Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-04-18
Wireless Straining to Get in
Communication With the
Liner, but Scout Cruiser
Chester Only Gets Word.
HOPES THAT MORE
ARE ALIVE DASHED
Chester Reports That 325
Names Given Were All Of
First and Second Class
Passengers Saved. !.

The cunarder Carpathia bearino
a68 survivors Of the sunken White
Star liner Titanic, was less than
600 miles from New York at noon
today and word was eagerly await.
ed that would shed light on the
catasthFope on Sunday night which
cost 1912 lives. Sable island was
IN brief communication with the
rescue ship for 4 time this morn
Ing but no additional names Of
survivors, were obtained.
Wireless stations along the New
Englind coast wore strainina to oct
In communication with the vessel
this afternoon and the scout
cruiser Salem was somewhere or
Nantucket for the purpose OF re.
laying ashore through her sister
cruiser tho Chester, some con.
nected account Of the disaster.
In New York the White Star Of
f1ces received a brief wireless dis
; patch saying that the carpathia
was 500 miles from the narbor
entrance, This should bring her
Into port either late Thursday
night or early Friday morning.
At Halifax the cabIeship Mac
key-eennett has been fitted out
foS1n-t 10 the scene Of the disaster.
Cofffns ice and embalr1lno mater
ials ware loaded aboard In the
hope. that many bodies may be
picked Up near the scene Of the
wreck.
Washington, o. c., April IT,
The following telegram was re.
received today by the navy depart
ment from Commander Decker OF
the scout cruiser Chester, via Port.
land, Maine:
"Carpathia states that list Of
first and second class passengers
and crew sent to shore. Chester
will relay list third class passen-
gers when convenient to carpa.
thia."
The message is taken to mean
that the list transmitted by wire.
less from tho carpathia to the sta
ton at Cape Race, N. f., through
the Olympic contains the names OF
all first and second class passen-
gers rescued.
Of the 710 people who were
third class passengers, probably
$40 lost their lives. The names Of
328 first and second cabin passen-
gers have been sent ashore leav-
Ing $40 names to come. or these
probably 400 are third class pas
sengers and 14O are members Of
the crew who manned the life
boats.
The dispatch from the Chester
stating only third class passen-
gers list had not been sent ashore
indicates that 115 first and 1877 Sec
ond class passengers lost their
lives. With 720 Of the crew prob
ably lost, the total number Of
those who perished 10 estlm ated
at 1912.
New York, April Wireless con
with the steamship Ca
athia, speeding here with the sc
urvivors Of the sunken White Sta
ner Titanic still was broken thi
No new names have been added {
le list Of 1928 known persons save,
here are on board the Carpathia 81
lrvivors whose names have not bee
ent in by wireless. Little hope r,
lains that they are any survivors c
le disaster on board steamships othe
ian the Carpathia.
The Titanic carried to their deaf
312 souls. The scout cruiser Cheste
nearing the Carpathia this mornin
nd full list of saved and details {
le Titanic's collision with the ic,
erg is hourly expected.
In faintest touch with the wireles
.ation at Sable Island. the Cunar
ner Carpathia with S6S survivors {
,e sunken Titanic on board, wa
Keeping down the coast early thi
making the best time for thi
ort that foggy conditions would PEI
lit.
Speeding up the coast toward tn
sscue ship and hoping to get With
'ireless speaking distance of her bt
,re very many hours, were the Scot
ruisers Salem and Chester, ordere
y the government at Washington t
lake all haste possible toward breal
lg the silence which SO far has ker
le survivors on the Carpathia frof
laking known to the outside worl