The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-04-19
Bulletin.

Bulletin.
New York, April 15-The text Of
the message from the steamer
Olympic reporting the sinking Of the
Titanic and the rescue Of CTS surviV-
ors which reached here late tonight,
also expressed the opinion that 1900
lives were lost.
Loss likely to total 1900 SOULS" the
dlspatchN said in it's concluding SEN
tence.
New York City, N. v, April 49,
More than 500 persons, it is feared,
sank to death early yesterday when
within four hours after she crashed
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
New Foundland banks.
Of the approximately 2,2oo persons
on board the giant liner, some of them
of worldwide prominence, only 675
are known to have been saved. The
White Star offices in New York while
NCORii9 bP nSRS ~ ttiN toSA hSSiy o0-
mitted that there had been "horrlbe
loss of llfe."
Accepting the early estimates of
the fatality list as accurate the dsas-
ter Is the greatest In the marine his
tory of the world. Nearest approach
ing its magnitude we're the disasters
to the steamer Atlantic in 1873, when
547 lives were lost, and to La Bour-
golne in 1898, with fatality list of
571.
Should II prove that other liners,
notably the Allan liners, Partisan and
Vlrglnlan, known to have been in the
vicinity If the Titanic early yesterday,
had picked up other of her passengers,
the extent of the calamity would be
greatly reduced. This hope still re-
mains.
Shortly after o'clock last night
there came flashing over the wires
from Cape Race, within 400 miles Of
which the liner had struck the ice
berg, word that at 2:2o o'clock Monday
morning, three hours and fiftyfiVe
minutes after receiving her death blow,
the Titanic had sunk. The news came
from the steamer capathla, relayed
by the White Star liner Olympic, and
revealed that by the time the carpa-
thla, outward bound from New York,
and racing for the Titanic on wire
less call, reaching the SCENE, the
doomed vessel had sunk.
Left on the surface, however, were
Iifeboats from the Titanic and in them
It appears as meager reports reached
up to a late hour were some CTS sur
VlVors of the disaster. These, accord
Ing. to the advices, the Carpathia 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 desota-
ton. All that remained of the $10.-
10000 floating palace on which nearly
400 passengers had been Voyaeina
Iuxurlously to this side of the Allan
tic, were some bits of wreckage. The
biggest ship in the world had gone
down, snufflng out in her downward
plunge ii appeared, hundreds Of human
lives.
A significant line in the Cape Race
despatch was the announcement that
Of those saved by carpathla nearly all
were women and children. Should II
prove that no other vessel picked up
any passengers Of the sinking lines
this might mean that few of the men
on board had been saved as the pro.
. portion Of women and children aiming
the passengers was large. The same
facts would likewise spell the doom Of
practically the entire crew of 800.
In the cabins were 2so women and
children, but Il Is not known how
many there were among the 74O third
class passengers.
Notable persons, travellers on the
Titanic whose fate was In doubt In the
lack of definite adVlees as to the iden.
tity Of the survivors were Mr.. and
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Major Archi-
bald Butt aide to President Taft, chas.
M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk
Pacific, Of Canada, his wife and daueh-
ter, w. T. Stead, 6enI ouggenheim,
r. D. Milet, the artist and j. @. Wld-
over of Philadelphia, Mr.. and Mrs.
lsador straus, J. B. Thayer, vice pres
Ident of the PennsylVaia railroad, J.
Bruce lsmay, Henry B. Harris, the
theatrical manager, and Mrs. Harris,
and Colonel Washington RoebIIna, the
builder Of the Brooklyn brldas,