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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-17
HOW THE BIG SHIP SANK.
Version of the Disaster Picked Up
From Other Boats.

St Johns, n. F., April IA re-
port was current last night, said to
have emanated from the steamer
Bruce, en- route to Sydney, n. S, Civ
ing a version of the disaster to the
Titanic obtained from other ships.
This version is that when the Titanic
struck the berg she was going at a
speed of g knots. The impact almost
rent the ship asunder. 1t sundered
the decks and sides of the bulkheads
from the bow nearly to midships and
smashing the boats upper works to
pieces. She struck partially on her
bow leaning to the portside and al
most turning turtle. Passing over the
submerged portion of the iceberg is
supposed to have torn the bottom out
of her, as the compartments from
midships forward quickly flooded and
the ship rapidly settled at the head.
with a port list and rolling heavily in
the trough of the sea.
The impact OF the collision was so
terrific that it practically rent the
ship from stem to stern.
For a short while sufficient order
was maintained to safely launch most
of the boats and embark about a
thousand persons. When the cry went
up that the ship was sinking, a fren-
zied crowd rushed madIy for the
boats. As the ship settled into the
sea it is said that many of the boats
were smashed to pieces in the davits,
some were swamped in launching and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-17
Cloudy Weather and Frost
Have a BuIlish Effect.
Continued Reports of Winter
Killed Wheat Comes In.
CORN PRICES ARE WOBBLY
Shorts Rush to Buy, but Find
Little Offered.
Scarcity of Hogs Gives Lift to
Provisions.

Chicago, April 7.-WHEAT-FTosts re-
ported in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma
and northern Texas had bullish effect
today on wheat. Moreover the weather
was cold and cloudy northwest with many
places sending word of temperature be-
low freezing. Decreasing stocks at Liver
pool also counted against the bear side.
No ray of hope appeared from the dis
tricts east of the Mississippi where winter
killing was alleged to have wrought such
widespread harm. The opening varied
from 1Ac off to 1zc up. July started at
$1.06A to $1.07, gain of Ac TO 1sc, touched
$1-O69s and tehn rose to $10714.
After rifle more advance the July op-
ton dipepd sharply because of a leading
firm making heavy sales intended to eff
feet quick scalp. The close was unset
tied with July 1s@Ac net lowerr at $1.O614
GLOSS.
CORN-Corn turned strong account
of the wet and cold. Shorts scurried to
buy and found but little offered. July
opened H@asc to az@7sc higher at 1850 to
1870 and mounted to TIC.
The market climbed yet higher but tenn
porarily fell back after wheat turned
weak. Closing prices were nervous with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-17
PUBLIC SOON FORGETs.
Titanic Disaster Not Expected to Cur
tail Ocean Travel.

New York April 17-The disaster to
the Titanic has thus far had no effect
so far as curtailing sea travel is con-
cerned, according to the steamship
companies and they believe that 1t viii
have no material bearing on the sum-
rner rush of vacation tourists which has
already begun, but which does not
reach its maximum until the latter
part of May.
Some of the larger companies as a
matter of fact are Just now experience
ing a contrary effect, an addition to
their normal business, for each of them
has had it's generous quota of those
who had planned to leave these shores
on the new White Star liner.
The conviction that the disaster
would lead to few if any cancellations
in bookings was expressed by General
Luigi So1ari, one of the officials of the
italian lines. who lost several friends
ON the Titanic
1.-THE public will soon forget the Ii
tanic." he said sadly. Everywhere it
is the same. My nation has already
forgotten the disaster Of Messina. You
have forgotten San Francisco. The
Republic disaster was forgotten. Every
day you read of railroad wrecks, but
the people swarm to the trains every
day as though there were no such
things as wrecks on the rail. Don't
you think it will be much the same
with this disaster of the sea? %
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She Had a Presentiment.

Racine, Wis, April TT dread
taking this trip to Denmark. for I
have 1 have a feeling that 1 will never
return alive. L just know that the
boat will sink or something awful will
happen to me and if you ever find my
body
With these words to her brother,
Thomas Howard. Mrs. Peter c. Han
sen, numbered among the passengers
on the Titanic, went on 20 ell the
kind of funeral she wanted; " hat she
wante dto be buried in and what kind
of flowers she wanted on her casket.
Then she departed for New York,
whence, accompanied by her Husband,
she sailed last February for Denmark.
They were on their return voyage on
the Titanic. Their names do not ap-
pear among the list of those rescued.
Boissevain, Man, April III. P.
Alexander, a former member of the
provincial parliament. dropped dead
today when told of the Titanic disas-
ter. He was troubled with heart dis
ease.
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REPLIES TO CRITICS.
Franklin Tells why He Suppressed
Information Last Night.

