The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-04-19


Prominent Men Lost.
s-sOn Monday last the entire coun-
Try was shocked at the news that
the new White Star liner Titanic
had collided with an iceberg on her
FIRST trip across the Atlantic to New
. York.
Early reports were that all of the
passengers had been saved and that
the badly damaged vessel was being
lowed into port, but later news
showed that The greau steamer had
sunk soon after striking the ice
and had carried down with her the
greater part of the passengers and
crew The steamer struck at about
10 o'clock Sunday night and sunk
al 2 o'clock Monday morning.
From available facts the total
number of lives lost is nearly 1000.
Many notable men are included in
the list of drowned. Among these
are John Jacob Astor, VIM. I. Stead,
the veteran London journalist, Ben
jamin G. Guggenheim, Henry B.
Harris, the theatrical manager,
Washington Dodge, Col. Archibald
Grey, Col. Washington Roebling, the
famous builder of the Brooklyn
bridge, Maj. Archibald Butt, mill
tary aide to President Taft, jacques
Futrelle, the we'll known author,
Francis ID. Millett, the great artist,
J.. B. Thayer, Jr., Geo. ID. Widener,
one Of thee philadelphia traction
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aite a. .1S>aS Sfhropisi' and many
others.
More lives and more property
were lost in the wreck of the Ii
lanic than in any maritime disaster
Of modern times and probably more
than any in the history of the
world. o
The money loss as far as can be
asceriained at prcsentaiS about as
follows: Value of vessel, $10,O00,OO0.
Value of jewels carried by women
passengers, $5,O00,000. Baggage and
mails, $2,000,000. Loss from prob
able litigation and indemnities, $5,-
100000. This would give total Of
s22,000,000. Another estimate is that
the loss on vessel and cargo alone
is S12,50O,0O0. This is by far the
greatest money loss ever incurred
by the sinking of one vessel.
II is hard for any person who has
never seen one of the great Atlantic
liners to appreciate the extent OF
this disaster. Residents of this vi
cinity can get some idea of the mag.
nitude of the loss incurred by max
ing comparison. If the entire
population of Vienna township and
about seven times the property in
the township were sunk in the
depths of the Atlantic the loss of
life and property would be about
the same as the loss by the sinking
of the Titanic.
The Titanic was the largest and
most luxuriously fitted steamship
afloat. An idea Of the huge size OF
this floating town can be gained by
comparing it with local things. If
she were set down in Vienna street
with her stern at Houghton's elc-
yator her bow would reach beyond
The crossing of Mill street. In or
der 10 make room for her the build
MS on one side of Vienna street
Would have to be moved back over
twenty-five feet. Her upper deck
would tower into the air to nearly
the height Of the Flint p. Smith
building in Flint, and her smoke
stacks would be far higher than
that building. Her smokestacks are
large enough to allow two of our
interurban cars to pass through side
by side.
Her length was SS2 1-2 feet; beam
fwidth) 90 1-2 feet; depth 94 feet.
Her displacement or weight when
loaded was $4,000 tons. Her regis
tered tonnage was 10000. Registers
cd tonnage is the available interior
.snace exclusive of boiler room, en-
ainc room, etc., reckoned at about
a, cubic feet to the ton.
She could carry $500 passengers
and crew of $50.
She was fitted up like a palace,
with tennis courts, gymnasium.
paIm gardens, Turkish and electric
baths. swimming pool, palm garden.
hall room, winter garden, libraries,