Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-04-18


 Star liner Titanic, the worlds great
 est steamship, has gone down som, five hundred miles off Cape Race witt
 hundreds of her 1900 passengers anc
 her full crew of 86o men on board.
 Among the dead are men noted ir financial and literary circles, in cIud ing:
 Col. John Jacob Astor, millionaire;
 Major Archibald Butt, U. s. A., mil itary aide of President Taft; William T. Stead, the noted Enngish writer; Charles w. Weidner; Benjamin Gug genheim, American financier; c. M. Hayes, president of the Grand Trunk Railroad.
 Col. John Jacob Astor, one of the famous passengers, saw his bride, for mery Miss Madeline Force, safely aboard one of the Iifeboats, then turn ed away to meet his death later when the leViathan sank.
 The report of their deaths is gener- ally believed, although not confirmed because it is said no man left the ship.
 Two passengers whose homes are in Los Angeles are believed dead. A . G. Vanderbilt and bride, reported on the ship, did not sail.
 That the greatest catastrophe in yoo o1.in bictO hoc f0 sel of their line is admitted late to- night by the officials of the White Star Steamship Company in New York.
 The liner Carpathia, the first yes sel to come within sight of the Iii tanic, recued all the Titanic lifeboats, in which 670 persons, most of them women and children. Many women and children, however, have perished
 When the Carpathia reached the ill fated vessel no sign of life was to be seen anywhere, the mountainous ocean swells giving mute evidence to the stupendous disaster.
 Early reports stated that all passen- gers and the crew of the Titanic had been taken off by the Allen liners Virginian and the Parisian and the Carpatha, but wireless messages re ceived here tonight discredit these re- ports in every detail.
 That the sinking of the Titanic was witnessed from the bridge of the Car pathia, which was leading the Paris ian and the Virginia to the rescue, is believed here tonight. That the yes sel was seen through the glasses of the Carpathia's captain to be afloat is re- garded as the source of these early en- reports.
 No hope is held out at the offices of the White Star Line that any man on board has survived to tell the story | of the final sinking of the leviathan, | some of the women in the l boats may have witnessed the sink ing. Only by miracle, it is pointed out, could any peson who stood on the ship escape the geat vessels powerful suction as she sank to the bottom.
 The Titanic carried the most nota- ole list of passengers over borne over the Atlantic by one vessel. Home coming American tourists arranged -heir sailings weeks ago so as to ride he new wonder of the seas on her maiden voyage.
 Tonight's dispatches state that the Titanic went down at 2:30 o'clock this morning. The delay in the transmits sion of the news is attributed to the act that all dispatches have been sub ect to difficult relays.
 The collision of the Titanic with an ceberg is now known to have been l head-on crash that occurred while he liner was proceeding at her best peed. She was a day ahead of her cheduled and it is consedered prob , ble that an attempt to make rec { rd-breaking voyage was the hope of l er crew when she entered the ice field. f Her forward plates were completely 2 rrecked, a gaping wound opening be- = Ow her water line and letting the ( ,ater into her forward compartments C In the meantime the lifeboats were . named and into them were placed as lany of the women and children as hey could hold. These boats were T ut off while there was yet some hope holding the Titanic afloat until her , -ireless messages could summon her elp.
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