Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1912-04-17

|L,5Q0 SOULS Lost At SEA
GREAT PASSENGER STEAMER
STRIKES ICEBERG. ...
Probably the Greatest Marine Disaster on
Record. Many Wealthy People Lost.
New York, April 16-Mora
than 1850 persons, it is feared
sank to death early yesterday,
when within four hours after she
crashed into an iceberg the mann
month White Star Line stea or
Titanic, bound from Liverpool to
New York, or, her maiden voyage,
went to the bottom eff the New
Foundland banks. OF the sp-
r roximately 1900 persons Oh
board the giant liner, some of
them of worldwide prominence,
only CTS are known to have been
saved. The White Star Line Of
foes in New York, while keeping
up hope to the last, were free to
admit that there had been "hor-
rible loss of life."
Accepting the tie early estimates
of the. fatality list as accu
rate, the disaster is the greatest
in the marine history of the
world, Nearest approaching it in
magnitude were the disasters to
the steamer Atlantic in 1878,
when 574 lives were lost and to
La Bourgogne in 1898, with q
fatality list Of ST..
Should it prove that other lin
ers, notably the Allan liners,
Parisian and Virginian. known
to have been in the vicinity of the
Titanic early yesterday had pick
ed up the other of her passengers.
the extent of the calamity would
be greatly reduced. This hope
still remains.
The messages we're mostly ut
official and none came direct from
the liner, so that = lurking fear
remained of possible had news to
come.
Shortly after Z O'Clock last
night there came flashing over
the wires from Cape Race, with
in 400 miles of which the liner
had struck the iceberg. word that
at 2:2O O'Clock Monday morning,
three hours and fifty-five minutes
after receiving her death blow,
the Titanic had sunk. The news
came from the steamer Carpathia,
relsyed by the White Star Liner
Olympic, and revealed that by
the time the Carpathia, outward
bound from New York and racing
for the Titanic on a wireless call
reached 1.-THE scene, the doomed
vessel had sunk.
Left on the surface, however,
were lifeboats from the Titanic,
and in them. as appears from the
meager reports received up to q
late hour, we're some 675 survivors,
of the disaster. These, according
to the advices, the Carpathia
picked up and is now on her way
with them for New York.
For the rest, the scene as the
Carpathia came up, was one of
desolation. All that renamed of
she $40, 100000 floating palace on
which nearly 1,400 passengers
had been voyaging luxuriously to
this side of the Atlantic, were
some bits of wreckage. The big
gest ship in the world had gone
down, snufing out in her down
ward plunge, it appeared, hun
dreds of human lives.
A significant line in the Cape
Race dispatches was the an
nouncement that of those saved
by the Carpathia nearly all were
women and children. Should it
prove that no other vessel picked
up any passengers of the sinking
liner, this might mean q great
loss of life among the male pas
sengers, as the proportion of wo.
men and children among the pas.
sengers was greater than the
men.
The same facts would likewise
spell the doom Of practically the
entire crew of 800.
In the cabins were 2BO women
and chlldran hnk IL ia nnt Enoup