Arizona republican., 1912-04-16
TITANIC FINDS AN OCEAN GRAVE
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The White Star offices n New York; while keeping hope to the ast freely admitted there had been horrible joss of life
 Accepting the carly estimated fatality list as accur ate the disaster Is the greatest marine history The nearest approaching it in magnitude were the disasters to the steamer Atlantic in 1875 when 47 lives were lost and the La BourgOyne in 1898 with fatality list of 57 Should 1t prove that other liners notably the Allan ners Palislan and Nlgnlan known to have been in the Vclmty of the Titanic early yesterday, had pcked up other of her passengers, the of the calamity will be greatly reduced This hope remains
 News of the sinking of the liner with terrible loss of lfe came carly last evening with all the greater shock because hope had been buOyed all day by reports that tthe steamship although badly damaged, sinking and that all her passengers had been taken off safely The messages were mostly unofficial, however, and none came directly from the liner that the fear re- mained that possibly bad news was to come Shortly after { last night there flashing over the wires from Cape Race within 400 miles of which the Inner struck the iceberg word that 20 Monday morning. three hours and fiftyfive minutes after receiving her death blow, the Titanic had sunk. The from the steamer Calpathia relayed by the White Star liner Olympic, and revealed that by the time the Car pathia outward bound from New York and racing for the Titanic on her wireless call had reached the scene the doomed vessel had sunk Left the surface were the llfeboats from the Titanic and i'll thcn it appears according to meagre reports received at late hour some 675 survivors of the disaster These according advices from the Carpathia picked up and on their way New York.
 For the rest, the the Clrpatha came up was of desoation All that remained of the mil lion dollar floating palace which nearly 14O0 passen- gers had been VOvagng luXrOuSlv this side of the Atlantic, bits of wreckage. The biggest ship of the world had gone down. snuffing out ill her downward plunge, it appeared hundreds of lives.
 significant line in the Cape Race dispatch the announcement that those saved by the Calpathia nearly all and children Should it prove other vessel picked up the passengers of the sinking liner this may that few have been saved, the propor ton of women and children among the passengers was large The facts would likewise spell the doom of practically the entire of 800.
 In the cabins 23O women and children but it is not known how many among the TAO third class passengers In the first cabin 126 women and fifteen cildren the second 79 women and eight children.
 Among the passengers board Mr. and Mrs John Jacob Astor, Major Archibald Butt aide of President Taft E. D. Aiet, the artist; J. Bruce smay managing director of the White Star lines C. M Hayes president of the Grand Trunk line: Benjamin Guggen the theatrical manager, and wife; Col Washington ROebling, builder of the Brooklyn bridge, and J. B Thayer vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad.
 ray of hope appeared shortly before II last night in message to the New York operator from the Mar conf wireless station Sable Island the of the disaster Answering inquiry regarding the de- livery of wireless messages passengers the Titanic the operator reported difficult deliver them as the passengers believed to be dispersed among scv erTll vessels
 Even this faint indication that other vessels than the Carpathia had picked up survivors of the Titanic eagerly seized upon by the thousands of relatives and friends of those who had set sail on her to s country April 15-rhe White MONTREAL April 15.rh
  reported seanins toward the scene of the Titnis disaster had made no
 
 tonight Reports that the ing she had rescued number or I unconrmed ta1sb