New York. April 17.-Vice President
Franklin of the White Star has been
criticised greatly for his definite reas-
surfing declarations Monday which
tended, as alleged, to mislead the pub
lie. Mr. Franklin Tuesday gave
to the public the full text of the wire
less messages received from Captain
Haddock of the Olympic yesterday
afternoon.
1.-THE reason I did not give it out
before Mr.. Franklin said, was
because it was so discouraging that
felt it would not be right to alarm the
public unnecessarily. Now that the
worst is known I am willing to give it
out. Here it is:
"Carpathia reached Titanic position
a daybreak. Found boats and wreck
age only. Titanic had foundeerd
about 2:2O a. m. in 4f.16 n. SO. IA w.
All boats accounted for. About 675
souls saved, crew and passengers. Lat
ter nearly all women and children.
Leyland liner steamship California re-
manning and searching exact position
of disaster. Carpathia returning to
New York with survivors. Please in
form Cunard.
(Signed) PADDOCK.
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MYSTERY OF THE NEWS.
Who Sent Misleading Messages Re
gaPdlng the Titanic.

London, April 17.-The London
Standard prints the following under
the head '"The Mystery of the News
Who Sent the Wireless Falsehoods:
"One of the mysteries in connection
with the Titanic disaster which. at
present is unsolved is the extraordi-
nary series of false messages with
which the world was hlled into fan
cied security on Monday.
For sixteen hours, until l o'clock
yesterday morning, right through the
editions of the evening papers and
earlier editions-of the mornings, a
flood of alleged wireless messages was
received. They reported that all pas
sengers had been saved; that the IL
tanic was proceeding under her own
steam to Halifax; that she could not
possibly sink; that twenty boat LOADS
of passen gers had been transshipped to
the Partisan; that the Partisan and
Carpathia were both in attendance;
that the Virginian was towing the IL
tanic toward Cape Race to beach her;
that all passengers had been taken off.
And then the truth, when the dire
news came that the Titanic had sunk
at 2:30 a. m. This put the possibility
of a great disaster forward for the
first time. News agencies and CORE
spondents who sent false news mes
sages merely transmitted information
given out to them as received at var1-
Gus points.
"All praise is due them for their ex-
ceptfonal promptitude but who sent
were they sent? These are the queS-
tions the public will naturally ask and
require to be answered. On the race
of them they are as inaccurate as they
are mysterious. The leading newspa-
pers and the public of two continents
were misled until the last moment.
The public will want to know why and
how this deception was carried out.
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BIG CROWD TO SEE T.,R,
Promise to Help Pass Laws to Make
Life Easier.

Galesburg, ILL.,, April IA large
crowd was waiting at the railway
station to see Col. Roosevelt when he
reached Galesburg Tuesday on his way
to Nebraska. The Colonel, o the rear
platform made a. short speech.
There is not much for me to say" he
began. illinois has said it for me-
We will win in this contest if the
people are given half a chance" he
said.
eff we win, every promise I have
made will be kept to the letter 1t is
not what I have done, but what you
have done here in Illinois. If we win,
we will try to pass, in every state and
in the nation, laws that will make life
little easier for the ordinary man"
Colonel Roosevelt also was greeted by
crowds at Aurora, Princeton and Men,
dota, but made no speeches there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-17
NIGHT OF HORROR.
THAMES Life Boats Bodied About
HeIpIeSsIY in the Ice.


