Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1912-04-24
l,595 LIVES z[oST.
GREAT PASSENGER STEAMER
GOES DOWN AT SEA.
The Titanic Of the White Star Line Strikes
an leshefg so Feet High.

New York, April 19.-The
Titanic disaster, as written
into history by all of the 74E
survivors, accounts for the
loss Of l: 589 persons at sea OF
New Foundland banks early
Monday morning and the
subseq uent death of six per-
sons who had been rescued,
bring the total list OF lost to
1876.
These official figures. mag
Nifty greatly. the estimates
which came by wireless.
The stories that survivors
tell make it certain that this
disaster was the greatest
ocean travel has ever known.
The facts coming to the sur
face in the food of narratives
are that 1895 persons met
death; that there is practical> t.
ly no hope that this total will
be curtailed by single ad-
ditional survivor; that several
men of wealth and worlds
wide. prominence are among
those .perished; that the only.
women no, saved are. those
who chose to die in their hus-
bands embrace; that nearly
all the survivors saw the
Titanic sink and heard the
band. playing ."Nearer My
God to Thee" /" amid the
shrieks of those whom the
sea claimed as the vessel sank
in 1900 fathoms.
The Titanic struck an ice
berg about 80 feet high.
which ripped the liners side
open and made the waters
tight compartments useless.
While the vessel was grad
ually sinking the icy water
reached her steaming boilers,
causing an explosion which
sent her to the bottom.
Among the hundreds on
the decks when the Titanic
sank were Col. John. Jacob
Astor, Maj. Archibald Butt,
President Taft's military aid;
Benjamin Guggenheim, JAG
cues p, Futrelle, George u.
Widener, Henry B. Harris,
and scores Of persons as WE'LL
known.
Isadore Strauss was among
them, with Mrs. Strauss, who
refused to leave her husband
behind, when she had the
opportunity to save her life.
Major Butt was one OF the
heroes. With an iron bar in
hand he is said to have stood
at the steerage passage-way
defending women and chit
dren from the maddened men
in that part Of the ship. Mr..
Astor met death after seeing
his bride safe in the lifeboat.
It was only because the
maximum capacity OF the
Titanic's lifeboats was barely
one-third the complement OF
the ship in passengers and
crew that hundreds OF de>
spairing passengers went
down. J. Bruce 1smay, man~
aging director Of the White
Star, Line, and one OF the
few prominent men who
escaped, it is said by some
passengers, was one of the
first, to get into the lifehaa1s.
Mr. Ismay denied this. .
;tFhe Titanic survivorsWere
still suffering from -exhaus>
tions and exposure on water
icy cold, before they were
picked up by the Carpathla.
Surviving passengers agree
that the unbelievable" hap
pened. For the voyage had
been uneventful, except for
the fact that it was being
made on the largest vessel,
and the passengers exhibited
keen interest in the daily
speed bulletins All accounts
agree that the Titanic on the
night Of. thedisaster, was go>
ing from 21 to- >c5 knots AN
hour: Quartermaster Moody
who was at the helm said the
ship was making 81 knots,
and that the officers were
under.orders to keep up the
speed in the hope of making
a record. passage, and these
orders were being carried out
in the face Of knowledge
that the steamer was in the
vicinity Of great icebergs
sweeping down from the