The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-04-17
GIANT SHIP TITANIC SINKS,
PROBABLY GREATEST SEA TRAG-
EDY IN WORLDS HISTORY.
Death List Likely to Exceed 1.2OO-
Largest ship AlOat Goes To Bottom
on Maiden Trip, -Four Hours After
Collision with Iccbcrg-On,y S66 of
2,2W Aboard Accounted FOr-Iit-
t.c Hope of More Survivors.

New York. April lathe Olym-
pics dispatch follows:
"Carpathia reached the Titanic po-
s,tion at daybreak. Found boats and
wreckage only. Titanic sank about
2.2O a. m. in 41.16, north; sofa.
west. All her boats accounted for
contained about 675 souls saved,
crew and passengers included. Nearly
all saved women and children. Lev
land Liner Californian remained and
searching for exact position of disas-
ter. Loss likely to fatal 1900 souls"
1t is believed here that this is an
error, unless the Titanic had more
passengers on board than reported.
The list as given out showed 1910
passengers and a crew of $50, or 2,17O
in all. Deducting S66, the known
saved, would indicate a loss of 1904
persons.
While the fate Of the majority Of
2.1OO persons on board the mammoth
White Star line Titanic, which sank
early yesterday on the Newfoundland
banks, after collision with an ice
berg, still remains in doubt and it is
feared more than 1900 persons were
lost, note Of good cheer came from
the ocean waves by wireless between
and o'clock this morning.
1t was in the shape Of wireless
message from the White Star liner
Olympic, one Of the vessels lowering
near the scene Of the disaster. flash
ing the news that S66 of the Titanic's
passengers, mostly women and chill
dren, were being brought to port by
the Cunarder Carpathia. Other mes
sages later brought confirmatory It'd
ings.
First reports were that the Carpa-
thia had saved 676 persons. The
new figures reduced the list Of those
for whose fate fear was felt by nearly
200, and If, as seems possible, practi-
cally all those saved We're passengers
II would appear that all but approx
mately $50 of the vessels passengers
are accounted for. a partial list of
the survivors received from the Car
parthia included the names Of many
women of prominence who were on
the steamer.
After the first desperate calls of
The Titanic for help had been sent
flying through space and brought
steamers from hundreds of miles
around speeding 10 the scene, what
seems to have been an impenetrable
wall of silence was raised between
here and the anxious world. The
giant liner so far as last nights ad-
vices appear, went to her fate without
so much as whisper of what mus,
have been the scenes of the terrible
tragedy enacted on her decks.
In the lack OF even a line from a
survivor. imagination pauses before
even trying to conjecture what passed
as the 1000 human lives, with which
she was freighted, realized there could
he hope of saving, as it appears. fai
less than a half.
Other than the news last evening
that S66 persons, mostly women and
children, had been rescued from tn,
liners boats by the Cunarder Carpa-
thia. several hours passed without q
word as To the fate of the remainder
of those on board at the time of the
fateful crash. Along the entire Allan
tic coast wireless instruments were
turned to catch from any source the
slightest whisper Of hope that possibly
might come from one Of the many
steamships which rushed to the assist
ance of the stricken Titan of the seas
To oe near the scene of what. viewed
IN the light of possibilities, may he
recorded as the worlds greatest ma
rinc horror. came the slightest syli-
able of encouragement to the anxious.
ly waiting world.
Early last night there was hope
that any moment M bring word
OF cheer. But anxiety deepened and
many friends and relatives of those
who sailed ON the Titanic began tc
despair as the hours passed and the
night grew old without word from
either of the Allan Liners. Partisan on
Nirginian, believed to- be, with the eX-
cop'ion of the Carpathia. the vessel.
nearest the Ttanic's ocean burial