The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-18
ALL HOPE GIVEN UP
FOR OTHER NOTABLE MEN
There are Conflicting Reports as to the
Exact Number of Titanic Survivors
on the Incoming Rescue Steamer,
Preparations for Arrival.

New York, April Is. The Carpathia
with S6S survivors of the sunken Titanic,
is due at her dock at a. III. -to-mor-
row, as she was off Nantucket light
ship. 1876 miles away, this morning. The
wireless report that there were only
705 survivors of the Titanic aboard the
Carpathia still persists, but no word,
so far as learned, has come from the
Carpathia within the last day, giving the
exact number Of persons aboard.
The wireless reports indicate that only
thirteen lifeboats were found to be avail
able for the work of rescue instead of
twenty as had been approximated.
All hope has been given up that Col
onel John Jacob Astor, lsador Straus,
Benjamin Guggenheim, George ID. Wide
ner. Major Archibald Butt Henry b.
Harris and Charles NJ. Hays, president
of the Grand Trunk railroad were saved.
The Carpathia wireless operator sent
word this morning that Colonel Astor
vas not aboard and he didn't know
whether Benjamin Guggenheim OF Major
Rutt were aboard. The White star Of
fees here received information that Mr..
Widener, the Philadelphia capitalist, was
not aboard the Carpathia.
The Carpathia is wirelessing many
private messages from the survivors, and
dispatches to the White Star line were
constantly being received during the
morning; but no word came in re-
sponse to the repeated requests for de-
tails of the accident.
Vice President Franklin of the White
star line said this afternoon; 1--WE are
not getting thing by wireless from the
Carpathia. We heard from her several
times, but there was not the slightest
explanation of the Titanic's sinking or
anything pertaining to the disaster IN
any way in any wireless messages we
have received"
Practically every attending circum
stance in the transmission of news from
the Carpathia goes to show that only
1926 of the 6l0 cabin passengers of the
Titanic are safe on the rescue ship.
The 2S2 cabin passengers whose names
have not appeared in the lists sent
ashore Tuesday by wireless must prob
ably be conceded as numbered among
the 1912 lives which the collision OF
the mammoth new steamer with an ice
berg off the Newfoundland banks Sun
day night is believed to have taken.
Thousands of hopeful hearts were
turned to despairing ones when the
United States scout cruiser Chester,
wirelessed ashore late yesterday that
she had been in communication with the
Carpathia and had asked repeatedly for
the full list of the first and second cab
in survivors. and that the rescue ship
reported that all the names had al
ready been sent ashore. The remainder
of $40 persons saved were passengers in
the steerage or members of the crew.
Special arrangements have been made
to care for the survivors when the Car
pathia docks. The customs regulations
have been suspended, and the police re-
serves will be stationed about the pier,
so that only those who have friends or
relatives among the survivors, with
proper credentials. will be permitted on
the pier Taxicab and hotel aceommo-
dations have ben provided for the first
and second cabin passengers, and the
stcerage passengers will be cared for
by the immigration department.