The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-17

Alarming reports from Marconi wireless indicate to- day that the dead have been underestmated by many hundreds and that the number of souls the Titanic has been underestimated.
 The dead according to these figures will reach 2O0OI and the survivors count but 700.
 But the office of the White Star line continues to sist that 868 have been saved and but 1,31O lost.
 Figures momentarily expected by relay to the U. s. S. Chester from the Carpatha will give list of the third class passengers saved and show the truth about the Der surviving
 despatch from London asserts that the Titanic went down by the head many passengers and members of the jumping she fe It is asserted that some 30 ex poson caused by stea ensued water reached the es of the eviathan The water is estimated to be 2a miles deep at the point of sinking and the vessel would 13 minutes in reaching bottom The bodies of those who life preservers will to the surface and many of them will be recovered
 There are only 7O5 survivors of the Titanic on board the Carpatha according to wireless message received at 10 this afternoon. It from Winfield Thompson, Boston newspapernan who is passenger the Fran He said that the Carpathia will reach New York at o'clock tomorrow night
 The statement from the captain of the Chester that the Carpathia has sent the of all survivors the
 first and second class passenger list is taken to show that John Jacob Astor Isador Strauss w. Stead Benjamin Guggenheim, Henry B. Harris and other notables have surely pershed It is also evident that of the wo en passengers have not been rescued.
 At1l5 D. mI Capt Decker of the Chester notified thei Navy department that he waiting the convenience of the Carptha to relay list of third class passengers saved The first and second class list, he said, complete.
 The steamer Etonian Antwerp, docking today at New York reports preceding the Titanic through the fatal ice ne by AS hours. There great fields of ice inter- spersed with heavy bergs.
 The press of the world appears today be united in denuncation of the reckessness that left the Titanic in sufficiently equipped with life boats. If 800 saved all could have been saved is the general opinion.
 The of today provided few details to the| in which the greatest steamship created by the hand of went to its doom The Bruce bound for Sidney conveyed to St. Johns by wireless that the Titanic met the iceberg head on but slid and onto submerged portion of the great block ripping out hull and side plates from bow to midship.
 Some inquiry began to be made to the manner in which Managing Director Isnay to be saved, it be ing deemed by the relatives of the survivors London that his duty to stick by the ship Only the story of the survivors show the manner of his rescue
 Two fast government cruisers the Chester and the Salem, far their way toward the Carpatha, and early this afternoon it reported that the Salem was within speaking distance Ugly charges made that the officials of the White Star line concealed the early of the disaster holding back the knowledge that Titanic had gone to bottom until the stock markets had closed on Monday.
 President Taft, during the day. attempted to get in touch with the Carpatha to learn the fate of his aide Major Archibald Butt The fast cruisers Chester and Salem have apparatus with radius of 1000 miles, but the wireless the Carpatha reaches but 25O miles, and muncaton cannot be had except with ships within the 25O mile zone
 netMackay cable ship, with cargo of cons and corps of undertakers and embaers board The vessel will pick bodies that may be discovered in the neigh borhood where the Titanic went down. and carries boats and graphing irons with which to bring up bodies
 A special despatch from Roy Howard, manager of the United Press on the Olympic early today indicated that bodies had already been recovered and being brought into Boston the Leyland liner Californian.
 Olympic arrived too late to assist her sister ship and
 did nothing but serve as relay station for the wireless despatches from the Carpatha She is now proceeding on her voyage
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