Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-16

z,lOO persons on board the mammoth White Star liner Titanic, which sank early yesterday off the Newfoundland Banks after collision with an ice berg, stil remains in doubt and it is feared more than 1900 persons were lost, note of good cheer came from the ocean ways by wireless between and o'clock this morning. It was in the shape of a wireless message from the White Star liner Olympic, one of the vessels lowering near the scene of the disaster, sending the welcome news that S66 of the Titanic's passengers. mostly women and children. were being l brought to port by the Cunarder Car pathla. Other messages later brought condrmatory tidings.
 First reports were that the Car pathia had saved but 675 persons. The new figures reduced the list of those for whose fate fear was felt by more than 200 and as seems probable, prac- ttcally all those saved were passengers. ! 1t would appear that all but approxi- mat7'y 450 of the vessels passengers are accounted for A partial list of the survivors received from the Carpathia | includes the names of many women OF prominence who were on the steamer.
 After the first despstches calls by ! the Titanic for help had been sent fly 1 ing through space and brought steam | CTS for hundreds of miles around | speeding to the rescue, what seems to | have been an impeneTable wall of si- | lenco was raised between her and the | anxious world. The giant liner so far | r1ic sIr | her fate without so much as a whisper l of what must have been scenes of | agonizing tragedy upon her decks.
 Other than the early news l5st even- ! ing that 6,5 persons, largely women ] and children, had been rescued from ! the liners boats by the Cunarder Car- pathia, more than six hours of the night passed withot a word as to the l fate of the remainder of those who were on board her at the time of the fateful collision Along the entire At- 1 lanttc coast wireless antcunas were attuned to catch from any source the slightest glimmerng of hope that pos 1 sibiy on board one of the many | steamships which went to the assist | ance of the stricken steamship were | other suIViVOra of the sunken vessel But from none of the ships reported to be at or near the scene of what. viewed in the light of the probabilities, may be recorded as the worlds greatest marine horror, came the slightest syl- lable of announcement to the anxious ly waiting world until nesw of the ad- dition of more than 200 to the number of those saved by the Carpathia brought decided encouragement.
 Early last night there wss hope that any moment might bring word of relief But anxiety deepened and many friends and relatives of those who sailed on the Titanic began 10 I'despair as hour after hour passed and the night grew old without word from either of the Allan liners Parisian or Virginian, believed to be, with the exr ception of the Carpathia. the vessels nearest the Titanic when she made her fateful plunge.
 As the Titanic sank before 3 o'clock in the morning and it was not hoped during the day that the Virginian would reach the scene before 10 a. m. at the earliest, while the Parisian was said to be some distance further away, 1t was feared even by the White Star officials. trying their best to cal culate differently and yet accurately that they would not have reached the scene in time to be of service.
 The steamer Virginian was finally heard from at 2.15 o'clock this morn ing. She did not report the presence of any survivors on board. the mes sage from her saying only that she would bring to St. Johns, N. F., such survivors of the Titanic as she may rescue" The fact that the Virginian was to go out of her course to put into St. Johns on her voyage to Liver pool was taken as a favorable indi- cation, arousing the hope that after all she might have picked up some of the victims of the wreck and was bringing them 10 port.
 The Titanic herself lies buried two miles beneath the oceans surface midway between Sable Island and Cape Race. Her position when she struck the iceberg was given as lati- tude 4l46 north, longitude 5014 west According to the Carpa thias adyices the liner. which struck the iceberg at 1925 o'clock Sunday night, sank at 2.20 o'clock Sunday morning, nearly four hours later, in latitude 41.1G, long itude 5e14. or not more than half a degree south of the point where the collision occurred. It seems impreba blo from this that after the accident the liner made much headWay under her own steam.
 It seems to be established that there were about 2100 persons on the lost liner. This was the estimate of the company officials in New York which gave the number of passengers as 1920. The remaining number, S60, made up the crew
 Accepting this earliest estimate oi the fatality as accurate, the disaster is the greatest in the mordern historl of the world. Nearest approaching f' in magnitude were the loss of the steamer Atlantic in 1873, when 574 lives were lost. and that of La Bour- gogne, in 1898. with list of fatalities of 571. Should it prove that other lin CTS, notably the Allan liners Parisiar and Virginian, known to have been 1T the vicinity of the Titanic carly yes. terday, picked up other of her passen- gers, the extent of the calamity may fortunately be greatly reduced. This hope still remains.
 News of the sinking of the liner anC 1 the consequent loss of life reached New York early last evening, with much greater shock because hope hat been buoyed up all day by reports tha the steamship, although badly damag. ed, was not in a singing condition, ant that all her passengers had been safe ly taken off. The messages were most. ly unofficial however, and none cam, direct from the liner. so that a lurkins fear remained of possible bad tidngi to come.
 Shortly after ' o'clock last nigh