The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-16

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to lifeboats and transferred to the Vir-
ginian. The steamship Carpathia'
with several hundred passengers OF the
Titanic, is now en- route to New
York"
Vice President Franklin positively
refused to give out the full text of the
message received from Captain Had
dock, Of the Olympic, reporting the
sinking of the Titanic This attitude
led to the belief that the message init
mated a loss of life which the com
pany desired to confirm before spread
ing alarm Mr.. Franklin said Captain
Haddocks message was very briel
and neglected to say that all tI
crew had been saved" 1t said that
the Carpathia had 600 or 700 of the
Titanics passengers aboard, inc'ud-
ing all of the first cabin, and that the
vessel should reach New York Frida
morning.
No information had been received
from the Virginian or Partisan at the
White Star Line offices, although it
was said Ito be known" that many
Of the THAMES passengers. were on
these vessels.
Vice President Franklin said he had
cancelled arrangements for the spe-
cial trains which they had planned to-
send to Halifax to bring the rescued
passengers to this city by rail, as it
was believed that the boats which had
the Titanic passengers aboard would
steam direct for New York.
The message made public by Mr..
Franklin reads:
"At 2:20 a. m. Titanic foundered.
Carpathia proceeding to New York
with passengers"
There was reason to believe, how
ever, that the message was consid-
erably longer than the above. One of
Mr.. Franklin's assistants, in announce
ing earlier that the Titanic had gone
down, said that "the Carpathia was
proceeding to New York with sur
vivors."
So far as could be ascertained at
the White Star offices it was not
know there whether there were any
passengers aboard the Virginian and
Partisan.
Vice President Franklin, at $40
o'clock, conceded that there had been
"a horrible loss of life" in the Titanic
disaster. He said that he had no in
formation to disprove the Associated
Press report from Cape Race to the
effect that only 675 of passengers and
crew had been rescued. He said that
the monetary loss could not be esti-
mated tonight, although he intimated
that it would run into the millions
1--WE can replace the money" he said,
'but not the lives. 1t is horrible"
Mr.. Franklin continued:
LAS far as we know, it has been
rumored from Halifax that three
steamers have passengers on board
namely, the Virginian, the Carpathia
and Partisan. Now, we have heard
from Captain Haddock that the Titan
ic sank at 2:20 this morning. We
have also learned from him that the
Carpathia had 675 survivors on board
1t is very difficult to learn if the Vir-
ginian and the Partisan have any sur
vivors on board. We have asked
Captain Haddock and our agent at
Halifax to ascertain fthere are any
passengers aboard the steamships.
I'VE very much fear, however, that
there has been a great loss of life, but
it is impossible for us to give further
particulars until we have heard from
the Partisan and virginian. We have
no information that there are any pas
sengers aboard these two steam
ships"
Mr.. Franklin said there was a suf
ficient number of lifeboats to take all
the passengers from the Titanic He
said he had been confident when he
made the statement that "the Titanic
was unsuitable" that the steamship
was safe, and that there would be no
loss of life. The first definite news
received came in the message from
Captain Haddock, he said, "and was
given to the Associated Press at
once"
The White Star Line offices had en-
deavored vainly from s o'clock up till