New York, April IA wireless
n. s., saying that the passengers of
the Titanic were ordered to the life
boats as soon as the ship struck and
took their places in the boats. That
would indicate that the Titanic's con-
ditiOn was such that no time could be
spared to return to staterooms for adj
ditional clothes.
Danger still confronted even those
who were so fortunate as to be put
aboard the life boats. Huge quanti-
ties of field ice covered the ocean. a
wireless dispatch says, and in the
darkness the crews had to guide their
boats with the greatest care to pre-
vent being damned and overturned.
The ice was so heavy that the life
boats could not force their way
through it and as a result the boats
became widely separated. The air
was biting cold and the chill that rose
from the ice floes caused the passen-
gers to hover close together to keep
warm. All through the night the life
boats bobbed helplessly between the
shifting cakes of ice, while the survi-
Xors prayed for dawn to come.
Shortly after ? o'clock the sinking
Titanic made her great dive into the
sea. carrying with her hundreds of
persons to death.
Daylight came and with it arrived
the Cunarder Carpathia, which found
only the score of life boats filled with
crew and passengers floating helplessly
about the vicinity where the Titanic
had passed under the waves.
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| oIhers went down with the ship. BY
| TINS time the ship was seen to be set
Ting fast and the water had reached
| the engine rooms The wireless failed
| by loss of the motor and all lights
went out all over the ship, adding to
the terror and difficulties of handling
| the boats
Rest assured that the names OF
those rescued will be those of women
ana children" said Mr.. Franklin.
| Ihere is no rule whereby women and
children are rescued first, there is no
rule that seafaring men recognize
out IL requires no rule to make men
stand aside in time of danger. I am
confident that Captain Smith per-
lsned He is that sort of a man.
How long the boats drifted in the
open sea before the Titanic took her
iatal plunge can not be conjectured;
lndeed, 1t is not certain that she sank
while the crew were yet engaged in
lowering the lifeboatS.
/ NO doubt many men took their
chances with the deep as they felt
the vessel sinking, leaped to the sea
with some object which they thought
might support them in the water, but
SOBER senses told them that this was
futile The suction of the great ship
was so powerful that she was a men
ace even to boats large enough to ply
the seas.
The mighty plunge came and the
horrors Of those few brief hours were
past Tor the brave souls aboard-past
Tor the one man who could have fit
t1ngiy described such a terrible spec
tacle. That was the venerable Will
liam T. Stead, accounted the most
famous Journalist of the day
The hours that followed to those
tossing about on the sweIls were hours
OF intense suffering and anxiety. For
hours they strained their eyes for the
vessels they knew had been spoken to-
AS a consequence of this narrowing
experiences many women are return
ing to their homes mentally and
physically broken. There is but one
physician on the Carpathia and wom-
en- accustomed to the utmost ease and
luxury are returning in the steerage
scantily clothed, dazed by the ordeal
through which they have passed, car
ing for themselves as best they can.
While lfeboats drifted, the hunt
was going on away to the north in the
neighborhood of the positions given
by the Titanic Eyes were strained to
penetrate the darkness for the first
faint glimmer of the lights on an an
preaching ship, but it was not until
day began to break that the smoke of
the tall Carpathia appeared on the
horizon. The Virginian of the Allan
line was the first to catch the s. o. s.
or operator Phillips on the Titanic.
but the Carpathia was miles nearer
the scene of the disaster when she
turned on her course and steamed to-
ward the Titanic's position. Then
came the Partisan, the Virginian. the
Baltic and Olympic
But all were too late to prevent the
appalling wreck. Nature had chosen
to mock mans boasts of conquest and
achieved her purpose.
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WAIT UP ALL NIGHT.
People Besieee London White Star
Office for News.

London. April 17.-Although hope
that the list of survivors of the sunken
Titanic will be added to, has practically
been given up, the officers of the White
Star line in London, Southampton and
Liverpool again were besieged this
morning by anxious inquirers. Some
of those who had relatives on board
remained al the offices throughout the
night, scanning the lists which however
proved not to contain any fresh names
but merely considerations of those
given before.
Those who waited in the London
offices were mostly women whose hus-
bands had started for America on bus
mess or to make new homes there for
their families.
Early this morning the White Stal
company gave out the statement re-
ceived from the captain of the Olympic
that neither the Virginian nor the
Partisan had survivors on board and
expressing the belief that all those who
had been rescued were on board the
Carpathia. While travellers generally
understood the fact that great liners
do not carry enough boats to accom-
modate all the passengers and crew,
to the general public news that all on
board the Titanic did not have a chance
of saving their lives in this way came
as a rude surprise, and there is likely
to be considerable agitation in and out
of parliament on the subject. The lord
mayor of London today opened a Man
sion House fund for the relief of the
families of the crew of the Titanic and
of any others left in needy circuIn-
stances in consequent of the disas-
ter.
A memorial service for the victims
will be held in ST. Paul cathedral April
19
Much indignation is expressed in con-
nection with the publication of telc-
grams stating the Titanic was in tow
of the Virginian just after the news
of the accident was received. Col.
Charles E. Yate. member of parliament
for Leicestershire, will ask the presi-
dent of the board of trade in the house
bulxheads installed in the Titanic is
coming in for much criticism. 1t is sta
ted they are a pet idea of Lord Pirrie,
who insists on introducing them in
ships built at Belfast despite the con-
demnation of many well known con-
structors who pin their faith to ny
draulic power as being far more re-
liable. These constructors point out
that even a small mishap is liable to
render the electrical installation use
less.
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WHY WE DRINK LESS.
Personal Ambition Has Cured the
American People of Drunkenness.

