Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-04-18

great bergs drifting down from the
Arctic. Around she went and plung
ed back westward to take a hand in
saving life. And the third steamship
within short sailing of the Titanic
was the Allen Partisan away to the
eastward on her way from Glasgow to
Halifax.
While they sped in the night with
all the drive that steam could give
them the Titanic's call reached to
Cape Race in Newfoundland, and the
startled operator there heard at mid
night the same message, which quick,
ly reached New York.
1t was 12:17 a. m. while the Vir
ginian was still plunging eastward
that all communication from the
Titanic ceased The Virginians op-
orator. with the Virginian's captain at
his elbow, fed the air with blue flashes
in a desperate effort to know what
was happening to the crippled liner
but no message came back. The last
word from the Titanic was that she
was sinking. Then the sparkling be-
came fainter. The call was dying tc
nothing. The Nirginian's operator
labored over blur of signals. Il
was hopeless. So the Allen ship strove
on, fearing that the worst had hap
pened
The Titanic, already waterloaged
her end a certainty, her people strain
ing their eyes for the first streak OF
fire against the horizon that would
show the approach of help, was as
much cut Off from the world as if she
were already on the ocean bottom
The wireless has given us Just a
hint, a suggestion of the Joy that flash
ed over the passengers of the doomed
vessel when the Carpathia was made
out, her lights showing clear and
bright beyond the field of ice peaks
where the Titanic had dashed her
self. Although the Virginian had
been the first to hear the appeal the
Carpathian was the first OF the relief
ships to arrive.
AS the wireless tells the story in
fitful periods, the seaWays between
the icebergs were crowded with the
wallowing boats of the Titanic, and
the great ship herself, bow crushed
half full of water forward, was heel
ing forward on her forefoot her stern
high out of water, so that the tremen.
dous screws were visible dmly and
on the verge of dropping beneath the
surface. 1t was a spectacle of marine
disaster, that can never fade from the
memory of the seamen who came VI
on the Carpathian-the most wonder
full of ships on the verge of her enc
and her people scattered over the face
of the waters in little, rocking boats
The hour cannot be known definite
ly until the wireless finds itself in {
steady, straightforward story, for out
of the icy waste have come but tive
messages which appear to cover the
time. One is that the Carpathian anC
the Virginia picked up most of the
passengers and perhaps half of the
crew. The other was that he Titanic
finally sank at 1920 a. M, many lives
in a $10,000,000 ship gone to the ses
floor.
On her maiden trip the Titantic
built and equipped at a cost of $40,
100000. floating palace, found hel
graveyard. Swinging from the west
erly steamship lane at the south OF
the grand banks of Newfoundland tc
take the direct run to this port she
hurled her giant bulk against an ice
berg that rose from an immense field
drifting unseasonably from the Arctic
Running at high speed into that grim
and silent enemy of seafarers the
shock crushed her bow From a hap
ply, comfortable vessel she was con
verified in few minutes into a ship O!
misery and dreadful suffering