Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
LINER ANSWERS NAMES OF
SURVIVORS ALREADY SENT
List of Steerage Passengers Filters In between
Private Messages Confirming Fateful Be
lief That Notable Men in the First Cabin
Went Down with the Ship.

Beyond even the mystery Of how the
mammoth Titanic met her fate another
mystery. evolved by the events Of the
past three days forced itself to the front
last night.
Although the rescue ship Carpatha was
within the zone of wireless communica-
ton for hours during the night and both
shore stations and reaying ships were
able to obtain from her long lists of sur
vvors among the steerage passengers
and To send and receive numerous short
messages from and TO private individuals.
not a word of matter descriptive of the
manner in which those on board the
doomed liner comported themselves in
the face of impending death reached the
shore.
Given the names of the first and sec
ond cabin passengers and the assurance,
which the Carpathia furnished that she
had no more of these to offer. the word
of world d-wide interest demanded of the
Cunarder was that which would reveal
the long withheld secret of what took
place on the Tttanics decks when 1t be-
came known that the doom of the giant
liner was sealed.
But that word was not spoken.
NeIther was there any explanation
forthcoming from the surviving Of
ncers Of the Titanic to how their
ship came to strike the hidden OBJ
stacln in the ocean. From the Mar
conf offices word came that repeatedly,
when the wireless working conditions
were practically perfect. the Car
pathia was asked to convey to the
waIting world some idea of what were
the momentous happenings on the r.
tanic in the terrible three hours and
ffty-iive minutes between the time
when she struck the iceberg OF the
banks and that Of her final plunge to
the bottom.
one explanatio advanced was that the
wireless operator of the Carpatha was
exhausted as n result OF his threee days
work at the key. But among the list OF
rescued on board the Carpathia is the
second wireless operator Of the Titanic,
who might have been counted upon to re.
lieve the wearied sender Of the Cunarder.
A censorship appeared to exist on the
Carpathia which prevented any response
to inquiries of what had taken place aftsl
the Titanic struck the Iceberg. The
wireless operator on the Carpathia 10 ar
officer of the Cunard line and there
fore subject to the ships commander
DESPAIR SUCCEEDS HOPE.
New York. April 1.-THE roll Of tn,
saved from the Titanic disaster t0-nigh
seems complete
Practically every attending circum
stance in the transmission OF news from
the Carpathia goes to show that only 30
OF the 610 cabin passengers Of the Titanic
are safe on the rescue ship.
The 22 cabtl passengers whose names
have not appeared in the lists sent ashor'
yesterday by wireless must probably b
conceded as numbered among the l,3l
lives which the collision Of the mammoth
new steamer will an iceberg on the New
foundiand banks Sunday hight is believed
20 have taken.
Thousands OF hopeful hearts wore turn
I'd to despairtng onea when the Onite'
States scout cruiser Chester wirsiesset
ashore late to-day that she had been II
communication with the CarpatMa ant
had asked repeatedly for the fuli list o.
the f,rst and second cabin survivors. and
that the rescue ship reported that all IN
rames had already been sent ashore Tn
remainder Of $40 persons saved were pas
yengers In the steerase or members OF th'
crew.
After the strain Of three days wait
ing without news Of their missing ones
there we're few OF the hopeful that still
hald out tonight against the seemingll
anal word as to the fate OF friends ant
relatives.
BASIS OF FAINT HOPES
The small remaining hopes Of tn
nersistently hopeful were based on tn
faint possibility that the list Of name,
survivors sent by wtreleso from the rescu
ship Carpathia, might after all not b
quite complete,
The fact that one new name cam
through late to-day in a private messag
from the Carpathia was the basis OF wha
WAS a desire more than hope that ther
were slips enough In her wireless lists o
the survivors TO account for a few =
Ieast, Of those for whom the worst wa
feared At the best, however, 1t appeare.
that Il could he only an occasional on
whose safety had not been reporte'
through some error Of compilation on IN
liner or of the transmission through he
wireless
From the Carpatha. which was ap
proxinately 100 miles from New York thi
morning and which is expected If sh
keeps UP her rate of progress OF l3 knot
an hour to reach the entrance Of tn
narbor OF eight O'Clock tomorrow night
came new report during the day as I
the number OF survivors on board
Through the Cunalder Franconis
which established wireless communi