Connecticut western news., 1912-04-18

OodId tue CunaFu liner 0ArpnIhlA. which Is bringing them to New York
 On the passenger list of 1924 were the names of Colonel John J. Astor and his bride, Isldor Straus, Major Archibald w. Butt, aid to President Taft; Mir. and Mrs. George B. widener of Philadelphia, Henry s. Harper, the New York publisher, and his wife: William T, Stead, the London journals lst; Frank D. MIlIet, the painter; T. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the. line, and Mrs. Ismay, and c, Nj. Hays, president Of the Grand Trunk railway.
 Up to this time none of those men, toned above, except Mrs. Astor. Mir. Ismay, Mrs. Harper and Mrs. wIdener have been reported saved.
 Other rushing liners besides the vir. ginian heard the call. The big Baltic, 200 miles to. the eastward and west bound, turned again to save life as she did when her sister of the White Star fleet, the Republic. was cut down in a fog in January, 1909. The Titanic's mate. Olympic, the mightiest of sea. goers save the Titanic herself, turned In her tracks. The Hamburg-Ameri- can Cincinnati, the Parisian from Glas- gow, the North German Lloyd Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, the Hamburg American liners Pinz Adelbert and Amerika, all heard the 70 Q D" and the rapid, condensed explanation Of what had happened. '
 The virginian was barely ITO miles away and the first to know of the Titanic's danger. She headed under forced draft for the spot indicated in one of the last messages, latitude 40.52 north and longitude 61.1S west. She is fast ship, and she put in her best ncks stretching through the night to get to the Titanic in time. Farther out at sea was the Carpathia, which left New York for the Mediterranean on April 18. Around she turned and plunged back westward to take hand in saving life. The third steamship within short sailing was the Allan liner Parisian, away to the eastward on her way from Glasgow to Halifax. s
 Cape Race Notifies the World
 While they sped toward hsr the IT. tanic's call reached to Cape Race. in Newfoundland.
 Have struck an iceberg; we are bad iy damaged, Titanic, longitude 4l.4b north, longitude o0.14 west" was the message.
 Cape Race threw the appeal broad cast, so that for hours, while the world waited for a crumb of news as to the safety of the great ships people, not one thing was known except that she was drifting. broken and helpless and alone in the midst of waste of ice. And it was not until seventeen hours after the Titanic had sunk, carrying with her part of her crew and some of her passengers. that the words came out of the air as to her fate. There were confusion and tangle of mes sages-a tumble of rumors.
 Then tho Messages Ceased.
 At 12:17 a. m, while the Virginian was still plunging eastward, all com munication from the Titanic ceased. Nothing more of her fate was known until the Carpathia came upon the scene of the wreck and picked up the survivors in the lifeboats. which were floating among the ice fields. The ship had gone down while help was near Olympic Sends the News.
 The Virginian reached the scene Of She disaster too late to be of service and continued on her course to Glas- gow. The ParisIan, also of the Allan line, which also heard the Titanica calls, could not reach the sinking ship and made no rescues.
 The Olympic. eastbound, the Titan les sister ship, oy reason of her DOW. erful wireless equipment the chief source of news about the disaster, re. ported that when the Carpathia reachf cd the spot she found only the lfe' honts. with their occupants, eoat- ing wreckage.
 The Olympic said the Titanic hnd foundered at about 2:2O a. m. Monday In latitude 41.1G north and longitude 5014 west about thirty-four miles due south of her position when she ram u1ed the Iceberg
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