Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-17
STEAMER TITANIC SINKS
1900 PERSONS LOST
Strikes Floating Iceberg off New.
foundIand Coast.
Horrible Accident Occurred Early Mon
day Morning Was Largest Boat
in the World.

The Dubuque Times Journal gives
the following account of this ap-
palling disaster which occurred as a
shock to che entire world on Monday
morning. More than 1900 persons
it is feared sank to death early Mon
day, while within four hours after
she crashed into an iceberg the mann
moth White Star Steamer Titanic
bound from London to New York on
her voyage went to the bottom off the
New Foundland bank Of ap-
proximately 1900 persons on board
the giant liner, some of them of
world wide prominence, only 675 are
known to have been saved. The
White Star Offices while keeping
up to the last were free to admit that
there had been a horrible loss of
life -
Accepting tie early estimates of
the Titanic list as accurate the
disaster is the greatest in the history
ing it in magnitude are the steamers
Atlantic in 1873. SAT lives were lost,
and the La Bourgogne in 1893, with
a fatality list of ST. =
No doubt other ocean liners among
them the Allen liners. Partisan and
Virginian. have picked up others of
the passengers thus reducing the ex-
tent Of the calamity and lessening the
terrible loss of life. However this
may be, the loss of human souls will
yet be exceeding horrible in that out
of the entire number of passengers
aboard the proportion of women and
children was large.
There were many notable persons
aboard travelling luxuriously to this
side of the Atlantic and among these
were: Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob
Astor, Major Archibald Butte, aide
to President Taft; Charles M. Hayes.
president of the Grand Trunk rail
road, his wife and daughter; W.
Stead, the London journalist +;
Benjamin Guggenheim; F. D. Millet.
the artist, and J. G. Widener. of
Philadelphia; Mr.. and Mrs. Isador
Straus, j. B. Thayer, vice president
of the Pennsylvania railroad; J. Bruce
Ismay; Henry B. Harris. the
theatrical manager. and Mrs. Harris
and Colonel Washington Roebllng,
builder Of the Brooklyn bridge.
From latest reports it is not known
how many of these were among the
Inflated number now resting in an
ocean grave.
The crowd of persons embed at
the White Star line offices in New
York near the foot of Broadway Mon
day night brought there by the news
Of the horrible calamity were panic
stricken as they waited with eager
and anxious faces for some bit of
news regarding the safety of their
loved ones who were known to be
passengers upon the i'll fated steamer.
Milwaukee papers yesterday told of
dU 1SdSb LILO AO14OW4AS " ASCOh0Lu
people being passengers upon the
Titanic = Capt. and Mrs. E. G.
Crosby and Miss Harriet Crosby, of
Milwaukee; DR.. and Mrs. w. 3.
Mipahan, of Fond du Lac; Miss Daisy
Minahan Of Green Bay, and Peter
c. Hanson and wife of Racine.
The two Milwaukee ladies were
rescued but the others have not as yet
been reported nong the saved.
Latest reports have confirmed the
fears that all but about $40 women
and children from the total number
of passengers on board, have per-
ished.
Wireless messages are being re-
ceived at all times telling of the con-
dition at sea and Of the rescue of other
passengers.
The sinking of the huge ocean liner
is only another link in the chain of
previous disasters which have &C.
Cured at this spot so commonly known
RI saa man "a the ocean grave ward -