The Washington times., 1912-04-17
ONLY FAINT HOPE
now THAT LINERS
PICKED UP VICTIMS
Those Rescued by Carpathia
Only Ones Saved, Say
/ Reports.


of the 1,312 passengers and crew MISS
ing since the giant White Star liner
Titanic sank early Monday morning
have been picked up by transatlantic
liners. .... -.
The 1858 survivors rescued from l'fe-
boats By the Cunerder Carpathia, now
on her way to New York, are the only
know saved. This increases the list
of saved by about 200 from the number
first reported. But, except for this,
the favorable details are Insignificant
compared with the supreme fact that
the Titanic is at the bottom of the At
lahtic and that the shattered wreck
took with her more than 1900 victims
to their death. .
The Carpathia got into wireless COM
munication with the Sable Island sta
tion last night, according to announce
ment made at the White Star offices
in New York, and details of the disas-
ter 1t is now hoped will. therefore, be
soon forthcoming.
No More Survivors.
The brief and meager wireless mes
sages that came to hand yesterday and
last night practically extlnguished hope
that some of the III -fated passengers
steamships Virginian ahd Partisan, of
the Allan Line.
Both of these steamships sent word
that they had none Of the Titanics sur
vivors on lizard. Hope had clung des-
perately, but II now appears futilely, to
the belief that these steamships may
have picked up survivors in addition to
those on board the Carpathia.
Appalling Figures.
Figures that briefly tell the story Of
this greatest Of marine disasters follow:
Tot,I m, Tt I'm mic ..- oI-O
Saved by Cnrpathia ...........S .SOS
Missing, prObbaly drowned 1,3O2
The property loss is estimated at
320,0oO,0o0, and is thus divided:
Value of Titanic ......$1O,O 100000
Cargo and Jewels. .S1O.OOO,OOO
In the list of missing are these
widely known washingtonians, and
unless they are on the Carpathia 1t is
feared they were drowned:
MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT.
CLARENCE MOORE.
Other men of great prominence on
two continents still unaccounted for
include: p.
GEORGE ID. WIDENER.
HARRY ELkINS wIDENER.
WILLIAM G. DULLES.
q. DUANE WILLIAMS.
COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR.
ISADOR STRAUS.
BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM.
EDGAR J. MEYER,
WILLIAM II. STEAD.
OF the 1868 persons rescued by the
Carpathia, the names of only S26 pas
sengers had been received by wireless
up to 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning
The Carpathia evidently was out Of
wireless range toward noon, for after
that efforts to reach her with wireless
communications were futile, and a score
or more of messages from the Cunard
company and other sources were un-
! London, Paris, Washington, Philadel-
phia, and New York are grief-stricker
and overwhelmed by the news of the
disaster. fearful crowds of relatives
Titanic thronged the steamship offices
waiting hour after hour for news.
! False News.
False news and false hopes and ar
International belief that the palatial tt.
tanic was practically unsuitable fol.
lowed the slowly unfolding accounts
Of Ter loss in a way without precedent
Eager crowds in a dozen cities in the
United States beseied bulletin boards
when 1t became known that the giant
liner had really sunk with terrible loss
ical men and women crowded into tho
White Star line offices seeking news
Of relatives. Vincent Astor, Colone
Astor's son, spent the whole of Mon
day night waiting for some wireless
tidings of his father. alternately visit
ing the White Star line headquarters
and the newspaper OFFICES. All OF yes
terday. too, fearful and anxious throng:
swarmed the offices of the White Stal
line and overflowed into Broadway
stopping traffic at times and keeping
police reserves busy maintaining order
"A possible chance of obtaining news
bearing upon the disaster developed
early last evening when the LeylanC
liner Californian came into the zone o.
wireless communication with Sable
Island. The Californian was reported
at the scene OF the disaster shortly aftel
the Titanic went down and 1t wal
thought. probable that she would hav'
valuable Information to communicate.