The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-17
THE HERALD
DISASTER GROWS
MORE App LLING
AZ Time Passes Tragedy OF
Lost Titanic Becomes
Greater.
NEWS is DIsPIRlTING
Pail of Doubt Now Hanging
Over Thousands Of
Homes.
NEWS is DISPIRITING
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New York, April IGNORE appslli.,s
with the lapse of time grows the tale
or the 1ftanic's loss. The few brief
messages that came pulsing by wire.
less out of the icc-infested zone. where
the white beros lift their points az
the sole monument above the steam
ships grave, blasted more hopes than
they fostered. Definite information
Increased tho list Of known saved from
tho e1s reported yesterday to total
OF sss survivors,. including passengers
and crew. All these are aboard the
Cunard steamship Carpa,hia she is
al best no, a fast ship. Her captain
reports her steaming cautiously
through thick fields of ice, Uttered with
many menacins !cebergs she is tax.
Ing no chances OF repetition OF the
horror of Sunday night a, her pres.
en- rate OF progress II is thought that
she !s not likely to reach this port
with her stricken freight of desolat-
ed refugees before next Friday morn
Ing. or ct the earliest Thursday night.
In the meantime the BRIEF, iIusory
hope that other survivors might have
Deem picked UP By the V.rginian or
tho Persian. OF tho Allan Line. was
eAtinguisheu carly in III. day. Both OF
those vessels flashed the dispir!tiny
message BY wireless that ,hey had none
OF the Ti;au!c's complement aboard
Zach had proceeded On her voyarc
the 'irslnian With the United State.
mails. which could no longer be de
tayed except in the moot imperatIyc
emergency.
b% way OF London tonight came 4
FeRGrs. as yet unvcrincd, thai Two
hotan!e 5escues had been made by I'M
eATeeied good fortune. The dispatch
SID Charles N. Hays. president of ono
O. tue Canadian railway systems ana
l'eques Futre!ie. u wcll-known Ame-i-
can novelist and magazine Sr!te. nat
been picked UP by passing steam
hhip and were on their way 10 London.
Mrs Futrelie is already known "a b.
among the rescued aboard the Car
r4tA!a
OF tho Sos survivors n. board IA,
vessel. tho names of 32s we're received
here BY wireless up 10 I:So O'Clock this
afternoon. having been -elayed from the
olympic. which has nov passed on
eastward out OF the zone OF comrnuni.
cation. There followed an interval
curing which nothing was received
from the Carpa thia. but at $3.50 o'clock
Tonight her wireless apparatus came
into communication with the SABLE
Island station. according 10 an an
rounccmsnt made at the Office OF tho
White Star Line in this city, and fl
was expected that additional names o.
those rescued and further details O.
the disaster would soon be ,orthcorn-
ing
With more than 500 names o. The
saved yat 10 oe received. thousands Of
homes are still left under the nail Of
doubt more narrowing perhaps than
the most dreaded certaintics
The imperfect list already received
makes II clear that Mrs John Jacob
Astor and her maid arc safe aboard
the CaTpatha. The fate OF Colonel
does that OF Major Archibald Butt.
military aide to President TAFT: Isidor
straus. the wealthy New York mcr-
chant; Benjamin Guggenhcim presi-
dent OF the international Steam pump
Company; William T. Stead The ia
NOUS English journalist, and scores
OF others. whose names are we'll
known here and abroad The marked
preponderance OF women and children
among those who have been reported
as saved indicated that the lInwrIt,cn
law of the sea that gallant mon must
give place to the weaker woman and
child when death is threatening all
alike has not ncen ignored.