The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-04-24
Of the Giant Steamship
Titanic Last Week.
A DEVOTED FAMILY REFUSED
To Be Separated In the Face
Of the Awful Disaster
And Shipwreck.
AMIDST A MASS OF IoEBERGs

New York, April 1S.-The first
circumstantial story of what aetu.
ally happened on the Titanic was
let slip at the Office of the White
Star Line this morning. Though
White Star officials deny that they
have had any further news than
they have given out, it is believed
they rave received other messages.
An incident which tends to confirm
this was the accidental mention by
a clerk in the lines Office of a
strange feature of the wreck. His
story, which he begged be not at
tributcd 10 him, was that of a FAM
lily named Allison, aboard the I'll
tanic, only one member of which,
a child, had been saved.
Because Mr.. Allison would not
take to the lifeboats, but stayed be-
hind with the men," said this clerK,
"his wife and daughter also reius-
ed to leave the ship and went down
with the Titanic, having first put
their little boy safely in one of the
boats in charge o. his nurse"
How do you know thls?" the
clerk was asked. He realized for
the frst time that he was talking
20 two reporters. He tried to laugh
off the story, but finding that i'm
possible, admitted he had got the
information inside" pointing up
stairs to the executive Offices.
1t ie a fact that the family of J.
2. Allison was aboard and that
neither Mrs. Allison nor Miss ALI
son, who were in the party, have
been reported saved. When asked
if he knew of any other wreck in
2ldent, the clerk smiled and replied
that "one slip was enough for him"
The first cabin list of the Titanic
registers the Allison family as fol-
lows:
III. ]. Allison, wife, son. daugh-
ter, maid and nurse" They are
from Montreal.
The wireless operator of steamer
of Atlantic Transport Line, |
which arrived this morning, report
I'd that on Sunday night at 1850 |
o'clock, New York time, he warned |
the Titanic that there was an i'm
nense ice foe in the giant liners |
path. The Mesaba sailed from
london on April 4, and was about
ninety miles ahead of the Titanic,
nearing this port, when she sent
he warming. 1t is as follows
''Tn latitude AZ to 41.35 north,
ongitude 40 to 5000 west, saw
much heavy packed ice and great
lumber of icebergs. Weather
lear"
The answer that came from the
liner plunging to her doom was:
Thanks"
1t was signed NJ. C. Y, the I'll
anfc's signature.
Stanley H. Adams, the wireless
operator of the Mesaba, is a Lon
loner. He said this morning that
,efore he sent the message of
warming to the Titanic he heard the
zig liner working from Cape Race.
lie broke in to send a message
When aware of her presence in the
eighborhoOd.
Capt. Clark, of the Mesaba, said,
ust after his vessel locked this
morning, that he had gone 100
niles out of his course to get
round the mass of ice foes.
1T was the biggest l have ever
cen in many voyages" he said.
1T must have been from seventy to
inety miles long. There were from
evenly to 100 bergs in it. We
,e:e in rs Immediate proximity on
sunday morning at 6 a. m"
The first news the Mesaba had of
ne Titanic disaster was on Monday
{ 8 a. m, when the Partisan and
olympic were overheard discussing
he disaster.
Officers on board the Mesaba say
hat on Sunday night and Monday
norning before dawn the weather
vas not foggy. The sky was over
asst. 1t was impossible to see the
tars, though there was no fog on
he sea. The absence of starlight,
hey added. made 1t difficult to see
he icebergs.
Shortly after 1 o'clock this morn
ng the wireless man on the Cruiser
hester reported that the Carpa-