are survivors unaocouned for is deduced from the
fact that the Titanic drfted 80 minutes of latitude, or about thhtyfom
miles between the time she struck and the time she sank. This would
favor the theory that some of the Ifetoats might have become separated
from the fleet that was picked up by the Carpathia. Capt. Rostron of
the Carpatha sent the following wireless message to the Cunard line of.
fcals, which was received at 7.5s o'clock this morning:
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stns, the sssa%;. .an. with much. =. aesut;; we we s0a,asr New ror. the best.
Large "'"''' ' ''''''s' - twenty miles "'" 10 "'" '; esS 1"s SSsiaos.
II appears that all The ifeboats of The Titanic that were not damaged
in the collision with the iceberg were safely launched. This would ind.
maintained 10 A great degrees. Capt. Smith went down with his shp.
The weather signal station onthe Gulf of ST. Lawrence reported TO.
lay that heavy foSS lay of Nova Scotia and that a violent thunderstorm
broke in thai ~neghborhood last night and is travelling eastward. 1t was
said thai such conditions left little hope for the rescue OF any survivors of
the Titanic that might still he adlift in RATS or boats.
p. A. 5. Franklin, Nce-PreSdent of the International Mercantile.
Marine Company, was at the Offices OF the White Star Line at s O'Clock
this morning. He had LETT there at 4 o'clock, when the worst fears of the
disaster had been turned to facts by the late messages from the Carpathia,
the Olympus and the Californian.
# Nj. franklin was asked if he could account in any way for tn,
quick sinking OF Ne ., llan Sn. winch len, he 81, SAID r&sPPsa'edty ana confidently
modern marine engineering, architecture ana unlimited financial backing
could put into a TRANSATLANTIC liner. lie was asked, too, if a lleboat equip
ment of a capacity to carry only about one-thhd of the ships compan,
y was in keeping with the advertised luxury and safety OF the moder
C eyathanS OF the sea.
With bowed head and shaking voice, Mr.. Franklin could find on,
this to say:
"UnNl the awful news came last night, believed that even thougt
Two compartments of the Titanic were flooded she would still float. Thu
< damage to her hull by the collision must have been beyond all imaeina
ton OF the men who designed her. She must have been torn and rppe,
&c apart as nobody ever believed a ship could he. We believed her boa
equipment was adequate to meet any emergency, cannot say NOR
l. John Jacob Aston wen down with the Titanic. His wife and her mail
were saved, Scores OF other men placed their wives In lfeboats and re
NAMED 0 N the ship, among them som of the leading men OF affairs of Ne,