Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-04-18
HUGE STEAMSHIP
TITANIC sinking
HAD 1900 PASSENGERS and
Grew Of $50 ABOARD
AT The time.

Wireless Reported It Had Struck An
Iceberg and Needed Quick Aid
Other Large Boats TO the Rescue
Many Prominent People Aboard
Was 1880 Miles From Sandy Hook.
Cape Race, N. fat 1925 o clock
Sunday night the huge steamship Tt
tanic, called &C. Q. d." the wireless
distress signal, and reported having
struck an iceberg. The steamer said
that immediate assistance was re-
CURED. Half an hour afterward an
other message said they were sinking
by the head and that women were
being put off into the lifeboats. The
Titanic has 1900 passengers and crew
Of $50.
The weather was calm and clear, the
Titanic's wireless operator reported,
and the position Of the vessel 4O:3S
north latitude and 5O:14 west longi-
tude.
The marine station at Cape Race
notified the Allen liner Virginian, the
captain Of which Immediately. advised
that he was proceeding for the scene
Of the disaster.
The Virginian was about ITO miles
distant from the Titanic. The Olympic
was in direct communication with the
Titanic and now is making all haste
toward her.
The Baltic also reported herself as
about 200 miles east Of the Titanic,
and making all possible speed toward
her.
The last signals from the Titanic
were heard by the Virginian.
At 1887 a. m. the operator on the
Virginian says these signals were
blurred and ended abruptly.
Noted People Aboard.
The White Star liner Titanic, the
largest vessel afloat, left Southhamp-
ton April 10 on her maiden voyage
for New York. She is vessel Of 49,
1913 tons, is s32 feet inches long, and
displaces $4,000 tons. Among the $50
cabin passengers are F. D. Millet, the
artist and president Of the CONSOLE
date American academy at Rome !;
Major Archibald Butt, military aide
to President Taft; G. N. Hays, presi-
dent Of the Grand Trunk railway; J.
Bruce Ismay, chairman and managing
director Of the White Star line; Henry
B. Harris, the American theatrical
manager; w. T. Stead, Mrs. Isador
Strauss, Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob As
tor, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. D. Widener, Ben
jamin Guggenheim and Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Widener. Captain E. j. Smith
is in command.
Last Word at Cape Race.
The last communication with the
Titanic was a wireless message re-
ceived at Cape Race, reporting her 1888
miles east of Sandy Hook at 2:15 Sun.
day morning.
Feared 1900 Are Lost.
New Worthwhile the fate of the
majority of the 21OO persons on board
the mammoth White Star liner Titanic
was in doubt, it is feared that more
than persons were lost, note of good
cheer came by wireless at 2 clock
Tuesday morning. It was in the shape
of wireless message from the White
Star liner Olympic, one of the vessels
lowering near the scene of the disaster,
afishing the news that S66 of the Titan
les passengers, mostly women and chill
dren, We're being brought to port by the
Cunarder Carpathia. Other passengers
later brought confrmatory tidings.
First reports were that the Carpathia
had saved but CTS persons. The new
figures reduced the list of those for
whose fate fear was felt by nearly 200,
and If, as seems probable, practically
all of those saved were passengers, it
would appear that all but approximately
$50 of the vessels passengers are ac-
counted for.
A partial list of the survivors receiv-
ed from the Carpathia include the names
OF many women of prominence.
Information Comes Slowly.
After the call of the Titanic for help
had brought steamers for hundreds Of
miles around speeding to the scene,
what seems to have been an impene-
trable wall of silence was raised be-
tween her and the steamers. The giant
liner, SO far as first advices appear,
went to her fate without SO much as
a word of what must have been the
scenes of terrible tragedy enacted on
her decks.
In the lack of even line from a sur
vivor, imagination pauses before even
trying to conjecture what passed as the
became known, and it was
seen that of the more than 1000 human
lives with which she was freighted
there could be hope of saying, as 1t
appears, far less than half.
Other than the news that s66 persons.
largely women and children, had been
rescued from the liners boats by the
cunarder Carpathia, several hours pass.
ed without word as to the fate of the
rest of those on board at the time of