The American people are almost
cured of drunkenness.
notwithstanding the breadth of
this assertion, it is a fact.
A hundred years ago most Ameri-
cans were confirmed tipplers; and to
be sogged with drink at bedtime was
the privilege and practice of a gentle
man..
Fifty years ago inebriety had taken
such a hold upon the merican people
that refcrmatory measures followed
one another in about this order: The
Washingtonians, Cough, Father Mat
thews, Reynolds, Murphy, the Sons of
Temperance, Good Templars knights
of Columbus, Temple of Honor, and
White Ribbons, all commendable
means to wean the people from family
wrecking, notwithstanding drunken
ness.
Today it is a positive disgrace to
get drunk and a serious handicap
to have a name for tipping
This national Transformation has
taken place in practically the first
centurys history of our people.
1t is a remarkable result for which
there is remarkable and patent
cause.
1t must not be wholly attributed to
religion. education, social dictum,
moral sensibility, or any theoretical
arguments.
The mania for drink has been sup
planted by a more mastering mania
personal am bition.
Ambition for achievement, position
and power brooks no handicap; so
Americans have made laws of deport-
ment individually, and in cold-blooded
concern for self the problem that
neither prohibition nor moral suasion,
nor both, could solve has been adjust
ed in conserving regulation of personal
lives with no pretense to bepef1cence
or humanitarianism.
This definite cause for diminution
in drinking as an Am erican habit is
not popularity compromised, nor con-
ceded as the primal reason why drink
ing is less prevalent here than in other
countries, but it is the real reason.
To prove it-hAd not ambition been
the stronger, the sodden practices of
the sideboard of 100 years ago, and
the debauching convixiality of so years
ago, would have trium phed.
That's the answer.-New York
Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-17
HER OFFICERS KNEW.
ReaIized the Titanic Was Doomed as
Soon as She Struck.

Cape Race. April 17=UnparaIIeIed
in history, the scenes that accom-
panied the laundering of the Titanic
were marked by intense suffering and
rare heroism, according to the few dis
jointed and fragmentary messages that
nave been picked up by the wireless
along the coast
1t was night of terror Sunday
had been cloudy and foggy, but the
great liner had been steadily held on
its course Precautions were taken to
guard against accident. but it seemed
certain that it was necessary to keen
considerable Roadway on the giant
vessel, so that it would remain man
ageable- The smash came at 1925
sunday night. Many of the passen-
gers undoubtedly W6rc in their beds
at the time, but all might have been
routed out Immediately, as Captain
Smith was too experienced a navigator
to overlook any precautiOn or to fail
to realize that the force of the col
Hsion had inflicted mortal wound de-
spite the confident assertions he had
made many times, that the Titanic
was unsuitable.
1t was black night, the thick. foggx
atmosphere SO peculiar to the Banks
and the darkness redoubled the hor-
rorS or the occasion. The ships com
pany, assembled on the great decks
OF the floating hotel, which was so
soon to become the grave of many of
their number. could have had little
time to make their toilet Many of the
passengers must have been CARRIED as
they came from slumber CARRYING only
the wraps caught up in a moment
Signals were burned, rockets sent
up, as the wireless snapped out it's
frantic appeal for help, while the stall
Wert seamen told off by their COM
mander to man the life boats. began
the work of getting the big boats
overheard
1t must have been apparent from
the outset that there was little hope
for many of the Titanic's company.
Although it carried the maximum OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-17

