Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-04-18
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S.SvssUnS
OF TITANIC
Over 1900 Persons
Are Drowned,
JUEN JAUUn HSIUnLUSI
Ills Bride Is Reported Among
the Survivors.
Gar lain SINKS WITH SHIa
Hope That Some Survivors il
Be on virglnian Gone.
CAPTAIN SINKS WITH S5H'
Hope That Some Survivors il
Be on Virginian Gone.

Montreal, Que, April 16-The Allan
line office here has received a wire
less dispatch from the captain of the
Virginian saying he arrived on the
scene of the Titanic's disaster too late
and has no survivors aboard.
New York, April 16.-While it is be-
heved twelve hundred and thirty-four
lives were lost in the sinking of the
great White Star liner Titanic off the
banks of Newfoundland, as indicated
after sitting all the wireless reports
dispatch from St. Johns, n. F., gives
rise to the hope that the S Gamer Viz
glnlan has some of the Titanic'S sur
vivors on board. The message said she
would bring to st. Johns such sur
viVors as she may rescue" Hope
arises from the fact that the steamer
Is putting in there at all, which she
would scarcely do We're there not ne.
cessity for this action. She was out
ward bound for Liverpool.
The 866 survivors of the i'll fated Ii
S~~A~AS VII pOoiu I Or
pathia, steaming to this city, are not
expected to arrive before Friday morn
Ing. The Carpathia is a thirteen knot
liner and it was estimated that it
would take her from seventy-five to
eighty hours to reach port.
The Bradstreet Commercial agency
has given out a telegram received from
tho 01Ur1 ole oh >f IL,
saying that Colonel John Jacob Aston
was among hundreds who lost their
lives in the catastrophe; that his body
had been recovered and that his wife
was safe on the Carpathia.
Captain Smith of the Titanic went
down with his boat, directing the work
OF rescue until the last.
The $10,000,000 steamship, with cargo
and jewels worth perhaps $4,000, 900
more, is a total loss.
Major Archibald Butt, President
Taft's military aid, is still unreported,
as are many other persons of inter
national reputation. j. Bruce Ismay,
tile Marine, owners of the White S ar
line, is one of the survivors, as is his
WIFE,
Wireless reports said the Cunard
liner Carpathia has on board 866 sur
viyorS, the total thus far known. She
is steaming for New York and should
arrive on Friday. The rescued pas
sengers drifted in lifeboats for many
hours before succor came.
Wireless messages to ST Johns, n.
F., report the Allan line Virginian on
the way there, possibly with additional
survivors on board. That she carries
survivors had not been confirmed at
daybreak, nor had confirmation been
received of the report that her sister
ship, the Partisan, had aided in the
rescue work.
vi the foregoing summarized reports
concerning the awful tragedy in the
Ice fields of the Atlantic, two were
fraught with hope as the Gay dawned
The first was that the rescue ship Car
pathia carried nearly $50 survivors. as
against 615 reported to be on board the
previous day. The second was the
message thar the Virginian might have
others on board, whose safety would
reduce the list Of dead,
The Tita ..ic now lies buried two
miles beneath the oceans surface.
midway bet"een Sable island and Cane
Race. Her POSITION when she struck the
iceberg Wa given as latitude 41.4G
north, long, ,ude sofa west.
False news and false hopes and an
international belief that the palatial
Titanic was practically unsuitable, fol-
Vowed the slowly unfolding accounts
of her loss in a way without precedent.
Eager crowds in dozen cities in the
United States beseiged bulletin board-
when it became known that the giant
liner had really sunk with terrible loss
of life.
In New York throngs of men and
women crowded into the White Star
line Offices seeking news Of rela ives.
Vincent Astor, Colonel Astor's son
spent the entire night waiting for some
wireless tidi1g Of his father, alternate
ly visiting he White Star lire head
quarters and the newspaper Offices.
The brief dispatches show that TIE
passengers and crew passed throug
thrilling experiences from the mon e.