The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-16

New York, April lb:-itOpe was
practically abandoned this afternoon
that any have survived the wreck OF
the Titanic except those being
brought to this port by the Carpathia.
The White Star officials up to noon
clung to the straw that no DEFINITE
word had been received from the Vir-
ginian. which was 40 miles west OF
the scene where the Titanic received
her death blow from a giant iceberg
but shortly after II o'clock came a
wireless message from Capt Camp
bell of the Virginian.
Arrived too late. Nobody left
alive to rescue. Am proceeding on
the voyage"
From this 1t appears that no res
cues were made by any vessel except
the Carpathia. The Olympic and the
California are Still cruising in circles
around the scene of the wreck in the
hope of finding some boat or raft
overlooked by the Carpathia or
carried to some distance by the
treacherous currents.
The Carpathia has all day been
sending in the list of the survivors
It's wireless system is working badly
and the reports are not very clear
The list includes practically none but
women and children. Almost the on
ly man on the list is j. Bruce lsmay
president of the White Star line.
The reports state that the Car
pathia has on board S66 survivors
Revised figures from the White star
line office in London state that the
total number on board was 235S
This would show that 1892 were lost
The death list includes such vel
known names as President Charles
NJ. Hays of the Grand Trunk, Col
John ]. Astor, Major Butt, Benjamin
Guggenheim, William T. Stead
Henry B. Harris and S. d. Millet as
they are not named among those res
cued.
The Olympic has been ordered tC
stand by just as long as there is the
slightest hope of a single survivor
being picked up. The captain OF The
Carpathia wires that he believes
every woman and child was saved
and that the behavior of the mel
was magnificent. In many cases
husbands tore their wives from then
by force and compelled them to entel
the boats.
The scenes around the White Sta
Office are heart rending and hourly
growing worse as the friends anC
families of the lost reach New York
More than 1900 persons, 1t is fear
ed, sank to their death early yester
day when, within four hours afte
she crashed into an iceberg, thu
mammoth White Star line steame
Titanic, bound from Liverpool t
New York on her maiden voyage
went to the bottom off the Newfound
land banks. or the nearly 22O0 per
sons on board the giant liner, som'
Of them of worldwide prominence
only 675 are known to have beef
saved. These are on board the Car
pathia, bound for New York. Al
though the White Star line Office II
New York kept up hope to the last
II was free to admit that there hat
been horrible loss of life."
Accepting the early estimate of tn
fatalities as accurate, the disaster i
the greatest in the modern marin
history of the world. Nearest az
preaching 1t in magnitude were tn
loss of the steamer Atlantic in 1877
when 574 lives we're lost and that o
La Bourgogne in 1898, with a list o
fatalities of 571. Should It prov
that other liners, notably the ALA
liners Partisan and Virginian, know
to have been in the vicinity of tn
Titanic early yesterday, picked u
others OF her passengers, the exten
Of the calamity may fortunately b
greatly reduced. This hope still r,
mains.
News of the sinking of the line
and the consequent loss of life reacl
ed New York early last evening wit
n much greater shock because HOP
had been buoyed up all day by r
ports that the steamship, althoug
badly damaged, was not in sim
ing condition, and that all her passe
gers had been safely taken Off. III
messages were mostly unofficial, no
ever, and none came direct from n
liner. so that a lurking fear RENAME
of possible bad tidings TO come.
Soon after 7 o'clock last nlgl
there came flashing over the wir,
from Cape Race, within 400 miles
which, In the treacherous region
the Newfoundland banks, the hui
liner struck the berg, that at 9,
o'clock Monday morning, three hou
and 50 minutes after receiving HI
death blow, the Titanic sank III
news came from the steamer Ca
pathia, and Il was relayed by n
White Star liner Olympic, and Il I
vealed that by the time the Carpat
Ia, outward bound from New Yor
and racing for the Titanic on a viii
less call, reached the scene the
starred vessel had disappeared
Left on the surface, however, we
life-boats from the Titanic. and
them, as appears from the meag
reports received up 20 a late hot