July at 77A@771zc, a net gain of 11sc. aCsh
corn-No. 8, nc: No. 8 white, 7s1zGS0c; No.
yellow. 77tsQ7S1zc; No A. 76Q761sc; No. 4
white. 7Sq7s19c; No. yellow, 741sc-
OATS-A bulge in oats took place as
a result of sympathy with corn and wheat.
Prospect of additional delay to seeding
was a further help to the bulls. July
started A@$sc to 9sQ1zc .dearer at 5Sssc to
53s4c and advanced to 541sc.
PROvISIONsScar of hogs as
hown in the government report gave pro-
visions a lift but hardly to the extent
that had been expected. Initial sales
ranged from &c lower to 15c rise with
September deliveries $1S.571z for pork:
$10621 to $10.65 for lard and $1045 to $40. 40
@J1O.4711 for ribs
RYE@No. 2, CSC.
ARLEY-S4c1$1.40 40.
TIMOTHY-$6. OOG12. 90.
CLOVER SEED-$15. 00q205o.
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Kansas City Produce Market.

Kansas City. April H.-WHEAT-C1as !
Market unchanged to nc lower WEI ,o,i No;
hard. $1.0712Q1. 111z; No 8. s.. O51sal 1914 NO
2 red, $1.O7Q1OS; No. g. $1.o519Q1.1 O12 NO.
2 red. s107Q1Os; No. 3, s1O5QlO 61s.
CORN-Market unchanged to nc lower
No. 2 mixed, 82@821kc; No. g. sO1ka81c; No.
white, S2QS2kc; No. 8, size.
OATS-Market unchanged. No. Whlte'
61M6115c; No. mixed, 591RQ6O12c.
RYE-91Q93c.
HAY-Market steady. Choice timothy,
SIS. O0Q26.O0; choice prairie, $2O.7542l.OO
BUTTER-Creamery, Bic; firsts, &c;
seconds, &c; packing stock, &c,
EGGS-Extras, 2015c; firsts, 1S13c.
WHEAT-Receipts, Sc cars.
CLOSE: WHEAT-May, s1.o67s; July,
81. 00a1. OO1s September, 971sc.
CORN-May, 977sc; July, 774c; Septem-
ber 722lc.
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.ansas city Live stock Market

Kansas City, April 17.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts 5000, including no southerns. Mar
ket strong. Native steers. s6.50dS-6O;
southern steers, $6.O0GlS.00; southern cows
and heifers, $4.O0Q6.O0; native COWS and
heifers, $4.50dS.O0; stockers and feeders,
$5.001700; bulls, $A50q6.5O; calves. 5000
500; western steers, $6.00dS25; western
cows, $4O066.25.
OGS-Receipts 10000. Market strong to
SC higher. Bulk of sales, S7.65dS.00; heavy,
ST. 950805; packers and butchers, $500
500: lights, $7.50D7-S5: pigs. $5.75d6.75.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000 Market steady
Muttons, $4.50d6.50; lambs, $6.5O657.s0; fed
wethers and yearhngs, $5.0047O0s fed
ewes, S350Q6.00.
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Brother. a dry goods firm of st. Louis.
Norman Carlyle Craig, K. c., a
member of parliament from Isle of
Thanet since 1903, has his address at
10 Kings Bench, Walk c, London, and
a country place at Fairfield House, st.
Peters, Thanet.
Mrs Robert c. Cornell. wife of
Magistrate Cornell of New York city,
was accompanied by her sisters, Mrs.
E. d. Appleton and Mrs. Brown. They
had been on a visit to another sister,
Lady Drummond, in England.
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GOODS TO DEBATE.
Girls Will Try Their Voices in Argu-
ment at Washburn.

The initial coed debate in the his
tory of Washburn college will be held
three feminine representatives of the
college will confront in a battle of
words a team of three from Ottawa
university.
Resolved, That congress should es-
tablish an educational test for immi-
grants is the subject that will be dis
cussed. Olive White, Edna Gerken
and Jessie Nye compose the Wash
burn team, while Ottawa will be rep
resented by Gertrude Barnes, Goldena
Hall and Elsie Shiels. The debate will
be held in the college chapel at 8
O'Clock. = 80