Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-19


less from Cape Race that at least 1914
persons went to their death in the sink
ing of the Titanic, which from now on
will be known as the greatest marine
disaster of modern times. The liner,
bearing the proud title of the largest
vessel ahoat, is at the bottom of the
Atlantic with all of her crew and prac-
tically all of her male passengers. Prob
ably 500 women were taken off the liner
after her appalling collision with a sub
merged iceberg, and they are on the Car
pathia, making for either Boston or
New York.
1t is feared that not one of the
Titanic's passenger list of distinguished
and wealthy men is alive. 1t is believed
that not man of the crew of the
Titanic is left to tell -of the epochal sea
horror. As mute evidence of the disas-
ter that overwhelmed the Titanic on her
maiden trip is the comment of the cap
tain of the Carpathia in wireless mes
sage received;
1--WE found only a sea covered with
wreckage and debris"
Vessels Rush to Aid
The Carpathias captain also said he
had picked up the survivors in the boats
and had sheltered them on board.
The giant boat, racing for America in
an attempt to delight its distinguished
passengers with trip that would strike
the world, hit the iceberg with terrific
force The impact was sufficient to tear
great seams in the vessels prov and
open one or more water-tight compart-
ments.
Fighting losing battle, the pride of
the maritime world went off to her
doom.
At every wireless station on the At
lantic coast from New York to Cape
Race vevssels are bending over their in
struments feeling for the pulsations of
the marvellous telegraph waves that will
bring further details of the catas-
trophe.
News of the sinking of the liner and
the terrible loss of life in consequence
came with all the greater shock be-
cause hope had been buoyed up all day
by reports that the steamship, although
badly damaged, was rot in a sinking con-
dition and that all her passengers had
been safely taken off. The messages
were mostly unofficial, however, and
none came direct from the liner, so
lurking fear remained of possible bad
news to come.
Shortly after o'clock there came
flashed over the wires from Cape Race,
within 400 miles of which the liner had
struck, the iceberg, word that at 2:20
o'clock Monday morning, three hours
ana ifty-five minutes after receiving her
death blow, the Titanic had sunk. The
news came from the steamer Carpathia,
relayed by the White Star liner Olympic,
and revealed that by the time the Car
pathia, outward bound from New York,
and racing for the Titanic on a wire
less call, reached the scene the doomed
vessel had sunk.
Left on the surface, however, were
lfeboats from the Titanic, and in them,
as appears from the meager reports re-
ceived up to late hour, were some 675
survivors of the disaster These, ac-
cording to the advices, the Carpathia
picked up.
For the rest, the scene as the Car
pathia came up was one of desolation.
All that remained of the $1O,0OO,000
floating palace, on which nearly 1.40o
passengers had been voyaging luxurious
ly to this side of the Atlantic, were some
bits of wreckage The biggest ship in
the world had gone down, snuffng out
in her downward plunge, it appears,
hundreds of human lives.
All Saved Women.
A significant line in the Cape Race
dispatch was the announcement that of
those saved by the Carpathia, nearly all
were women and children.
Should it prove that no other vessel
picked up any passengers of the sinking
liner, this might mean that few of the
men on board had been saved, as the
proportion of women and children among
the passengers was large. The same
facts would likewise spell the doom of
the entire crew of about $50.
In the cabins were $50 women and
children, but it is not known how many
passengers.
In the first cabin there were 12s
women and Is children, and in the
second cabin 70 women and children.
Notable persons, travellers on the
Titanic, whose fate was in doubt in the
lack of definite advices as to the identity
Of the survivors, were Mr.. and Mrs. John
Jacob Astor, Maj. Archibald Butt,
Charles NJ Hays, president Of the Grand
Trunk Pacific of Canada, his wife and
daughter; w. T. Stead, Benjamin Gug-