The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-04-16
ALL THE WORLD
STANDS ACHAST
At THE SINKING OF THE WHITE
STAR LINER TITANIC
with at Least 1,J00 of Her Passengers
and Crew-Greatest Marine
Disaster I'm History

New York, April 16.-More than
500 persons, it is feared, sank to
death early Monday, when within four
hours after she crashed into an ice
berg the mammoth White Star Line
steamer Titanic, bound from Liverpool
to New York, on her maiden voyage,
went TO the bottom off the New Found
land banks OF the approximately O.
200 persons on board the giant steam
er, some Of world wide prominence.
only 675 are known to have been saved.
The White Star Line Offices in New
York, while keeping up hope to the
last, were free TO admit 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
ma gnitude were the disasters to the
steamer Atlantic in 1873 when 573
lives were lost and to La Bourgogne
in 1898 with a fatality list of 571
Should it prove that other liners,
notably the Allan liners Partisan and
Virginian, known to have been in the
vicinity of the Titanic, had picked up
other Of her passengers. the extent Of
the calamity would be greatly reduced.
This hope still remains.
News of the sinking of the liner and
the terrible loss of life 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 a sinking condition and
that all her passengers had been safe
ly taken off. The messages were most
ly unofficial and none came direct from
the liner, so that lurking fear re-
ma ined of possible bad news to come.
Shortly after o'clock Monday night
there came from Cape Race, within
400 miles of where the liner had struck
| the iceberg, word that at $50 O'clock
| Monday morning, three hours and
| f1fty-nve minutes after receiving her
/ death blow. the Titanic had sunk The
news came from the steamer Carp
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 a wireless call, reached the scene
the doomed vessel had sunk
| Left on the surface. however, were
lifeboats from the Titanic and in them,
| as appears from the meagre reports
received up to a late hour, were some
according to the advices, the Carpa-
thia picked up and now is on her way
with them from New York
Terse and Terrific
| The Olympic's dispatch was as fol-
lows
| 'Carpathia reached the Titanic po-
sition at daybreak. Found boats and
| wreckage only. Titanic sank about
2:30 a. m. in 41:1e north, SOFA west
All her boats accounted for containing
about 675 souls saved, crew and pas
sengers included. Nearly all saved
women and children. Leyland liner
California remained and searching ex-
act position of disaster. Loss likely
total 1900 souls"
It is believed here that this is ar
error unless the Titanic had more
passengers on board than reported
The list given out showed 1910
passengers and a crew of $50, or PIG
in all Deducting 675. the known
saved, would indicate a loss of 1,49;
lpersons.
! Notable persons, travellers on the
Titanic whose fate was in doubt in the
Hack of definite advices as to the
identity of the survivors, were Mr.. ant
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Major Archi
bald Butt. aide to President Taft
lCharles NJ. Hays. president of tn,
Crank Trunk Pacific of Canada. hi:
wife and daughter; w. T. Stead. Ben
jamin Guggenheim F. D. Millet. tn.
artist. and J. G. Widener of Philadel
phia: Mr.. and Mrs Isador Straus. J. B
IThayer, vice president Of the Penn.yl
vania railroad; J. r. Ismay, Henry 3
Harris, the theatrical manager, an
Mrs Harris and Col. Washington
Roebling. builder of the Brooklyn
bridge.