The Mena weekly star., 1912-04-18
WRECK OF TITANIC LIES2 MILES DOWN The Carpathia Takes S66 From Life Boats After the Doomed
 Ship Had Sunk.
The Great Vessel FlOated Less Than Four Hours After Struck
 Iceberg.
WOMEN WERE SAVED
Few Men Among the Survivors Ex- cept Those Necessary to Man the BOats-LOss Estimated at
 S20.000,0O0.

Monday morning, April 15, the word was flashed to Mena that the Titanic, the largest passenger ship in the world, had struck an iceberg and had gone to the bottom about 1000 miles out from New York. This message stated that the pass engers had been taken off by other vessels.
 Later in the day messages ar rived that 800 of the people aboard the Titanic were transferred to life boats. and that the great ship, thought to be unsuitable, was go- ing toward New York under it's own steam.
 Tuesday the word came that the Titanic had gone down, carrying 1,500 passengers to watery graves, among them many of the not able people of the world. It stated that the wealth represented by the first-class passengers was fully E billion dollars. it was said then that S66 passengers, mostly women and children, had been taken aboard the Carpathia, the one yes sel of those answering the wireless distress calls that had reached the spot at that time.
 The more complete story of the awful disaster came Wednesday, being received from aboard the Carpathia, headed for New York, laden with the survivors. The con- fusion in the early reports is blam- ed upon amateur wireless 0p- orators, who interfered with the regular service.
 The best report received in Mena '. ednesday follows:
 Creeping through the dark waters of the North Atlantic, peopled by 2,- ITO persons, of whom 1910 were passengers and 860 members of the crew, the gigantic steamship Ti- tanic, on her maiden voyage, side swipedn and crashed into all ice berg about $50 miles east by south- east of Cape Race, Newfoundland, and within less than four hours was a mass of crushed iron and steel in the bed of the ocean two miles or more beneath the surface,
 Absolutely without warning, and with the greater number of pass engers in their. berths and state rooms, there was little chance to save more than comparatively few lives. Yet the women and children, or the larger part of them, were aboard other vessels only a few hours later, while the men fathers and husbands and brothers of the women and children-gave up their lives as the SaXons do, that the weaker might survive.
 Only S66 Accounted For.
 Of the 2,i70 persons aboard the Titanic, only s66 have been ac- counted for up to a late hour Tues day afternoon. These are all aboard the steamship Carpathia of the Cunard Line. Other vessels which hastened to lend aid when they received the wireless "S. O. s. call of distress, among them the Nirginian, the Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic. the Parisian Of the Leyland Line. and others, arrived too late to pick up any Of the pass engers of the ill-fated vessel, al though they spent many hours searching the seas for life boats and life rafts, as well as for wreck age or anything else which might uphold some of the survivors.
 Influential Men Among Lost.
 But enough is known 10 make if positive that some Of the hest known and most influential men i'll the United States are among the victims. unless they have heen picked up by some vessel which aas not yst made a report.
 Capt. E. l. smith. commander of .ho Titanic. and admiral Of the fleet of the White Star Line. went to his grave with his vessel, thus living up io ihe traditions If the Britons that ihe commander shall be the last ia leave ihe ship.
 That Captain Smith and hls crew rieidiy enforced the unRftiieu laN ai the sea. fhai af saving ihe Ne- men and children first ls plainlF .naifaied bf ibe ew4 fea names oi men reeeived iH ihe IasI af s1fk 'k- nfs eont io tae Hasnleua lss the wireless opeFaief et the eufpalhia
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