Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-04-25
WAS ENDEAVOR|NG
TO BREAK RECORD
TITANIC WAS RUNNING AT FULL
SPEED WHEN SHE COLLlDED
WITH ICEBERG.
Was Ripped From Stem to Engine.
room by Great Mass of Ice. Her
Side Being Laid Open as if by
Gigantic Can Opener.

New York.-How the White Stal
liner Titanic, which was the largest
ship afoat, sank after collidng with
an iceberg on April IA, while on hel
maiden trip. carrying to their death
l,6O1 of the 2.340 persons aboard
was told to the world in its awful
detail for the first time with the ar.
rival at New York Thursday of the
Cunard liner Carpathia. bearing the
exhausted survivors of the catastro-
phe.
Inc report of the survivors forces
the abandonment of all hope for those
VINO remained on the, stricken vessel
Or the great facts that stand out from
the chaotic account of the tragedy
the most salient are that the list of
prominent people lost stands as pre-
Vlously reported. Practically every
woman and child, with the execution
Oh those women who refused TO leave
thelr husbands, We're saved. Six per-
sons died after being rescued. Among
the women lost was Mrs. Isadore
Straus. Survivors on the lifeboats
saw the lights on the stricken vessel
gllmmer to the last. heard the band
playing and saw the doomed hundreds
on the decks and heard their groans
ana cries when the vessel sank. being
powerless to aid them.
Among the people OF worId-wida
prominence who met death on the i'll.
rated Titanic were men like John
Jacob Aston, master of scores of mil.
mons; Benjamin Guggenheim of the
famous family of bankers: Isador
strauss, merchant prince; William
l. stead, veteran journalist; Major
Archibald W. Butt. soldier: Washing
ton Roebling, noted engineer; Charles
NJ. Hays, president of the Grand
Trunk railway; F. d. Millet, the noted
artist; Henry b. Harris. theatrical
manager; Jacques Futrelle and many
others Of lesser note in the worlds
analrs. The combined wealth of those
ABOVE named is over half a billion
dollars.
Mrs. Churchill Candee of Washing.
, 'HOSe rescued, declared
nat the action OF the men on the ri.
ahlc was noble. They stood bacl, in
very instance that she noticed and
ave the women and children the FIRST
nance TO get away safely PARTON.
arly heroic was the conduct of rs,do.
'rauss' Major Arcnrbald Butt John
aeon Aston and Henry B. Harris
IT. harris insisted that his wife get
MO boat. She refused and vas
orced into the boat. The men sbo
eclares' worked desperately IN got
nc women and children safely on to
he boats ~
MOI only was the Titanic tearins
nrough the April night to her doom il
.ith every ounce of steam on. but Of
ne was under orders from tho gep h
raj Officers of the line to mako oil
ne speed of which she was capable "
MS was the statement by J. p I OF
ioouy' quartermaster of the VOC. d.
Ell and helmsman on the night -, "
ne disaster. VI
lie said the ship was makino IT,
"eh'y-one Knots an hour and the Of. al
GERS were trying to live I'D to the tie
rders to smash the record. ca
IL was close to midnight" cold pl
.oouy' and was on the bridge with es
ie second officer. who was in com FIR
lahd. Suddenly he shouted Port dc
our helm.' l did so. but it was too D;
Tue. We struck the submerged nor. III
on of the berg" p'' m
:, i' .p IRON stem to engineroom
the great mass of ice she struo,, 81,
the Titanic's side wos d,
pener. can vi