The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-04-16
Doomed Vessel Sinks Before Relief
Arrives,

Doomed Vessel Sinks Before Relief
Arrives.
News of the sinking of the liner
and the terrible loss of life in conse-
quence came early last evening with
all the greater shock because hone
had been buoyed up all day by reports
that the steamship, although badly
damaged, was not in sinking condi-
ton, and that all her passengers had
been safely taken off. The messages
I We're mostly unofficial, however, and
none came direct from the liner. so a
lurking fear remained of possible bad
news to come.
Shortly after 7 o'clock there came
flashing over the wires from Cane
Race, within four hundred miles of
which the liner had struck the ice
berg, word that at 2:2O o'clock Monday
morning, three hours and fifty-fve
minutes after receiving her death
blow, the Titanic had sunk. The news
came from the steamer Carpathia, re-
layed by the White Star Liner Olym-
pic, and revealed that by the time the
Carpathia, outward bound from New
York, and racing for the Titanic on
wireless call, reached the scene the
doomed vessel had sunk.
Left on the surface. however. were
life-boats from the Titanic, and in
them, as appears from the meager re-
ports received up to a late hour. were
some SIS survivors of the disaster.
These, according to the advices, the
Carpathia picked up, and is now on
her way with them to New York.
For the rest the scene as the Carpa-
tina came up was one of desolation,
All that remained of the $4,000. 900
floating palace, on which nearly four
teen hundred passengers have been
voyaging luxuriously to this side of
the Atlantic, were some bits of wreck
age. The biggest ship in the world
has gone down, snuffing out in her
downward plunge, it appears hun
dreds of human lives.
A significant line in the Cape Race
dispatch was the announcement that
OF those saved by the Carpathia near
ly all were women and children.
Should it prove that no other vessel
picked up any passengers of the sink
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of the men on board have been saved.
as the proportion of women and chill
dren among the passengers was large.
The same facts would likewise spell
the doom of practically the entire
crew of about eight hundred and six
| ty. In the cabin were 200 women and
children, but it is not known how
many were among the 74O third-class
passengers.
In the first cabin there We're 12S
women and fifteen children, and in the
second cabin seventy-nine women and
eight 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. Jacob Astor, Major Archibald
Butt, Charles NJ. Haps, president of
the Grand Trunk Pacific of Canada;
his wife and daughter; w. T. Snead,
Benjamin Guggenheim, F. D. Millet,
the artist and j. G. Widener, of Phila-
delphia; Mr.. and Mrs. Isador Straus,
j. B. Thayer, vice president of the
Pennsylvania railroad j. Bruce Ismay,
Henry B. Harris, the theatrical man.
ager, and Mrs. Harris, and Colonel
Washington Roebling, builder of the
Brooklyn bridge.
A ray of hope appeared shortly be-
fore II o'clock last night in mes
sage to New York from the operator
at the Marocni Wireless Station at
Sable Island, near the scene of the
disaster. Answering an inquiry re-
garding the delivery of wireless mes
sages to the passengers on the Titan
ic, the operator reported that it was
difficult to deliver them, "as the pas
sengers are believed to be dispersed
among several vessels" Even this
faint indication that other vessels
than the Carpathia have picked up
survivors of the Titanic was eagerly
seized upon by thousands of relatives
and friends of those who had started