Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-04-19
WATERY Ora YES FOR MORE
THAN THIRTEEN HUN
DRIED PERSONS.

In the darkness of the night and in water
two miles deep the Titanic, newest of the
White Star feet and greatest Of all ocean
steamships, sank to the bottom Of the sea
at 2:20 O'Clock last Monday morning.
The Titanic had been in collision with
an iceburg not long after 10 O'Clock Sunday
night. 1t appears, therefore, that this most
splendid Of modern steam-power creations,
equipped with every device for the safe
guarding of life at sea, remained afloat
only little more than four hours after she
sustained the mortal thrust that sent this
$lO,O00,000 creation to the bottom Of the
sea with her precious freight of human
lives, ere even she had completed her first
transatlantic trip.
In desperate situation, where the sal
walton of all was not possible, the women
and children were cared for first. These
were sent away in the first of the boats
launched from the sinking ship, the only
boats apparently which did not share the
fate Of the mammoth vessel.
The Titanic's accident was in latitude
Alas north, longitude sofa west. This
point is about 1150 miles due east of New
York city and 400 miles south of Cape
Race, Newfoundland. wireless station.
Hitting the impenetrable ice fairly with
her towering bows the ship was almost rent
asunder at the first blow. Her decks were
ripped and torn, her sides and bulkheads
were split and shattered, as with the ham
mer of some titan" from the bow to a
point almost amidships
Her upper works and some of her boats
were splintered. while showering of de-
bris from her spars fell on the decks like
giant hail. Though the ship had struck
the monster obstruction head on, as her
bow rose clear of the water, smashedt to an
unacceptable mass of bent and shivered
steel, the vessel listed heavily to port. and
threatened to turn turtle before the recoil
slide Of what was left Of her proud form
came back to an even keel
Within less than an hour after the DOOM
ed queen Of the ocean fleets had struck she
had settled so fast that the water had
flooded her engine rooms, and then her
wireless apparatus went out Of commission
At the same time the failing of her dyna-
mos extinguished her electric light system,
and the mammoth craft was plunged into
Stygian darkness, except for such feeble
CLEANS as were afforded by the use of
torches and lanterns These served only to
emphasize the horror Of the midnight dark
ness, made more weird by the reflections
and shadows cast by the towering masses
Of arctic pinnacles surrounding the stricken
ship.
In the darkness the work of launching
the remaining boats was made more diff
cult, but the reports are that all the boats, or
nearly all, had cleared the wreck before the
Titanic took her final plunge into the
obscure depths of a grave two miles deep.
The number Of persons lost is 1900;
saved. 1858. Those from Washington city
ouNSh WCiN wi. MIS-
Henry B. Harris and Mrs. Churchill Candee.
Missing, Major Archibald Butt, aide to
President Taft. Frances D. Millet and Clar-
ence Moore, who is widely known in this
county.
The Titanic, the largest vessel afloat,
capable Of carrying $500 passengers, as
Nval Of QAn III
cost $l0,000.000. started on her maiden
voyage from Southampton on Wednesday
Of last week under what was considered
an i'll omen. Barely had the giant ocean
greyhound raised anachor and started on
her first ocean voyage which should land
her in New York, when she narrowly es-
capped crashing into the American liner
New York, then moored to the quayside
The suction of the Titanic was so great as
to break the New York from her moorings,
and the latter swung into midstream. For
several moments it looked as If the two
great hulks would crash The Titanic
commander gave the emergency signal,
her engines were silenced, and the vessel
brought to a standstill. The New York
then was towed outside the danger zone
Seafaring men said at the time this was
an i'll omen for the big vessel. Capt E. j.
Smith, who commanded the Olympic last
autumn when that vessel rammed the Bri-
tish Hawke, was in command Of the Titanic.
The Titanic is the twin sister of the
Olympic, although il is larger by far than
that vessel. The Titanic was built in Har-
land & VOLTS famous shipyard at Belfast
where all the White Star liners had Their
birth.
The boat is SS2 feet long. and if stood
upon end would tower more than 1927
feet above the tip of the Washington
Monument In length the vessel extend:
the distance of four city blocks.
The tonnage of the Titanic is $4,000
or $4,000 in excess of that of the bigeisI
rival liners. Her engines. 10000 horse.
power, are both turbine and reciprocatine
The Titanic is not a speed marvel. SHE
makes but twenty-one knots as agans
the Mauretania's twenty-five-b but she il
the last word in the way Of comfort anC
luxury in transatlantic travel. Gymna
Sums, swimming pools, quarters for in
door baseball, palm rooms galore, anC
everything which can be done for tn,
comfort and convenience of the passenger
had been installed on this, the latest o
the ocean liners.