The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-25
Baltic RadiOgraphs She Has No
Titanic People Aboard.
CAPTAIN STAYS WITH VESSEL
Persons Who Passed Safely
through Disaster Are Well.

New York, April 19.-It was the sub
merged ledge of an iceberg of ordinary
proportions that sent the White Star
liner Titanic more than two miles to
the bottom of the Atlantic of the
banks of Newfoundland.
She was steaming almost full tilt
through a gently swelling sea and
under a starlit sky in charge of First
Officer Murdoch, who, moment after
the collision surrendered the command
to Captain Smith, who went down
with her. The captain was washed
from the bridge and was seen to make
his way back again. He had been
urged to get into a lifeboat, but re-
fused.
The lifeboats that were launched
were not filled to their capacity. The
general feeling aboard the ship was,
even after the boats had left her sides,
that she would survive her wound and
the passengers who were left aboard
believed almost up to the last moment
that they had chance for their lives.
The captain and officers behaved with
the utmost gallantry and there was
perfect order and discipline In the
launching of the boats and after all
hope had been abandoned for the sal
vation Of the ship, for those who were
on board. Just before she went down
she broke her back.
Back from deaths gate, 705 survivors
of the Titanic were landed by the Car
pathia. which rescued them two hours
and half after the great liner tt
tanic hurled herself against an ice
berg last Sunday night
Disfgured by calamity and misery,
and oppressed by awful sorrow, the
women and children and the few men
who escaped from the worlds great
est disaster were in better physical
condition than the most optimistic
had hoped.
Out of the great company that wait
cd for hours in bitter cold among the
grinding bergs, many of them thinly
clad, many bruised and hurt by the
collision which destroyed their ship.
few needed the ministrations of ply
Gfcians when they come out in sight
Of the vast crowd that had been wait
Ing in almost unbearable uncertainty.
Many, 1t Is true, were weak and nerv-
cps and hysterical from an experience
nat had left the world void and empty
Cor them. But-and thousands thank
ed God for it as they watched-the
majority of the saddened. bereaved
company were well In body.
Only one OF. the THAMES survivors
lled while the Carpathia was driving
through fogs and storms to this port.
Fsur. of the Titanic's people had per-
ished trying to get aboard the Car
pa&hia, and another Titanic passenger
lost his life by the overturn of a boat.
One woman, a second cabin passen-
ger, who was landed here, was suffer
ing from a broken arm. But the
general condition of the hundreds SO
dramatically saved from death was a
cause of inexpressible pleasure to the
thousands who saw them land.
The Carpathia reported that there
were 10 saved out of a passenger
list which the White Star line figured
at 2,1S0, DVnking loss Of 1,470 lives.
The statement from the Titanic's pas
sengers says there were 745 rescued
out of a passenger list of 2,340.
The list of names furnished on the
Carpathia on her arrival show 1873 first
cabin passengers saved, lis in the
second cabin, 17s third class and 206
Of the crew, total of 6S7 saved. A
woman passenger on the Carpathia
heard from the ships doctor that 495
of the passengers and 210 of the crew
,>d been saved and that thirty-nine
women lost their husbands. SIX OF
them were brides.
The worlds annals has provided few
more intense and dramatic moments
than when all that was left of the
great company that sailed so gaily or
the Titanic appeared on the Cunard
pier. No hint Of the story of their
miseries and of their s;G:serings after
the Titanic had foupdered had come
from the sea. It was not known fol
certain whether some who had beer
given up for lost might appear miracu
lously on the gang plank. There were
scores OF people among the men and
women whose names are familiar ths
country over. who. waited in utmos
suspense while the Cunarder with hel
sad cargo made her way slowly vi
the Hudson, passed the great ships II
dock whose flags showed dimly at hal
staff in the bars of river light. There
were some of these who had not dared
to give up all hope who fingered
still a prey to the most dreadful TN
certainty, who refused to believe thu
cruel list of those that were saved am
thought that there might after all ap
pear for them some loved face. Blu
nearly all of these were disappoint
ed and turned away with looks tina
no man who saw the arrival of thu